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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 278, Issue 22, 19844-19851, May 30, 2003

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Differential Mobilization of Newly Synthesized Cholesterol and Biosynthetic Sterol Precursors from Cells^*

Sari Lusa, Sanna Heino and Elina Ikonen 

From the Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Previous work demonstrates that the biosynthetic precursor of cholesterol, desmosterol, is released from cells and that its efflux to high density lipoprotein or phosphatidylcholine vesicles is greater than that of newly synthesized cholesterol (Johnson, W. J., Fischer, R. T., Phillips, M. C., and Rothblat, G. H. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 25037–25046). Here we report that the release of individual precursor sterols varies with the efflux of newly synthesized zymosterol being greater than that of lathosterol and both exceeding that of newly synthesized cholesterol when using either methyl--cyclodextrin or complete serum as acceptors. The transfer of newly synthesized lathosterol to methyl--cyclodextrin was inhibited by actin polymerization but not by Golgi disassembly whereas that of newly synthesized cholesterol was inhibited by both conditions. Newly synthesized lathosterol associated with cellular detergent-resistant membranes more rapidly than newly synthesized cholesterol. Upon efflux to serum, newly synthesized cholesterol precursors associated with both high and low density lipoproteins. Stimulation of the formation of direct endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane contacts was accompanied by enhanced efflux of newly synthesized lathosterol but not of newly synthesized cholesterol to serum acceptors. The data indicate that the efflux of cholesterol precursors differs not only from that of cholesterol but also from each other, with the more polar zymosterol being more avidly effluxed. Moreover, the results suggest that the intracellular routing of cholesterol precursors differs from that of newly synthesized cholesterol and implicates a potential role for the actin cytoskeleton and endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane contacts in the efflux of lathosterol.

Received for publication, December 9, 2002 , and in revised form, March 20, 2003.

^* This work was supported by the Academy of Finland (Grants 48905 (to S. L.) and 43184 (to E. I.)), the Sigrid Juselius Foundation (to E. I.) and the Finnish Cultural Foundation (to S. H.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, Biomedicum Helsinki, P. O. Box 104, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00251 Helsinki, Finland. Tel.: 358-9-4744-8469; Fax: 358-9-4744-8960; E-mail: elina.ikonen{at}ktl.fi.

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