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  • Title: Uptake of cholesterol by small intestinal brush border membrane is protein-mediated.
    Author: Thurnhofer H, Hauser H.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1990 Feb 27; 29(8):2142-8. PubMed ID: 2328246.
    Abstract:
    Absorption of cholesterol by small intestinal brush border membrane from either mixed micelles or small unilamellar vesicles is protein-mediated. It is a second-order reaction. The kinetic data are consistent with a mechanism involving collision-induced transfer of cholesterol. With micelles as the donor particle, there is net transfer of cholesterol while with small unilamellar vesicles as the donor, cholesterol is evenly distributed between the two lipid pools at equilibrium. The cholesterol absorption by brush border membrane from both mixed micelles and small unilamellar vesicles reveals saturation kinetics. Proteolytic treatment of brush border membrane with papain releases about 25% of the total membrane protein. As a result, the cholesterol uptake by brush border membrane changes from a second-order reaction to a first-order one. The reaction mechanism changes from collision-induced cholesterol uptake to a mechanism involving diffusion of monomeric cholesterol through the aqueous phase. The protein(s) released into the supernatant by papain treatment of brush border membrane exhibit(s) cholesterol exchange activity between two populations of small unilamellar vesicles. The supernate-protein(s) bind(s) the spin-labeled cholesterol analogue 3-doxyl-5 alpha-cholestane.
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