scholarly journals Altered regulation of cholesterol and cholesteryl ester synthesis in Chinese-hamster ovary cells overexpressing the oxysterol-binding protein is dependent on the pleckstrin homology domain

1997 ◽  
Vol 326 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. LAGACE ◽  
David M. BYERS ◽  
Harold W. COOK ◽  
Neale D. RIDGWAY
Keyword(s):  
Golgi Apparatus ◽  
Cholesteryl Ester ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Cholesterol Esterification ◽  
Ester Synthesis ◽  
Ph Domain ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Oxysterol Binding Protein

Oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) is a high-affinity receptor for a variety of oxysterols, such as 25-hydroxycholesterol, that down-regulate cholesterol synthesis and stimulate cholesterol esterification. To examine a potential role for OSBP in regulating cholesterol metabolism, we stably overexpressed this protein in Chinese-hamster ovary (CHO)-K1 cells. Compared with mock-transfected controls, several cell lines overexpressing wild-type OSBP (CHO-OSBP) displayed a 50% decrease in cholesteryl ester synthesis when cultured in medium with delipidated serum, 25-hydroxycholesterol or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) . CHO-OSBP cells showed a 40–60% decrease in acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase activity and mRNA, a 50% elevation in mRNA for three sterol-regulated genes [LDL receptor, 3-hydroxy-3-methylgluraryl (HMG)-CoA reductase and HMG-CoA synthase], and an 80% increase in [14C]acetate incorporation into cholesterol. CHO-K1 cells overexpressing two OSBP mutants with a complete or N-terminal deletion of the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain had cholesterol esterification and synthesis rates that were similar to those shown by mock-transfected controls. Unlike wild-type OSBP, both PH domain mutants displayed diffuse cytoplasmic immunofluorescence staining and did not translocate to the Golgi apparatus in the presence of 25-hydroxycholesterol. CHO-K1 cells overexpressing OSBP have pronounced alterations in cholesterol esterification and synthesis, indicating a potential role for this receptor in cholesterol homoeostasis. The phenotype observed in cells overexpressing OSBP is dependent on the PH domain, which appears to be necessary for ligand-dependent localization of OSBP to the Golgi apparatus.

scholarly journals Cholesterol regulates oxysterol binding protein (OSBP) phosphorylation and Golgi localization in Chinese hamster ovary cells: correlation with stimulation of sphingomyelin synthesis by 25-hydroxycholesterol

1998 ◽  
Vol 336 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo K. STOREY ◽  
David M. BYERS ◽  
Harold W. COOK ◽  
Neale D. RIDGWAY
Keyword(s):  
Golgi Apparatus ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
Binding Protein ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Cholesterol Content ◽  
Cholesterol Depletion ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Oxysterol Binding Protein

Sphingomyelin (SM) and cholesterol content is positively correlated in cellular membranes, and in several pathological and experimental conditions there is evidence for coregulation. The potential role of oxysterols and oxysterol binding protein (OSBP) in mediating the coregulation of cholesterol and SM was examined using Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) and cholesterol auxotrophic, sterol regulatory defective (SRD) 6 cells. SRD 6 cells grown in the presence or absence of cholesterol for 24 h displayed a 30–50% reduction in SM synthesis compared with control CHO 7 cells. SM synthesis in CHO 7 and cholesterol-supplemented SRD 6 cells was stimulated 2-fold by 25-hydroxycholesterol, but cholesterol-starved SRD 6 cells were unresponsive. Basal and 25-hydroxycholesterol-stimulated SM synthesis was also inhibited in lovastatin-treated wild-type CHO-K1 cells. Lack of 25-hydroxycholesterol activation of SM synthesis in cholesterol-starved SRD 6 and lovastatin-treated CHO-K1 cells was correlated with dephosphorylation of OSBP. In SRD 6 cells, this was evident after 12 h of cholesterol depletion, it occurred equally at all phosphorylation sites and was exacerbated by 25-hydroxycholesterol. Unlike CHO 7 cells, where OSBP was observed in small vesicles and the cytoplasm, OSBP in cholesterol-starved SRD 6 cells was constitutively localized in the Golgi apparatus. Supplementation with non-lipoprotein cholesterol promoted redistribution to vesicles and the cytoplasm. Similarly, OSBP in CHO-K1 cells grown in delipidated serum was predominantly in the Golgi apparatus. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) supplementation of CHO-K1 cells caused the redistribution of OSBP to the cytoplasm and small vesicles, and this effect was blocked by pharmacological agents {3-β-[2-(diethylamino)ethoxy]androst-5-en-17-one and progesterone}, which inhibited LDL cholesterol efflux from lysosomes. The results showed that localization of OSBP between the Golgi apparatus and a cytoplasmic/vesicular compartment was responsive to changes in cholesterol content and trafficking. In cholesterol depleted SRD 6 cells, this was accompanied by dephosphorylation of OSBP and attenuation of 25-hydroxycholesterol activation of SM synthesis.

