PMID- 30154232 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190902 LR - 20210217 IS - 1539-7262 (Electronic) IS - 0022-2275 (Print) IS - 0022-2275 (Linking) VI - 59 IP - 11 DP - 2018 Nov TI - Functions of neutral ceramidase in the Golgi apparatus. PG - 2116-2125 LID - 10.1194/jlr.M088187 [doi] AB - Ceramidases hydrolyze ceramides into sphingosine and fatty acids, with sphingosine being further metabolized into sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P); thus, ceramidases control the levels of these bioactive sphingolipids in cells and tissues. Neutral ceramidase (nCDase) is highly expressed in colorectal tissues, and a recent report showed that nCDase activity is involved in Wnt/beta-catenin signaling. In addition, the inhibition of nCDase decreases the development and progression of colorectal tumor growth. Here, to determine the action of nCDase in colorectal cancer cells, we focused on the subcellular localization and metabolic functions of this enzyme in HCT116 cells. nCDase was found to be located in both the plasma membrane and in the Golgi apparatus, but it had minimal effects on basal levels of ceramide, sphingosine, or S1P. Cells overexpressing nCDase were protected from the cell death and Golgi fragmentation induced by C6-ceramide, and they showed reduced levels of C6-ceramide and higher levels of S1P and sphingosine. Furthermore, compartment-specific metabolic functions of the enzyme were probed using C6-ceramide and Golgi-targeted bacterial SMase (bSMase) and bacterial ceramidase (bCDase). The results showed that Golgi-specific bCDase also demonstrated resistance against the cell death stimulated by C6-ceramide, and it catalyzed the metabolism of ceramides and produced sphingosine in the Golgi. Targeting bSMase to the Golgi resulted in increased levels of ceramide that were attenuated by the expression of nCDase, also supporting its ability to metabolize Golgi-generated ceramide. These results are critical in understanding the functions of nCDase actions in colorectal cancer cells as well as the compartmentalized pathways of sphingolipid metabolism. FAU - Sakamoto, Wataru AU - Sakamoto W AD - Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Exploratory Research Laboratories, Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan. FAU - Coant, Nicolas AU - Coant N AD - Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. FAU - Canals, Daniel AU - Canals D AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9293-5123 AD - Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. FAU - Obeid, Lina M AU - Obeid LM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0734-0847 AD - Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY. FAU - Hannun, Yusuf A AU - Hannun YA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3349-3369 AD - Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY yusuf.hannun@stonybrookmedicine.edu. AD - Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Department of Biochemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Department of Pharmacology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. AD - Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. LA - eng GR - R01 GM097741/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA172517/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA218678/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 CA097132/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R35 GM118128/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20180828 PL - United States TA - J Lipid Res JT - Journal of lipid research JID - 0376606 RN - 0 (Sphingolipids) RN - EC 3.1.4.12 (Sphingomyelin Phosphodiesterase) RN - EC 3.5.1.23 (Neutral Ceramidase) SB - IM MH - Apoptosis/physiology MH - Blotting, Western MH - Cell Membrane/metabolism MH - Cell Survival/physiology MH - Colonic Neoplasms/metabolism MH - Golgi Apparatus/*metabolism MH - HCT116 Cells MH - Humans MH - Lipid Metabolism/physiology MH - Microscopy, Confocal MH - Neutral Ceramidase/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction/physiology MH - Sphingolipids/metabolism MH - Sphingomyelin Phosphodiesterase/metabolism PMC - PMC6210901 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Golgi OT - apoptosis OT - colon cancer OT - neutral ceramidase OT - sphingolipids EDAT- 2018/08/30 06:00 MHDA- 2019/09/03 06:00 PMCR- 2019/11/01 CRDT- 2018/08/30 06:00 PHST- 2018/07/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/08/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/08/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/09/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/08/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0022-2275(20)30912-3 [pii] AID - m088187 [pii] AID - 10.1194/jlr.M088187 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Lipid Res. 2018 Nov;59(11):2116-2125. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M088187. Epub 2018 Aug 28.