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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 279, Issue 13, Pages 12448-12455Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M311718200
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL 22633, HL 63768] Funding Source: Medline
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Scavenger receptor (SR)-BI catalyzes the selective uptake of cholesteryl ester (CE) from high density lipoprotein (HDL) by a two-step process that involves the following: 1) binding of HDL to the receptor and 2) diffusion of the CE molecules into the cell plasma membrane. We examined the effects of the size of discoidal HDL particles containing wild-type (WT) apoA-I on selective uptake of CE and efflux of cellular free (unesterified) cholesterol (FC) from COS-7 cells expressing SR-BI to determine the following: 1) the influence of apoA-I conformation on the lipid transfer process, and 2) the contribution of receptor binding-dependent processes to the overall efflux of cellular FC. Large ( 10 nm diameter) reconstituted HDL bound to SR-BI better (B-max similar to420 versus 220 ng of apoA-I/mg cell protein), delivered more CE, and promoted more FC efflux than small ( similar to 8 nm) particles. When normalized to the number of reconstituted HDL particles bound to the receptor, the efficiencies of either CE uptake or FC efflux with these particles were the same indicating that altering the conformation of WT apoA-I modulates binding to the receptor ( step 1) but does not change the efficiency of the subsequent lipid transfer ( step 2); this implies that binding induces an optimal alignment of the WT apoA-I.SR- BI complex so that the efficiency of lipid transfer is always the same. FC efflux to HDL is affected both by binding of HDL to SR-BI and by the ability of the receptor to perturb the packing of FC molecules in the cell plasma membrane.
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