Rab8-dependent Recycling Promotes Endosomal Cholesterol Removal in Normal and Sphingolipidosis Cells

Overview

Journal Mol Biol Cell

Specialties Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

Date 2006 Oct 20

PMID 17050734

Citations 44

Authors

Matts D Linder

Riikka-Liisa Uronen

Maarit Holtta-Vuori

Peter van der Sluijs

Johan Peranen

Elina Ikonen

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Abstract

The mechanisms by which low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol exits the endocytic circuits are not well understood. The process is defective in Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease in which cholesterol and sphingolipids accumulate in late endosomal compartments. This is accompanied by defective cholesterol esterification in the endoplasmic reticulum and impaired ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1)-dependent cholesterol efflux. We show here that overexpression of the recycling/exocytic Rab GTPase Rab8 rescued the late endosomal cholesterol deposition and sphingolipid mistrafficking in NPC fibroblasts. Rab8 redistributed cholesterol from late endosomes to the cell periphery and stimulated cholesterol efflux to the ABCA1-ligand apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) without increasing cholesterol esterification. Depletion of Rab8 from wild-type fibroblasts resulted in cholesterol deposition within late endosomal compartments. This cholesterol accumulation was accompanied by impaired clearance of LDL-cholesterol from endocytic circuits to apoA-I and could not be bypassed by liver X receptor activation. Our findings establish Rab8 as a key component of the regulatory machinery that leads to ABCA1-dependent removal of cholesterol from endocytic circuits.

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