Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF LIPIDS
Volume 1866, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2020.158825
Keywords
Cholesterol metabolism; Endoplasmic reticulum stress; Macrophage
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [P01HL029582]
- American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant [15SDG25310009]
- China Scholarship Council
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The study showed that AKR and DBA/2 mouse macrophages exhibit different levels of free cholesterol and CHOP expression after cholesterol loading due to variations in the Soat1 gene. Inhibition of ACAT enzyme revealed that differences in free cholesterol levels were responsible for the differential induction of CHOP.
We previously demonstrated that AKR vs. DBA/2 mouse bone marrow derived macrophages have higher levels of free cholesterol and lower levels of esterified cholesterol after cholesterol loading, and that AKR, but not DBA/2, macrophages induced C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) expression after cholesterol loading. We earlier determined that the free and esterified cholesterol level effect is due to a truncation in the sterol O-acyltransferase 1 (Soat1) gene, encoding acetyl-coenzyme A acetyltransferase 1 (ACAT1). Here we examined the mechanism for the differential induction of CHOP by cholesterol loading. CHOP was induced in both strains after incubation with tunicamycin, indicating both strains have competent endoplasmic reticulum stress pathways. CHOP was induced when DBA/2 macrophages were cholesterol loaded in the presence of an ACAT inhibitor, indicating that the difference in free cholesterol levels were responsible for this strain effect. This finding was confirmed in macrophages derived from DBA/2 embryonic stem cells. Cholesterol loading of Soat1 gene edited cells, mimicking the AKR allele, led to increased free cholesterol levels and restored CHOP induction. The upstream pathway of free cholesterol induced endoplasmic reticulum stress was investigated; and, RNA-dependent protein kinase-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK) and inositol-requiring enzyme 1 alpha protein kinase (IRE1 alpha) pathways were required for maximal CHOP expression.
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