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Decreased Reverse Cholesterol Transport from Tangier Disease Fibroblasts

Acceptor Specificity and Effect of Brefeldin on Lipid Efflux

A.T. Remaley; U.K. Schumacher; J.A. Stonik; B.D. Farsi; H. Nazih; ; H.B. Brewer, Jr.

From the National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Clinical Pathology Department, Bethesda, Maryland (A.T.R.); and National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland (U.K.S., J.A.S., B.D.F., H.N., H.B.B.).

Correspondence to: A.T. Remaley, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Clinical Pathology Department, Building 10/2C-431, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.


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Abstract Tangier disease is characterized by HDL hypercatabolism and increased deposition of cholesterol in tissues. Tangier disease skin fibroblasts have decreased apoA-I-mediated cholesterol and phospholipid efflux, which may lead to the excess accumulation of cellular cholesterol. The mechanism of apolipoprotein-mediated cholesterol efflux and the apolipoprotein acceptor specificity for cholesterol efflux from normal and Tangier disease fibroblasts was investigated. Normal cells readily effluxed cholesterol and phospholipid to apoA-I and to all of the other apolipoproteins tested (apoA-II, AIV, C-I, C-II, C-III). In contrast, Tangier cells were almost completely defective in cholesterol efflux to apoA-I and to all of the other apolipoproteins tested. HDL was also less effective, by approximately 50%, in stimulating cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells compared with normal cells. In addition, Tangier cells also showed significantly reduced phospholipid efflux to both apolipoproteins and HDL. A similar rate of cholesterol efflux, however, was observed from normal and Tangier cells when phospholipid vesicles or cyclodextrin were used as acceptors. In contrast to normal cells, only phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin and not apoA-I or HDL depleted intracellular cholesteryl esters from Tangier cells. Brefeldin, an inhibitor of intracellular vesicular trafficking, decreased HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux by approximately 40% but almost completely blocked both cholesterol and phospholipid efflux to apoA-I from normal cells. Brefeldin also inhibited cholesteryl ester depletion by apoA-I and HDL from normal cells. Brefeldin, however, had no significant effect on cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells to HDL. In summary, Tangier cells were found to be defective in both cholesterol and phospholipid efflux to HDL and apoA-I. The defect in apolipoprotein-mediated lipid efflux was not specific for apoA-I but also occurred for other apolipoproteins, and brefeldin blocked HDL-mediated lipid efflux from normal but not Tangier disease cells. On the basis of these results, a model is proposed whereby decreased cholesterol efflux by apolipoproteins in Tangier cells is the result of a defect in a brefeldin-sensitive pathway of lipid efflux. (Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 1997;17:1813-1821.)


Key Words: Tangier disease • high-density lipoprotein • cholesterol • atherosclerosis • brefeldin


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Tangier disease, an autosomal recessive disorder of unknown origin, is characterized by cholesteryl ester accumulation in various tissues, most notably the tonsils, liver, spleen, and intestinal mucosa.1 2 The excess cellular cholesterol in Tangier disease has been proposed to be the result of reduced reverse cholesterol transport,2 3 because of the markedly decreased plasma level of high density lipoproteins, which is a hallmark of the disease.1 2 Typically, HDL cholesterol levels in Tangier disease are below 5% of normal,2 which is coupled with a commensurate reduction of apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I), the principal protein of HDL. Although many individuals with Tangier disease do not develop clinically apparent atherosclerosis,1 2 there is an overall increased incidence of cardiovascular disease in Tangier disease.4

The low level of HDL in Tangier disease is not the result of a mutation in the gene for apoA-I5 or of a defect in the biosynthesis of apoA-I.6 Although the biochemical basis is not known, patients with Tangier disease have been shown to have low plasma HDL because of hypercatabolism.6 Several studies have demonstrated abnormalities in the interaction of HDL with Tangier cells.3 7 8 9 10 11 12 Recently, Tangier disease skin fibroblasts have been described to have a defect in HDL-stimulated translocation of intracellular cholesterol to the plasma membrane.7 9 Decreased translocation of cholesterol to the plasma membrane, where it can be readily removed by desorption and diffusion onto HDL, has been proposed to lead to the reduced cholesterol efflux and, consequently, to the deposition of excess cholesterol in Tangier cells.7 9