scholarly journals Genetic Evidence for ATP-dependent Endoplasmic Reticulum-to-Golgi Apparatus Trafficking of Ceramide for Sphingomyelin Synthesis in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells

1999 ◽  
Vol 144 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayoshi Fukasawa ◽  
Masahiro Nishijima ◽  
Kentaro Hanada
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Golgi Apparatus ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Atp Depletion ◽  
Ovary Cell ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
A Cells

LY-A strain is a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant resistant to sphingomyelin (SM)-directed cytolysin and has a defect in de novo SM synthesis. Metabolic labeling experiments with radioactive serine, sphingosine, and choline showed that LY-A cells were defective in synthesis of SM from these precursors, but not syntheses of ceramide (Cer), glycosphingolipids, or phosphatidylcholine, indicating a specific defect in the conversion of Cer to SM in LY-A cells. In vitro experiments showed that the specific defect of SM formation in LY-A cells was not due to alterations in enzymatic activities responsible for SM synthesis or degradation. When cells were treated with brefeldin A, which causes fusion of the Golgi apparatus with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), de novo SM synthesis in LY-A cells was restored to the wild-type level. Pulse–chase experiments with a fluorescent Cer analogue, N-(4,4-difluoro-5,7-dimethyl-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene-3-pentanoyl)-d-erythro-sphingosine (C5-DMB-Cer), revealed that in wild-type cells C5-DMB-Cer was redistributed from intracellular membranes to the Golgi apparatus in an intracellular ATP-dependent manner, and that LY-A cells were defective in the energy-dependent redistribution of C5-DMB-Cer. Under ATP-depleted conditions, conversion of C5-DMB-Cer to C5-DMB-SM and of [3H]sphingosine to [3H]SM in wild-type cells decreased to the levels in LY-A cells, which were not affected by ATP depletion. ER-to-Golgi apparatus trafficking of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored or membrane-spanning proteins in LY-A cells appeared to be normal. These results indicate that the predominant pathway of ER-to-Golgi apparatus trafficking of Cer for de novo SM synthesis is ATP dependent and that this pathway is almost completely impaired in LY-A cells. In addition, the specific defect of SM synthesis in LY-A cells suggests different pathways of Cer transport for glycosphingolipids versus SM synthesis.

Malignancy-related characteristics of wild type and drug-resistant chinese hamster ovary cells

Pathology ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda B. Mackinnon ◽  
Marlen Dyne ◽  
Rebecca Hancock ◽  
Carolyn E. Mountford ◽  
Adrienne J. Grant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Ovary Cells

Complementation of a methotrexate uptake defect in Chinese hamster ovary cells by DNA-mediated gene transfer

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1754-1758
Author(s):  
T M Underhill ◽  
W F Flintoff
Keyword(s):  
Gene Transfer ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Ovary Cell ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Ovary Cells ◽  
Ovary Cell Line ◽  
Human Specific

A methotrexate-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell line deficient in methotrexate uptake has been complemented to methotrexate sensitivity by transfection with DNA isolated from either wild-type Chinese hamster ovary or human G2 cells. Primary and secondary transfectants regained the ability to take up methotrexate in a manner similar to that of wild-type cells, and in the case of those transfected with human DNA, to contain human-specific DNA sequences. The complementation by DNA-mediated gene transfer of this methotrexate-resistant phenotype provides a basis for the cloning of a gene involved in methotrexate uptake.

