Overexpression of SIRT3 Disrupts Mitochondrial Proteostasis and Cell Cycle Progression
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Protein Cell 2016, 7(4):295–299 DOI 10.1007/s13238-016-0251-z Protein & Cell LETTER Overexpression of SIRT3 disrupts mitochondrial proteostasis and cell cycle progression Dear Editor, down-regulated in ccRCC tissues (Fig. 1B), suggesting that the low expression of SIRT3 is important for ccRCC As a mitochondrial deacetylase, SIRT3 deacetylates many progression. enzymes involved in central metabolism and maintains To understand the role of SIRT3 in tumorigenesis and mitochondrial proteostasis (Verdin et al., 2010; Papa and progression of ccRCC, stable cells overexpressing SIRT3 Cell Germain, 2014). Substrates of SIRT3 include components of were established in 293T cells. The overexpression of SIRT3 & the respiratory complexes, proteins involved in fatty acid in 293T cells (SIRT3-OE) was examined by Western blotting oxidation and TCA cycle (Yu et al., 2012). SIRT3 activates (Fig. S1), confirming that the expression level of SIRT3 in MnSOD to maintain reactive oxygen species (ROS) home- SIRT3-OE cells was four fold higher than that in control cells. ostasis and a loss of SIRT3 contributes to the age-associ- The SIRT3 overexpression in 293T led to a decrease in ated diseases (McDonnell et al., 2015; Qiu et al., 2010). proliferation rates (Fig. 1C). The ROS level in SIRT3-OE Protein SIRT3 plays dual roles functioning as a tumor suppressor or cells is two and half fold higher than that in the control cells a promoter in tumorigenesis and progression (Alhazzazi as detected using the CellROX® Deep Red kit (Fig. 1D). To et al., 2011). On one hand, SIRT3 regulates the cellular ROS determine the susceptibility of SIRT3-OE cells to oxidative level and maintains genomic stability, and mediates meta- stress, cells were treated with various concentrations of bolic reprogramming to prevent tumorigenesis (Finley and hydrogen peroxide for 12 h. The cell viability was measured Haigis, 2012). As a result, the low expression of SIRT3 has using CCK-8 assay. The effects of hydrogen peroxide were been found in breast cancer, glioblastoma, colon cancer, represented as the percentage of viable cells after 12 h osteosarcoma, prostate, and ovarian cancers (Kim et al., treatment (Fig. 1E). When cells were treated with 400 µmol/L 2010; Finley and Haigis, 2012). On the other hand, SIRT3 is H2O2 for 12 h, the percentages of viable cells were 20% and a prosurvival factor that modulates p53 activities and is 90% for the control and SIRT3-OE cells, respectively upregulated in oral cancer, the node-positive breast cancer, (Fig. 1E). This declares that SIRT3-OE cells are more and bladder cancer (Ashraf et al., 2006; Alhazzazi et al., resistant to H2O2 treatment. 2011). These results suggest that SIRT3 possesses the Next, proteomic analysis was carried out on SIRT3-OE tumor-type dependent function and its precise role needs to and control cells in biological replicates. Equal amounts of be elucidated in the context of a specific cancer. Clear cell proteins from SIRT3-OE and the control cells were in-solu- renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common histo- tion digested and labeled with TMT reagents. The generated logical subtype of renal cancer (Cohen and McGovern, tryptic peptides were fractionated using off-line HPLC and 2005). The aims of the present study were to examine the each fraction was further analyzed by nano-LC-MS/MS. expression of SIRT3 in ccRCC and to characterize effects of Differentially expressed proteins were identified and quanti- SIRT3 on tumorigenesis and progression using 293T human fied using the TMT-based quantification. We identified 7536 embryonic kidney cells as the model system that has cancer proteins in two biological replicates and the false-positive stem cell-like features (Debeb et al., 2010). rate was estimated to be less than 1%. Based on the aver- Equal amounts of proteins extracted from 18 paired age reporter ion ratios (>1.5 or <0.67), 188 proteins were ccRCC lesions and associated pericarcinous tissue samples found to be differentially expressed between SIRT3-OE and were analyzed by Western blotting and the representative control cells, in which 93 proteins were down-regulated and Western blot images of eight paired samples were shown in 95 were up-regulated (Tables S1 and S2). To understand the Fig. 1A, indicating that the expression levels of SIRT3 were biological relevance of the differentially expressed proteins, lower in ccRCC than those in normal tissues. The gray scale the Gene Ontology (GO) was used to cluster differentially analysis of the Western blot data for all eighteen paired expressed proteins according to their associated biological samples showed that the SIRT3 expression was statistically processes. The annotations of gene lists are summarized via © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com