In addition to intact HDL, the apolipoprotein fraction of HDL may also play a direct role in reverse cholesterol transport.13 14 15 16 17 18 Relatively lipid-poor or lipid-free apoA-I has been detected in plasma and lymph and extracellular fluid19 20 21 and has been estimated to represent between 3 and 8% of total apoA-I in serum.19 Lipid-free apoA-I, as well as most of the other amphipathic helix-containing apolipoproteins, have been shown in vitro to be relatively efficient in promoting the efflux of cholesterol from cells.13 14 15 16 17 18 Two models have been proposed for cholesterol efflux by apolipoproteins. In the one-step model, an apolipoprotein binds to the cell membrane and simultaneously removes both cholesterol and phospholipid when the apolipoprotein dissociates from the cell.16 In the two-step model, an apolipoprotein after binding to the cell membrane preferentially removes phospholipid to form an apolipoprotein-phospholipid complex, which can then accept cholesterol that has desorbed from the cell membrane.16 22 Recently, a defect in apoA-I-mediated cholesterol and phospholipid efflux has been described in Tangier disease fibroblasts.11 Compared with normal fibroblasts, apoA-I was shown to be almost completely defective in the efflux of cholesterol and phospholipid from Tangier cells. In the present study, the apolipoprotein acceptor specificity for cholesterol and phospholipid efflux from normal and Tangier disease cells was examined, as well as the biochemical mechanism for lipid efflux by apolipoproteins. In addition to apoA-I, all of the apolipoproteins commonly present on HDL were found to be defective in mediating both cholesterol and phospholipid efflux from Tangier cells. Furthermore, two pathways for cholesterol efflux by HDL and apoA-I were functionally described based on sensitivity to brefeldin, and Tangier cells were found to be defective in a brefeldin-sensitive pathway of lipid efflux.


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Cell Culture
Primary human skin fibroblasts were obtained by explant cultures of skin biopsies taken from the upper arm. Patients from whom Tangier cell lines T1,1 23 T2,1 23 and T324 were obtained were previously described. Tangier cell line T4 was from a 27-year-old female, who at the age of 7 years presented with enlarged orange tonsils, low total cholesterol, and a markedly reduced level of HDL-cholesterol. Normal human skin fibroblasts cell lines (N1–N4) were from the American Type Culture Collection (Rockville, Md). Fibroblasts were routinely grown in Eagle-modified minimum essential medium (GIBCO BRL, Rockville, Md) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum, 2 mM glutamine, 100 IU/mL penicillin, and 100 µg/mL streptomycin (EMEM10). Fibroblasts were loaded with cholesterol by a 24-hour incubation with 50 µg/ml nonlipoprotein cholesterol in EMEM, containing 2 mg/ml bovine serum albumin (fraction V; EMEM/BSA), as previously described.25

Cholesterol Efflux Assays
The cholesterol efflux assay was essentially performed as previously described.25 26 Confluent cholesterol-loaded fibroblasts grown on 24-well plates were incubated with EMEM10 containing 1 µCi/ml 1,2-[3H]cholesterol (50 Ci/mmol; Dupont; Wilmington, DE) for 48 hours. Typically, this labeling protocol resulted in approximately 100 000 counts per minute per well or 1000 counts per minute per µg of protein. Cells were washed three times with EMEM/BSA and incubated with EMEM/BSA for 24 hours, before initiating efflux with the indicated cholesterol acceptors prepared in EMEM/BSA. After the efflux period, media were collected, centrifuged (10 000xg for 5 minutes), and counted for radioactivity by liquid scintillation counting. The residual radioactivity in the cell fraction was determined after an overnight extraction with isopropanol. The percent efflux was calculated by dividing the radioactive counts in the efflux media by the sum of the radioactive counts in the media plus the cell fraction. Unless indicated, EMEM/BSA media were used as a blank, and the results from the blank were subtracted from the radioactive counts obtained in the presence of a cholesterol acceptor. Experiments involving quantitation of the cellular content of radiolabeled cholesterol and cholesteryl esters were performed on cells grown on 6-well plates and fractionated by thin-layer chromatography, as previously described.26 Cholesteryl ester formation after efflux was determined by the incorporation of 1-[14C]oleate (50 mCi/mmol; Dupont) into cholesteryl esters, as previously described.26

