Transforming Growth Factor β 1 Decreases Cholesterol Supply to Mitochondria via Repression of Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein Expression - Université Grenoble Alpes
Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Biological Chemistry Année : 1998

Transforming Growth Factor β 1 Decreases Cholesterol Supply to Mitochondria via Repression of Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein Expression

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Transforming growth factor-betas (TGF-betas) constitute a family of dimeric proteins that affect growth and differentiation of many cell types. TGF-beta1 has also been proposed to be an autocrine regulator of adrenocortical steroidogenesis, acting mainly by decreasing the expression of cytochrome P450c17. Here, we demonstrate that TGF-beta1 has a second target in bovine adrenocortical cells, namely the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR). Indeed, supplying cells with steroid precursors revealed that TGF-beta1 inhibited two steps in the steroid synthesis pathway, one prior to pregnenolone production and another corresponding to P450c17. More specifically, TGF-beta1 inhibited pregnenolone production but neither the conversion of 25-hydroxycholesterol to pregnenolone nor P450scc activity. Thus, TGF-beta1 must decrease the cholesterol supply to P450scc. We therefore examined the effect of TGF-beta1 on the expression of StAR, a mitochondrial protein implicated in intramitochondrial cholesterol transport. TGF-beta1 decreased the steady state level of StAR mRNA in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. This inhibition occurs at the level of StAR transcription and depends on RNA and protein synthesis. It is likely that the TGF-beta1-induced decrease of StAR expression that we report here may be expanded to other steroidogenic cells in which a decrease of cholesterol accessibility to P450scc by TGF-beta1 has been hypothesized.

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hal-02459001 , version 1 (29-01-2020)

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Céline Brand, Nadia Cherradi, Geneviève Defaye, Anna Chinn, Edmond Chambaz, et al.. Transforming Growth Factor β 1 Decreases Cholesterol Supply to Mitochondria via Repression of Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein Expression. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1998, 273 (11), pp.6410-6416. ⟨10.1074/jbc.273.11.6410⟩. ⟨hal-02459001⟩
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