and journal.hep.com.cn LETTER Xiaofei Wang et al. A B ** 1 2 3 4 1.5 N C N C N C N C SIRT3 1.0 β-Actin 5 6 7 8 0.5 N C N C N C N C (SIRT3/β-Actin) SIRT3 Relative SIRT3 protein 0.0 Pericarcinous tissue ccRCC tissue β-Actin C 0.7 D E Control ** Control 3 *** SIRT3-OE 0.6 *** 100 SIRT3-OE *** 0.5 80 2 0.4 60 0.3 40 Cell 0.2 1 & Absorbance in 450 nm 0.1 20 0.0 0 Percentage of viable cells (%) 0 0 12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 production ROS of change Fold Control SIRT3-OE 200 μmol/L 400 μmol/L Culture time (h) Concentration of H2O2 Protein Figure 1. Downregulation of SIRT3 in ccRCC compared to associated pericarcinous tissues and characterization of SIRT3 overexpression cells. (A) Representative Western blot images of the expression levels of SIRT3 of eight paired samples, N (pericarcinous tissue), C (ccRCC tissue). (B) The gray scale analysis of SIRT3 presented in (A). (C) Growth curve of SIRT3-OE and the control cells. (D) Graphical representation of ROS levels of SIRT3-OE cells compared to the control cells. and (E) Survival rate of SIRT3-OE cells and the control cells treated with different concentration of H2O2 for 12 h. Data were analyzed using student’s t-test. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001. *P < 0.05 is considered statistically significant. Error bars represent ±SEM. a pie plot based on the functional classification from Panther Figure 2. Proteomic, qPCR and Western blot analysis c as shown in Fig. 2A. One hundred and eighty eight differ- of differentially expressed proteins between SIRT3-OE entially expressed proteins participated in a variety of cellular and control cells. (A) GO analysis of the differentially processes including metabolic process, cellular process, and expressed proteins in SIRT3-OE cells compared to the cellular component organization process. The primary control cells with PANTHER (http://www.pantherdb.org). metabolic process shows the dominant difference between (B) Graphical representation of TMT ratios for proteins in SIRT3-OE and the control cells. About 25% of the down- SIRT3-OE cells compared to control cells. (C) qPCR regulated proteins are classified as mitochondrial proteins, analysis of mRNA expressions of selected mitochondrial indicating that SIRT3 overexpression has a great impact on ribosomal genes and other selected genes from SIRT3-OE the mitochondrial protein expressions. Five subunits of res- cells and control cells. (D) Western blot analysis of piratory complex IV were down-regulated in SIRT3-OE cells selected proteins from SIRT3-OE and control cells. (E) Cell including COX7C, COX6A1, COX7A2, COA7, and COA5 cycle analysis of SIRT3-OE cells and the control cells. (Fig. 2B), suggesting that the SIRT3 overexpression dis- (F) Western blotting images showing expression level of rupted the integrity of the respiratory complexes. We also SIRT3 in HSP60-KN cells compared to the control cells, identified that three proteins in the fatty acid β-oxidation WCL (whole cell lysates), Mito (mitochondria); and pathway were downregulated in SIRT3-OE cells including (G) mRNA expression level of SIRT3 in HSP60-KN cells ’ t enoyl-CoA hydratase, very long-chain specific acyl-CoA and control cells. Data were analyzed using student s - test. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001. Error bars dehydrogenase and hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydroge- represent ±SEM. nase. More importantly, proteomic analysis showed that nine 296 © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com and journal.hep.com.cn Deciphering functions of SIRT3 in ccRCC LETTER A Nitrogen compound Developmental process 9.9% Multicellular metabolic process 1.8% organismal Locomotion 0.5% Vitamin metabolic Response to stimulus 3.8% process 5.3% process 3.8% Phosphate-containing Biological Biological compound metabolic regulation 7.7% adhesion 0.5% Coenzyme metabolic process 5.3% process 8.8% Reproduction Metabolic 2.2% process 31.3% Apoptotic process 1.1% Localization 4.4% Cellular process 22.0% Generation of Immune system Primary metabolic precursor metabolites Cellular component organization process 31.3% process 75.4% Catabolic and energy 7.0% or biogenesis 9.9% process 1.8% B C Control 0.8 1.2 SIRT3-OE *** *** *** ** ***** **** *** *** *** ** *** 0.6 0.9 Cell & 0.4 0.6 Fold changes 0.2 0.3 (SIRT3-OE/Control) Relative mRNA level Relative mRNA 0.0 0.0 Protein CDK1CDK4SDHB COA7COA5HADH SDHBCOA7CDK1CDK4 MRPL1 MRPS6MRPS9 COX7C ECHS1 MRPL1 MRPS6MRPS9 MRPL17MRPL34MRPL45MRPL49 MRPS21MRPS22 COX6A1COX7A2 ACADVL MRPL17MRPL34MRPL45MRPL49 MRPS21MRPS22 D E *** Control 60 AMOT SIRT3-OE ** VIM 40 EEF1A2 CDK1 20 * CDK4 Percentage of cells (%) β-Actin 0 G1S G2-M F G WCL Mito 0.005 Control Ctrl HSP60-KNCtrl HSP60-KN HSP60-KN 0.004 SIRT3 0.003 β-Actin 0.002 mRNA level mRNA 0.001 COX4 0.000 SIRT3 © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com and journal.hep.com.cn 297 LETTER Xiaofei Wang et al.