Phospholipid Efflux Assay
The phospholipid efflux assay was essentially performed as previously described.27 Choline-containing phospholipids were labeled by incubating confluent cholesterol-loaded fibroblasts grown on 24-well plates with EMEM10 medium, containing 5 µCi/ml of methyl-[3H]choline chloride (84 Ci/mmol; Amersham; Arlington Heights, Ill) for 24 hours. Cells were washed three times with EMEM/BSA, followed by a 1-hour preincubation in EMEM/BSA before the addition of the indicated phospholipid acceptors prepared in EMEM/BSA. Typically, this labeling protocol resulted in approximately 500 000 counts per minute per well or 5000 counts per minute per µg of protein. After the efflux period, media were collected, centrifuged (10 000xg; 5 minutes), extracted with chloroform:methanol (2:1), and counted by liquid scintillation. The remaining radioactivity in the cell fraction was determined after an overnight extraction with isopropanol, followed by a 1-hour extraction with hexane:isopropanol (3:2). The percent efflux is calculated by dividing the radioactive counts in the efflux media by the sum of the radioactive counts in the efflux media plus the cell fraction. Unless indicated, EMEM/BSA media was used as a blank, and the results from the blank were subtracted from the radioactive counts obtained in the presence of a phospholipid acceptor.

Lipoprotein, Apolipoprotein, and ApoA-I Vesicle Preparation
HDL (d=1.063-1.21 g/mL) was isolated from human plasma by density gradient ultracentrifugation as previously described.28 Apolipoproteins were purified from human plasma by column chromatography29 and were determined to be greater than 99% pure as assessed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and amino terminal sequence analysis. Phosphatidylcholine vesicles were prepared by sonication.30

ApoA-I Binding Assay
ApoA-I was iodinated with [125I]iodide by the iodide monochloride method31 to a specific activity of 2x106 counts per minute per µg. Confluent fibroblasts grown on 24-well plates were incubated in EMEM/BSA with the indicated concentration of iodinated apoA-I for 3 hours at 37°C in the presence and absence of a 50-fold excess of the apolipoprotein fraction isolated from HDL. Cells were then washed rapidly three times with EMEM/BSA at 4°C. Bound counts were determined by gamma counting, after dissolving the cell fraction with 0.1 M NaOH and 0.1% SDS.


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The ability of HDL and apoA-I to stimulate cholesterol efflux from three normal and four Tangier disease skin fibroblasts was determined and summarized in Fig 1Down. HDL readily promoted cholesterol efflux from both normal and Tangier cells; however, Tangier cells consistently exhibited less cholesterol efflux to HDL than did normal cells (Fig 1Down, panel A). The percent decrease in HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux was variable among the four Tangier cell lines tested but ranged between 35 and 60%. In contrast to the partial reduction in HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux, there was a virtual absence of cholesterol efflux to apoA-I from all four Tangier cell lines (Fig 1Down, panel B).



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Figure 1. Cholesterol efflux from normal and Tangier disease fibroblasts. Three normal (N1–N3) and four Tangier cell lines (T1–T4) were labeled with [3H]cholesterol, followed by incubation with exogenous unlabeled cholesterol. Efflux was performed with either 50 µg/mL HDL (panel A) or 10 µg/mL apoA-I (panel B) and is expressed as percent of total radioactive counts appearing in the medium after 20 hours. Numbers under each bar refer to the cell line. The results represent the mean of triplicates±1 SD. CPM=counts per minute.

Efflux of phospholipid by HDL and apoA-I from normal and Tangier cells is summarized in Fig 2Down. Both HDL and apoA-I were able to mediate phospholipid efflux from normal cells (Fig 2Down). In contrast, apoA-I was ineffective in promoting phospholipid efflux from Tangier cells (Fig 2Down, panel B). Despite the ability of HDL to partially mediate cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells (Fig 1Up, panel A), HDL also did not stimulate significant phospholipid efflux from Tangier cells (Fig 2Down, panel A). In Fig 3Down, cholesterol and phospholipid efflux to apoA-I from normal cells were determined before and after cholesterol loading. Both cholesterol and phospholipid efflux to apoA-I were significantly enhanced after cholesterol loading.



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Figure 2. Phospholipid efflux from normal and Tangier disease fibroblasts. Three normal (N1–N3) and four Tangier cell lines (T1–T4) were labeled with [3H]choline in the presence of exogenous unlabeled cholesterol. Efflux was performed with either 50 µg/mL HDL (panel A) or 10 µg/mL apoA-I (panel B) and is expressed as percent of total radioactive counts appearing in the medium after 20 hours. Numbers under each bar refer to the cell line. The results represent the mean of triplicates±1 SD. CPM=counts per minute.



