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SCIENCE
Volume 328, Issue 5985, Pages 1570-1573Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1189862
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- American Heart Association [SDG-0835585D, SDG-0835481N, 09GRNT2260352]
- NIH [R01AG02055, R01HL074136, R01HL084312, 1P30HL101270-01]
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
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Cholesterol metabolism is tightly regulated at the cellular level. Here we show that miR-33, an intronic microRNA (miRNA) located within the gene encoding sterol-regulatory element-binding factor-2 (SREBF-2), a transcriptional regulator of cholesterol synthesis, modulates the expression of genes involved in cellular cholesterol transport. In mouse and human cells, miR-33 inhibits the expression of the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette (ABC) transporter, ABCA1, thereby attenuating cholesterol efflux to apolipoprotein A1. In mouse macrophages, miR-33 also targets ABCG1, reducing cholesterol efflux to nascent high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Lentiviral delivery of miR-33 to mice represses ABCA1 expression in the liver, reducing circulating HDL levels. Conversely, silencing of miR-33 in vivo increases hepatic expression of ABCA1 and plasma HDL levels. Thus, miR-33 appears to regulate both HDL biogenesis in the liver and cellular cholesterol efflux.
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