New approaches for understanding lipid movement in health and disease

PPG标题：了解健康和疾病中脂质运动的新方法 总结/摘要 我们的计划项目资助（PPG）专注于脂质代谢和运输，目标是定义 代谢和心血管疾病的机制。我们的PPG团队在脂质方面取得了开创性的发现， 代谢和运输。我们发现了一种内皮细胞蛋白GPIHBP 1，它可以转运脂蛋白脂酶 (LPL)并稳定LPL的结构。最近，我们定义了 GPIHBP 1-LPL复合物，为引起高脂血症的突变和开放性高脂血症提供了新的见解。 了解血管内脂解调节机制的大门。在胆固醇代谢领域， 我们的PPG发现，巨噬细胞通过质膜（PM）出芽释放富集的颗粒， 胆固醇。我们的PPG揭示了炎症信号和胆固醇代谢之间的联系， 我们发现了一种新的蛋白质，Aster-B，它对PM之间的胆固醇运动至关重要。 和内质网（ER）。缺乏Aster-B会损害胆固醇向ER的移动， 脂质生物合成基因的显著上调这些发现都与 动脉粥样硬化，完全依赖于我们的PPG领导者和先进的 分子、生物化学和成像能力。当我们展望未来时， 我们发现的分子和机制。在项目1中，杨博士和他的PPG同事 将使用生物化学和生物物理学工具来阐明LPL-GPIHBP 1复合物的功能，包括 GPIHBP 1的酸性结构域在稳定LPL活性和在内皮下空间内捕获LPL中的作用。 他们还将利用电子显微镜和NanoSIMS成像技术研究富含胆固醇的颗粒的萌芽 从巨噬细胞PM。他们将定义粒子的组成，并探索它们与逆转 胆固醇转运在项目2中，本辛格博士和同事将确定炎症信号 调节巨噬细胞的脂质体。他们还将确定胆固醇变化的机制， 稳态影响STING信号传导以及STING途径对血脂异常、炎症和 动脉粥样硬化在项目3中，Tontonoz博士和他的PPG同事将探索Aster-B在胆固醇中的作用。 转运、外排和酯化作用，阐明了Aster-B在体内固醇转运中的功能。他们还将 评估“巨噬细胞Aster途径”对动脉粥样硬化的作用，并筛选其他蛋白质 细胞内胆固醇的非囊泡运输所需的。将支持三个组成项目 由Loren Fong博士及其同事领导的一个科学核心。它们将产生重组蛋白， 先进的显微镜服务，包括脂质的NanoSIMS成像。他们还将与Keriann博士合作 为研究脂质代谢提供化学蛋白质组学。我们的PPG对成功充满信心 因为我们有令人兴奋的假设，我们作为一个团队在科学和技术层面上工作。

PPG Title: New Approaches for Understanding Lipid Movement in Health and Disease SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Our Program Project Grant (PPG) focuses on lipid metabolism and transport, with the goal of defining mechanisms for metabolic and cardiovascular disease. Our PPG team has made seminal discoveries in lipid metabolism and transport. We discovered an endothelial cell protein, GPIHBP1, that transports lipoprotein lipase (LPL) to the capillary lumen and stabilizes the structure of LPL. Recently, we defined the structure of the GPIHBP1–LPL complex, providing fresh insights into mutations causing hypertriglyceridemia and opening the door to understanding mechanisms that regulate intravascular lipolysis. In the realm of cholesterol metabolism, our PPG discovered that macrophages release, by plasma membrane (PM) budding, particles that are enriched in cholesterol. Our PPG uncovered a link between inflammatory signaling and cholesterol metabolism in macrophages, and we identified a new protein, Aster-B, that is critical for cholesterol movement between the PM and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). A deficiency of Aster-B impairs cholesterol movement to the ER, causing a striking upregulation of lipid biosynthetic genes. These discoveries, all relevant to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, were utterly dependent on collaborations between our PPG leaders and the advanced molecular, biochemical, and imaging capabilities in their laboratories. As we look to the future, we will dig deeper into the molecules and mechanisms that we have uncovered. In project 1, Drs. Young and his PPG colleagues will use biochemical and biophysical tools to elucidate the functions of the LPL–GPIHBP1 complex, including the role of GPIHBP1’s acidic domain in stabilizing LPL activity and capturing LPL within the subendothelial spaces. They will also study, with electron microscopy and NanoSIMS imaging, the budding of cholesterol-rich particles from the macrophage PM. They will define the composition of the particles and explore their relevance to reverse cholesterol transport. In project 2, Dr. Bensinger and coworkers will determine how inflammatory signals modulate the lipidome of macrophages. They will also define mechanisms by which alterations in cholesterol homeostasis affect STING signaling and the impact of the STING pathway on dyslipidemia, inflammation, and atherogenesis. In Project 3, Dr. Tontonoz and his PPG coworkers will explore the role of Aster-B in cholesterol transport, efflux, and esterification and elucidate the function of Aster-B in sterol transport in vivo. They will also assess the contribution of the “macrophage Aster pathway” to atherosclerosis and screen for additional proteins required for the nonvesicular transport of cholesterol within cells. The three component projects will be supported by a single scientific core, led by Dr. Loren Fong and colleagues. They will produce recombinant proteins, provide advanced microscopy services, including NanoSIMS imaging of lipids. They will also work with Dr. Keriann Backus to provide chemical proteomics for investigating lipid metabolism. Our PPG is confident in success because we have exciting hypotheses and we work as a team at both scientific and technical levels.