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Figure 3. Effect of cholesterol loading on cholesterol and phospholipid efflux by apoA-I. Normal fibroblasts (N1–N3), which were incubated with (solid bars) and without (diagonal bars) exogenous unlabeled cholesterol, were previously labeled with either [3H]cholesterol (panel A) or [3H]choline (panel B). Efflux was performed with 10 µg/mL apoA-I and is expressed as percent of total radioactive counts appearing in the medium after 20 hours. The results represent the mean of triplicates±1 SD. CPM=counts per minute.

Cholesterol efflux was determined in the presence of increasing concentrations of HDL and apoA-I (Fig 4Down) to determine if the decreased efflux of cholesterol by HDL and apoA-I from Tangier cells was related to a shift in a dose-response relationship between the concentration of the acceptor and efflux. HDL stimulated less cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells relative to normal cells at all concentrations tested, but both normal and Tangier cells had a similar curvilinear dose-response curve (Fig 4Down, panel A). In case of apoA-I, maximum efflux occurred at 5 µg/mL for normal cells, but virtually no cholesterol efflux occurred from Tangier cells, even with 20 µg/mL of apoA-I (Fig 4Down, panel B). These results suggest that a change in the dose-response relationship for cholesterol efflux does not account for the decreased removal of cholesterol from Tangier cells.



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Figure 4. Dose-response curve for efflux of cholesterol by normal and Tangier cells. Normal (N1, {blacksquare}) and Tangier cells (T1, {bullet}) were labeled with [3H]cholesterol, followed by cholesterol loading. Efflux after 20 hours was measured in the presence of increasing concentrations of HDL (panel A) or apoA-I (panel B). Results from the blank were not subtracted. The results represent the mean of triplicates±1 SD. CPM=counts per minute.

Defective binding of apoA-I has been proposed as a possible mechanism for the reduced cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells.11 In panel A of Fig 5Down, the binding of apoA-I to normal and Tangier cells before and after cholesterol loading was examined. Overall, a similar binding curve was found for normal and Tangier cells at all concentrations of apoA-I. Both normal and Tangier cells also showed a similar increase in apoA-I binding after cholesterol loading, which has recently been described to also occur for HepG2 cells.32 When the binding data were analyzed by a Scatchard plot, a curvilinear plot was obtained, indicating multiple binding sites with various affinities. Nevertheless, no difference was found in the shape of the binding curve between normal and Tangier cell lines, thus suggesting that there is no significant difference in the binding of apoA-I to normal and Tangier cells. It was previously reported that Tangier cells exhibit decreased apoA-I binding relative to normal cells at only submicrogram per milliliter quantities of apoA-I11 ; however, in panel B of Fig 5Down, no consistent difference was observed in the binding of apoA-I at 0.5 µg/mL between the four normal and four Tangier cell lines tested.



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Figure 5. Binding of apoA-I to normal and Tangier cells. Panel A, The binding of radioiodinated apoA-I for 3 hours at 37°C to normal cells (N1) with ({circ}) and without ({bullet}) cholesterol loading was compared with Tangier cells (T1) with ({blacksquare}) and without ({square}) cholesterol loading. Only nonspecific binding for cholesterol-loaded Tangier cells is shown ({blacktriangleup}), which is representative of the results obtained for the nonspecific binding for all other conditions and cell lines. The results represent the mean of duplicates. Panel B, The specific binding of radioiodinated apoA-1 for 3 hours at 37°C to normal (N1–N4; solid bars) and Tangier cells (T1-T4; open bars) was examined at 0.5 µg/mL apoA-I. The results represent the mean of quadruplicates±1 SD.

To determine the apolipoprotein acceptor specificity for the cholesterol efflux defect in Tangier cells, the ability of different apolipoproteins to stimulate lipid efflux from normal and Tangier cells was examined. All of the apolipoproteins tested stimulated cholesterol efflux from normal but not Tangier cells (Fig 6Down, panel A). Similarly, all of the apolipoproteins promoted more phospholipid efflux from normal cells than from Tangier cells (Fig 6Down, panel B). Interestingly, in contrast to HDL, free apolipoproteins were relatively more efficient at effluxing phospholipid than cholesterol. Overall, these results indicate that the decreased cholesterol and phospholipid efflux to apoA-I from Tangier cells are not unique to apoA-I but also occur for other amphipathic helix-containing apolipoproteins.



