25‐Hydroxycholesterol induces reorganization of lysosomes in normal but not Niemann‐Pick disease type C astrocytes
25‐Hydroxycholesterol induces reorganization of lysosomes in normal but not Niemann‐Pick disease type C astrocytes
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25-羟基胆固醇诱导正常但非尼曼-匹克病 C 型星形胶质细胞的溶酶体重组
作者:
Shutish C. Patel;K. Asotra;Y. Patel;Ramesh C. Patel;S. Suresh
25-HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL (25-OHC), an oxysterol that potently regulates cellular cholesterol metabolism, induced formation of novel fibrillar structures in normal mouse astrocytes as observed by fluorescence microscopy with the cholesterol probe, filipin. These fibrils were identified as lysosomes by their immunoreactivity for the lysosome associated membrane glycoprotein (LAMP). In contrast, astrocytes derived from the Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) mutant mouse were resistant to this oxysterol-induced lysosomal reorganization. NPC astrocytes have abnormal intracellular cholesterol storage as observed by brightly positive filipin staining of their lysosomes. These results show that lysosomal cholesterol storage in NPC astrocytes is associated with a block in oxysterol-mediated fibrillar reorganization of lysosomes.