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ABCA1 mediates concurrent cholesterol and phospholipid efflux to apolipoprotein A-I

Journal of Lipid Research, ISSN: 0022-2275, Vol: 45, Issue: 4, Page: 635-644
2004
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Prior studies provide data supporting the notion that ATP binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) promotes lipid efflux to extracellular acceptors in a two-step process: first, ABCA1 mediates phospholipid efflux to an apolipoprotein, and second, this apolipoprotein-phospholipid complex accepts free cholesterol in an ABCA1-independent manner. In the current study using RAW264.7 cells, ABCA1-mediated free cholesterol and phospholipid efflux to apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) were tightly coupled to each other both temporally and after treatment with ABCA1 inhibitors. The time course and temperature dependence of ABCA1-mediated lipid efflux to apoA-I support a role for endocytosis in this process. Cyclodextrin treatment of RAW264.7 cells partially inhibited 8Br-cAMP-induced efflux of free cholesterol and phospholipid to apoA-I. ABCA1-expressing cells are more sensitive to cell damage by high-dose cyclodextrin and vanadate, leading to increased lactate dehydrogenase leakage and phospholipid release even in the absence of the acceptor apoA-I. Finally, we could not reproduce a two-step effect on lipid efflux using conditioned medium from ABCA1-expressing cells pretreated with cyclodextrin.

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