A Novel Nuclear Role for the Mitochondrial Hydroxylase Clk-1
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A novel nuclear role for the mitochondrial hydroxylase Clk-1 A thesis submitted to The University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Life Sciences 2011 Richard Mark Monaghan 1 (ii) – Table of Contents Section Title Page (i) Title page 1 (ii) Table of contents 2 (iii) List of tables and figures 6 (iv) Abstract 10 (v) Declaration and copyright statement 11 (vi) Acknowledgements 12 (vii) Abbreviations 13 1. Introduction 24 1.1 Energy at the heart of the cell 25 1.1.1 Biological Signals 25 1.1.2 The significance of energy 26 1.1.3 Reactive oxygen species – not always on the attack 27 1.1.4 Mitochondria – archaic timers of life 28 1.2 Cellular respiration 29 1.2.1 Sites of cellular energy production 29 1.2.2 Glycolysis and cancer cell metabolism 30 1.2.3 Mitochondria – centres of metabolic discourse 31 1.2.4 Mitochondrial-nuclear retrograde signalling 32 1.3 An energy centred signalling network 34 1.3.1 Insulin-like growth factor and organism energy homeostasis 34 1.3.2 Forkhead box transcription factors, O subgroup 37 1.3.3 Sirtuins 38 1.3.4 AMP-dependent protein kinase 39 1.3.5 Oxygen sensing – hypoxia inducible factors 40 1.3.6 SAPK-interacting protein 1 42 1.4 Development, metabolic rates and epigenetics 44 2 1.4.1 Regulation of gene expression during development 44 1.4.2 DNA methylation – another level of sequence information 45 1.4.3 Histones and their modifications 46 1.4.4 Metabolism and epigenetics 47 1.5 Ubiquinone and Clk-1 49 1.5.1 Conservation of a lipid hydroxylase 49 1.5.2 Monooxygenases and dioxygenases 52 1.5.3 Altered developmental rates in clk-1 mutants 52 1.5.4 Metabolic changes in long lived Clk-1+/- mice 55 1.5.5 Other Clk-1 research 56 1.5.6 Conclusion 56 1.6 Project Aims 57 2. Materials and methods 58 2.1 Reagents, constructs and antibodies 59 2.2 Molecular cloning techniques and bacterial protein preparation 59 2.3 siRNAs 65 2.4 Tissue culture, transfections, cell lysis and pull down techniques 65 2.5 SDS-PAGE and western blotting 66 2.6 Kinase assays 66 2.7 Mass spectrometry techniques 67 2.8 Clk-1 antibody generation 68 2.9 Microscopy and immunofluorescence 69 2.10 Fractionation techniques 69 2.11 Chromatin immunoprecipitation and promoter microarray 69 2.12 Quantitative PCR and calculations 70 2.13 Functional clustering and enrichment analysis 71 2.14 Cell survival and reactive oxygen species assays 72 2.15 RNA extraction and expression microarrays 72 2.16 Bisulfite sequencing 73 2.17 Mitochondrial isolation and genome IPs 73 2.18 DNA immunoprecipitations 73 3 3. Characterising the Clk-1 N-terminal domain 75 3.1 Introduction 76 3.2 Stimuli that increase the pool of uncleaved Clk-1 76 3.3 Clk-1 N-terminal domain is a potential PKA/PKC substrate 79 3.4 PKC phosphorylation of Clk-1 on serines 22 and 37 81 The effect of PMA and oxidative stress on overexpressed 3.5 uncleaved Clk-1 is not through direct phosphorylation of Clk-1 85 N-terminal domain by PKC Endogenous uncleaved Clk-1 is stabilised by oxidative stress but 3.6 85 not PMA 3.7 Discussion 88 4. Dual mitochondrial and nuclear localisation of Clk-1 90 4.1 Introduction 91 4.2 Clk-1 localises to both the mitochondria and nucleus 91 The N-terminal domain of Clk-1 contains determinants of both 4.3 92 nuclear and mitochondrial localisation 4.4 An arginine point mutant that disrupts Clk-1 nuclear localisation 96 Clk-1 N-terminus could potentially act as a nuclear retention 4.5 99 signal Endogenous uncleaved Clk-1 is predominantly found in the 4.6 103 nuclear-associated fraction 4.7 Discussion 104 5. Clk-1 associates with chromatin 109 5.1 Introduction 110 5.2 Association of uncleaved Clk-1 with chromatin 111 5.3 HIF1α stabilisation and levels of uncleaved Clk-1 112 5.4 Clk-1 ChIP-chip 115 5.5 Discussion 123 6. Functional analysis of nuclear Clk-1 127 4 6.1 Introduction 128 6.2 Elucidating Clk-1 nuclear-specific functions 129 Comparison of the gene expression profile of wild type Clk-1 and 6.3 132 Clk-1 R28A expressing cells Expression of Clk-1 R28A induces changes in gene expression 6.4 140 without knockdown of endogenous Clk-1 Nuclear Clk-1 is responsible for maintenance of specific 6.5 147 epigenetic marks 6.6 Further analysis of chromatin changes regulated by nuclear Clk-1 153 6.7 Function of Clk-1 at regulated genomic loci 157 6.8 Discussion 165 7. Discussion 168 7.1 Introduction 169 7.2 Upstream regulation of Clk-1 170 7.3 Clk-1 as an epigenetic regulator of metabolism