NPC1 late endosomes contain elevated levels of non-esterified (‘free’) fatty acids and an abnormally glycosylated form of the NPC2 protein
| Autor: | Ronald E. Gordon, Fannie W. Chen, Yiannis A. Ioannou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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congenital
hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities Glycosylation Endosome Vesicular Transport Proteins Endosomes Fatty Acids Nonesterified Biology Biochemistry Mice Membrane Microdomains Niemann-Pick C1 Protein hemic and lymphatic diseases Animals Humans Molecular Biology Cells Cultured Late endosome Niemann-Pick Diseases chemistry.chemical_classification Vesicle Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins Proteins nutritional and metabolic diseases Fatty acid Cell Biology Lipid Metabolism Cell biology Complementation Endocytic vesicle Liver chemistry lipids (amino acids peptides and proteins) NPC1 Sphingomyelin Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Biochemical Journal. 390:549-561 |
| ISSN: | 1470-8728 0264-6021 |
| DOI: | 10.1042/bj20050236 |
| Popis: | NPC (Niemann–Pick type C) disease is a rare lipidosis characterized by the accumulation of LDL (low-density lipoprotein)-derived non-esterified cholesterol in the E/L (endosomal/lysosomal) system. The gene products that are responsible for the two NPC complementation groups are distinct and dissimilar, yet their cellular and disease phenotypes are virtually indistinguishable. To investigate the relationship between NPC1 and NPC2 and their potential role in NPC disease pathogenesis, we have developed a method for the rapid and efficient isolation of late endocytic vesicles from mouse liver by magnetic chromatography. Late endosomes from Wt (wild-type) and NPC1 mice were found to differ not only in their cholesterol and sphingomyelin content, as expected, but also in their non-esterified (‘free’) fatty acid content, with NPC1 vesicles showing an approx. 7-fold increase in non-esterified fatty acid levels compared with Wt vesicles. Furthermore, we show that the NPC2 protein is in an incompletely deglycosylated form in NPC1 late endosomes by a mechanism that is specific to the NPC2 protein and not a global aberration of protein glycosylation/deglycosylation or trafficking, since NPC2 secreted from NPC1 cells is indistinguishable from that secreted from Wt cells. Also, a greater proportion of the normally soluble cellular NPC2 protein partitions with detergent-insoluble late endosomal internal membrane domains in NPC1 vesicles. In addition, we show that, although a small amount of the NPC2 protein associates with these membranes in Wt vesicles, this localization becomes much more pronounced in NPC1 vesicles. These results suggest that the function of the NPC2 protein may be compromised as well in NPC1 endosomes, which might explain the paradoxical phenotypic similarities of the two NPC disease complementation groups. |
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