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Figure 6. Lipid efflux from normal and Tangier cells by apolipoproteins. Efflux of cholesterol (panel A) and phospholipid (panel B) by the indicated apolipoproteins (10 µg/mL) for 20 hours was determined for normal (N1, solid bars) and Tangier cells (T1, diagonal bars). The results represent the mean of triplicates±1 SD. CPM=count per minute.

In Fig 7Down, the specificity of the efflux defect in Tangier cells was further examined by comparing cholesterol efflux from normal and Tangier cells with phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin (2-hydroxypropyl-ß-cyclodextrin), which removes cholesterol by aqueous diffusion,33 34 a process whereby cholesterol desorbs from the cell membrane and diffuses onto an acceptor.22 In addition to cholesterol that effluxed from the cell, radioactive cholesterol and cholesteryl ester counts remaining in the cell fraction after the efflux period were also quantitated. As was previously observed (Fig 1Up), apoA-I was ineffective in effluxing cholesterol from Tangier cells (Fig 7Down, panel A), and as would be predicted, there was no significant change after efflux in either the free cholesterol or cholesteryl ester fraction from Tangier disease cells (Fig 7Down, panel B and C). In contrast, the addition of apoA-I to the normal cells resulted in decreased cellular levels of cholesteryl ester. Although HDL facilitated cholesterol efflux into the media for both Tangier and normal cells, albeit at a reduced level for Tangier cells, HDL caused significant depletion of cholesteryl ester from only normal cells and not Tangier cells (Fig 7Down, panel C). Phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin were nearly equally effective in promoting cholesterol efflux from normal and Tangier cells (Fig 7Down, panel A). Both acceptors also resulted in a significant depletion of cellular cholesteryl ester from both normal and Tangier cells (Fig 7Down, panel C). These results suggests that depending on the type of acceptor, namely phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin, cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells can potentially be relatively normal.



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Figure 7. Efflux of cholesterol by various acceptors from normal and Tangier cells. Cholesterol efflux into the media (panel A), cellular-free cholesterol (panel B), and cellular cholesteryl ester (Panel C) was determined after efflux for 20 hours from normal cells (N4, solid bars) and Tangier cells (T2, open bars) with the following acceptors: blank media (BLK; EMEM/BSA), HDL (50 µg/mL), apoA-I (10 µg/mL), phosphatidylcholine vesicles (PC; 500 µg/mL), and cyclodextrin (DC, 5 mg/mL). The results represent the mean of triplicates±1 SD. CPM=counts per minute.

To further examine the mechanism of apoA-I-mediated efflux, the effect of brefeldin was determined on lipid efflux from normal and Tangier cells (Fig 8Down). Brefeldin blocks vesicular movement between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus35 and has recently been shown to partially inhibit cholesterol efflux by HDL.36 Brefeldin inhibited, by approximately 40%, cholesterol efflux from normal cells to HDL (Fig 8Down, panel A) but did not cause significant inhibition of HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells. Interestingly, the level of cholesterol efflux by HDL from Tangier cells was approximately equivalent to the level of HDL efflux from normal cells after treatment with brefeldin. Similar results were obtained for all of the normal and Tangier cell lines. In contrast to the partial inhibition of HDL efflux, brefeldin almost completely blocked apoA-I-mediated cholesterol efflux from normal cells (Fig 8Down, panel B). In addition, brefeldin also inhibited, with a similar dose-response relationship, phospholipid efflux by apoA-I from normal cells. In Fig 9Down, the effect of brefeldin treatment on cholesteryl ester formation by normal cells after efflux with HDL and apoA-I was also examined. Both HDL and apoA-I decreased cholesteryl ester formation because of their ability to promote net efflux of cholesterol from cells and to decrease the pool of cholesterol that is available for esterification.25 After treatment with brefeldin, however, no decrease in cholesteryl ester formation was observed, because of the apparent block by brefeldin of cholesterol efflux from cells by apoA-I and HDL, even though brefeldin only partially blocked HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux (Fig. 8Down). Normal cells after brefeldin treatment, therefore, acted similar to Tangier cells in cholesterol efflux based on their similar level of HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux (Fig 8Down, panel A), their inability to efflux cholesterol to apoA-I (Fig 8Down, panel B), and the lack of cholesteryl ester depletion from cells after efflux with either HDL or apoA-I (Figs 7Up and 9Down).