and differentiation 176 7.4 Conclusion 181 8. References 183 9. Appendices 231 9.1 Electronic data files 232 Word count – 75 589 5 (iii) – List of Tables and Figures Cellular metabolic pathways, their location, interactions and Figure 1.1 33 cofactor production Conserved energy/redox sensitive signalling networks, their effects Figure 1.2 36 on cell and mitochondrial function, and interaction with each other Metabolic pathways and their cofactors associated with enzymatic Figure 1.3 48 modifications of histone and DNA epigenetic marks Figure 1.4 Clk-1 amino acid sequence conservation across eukarya 50 Figure 1.5 Clk-1 synthesis, import and mitochondrial function 53 Table 2.1 Antibodies 60 Table 2.2 Buffer list 61 Table 2.3 Molecular cloning primers 62 Stimuli that regulate the level of uncleaved Clk-1 expressed in 293T Figure 3.1 77 cells Figure 3.2 Interaction of Clk-1 and Sin1 after PMA treatment 80 Screen of mTOR/Sin1-associated kinases to determine if they Figure 3.3 82 phosphorylate Clk-1 Figure 3.4 Clk-1 is not an mTOR substrate in vitro 83 The major PKA and PKC phosphorylation sites lie within the N- Figure 3.5 84 terminal domain of Clk-1 PMA and H O do not appear to regulate Clk-1 cleavage through Figure 3.6 2 2 86 stimulated PKC phosphorylation of the Clk-1 N-terminal domain Figure 3.7 H2O2 but not PMA affects endogenous Clk-1 cleavage 87 Cellular localisation of ubiquinone biosynthesis pathway members Figure 4.1 93 Clk-1 and Coq6 Determinants of mitochondrial and nuclear localisation for N- and Figure 4.2 94 C-terminally tagged Clk-1 GFP-constructs Figure 4.3 Localisation of Clk-1-GFP after hydrogen peroxide treatment 95 Localisation of Clk-1 N-terminal domain fused to GFP and of the Figure 4.4 97 mitochondrial peptidase mutant Summary of localisation of Clk-1 N-terminal domain deletion Figure 4.5 mutants and amino acid conservation of the N-terminus domain in 98 higher eukaryotes 6 Cellular localisation of Clk-1 R28A mutant compared to wild type Figure 4.6 100 Clk-1 Cellular localisation of Clk-1 N-terminal deletion mutants tagged Figure 4.7 102 with Myc and the SV40 nuclear localisation sequence Figure 4.8 Cellular fractionation of endogenous cleaved and uncleaved Clk-1 105 Overexpressed uncleaved Clk-1 can localise with the chromatin- Figure 5.1 113 associated fraction in 293T cells Effect of anoxia and hypoxia mimetics on Clk-1 cleavage compared Figure 5.2 114 to HIF1α stabilisation Integrated genome browser results for selected anti-Clk-1 ChIP- Figure 5.3 117 chip identified promoters Functional annotation grouping of genes with promoters identified Figure 5.4 119 in anti-Clk-1 ChIP-chip promoter microarray Figure 5.5 Anti-Clk-1 chromatin immunoprecipitation from 293T cells 121 Anti-Clk-1 chromatin immunoprecipitation from 293T cells following Figure 5.6 122 CoCl2 treatment Anti-Clk-1 chromatin immunoprecipitation from 293T cells following Figure 5.7 124 knockdown of Clk-1 Stable cell lines expressing Clk-1 wild type or Clk-1 R28A mutant Figure 6.1 under control of a Tet repressor and siRNA targeting Clk-1 5’- and 130 3’-UTRs Reduced cell survival in 293 TRex cells rescued by Clk-1 R28A Figure 6.2 131 expression or transfected with Clk-1 siRNA Increased ROS levels in Clk-1 R28A expressing cells compared to Figure 6.3 133 Clk-1 wild type expressing cells Functional annotation grouping of genes differentially expressed Figure 6.4 135 between Clk-1 wild type and Clk-1 R28A expressing 293 TRex cells Differences in mRNA levels between Clk-1 wild type and Clk-1 Figure 6.5 138 R28A expressing cells Comparison of Clk-1 ChIP-chip positives and gene expression Figure 6.6 differences between Clk-1 wild type and Clk-1 R28A stably 139 expressing cells Functional clustering of genes with mRNA differences between Clk- Figure 6.7 1 wild type and Clk-1 R28A expressing cells that also display Clk-1 141 ChIP promoter enrichment Gene expression changes between Clk-1 wild type and Clk-1 R28A Figure 6.8.1 143 expressing cells Gene expression changes between Clk-1 wild type and Clk-1 R28A Figure 6.8.2 145 expressing following oxidative stress treatment 7 Leakage of expression from stably transfected Clk-1 constructs Figure 6.9 146 under control of a Tet repressor Clk-1 dimerisation during oxidative stress appears independent of Figure 6.10 148 disulfide bridging. Overexpression of Clk-1 or nuclear-only Clk-1 does not rescue the Figure 6.11 151 phenotype of Clk-1 R28A expressing cells Rescue of GSTP1 expression in cells stably expressing Clk-1 R28A Figure 6.12 154 with 5-azacytidine.