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Proximal tubular cholesterol loading after mitochondrial, but not glycolytic, blockade

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109

Submitted 13 March 2003 ; accepted in final form 20 August 2003

Diverse forms of injury cause proximal tubular cholesterol accumulation. However, underlying mechanisms in general, and those involved with ATP depletion injury in particular, remain poorly defined. To help elucidate this issue, cholesterol homeostasis and its determinants were assessed after partial ATP depletion states. Serum-exposed HK-2 cells were subjected to mild ATP depletion, induced by mitochondrial inhibition (antimycin A; AA) or glycolytic blockade (2-deoxyglucose; DG). Four or 18 h later, cell cholesterol levels, hydroxymethylglutaryl (HMG)-CoA reductase (HMGCR), the LDL receptor (LDL-R), and ABCA1/SR-B1 cholesterol transporters were assessed. AA and DG each induced mild, largely sublethal ATP depletion injury. Each also caused significant HMGCR increments and SR-B1 decrements and left ABCA1 intact. In contrast, only AA increased the LDL-R, and only AA evoked a cholesterol-loading state (25% ). One-half of this increase was statin inhibitable, and one-half could be blocked by serum deletion, implying that both synthetic and nonsynthetic (e.g., LDL-R transport) pathways were involved. The AA-induced HMGCR and LDL-R protein changes were paralleled by their mRNAs, suggesting the presence of altered transcriptional events. We conclude that 1) sublethal ATP depletion, whether induced by mitochondrial or glycolytic blockade, can upregulate HMGCR and decrease SR-B1, and these changes represent a previously unrecognized ATP depletion phenotype; 2) mitochondrial blockade can also upregulate the LDL-R and evoke a cholesterol-loading state; 3) the latter likely occurs via synthetic and transport pathways; and 4) the mitochondrion may be a critical, and previously unrecognized, determinant of postinjury cell cholesterol homeostasis, potentially by impacting the LDL-R.

antimycin A; 2-deoxyglucose; LDL receptor; SR-B1; ABCA1

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