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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 8, 3482-3487, 03, 1987

Human plasma cholesteryl ester transfer protein enhances the transfer of cholesteryl ester from high density lipoproteins into cultured HepG2 cells

E Granot, I Tabas and AR Tall

The role of human plasma cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) in the cellular uptake of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesteryl ester (CE) was studied in a liver tumor cell line (HepG2). When HepG2 cells were incubated with [3H]cholesteryl ester-labeled HDL3 in the presence of increasing concentrations of CETP there was a progressive increase in cell-associated radioactivity to levels that were 2.8 times control. The CETP-dependent uptake of HDL-CE was found to be saturated by increasing concentrations of both CETP and HDL. The CETP-dependent uptake of CE radioactivity increased continuously during an 18-h incubation. In contrast to the effect on cholesteryl ester, CETP failed to enhance HDL protein cell association or degradation. Enhanced uptake of HDL cholesteryl ester was shown for the d greater than 1.21 g/ml fraction of human plasma, partially purified CETP, and CETP purified to homogeneity, but not for the d greater than 1.21 g/ml fraction of rat plasma which lacks cholesteryl ester transfer activity. HDL cholesteryl ester entering the cell under the influence of CETP was largely degraded to free cholesterol by a process inhibitable by chloroquine. CETP enhanced uptake of HDL [3H]CE in cultured smooth muscle cells and to a lesser extent in fibroblasts but did not significantly influence uptake in endothelial cells or J774 macrophages. These experiments show that, in addition to its known role in enhancing the exchange of CE between lipoproteins, plasma CETP can facilitate the in vitro selective transfer of CE from HDL into certain cells.
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