Mutation at autosomal loci of Chinese hamster ovary cells: involvement of a high-frequency event silencing two linked alleles

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 1172-1181
Author(s):  
W E Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Cell Lines ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Class Ii ◽  
Class I ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Ovary Cells

Two classes of cell lines heterozygous at the galactokinase (glk) locus have been isolated from Chinese hamster ovary cells. Class I, selected by plating nonmutagenized wild-type cells at low density in medium containing 2-deoxygalactose at a partially selective concentration, underwent subsequent mutation to the glk-/- genotype at a low frequency (approximately 10(-6) per cell), which was increased by mutagenesis. Class II heterozygotes, isolated by sib selection from mutagenized wild-type cells, had a higher spontaneous frequency of mutation to the homozygous state (approximately 10(-4) per cell), which was not affected by mutagenesis. About half of the glk-/- mutants derived from a class II heterozygote, but not the heterozygote itself, were functionally hemizygous at the syntenic thymidine kinase (tk) locus. Similarly, a tk+/- heterozygote with characteristics analogous to the class II glk+/- cell lines underwent high-frequency mutation to tk-/-, and most of these mutants, but not the tk+/- heterozygote, were functionally hemizygous at the glk locus. A model is proposed, similar to that for the mutational events at the adenine phosphoribosyl transferase locus (W. E. C. Bradley and D. Letovanec, Somatic Cell Genet. 8:51-66, 1982), of two different events, high and low frequency, being responsible for mutation at either of the linked loci tk and glk. The low-frequency event may be a point mutation, but the high-frequency event, in many instances, involves coordinated inactivation of a portion of a chromosome carrying the two linked alleles. Class II heterozygotes would be generated as a result of a low-frequency event at one allele, and class I heterozygotes would be generated by a high-frequency event. Supporting this model was the demonstration that all class I glk+/- lines examined were functionally hemizygous at tk.

Expression of human Mn SOD in Chinese hamster ovary cells confers protection from oxidant injury

1993 ◽  
Vol 264 (6) ◽  
pp. L598-L605
Author(s):  
B. Warner ◽  
R. Papes ◽  
M. Heile ◽  
D. Spitz ◽  
J. Wispe
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
Cho Cells ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells ◽  
Lethal Dose ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Eukaryotic Expression ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Oxidant Injury ◽  
Sod Activity ◽  
Recombinant Cho Cells

Manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn SOD) is an important component of antioxidant defense in aerobic cells because of its location in the mitochondria, a significant source of oxygen radicals and an important target of oxidant injury. To test the hypothesis that increased mitochondrial Mn SOD protects from oxidant injury, Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were transfected with a eukaryotic expression vector containing the human Mn SOD cDNA. In recombinant CHO cells, Mn SOD activity was increased threefold over wild-type controls. Acute survival during paraquat exposure (0–500 microM) was significantly improved in CHO cells expressing human Mn SOD, with 71% of recombinant CHO cells surviving at the 50% lethal dose (LD50) for wild-type CHO controls. Cell growth following exposure to paraquat (100 microM) was also significantly improved in recombinant CHO cells. CHO cells expressing human Mn SOD continued to grow and divide after paraquat exposure, whereas growth of wild-type CHO cells was negligible. Protection against oxidant-induced injury was directly related to increased Mn SOD, occurring in the absence of changes in other antioxidant enzymes including catalase, Cu,Zn SOD, and glutathione associated cellular antioxidant mechanisms. We conclude that increased expression of human Mn SOD in vitro directly confers protection against oxidant injury.

scholarly journals Kinetics of endosome acidification in mutant and wild-type Chinese hamster ovary cells.

