SREBP-1 upregulates lipophagy to maintain cholesterol homeostasis in brain tumor cells.
SREBP-1 upregulates lipophagy to maintain cholesterol homeostasis in brain tumor cells.
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10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112790
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2023-07-25
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Cholesterol is a structural component of cell membranes. How rapidly growing tumor cells maintain membrane cholesterol homeostasis is poorly understood. Here, we found that glioblastoma (GBM), the most lethal brain tumor, maintains normal levels of membrane cholesterol but with an abundant presence of cholesteryl esters (CEs) in its lipid droplets (LDs). Mechanistically, SREBP-1 (sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1), a master transcription factor that is activated upon cholesterol depletion, upregulates critical autophagic genes, including ATG9B, ATG4A, and LC3B, as well as lysosome cholesterol transporter NPC2. This upregulation promotes LD lipophagy, resulting in the hydrolysis of CEs and the liberation of cholesterol from the lysosomes, thus maintaining plasma membrane cholesterol homeostasis. When this pathway is blocked, GBM cells become quite sensitive to cholesterol deficiency with poor growth in vitro. Our study unravels an SREBP-1-autophagy-LD-CE hydrolysis pathway that plays an important role in maintaining membrane cholesterol homeostasis while providing a potential therapeutic avenue for GBM. Geng et al. found that cholesterol deficiency in brain tumor activates SREBP-1, which transcriptionally upregulates the expression of critical autophagy- and lysosome-related genes. The upregulation of autophagy mobilizes cholesterol from cholesterol ester-laden lipid droplets to the plasma membrane to maintain cholesterol homeostasis and to promote tumor growth and survival.
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