PMID:22045928

Citation	Nguyen, TM, Sawyer, JK, Kelley, KL, Davis, MA and Rudel, LL (2012) Cholesterol esterification by ACAT2 is essential for efficient intestinal cholesterol absorption: evidence from thoracic lymph duct cannulation. J. Lipid Res. 53:95-104
Abstract	The hypothesis tested in this study was that cholesterol esterification by ACAT2 would increase cholesterol absorption efficiency by providing cholesteryl ester (CE) for incorporation into chylomicrons. The assumption was that absorption would be proportional to Acat2 gene dosage. Male ACAT2⁺/⁺, ACAT2⁺/⁻, and ACAT2⁻/⁻ mice were fed a diet containing 20% of energy as palm oil with 0.2% (w/w) cholesterol. Cholesterol absorption efficiency was measured by fecal dual-isotope and thoracic lymph duct cannulation (TLDC) methods using [³H]sitosterol and [¹⁴C]cholesterol tracers. Excellent agreement among individual mice was found for cholesterol absorption measured by both techniques. Cholesterol absorption efficiency in ACAT2⁻/⁻ mice was 16% compared with 46-47% in ACAT2⁺/⁺ and ACAT2⁺/⁻ mice. Chylomicrons from ACAT2⁺/⁺ and ACAT2⁺/⁻ mice carried ∼80% of total sterol mass as CE, whereas ACAT2⁻/⁻ chylomicrons carried >90% of sterol mass in the unesterified form. The total percentage of chylomicron mass as CE was reduced from 12% in the presence of ACAT2 to ∼1% in ACAT2⁻/⁻ mice. Altogether, the data demonstrate that ACAT2 increases cholesterol absorption efficiency by providing CE for chylomicron transport, but one copy of the Acat2 gene, providing ∼50% of ACAT2 mRNA and enzyme activity, was as effective as two copies in promoting cholesterol absorption.
Links	PubMed PMC3243485 Online version:10.1194/jlr.M018820
Keywords	Animals; Cholesterol/metabolism; Cholesterol Esters/metabolism; Chylomicrons/metabolism; Esterification; Intestinal Absorption; Male; Mice; Particle Size; Sterol O-Acyltransferase/metabolism; Thoracic Duct/metabolism
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Gene product	Qualifier	GO Term	Evidence Code	with/from	Aspect	Extension	Notes	Status
MOUSE:THIC		GO:0045797: positive regulation of intestinal cholesterol absorption	ECO:0000314:		P		Fig 4	complete CACAO 7517
MOUSE:THIC	involved_in	GO:0045797: positive regulation of intestinal cholesterol absorption	ECO:0000314: direct assay evidence used in manual assertion		P		Seeded From UniProt	complete

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