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Figure 8. Effect of brefeldin on lipid efflux from normal and Tangier cells. The effect of brefeldin on cholesterol efflux by HDL (50 µg/mL) for 20 hours was determined for normal (N1, {bullet}) and Tangier cells (T1, {blacksquare}; panel A). The effect of brefeldin on efflux by apoA-I (10 µg/mL) for 20 hours of cholesterol ({bullet}) and phospholipid ({blacksquare}) was determined for normal cells (panel B). The results represent the mean of triplicates±1 SD. CPM=counts per minute.



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Figure 9. Effect of brefeldin on intracellular cholesteryl ester formation by normal cells. Normal cells (N1) treated with (solid bars) and without (open bars) brefeldin (1 µM) were effluxed for 20 hours with either EMEM/BSA (blank (BLK)), HDL (50 µg/mL), or apoA-I (10 µg/mL), as indicated. Cholesteryl ester formation was measured by the incorporation of [14C]oleate into cholesteryl esters. The results represent the mean of triplicates±1 SD. CPM=counts per minute.


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As illustrated in Fig 1Up, Tangier cells are partially defective in HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux and are almost completely defective in apoA-I-mediated cholesterol efflux. Because the four Tangier cell lines in this study plus the two Tangier cell lines that were previously described11 have markedly decreased apoA-I-mediated cholesterol and phospholipid efflux, it suggests that the observed lipid efflux defect may be generally applicable to the majority of subjects with Tangier disease.

The defect in apolipoprotein-mediated cholesterol and phospholipid efflux from Tangier cells is not specific for apoA-I, because other apolipoproteins, including apoA-II, apoA-IV, apoC-I, apoC-II, and apoC-III (Fig. 6Up), showed decreased lipid efflux from Tangier cells. This is consistent with previous studies that have shown that several other apolipoproteins besides apoA-I can mediate lipid efflux.13 14 15 17 37 The ability of an apolipoprotein to mediate lipid efflux has been proposed to be dependent on the presence of type A amphipathic helices.17 27 38 39 The lack of acceptor specificity in the apolipoprotein-mediated lipid efflux defect in Tangier cells makes it less likely that a defect in the binding of apoA-I to Tangier cells11 is the mechanism for the decreased lipid efflux. All of the apolipoproteins tested (Fig 6Up) have different primary amino acid sequences, which makes it less likely that a single receptor would bind all of these proteins, although some receptors such as LRP and the scavenger receptors can bind a multitude of different ligands.40 The results presented in Fig 4Up, which show that cholesterol efflux does not begin to saturate until after 5 µg/mL of apoA-I, are also inconsistent with a defect in binding at only submicrogram per milliliter concentrations of apoA-I11 as the mechanism for the decreased cholesterol efflux. Furthermore, when directly assessed, no significant difference in the binding of apoA-I between normal and Tangier disease cells was detected (Fig 5Up). Heterogeneity in the biochemical basis for Tangier disease or methodologic differences in the binding assay could potentially be the cause for the difference between this study and the previous report of decreased apoA-I binding in Tangier cells.11

In addition to the defect in apolipoprotein-mediated cholesterol efflux, Tangier cells also showed reduced cholesterol efflux into the media with HDL (Fig 1Up) and no reduction in cellular cholesteryl ester levels after efflux with HDL (Fig 7Up), as has been described previously.11 Because the level of cholesteryl ester is tightly coupled to the total cholesterol mass of a cell,22 25 the lack of depletion of cholesteryl ester from Tangier cells by HDL suggests that there was no net efflux of cholesterol by HDL from Tangier cells and that the radioactive cholesterol counts appearing in the HDL-containing media are only the result of bidirectional exchange of cholesterol between the plasma membrane and HDL and not net movement of cholesterol from the cell. Interestingly, phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin, both of which remove cholesterol by aqueous diffusion, 33 34 were equally effective in facilitating cholesterol efflux from normal and Tangier cells (Fig 7Up). Because both of these acceptors do not initially contain cholesterol, any cholesterol efflux into the media must represent net cholesterol movement away from the cell. Efflux with both phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin also led to a similar reduction in cholesteryl ester levels from normal and Tangier cells (Fig 7Up). Overall, these results suggests that the hydrolysis of cholesteryl ester and the efflux of cholesterol is potentially normal in Tangier cells, depending on the type of acceptor. Tangier cells effluxed cholesterol normally to phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin but were defective in apolipoprotein-mediated efflux and in that part of HDL-mediated efflux that leads to net cholesterol efflux and subsequent cholesteryl ester depletion. Interestingly, Fu5AH cells, J744 cells, and macrophages from atherosclerosis-susceptible pigeons have all been shown to respond as Tangier cells in cholesterol efflux to HDL.41 42 These cells can undergo bidirectional exchange of cholesterol with HDL, but it does not lead to depletion of cholesteryl ester from the cells because for unknown reasons there is no net movement of cholesterol from these cells to HDL.