1987 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 2713-2721 ◽  
Author(s):  
D J Yamashiro ◽  
F R Maxfield
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
Cho Cells ◽  
Ph Value ◽  
Ph Regulation ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells ◽  
Mutant Cell ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Cell Biol ◽  
Endocytic Compartments

Acidification of endocytic compartments is necessary for the proper sorting and processing of many ligands and their receptors. Robbins and co-workers have obtained Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell mutants that are pleiotropically defective in endocytosis and deficient in ATP-dependent acidification of endosomes isolated by density centrifugation (Robbins, A. R., S. S. Peng, and J. L. Marshall. 1983. J. Cell Biol. 96:1064-1071; Robbins, A. R., C. Oliver, J. L. Bateman, S. S. Krag, C. J. Galloway, and I. Mellman. 1984. J. Cell Biol. 99:1296-1308). In this and the following paper (Yamashiro, D. J., and F. R. Maxfield. 1987. J. Cell Biol. 105:2723-2733) we describe detailed studies of endosome acidification in the mutant and wild-type CHO cells. Here we describe a new microspectrofluorometry method based on changes in fluorescein fluorescence when all cellular compartments are equilibrated to the same pH value. Using this method we measured the pH of endocytic compartments during the first minutes of endocytosis. We found in wild-type CHO cells that after 3 min, fluorescein-labeled dextran (F-Dex) was in endosomes having an average pH of 6.3. By 10 min, both F-Dex and fluorescein-labeled alpha 2-macroglobulin (F-alpha 2M) had reached acidic endosomes having an average pH of 6.0 or below. In contrast, endosome acidification in the CHO mutants DTG 1-5-4 and DTF 1-5-1 was markedly slowed. The average endosomal pH after 5 min was 6.7 in both mutant cell lines. At least 15 min was required for F-Dex and F-alpha 2M to reach an average pH of 6.0 in DTG 1-5-4. Acidification of early endocytic compartments is defective in the CHO mutants DTG 1-5-4 and DTF 1-5-1, but pH regulation of later compartments on both the recycling pathway and lysosomal pathway is nearly normal. The properties of the mutant cells suggest that proper functioning of pH regulatory mechanisms in early endocytic compartments is critical for many pH-mediated processes of endocytosis.

scholarly journals Unusual forms of low density lipoprotein receptors in hamster cell mutants with defects in the receptor structural gene.

1986 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 1567-1575 ◽  
Author(s):  
K F Kozarsky ◽  
H A Brush ◽  
M Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Hamster Ovary ◽  
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells ◽  
Low Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Ldl Receptor ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Ovary Cells ◽  
Ldl Receptors

The structure and processing of low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors in wild-type and LDL receptor-deficient mutant Chinese hamster ovary cells was examined using polyclonal anti-receptor antibodies. As previously reported for human LDL receptors, the LDL receptors in wild-type Chinese hamster ovary cells were synthesized as precursors which were extensively processed by glycosylation to a mature form. In the course of normal receptor turnover, an apparently unglycosylated portion of the cysteine-rich N-terminal LDL binding domain of the receptor is proteolytically removed. The LDL receptor-deficient mutants fall into four complementation groups, ldlA, ldlB, ldlC, and ldlD; results of the analysis of ldlB, ldlC, and ldlD mutants are described in the accompanying paper (Kingsley, D. M., K. F. Kozarsky, M. Segal, and M. Krieger, 1986, J. Cell. Biol, 102:1576-1585). Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors. The abnormally processed receptors were continually converted to novel unstable intracellular intermediates. We also identified a compound-heterozygous mutant and a heterozygous revertant which indicate that the ldlA locus is diploid. In conjunction with other genetic and biochemical data, the finding of multiple mutant forms of the LDL receptor in ldlA mutants, some of which appeared together in the same cell, confirm that the ldlA locus is the structural gene for the LDL receptor.

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