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Prohibitin is a cholesterol‐sensitive regulator of cell cycle transit
Authors:Pei Dong  Jessica Flores  Kristine Pelton  Keith R. Solomon
Affiliation:1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115;2. Department of Urology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410078, PR China;3. Department of Urology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115;4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Abstract:Cholesterol is essential in establishing most functional animal cell membranes; cells cannot grow or proliferate in the absence of sufficient cholesterol. Consequently, almost every cell, tissue, and animal tightly regulates cholesterol homeostasis, including complex mechanisms of synthesis, transport, uptake, and disposition of cholesterol molecules. We hypothesize that cellular recognition of cholesterol insufficiency causes cell cycle arrest in order to avoid a catastrophic failure in membrane synthesis. Here, we demonstrate using unbiased proteomics and standard biochemistry that cholesterol insufficiency causes upregulation of prohibitin, an inhibitor of cell cycle progression, through activation of a cholesterol‐responsive promoter element. We also demonstrate that prohibitin protects cells from apoptosis caused by cholesterol insufficiency. This is the first study tying cholesterol homeostasis to a specific cell cycle regulator that inhibits apoptosis. J. Cell. Biochem. 111: 1367–1374, 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Keywords:prohibitin  cholesterol  cell cycle  prostate cancer
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