On the basis of the effect of brefeldin on lipid efflux (Fig 8Up), two components of cholesterol efflux by HDL can be functionally defined, a brefeldin-sensitive and a brefeldin-resistant component. Normal cells, as has been previously described,36 are only partially inhibited in cholesterol efflux by brefeldin and exhibit both a brefeldin-sensitive and a brefeldin-resistant component of HDL-mediated efflux (Fig 8Up, panel A). In contrast, brefeldin had a minimal effect on HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells (Fig 8Up). Interestingly, the level of HDL-mediated efflux from normal cells after treatment with brefeldin is similar to what was observed from Tangier cells, which suggests that Tangier cells are missing a brefeldin-sensitive component of cholesterol efflux but have a near normal level of the brefeldin-resistant component of cholesterol efflux (Fig 8Up, panel A). The fact that cholesterol efflux by apoA-I is completely brefeldin-sensitive in normal cells and is absent in Tangier cells further supports the idea that Tangier cells have a general defect in a brefeldin-sensitive pathway for lipid efflux. Because it is likely that there are multiple steps involved in the efflux of cholesterol by apoA-I, the cholesterol efflux defect in Tangier cells is not necessarily at a brefeldin-sensitive step but in a pathway for lipid efflux that can be inhibited by brefeldin.

The mechanism for the brefeldin-resistant component of efflux, which was the largest component of cholesterol efflux from fibroblasts (Fig 8Up), is likely to occur by aqueous diffusion from the plasma membrane, which has been well described to be quantitatively the most important pathway for cholesterol efflux.22 Because the plasma membrane already contains the majority of cellular cholesterol,43 44 blocking intracellular translocation of additional cholesterol to the plasma membrane by brefeldin35 36 45 would not be predicted to have a major affect on cholesterol efflux to HDL by aqueous diffusion. Because the brefeldin-resistant component of cholesterol efflux by HDL is relatively normal in Tangier cells (Fig. 8Up), this suggests that cholesterol efflux by aqueous diffusion may be normal in Tangier cells. This is supported by the nearly equal cholesterol efflux observed between normal and Tangier cells by phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin (Fig 7Up), which remove cholesterol by aqueous diffusion.33 34 It has been shown for cyclodextrin that brefeldin does not affect its ability to efflux cholesterol from the plasma membrane.46 In addition, it has recently been shown that trypsin treatment of HDL, which prevents the binding of HDL to cells but does not affect efflux by aqueous diffusion, results in the same level of efflux from normal and Tangier cells.11 Overall, these results are consistent with a model by which Tangier cells can readily efflux cholesterol by aqueous diffusion but are instead defective in another pathway of lipid efflux, which is sensitive to brefeldin.

The mechanism for the brefeldin-sensitive component of efflux is not known but is likely to involve the intracellular translocation of vesicles between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus, which brefeldin is known to inhibit.35 47 The fact that lipid efflux by apoA-I was more sensitive to brefeldin than HDL (Fig 8Up) suggests that apoA-I uses the brefeldin-sensitive pathway for lipid efflux more than does HDL. It has been proposed previously that the intracellular translocation of cholesterol to the plasma membrane and its eventual efflux is stimulated by the binding of HDL and apoA-I to cells.48 This translocation also appears to be dependent on protein kinase C activation.49 Decreased translocation of newly synthesized cholesterol to the plasma membrane and efflux to HDL has recently been described in Tangier cells7 9 and is corrected by activation of protein kinase C.7 Brefeldin, by interfering with vesicular trafficking, may block intracellular translocation of cholesterol to the plasma membrane, where a direct interaction of lipid-free apolipoproteins with the plasma membrane eventually results in cholesterol efflux. Alternatively, brefeldin may interfere with cholesterol efflux, not by blocking intracellular cholesterol translocation45 but by inhibiting the translocation of other lipids or proteins to the plasma membrane, where they may facilitate cholesterol efflux by interacting with lipid-free apolipoprotein acceptors. The fact that brefeldin completely blocked cholesteryl ester depletion by HDL and apoA-I from normal cells (Fig 9Up) suggests that it is the brefeldin-sensitive pathway of efflux that leads to the net cholesterol efflux from fibroblasts.

