Cholesterol from Degenerating Nerve Myelin Becomes Associated with Lipoproteins Containing Apolipoprotein E
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 56 (6), 2082-2086
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1991.tb03469.x
Abstract
Apolipoprotein E is synthesized and secreted by rat sciatic nerve consequent to several types of injury. It has been proposed that endoneurial apolipoprotein E, in analogy to its role in systemic cholesterol transport, is involved in the salvage and reutilization of myelin cholesterol during degeneration and regeneration. To test this hypothesis, nerve lipids were prelabeled via intraneural injection of [3H]acetate. Four weeks later the nerves were crushed. From 1 to 12 weeks later, crushed nerves were examined for extracellular lipoprotein-bound cholesterol label. By 2 weeks after injury, 10% of the endoneurial lipid label was in a soluble form that was releasable into incubation medium. This released fraction was enriched in labeled cholesterol, and its labeled lipid composition was constant, in contrast to the changing distribution of label in the nerve with time after injury. On a KBr gradient, the released lipid label cofractionated with the released apolipoprotein E at densities similar to that of lipoproteins. These data indicate that at least some myelin cholesterol in injured nerve becomes associated with apolipoprotein E-containing lipoproteins and thus is available for reutilization via the hypothesized model.Keywords
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