In Fig 10Down, a two-step model for lipid efflux by apolipoproteins is presented.16 In this model, apoA-I first removes phospholipid38 after a direct interaction with the plasma membrane (Fig. 10Down, step 1) and then in a second step the apoA-I phospholipid complex or nascent-like HDL particle is then competent to accept cholesterol by aqueous diffusion (Fig. 10Down, step 2). Based on this model, the observed decrease in phospholipid efflux in Tangier cells (Fig 2Up) during step 1 would subsequently lead to a decreased concentration of apoA-I lipidated with phospholipid in the extracellular media. Although the potential for cholesterol efflux by aqueous diffusion in Tangier cells appears to be relatively normal, based on the efflux data with phospholipid vesicles and cyclodextrin (Fig 7Up), there would be a decrease in cholesterol efflux by aqueous diffusion (Fig 10Down, step 2) simply because of the lack of available apoA-I-phospholipid complexes in the media.



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Figure 10. Model of apoA-I-mediated cholesterol efflux from fibroblasts. C=cholesterol; PL=phospholipid; ER=endoplasmic reticulum; A-I=apoA-I.

Based on this model HDL, which is already complexed phospholipid, should readily efflux cholesterol by aqueous diffusion from Tangier cells (Fig. 10Up, step 2). Compared with normal cells, however, HDL was not as effective in removing cholesterol from Tangier cells (Fig 1Up). This suggests that the partial reduction in HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux from Tangier cells may occur because part of HDL efflux is mediated by the same mechanism as for apoA-I efflux, which may be the brefeldin-sensitive component of HDL efflux (Fig 8Up) that appears to lead to net cholesterol efflux (Fig 9Up). One possibility is that a portion of total cholesterol efflux that occurs by HDL is mediated by apoA-I that has dissociated from HDL (Fig 10Up, see upward arrow step 1). This is supported by the recent observation that probucol, which prevents the binding of apoA-I to cells and subsequent cholesterol efflux, also partially reduces cholesterol efflux by HDL.50 Overall, these results suggest that Tangier cells are defective in the initial interaction of apolipoproteins with the plasma membrane (Fig. 10Up, step 1) as seen by the reduced phospholipid efflux to apoA-I and HDL (Figs 1Up and 2Up). This abnormal interaction may be a consequence of differences in how normal and Tangier cells respond to cholesterol loading, which enhances apoA-I-mediated efflux in normal but not Tangier cells (Fig 3Up). A potential defect in a brefeldin-sensitive pathway for intracellular lipid transfer may result in a modification of the plasma membrane of cholesterol-loaded Tangier cells in such a way that it interferes with lipid efflux by apolipoproteins.

In summary, the acceptor specificity and the mechanism of apolipoprotein-mediated cholesterol efflux was examined from normal and Tangier cells. Tangier cells were confirmed, as previously described,11 to be defective in cholesterol efflux to HDL and apoA-I, and the defect in apolipoprotein-mediated lipid efflux was not specific for apoA-I but also occurred for other apolipoproteins. Furthermore, brefeldin had a differential effect on lipid efflux from normal and Tangier cells, and a model is proposed whereby a defect in a brefeldin-sensitive pathway leads to decreased lipid efflux from Tangier cells. Future studies aimed at defining further the mechanism of apoA-I-mediated cholesterol efflux and the effect of brefeldin on lipid efflux should provide further insight into the molecular basis of the defect in Tangier disease.


*    Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms
 
apo = apolipoprotein
BSA = bovine serum albumin
EMEM = Eagle-modified minimum essential medium



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Figure 11. [acron]apo = apolipoprotein; BSA = bovine serum albumin; EMEM = Eagle-modified minimum essential medium.


*    Acknowledgments
 
We thank J.M. Hoeg for helpful discussions and critical reading of the manuscript.

Received July 12, 1996; accepted February 14, 1997.


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