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The VDAC1 N-Terminus Is Essential Both for Apoptosis and the Protective Effect of Anti-Apoptotic Proteins 1906 Research Article The VDAC1 N-terminus is essential both for apoptosis and the protective effect of anti-apoptotic proteins Salah Abu-Hamad*, Nir Arbel*, Doron Calo, Laetitia Arzoine, Adrian Israelson, Nurit Keinan, Ronit Ben-Romano, Orr Friedman and Varda Shoshan-Barmatz‡ Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel *These authors contributed equally to this work ‡Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) Accepted 26 February 2009 Journal of Cell Science 122, 1906-1916 Published by The Company of Biologists 2009 doi:10.1242/jcs.040188 Summary The release of mitochondrial-intermembrane-space pro- apoptosis, induced by various stimuli. Employing a variety of apoptotic proteins, such as cytochrome c, is a key step in experimental approaches, we show that hexokinase and Bcl2 initiating apoptosis. Our study addresses two major questions confer protection against apoptosis through interaction with the in apoptosis: how are mitochondrial pro-apoptotic proteins VDAC1 N-terminal region. We also demonstrate that apoptosis released and how is this process regulated? Accumulating induction is associated with VDAC oligomerization. These evidence indicates that the voltage-dependent anion channel results show VDAC1 to be a component of the apoptosis (VDAC) plays a central role in mitochondria-mediated machinery and offer new insight into the mechanism of apoptosis. Here, we demonstrate that the N-terminal domain cytochrome c release and how anti-apoptotic proteins regulate of VDAC1 controls the release of cytochrome c, apoptosis and apoptosis and promote tumor cell survival. the regulation of apoptosis by anti-apoptotic proteins such as hexokinase and Bcl2. Cells expressing N-terminal truncated VDAC1 do not release cytochrome c and are resistant to Key words: Apoptosis, Bcl2, hexokinase, mitochondria, VDAC1 Introduction 2007; Lemasters et al., 1999; Shoshan-Barmatz et al., 2006; Programmed cell death – apoptosis – is a genetically predetermined Tsujimoto and Shimizu, 2002; Zamzami and Kroemer, 2003). mechanism elicited by several molecular pathways (Kroemer et al., Indeed, a variety of apoptotic stimuli were shown to trigger 2007). Defects in the regulation of apoptosis are often associated apoptosis by modulation of VDAC and implicate VDAC1 as a Journal of Cell Science with disease, such as neuronal degenerative diseases, tumorigenesis, component of the apoptosis machinery (Shoshan-Barmatz et al., autoimmune disorders, and viral infections (Reed, 2002; Thompson, 2008; Shoshan-Barmatz et al., 2006; Tsujimoto and Shimizu, 2002; 1995). Mitochondria are potent integrators and coordinators of Zheng et al., 2004). By contrast, VDAC proteins have been reported apoptosis by releasing pro-apoptotic agents and/or disrupting to be dispensable for Ca2+- and oxidative stress-induced permeability cellular energy metabolism. Following an apoptotic stimulus, transition pore (PTP) opening (Baines et al., 2007). Nonetheless, various proteins that normally reside in the intermembrane space recent studies have elucidated that VDAC1 is an indispensable of the mitochondria, including cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing protein for PTP opening and induction of apoptosis (Tajeddine et factor (AIF), are released to initiate the activation of pro-caspases, al., 2008; Yuan et al., 2008). It was found that reducing VDAC1 the protease mediators of cell death (Green and Reed, 1998; levels by siRNA attenuates endostatin-induced apoptosis in Halestrap et al., 2000). It remains unclear, however, how these endothelial cells, and that endostatin-induced PTP opening is apoptotic initiators cross the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) accompanied by upregulation of VDAC1 expression (Yuan et al., and are released into the cytosol. Some models predict that release 2008). Similarly, siRNA-mediated depletion of VDAC1 strongly is facilitated by swelling of the mitochondrial matrix and subsequent reduced cisplatin-induced cytochrome c release and apoptotic cell rupture of the OMM, whereas other models predict the formation death (Tajeddine et al., 2008). These recent reports and previous of protein-conducting channels that are large enough to allow the accumulated evidence strongly suggest that VDAC serves a key passage of cytochrome c and other proteins into the cytosol, without function in apoptosis (Crompton, 1999; Halestrap et al., 2000; compromising the integrity of the OMM (Halestrap et al., 2000; Kroemer et al., 2007; Lemasters et al., 1999; Shoshan-Barmatz et Shoshan-Barmatz et al., 2008). The finding that cytochrome c can al., 2008; Shoshan-Barmatz et al., 2006; Tsujimoto and Shimizu, leak from intact mitochondria (Doran and Halestrap, 2000; Martinou 2002; Zamzami and Kroemer, 2003). VDAC is the major OMM et al., 2000; Shoshan-Barmatz et al., 2006) supports the latter transporter and plays an important role in the controlled passage of models. Release of cytochrome c is regulated by different proteins, adenine nucleotides, Ca2+ and other metabolites into and out of some of which interact with the OMM protein, VDAC (voltage- mitochondria, thereby assuming an important role in energy dependent anion channel), also known as mitochondrial porin. production through the control of metabolite traffic (Colombini, VDAC is thus believed to participate in the release of cytochrome 2004; Lemasters and Holmuhamedov, 2006). Recently, the three- c and to interact with anti- and pro-apoptotic proteins, and is dimensional (3D) structures of recombinant human and murine considered a probable candidate for such an OMM pore-forming VDAC1 were determined by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray protein (Crompton, 1999; Halestrap et al., 2000; Kroemer et al., crystallography (Bayrhuber et al., 2008; Hiller et al., 2008; Ujwal (Δ26)VDAC1-mediated apoptotic resistance 1907 et al., 2008). VDAC1was shown to adopt a β-barrel architecture comprising 19 β-strands and an α-helix located within the pore. The α-helix of the N-terminal segment is oriented against the interior wall, causing a partial narrowing at the center of the pore. As such, this helix is ideally positioned to regulate the conductance of ions and metabolites passing through the VDAC pore. These structural and other studies (De Pinto et al., 2007) further indicate that the helical region of the VDAC N-terminal domain forms a distorted α-helix that does not span the whole sequence but only part of it. Although these recently determined VDAC1 structures suggest that the hydrophilic N-terminus of the protein is nestled within the pore (Bayrhuber et al., 2008; Hiller et al., 2008; Ujwal et al., 2008), other approaches point to the N-terminal α-helix as being exposed to the cytoplasm (De Pinto et al., 2003), to cross the membrane (Colombini, 2004) or to lie on the membrane surface (Reymann et al., 1995). Further evidence suggesting that the N-terminal region of VDAC1 in fact constitutes a mobile component of the protein comes from the observations that the N-terminal α-helix exhibits motion during voltage gating (Mannella, 1997), that anti-VDAC antibodies raised against the N-terminal region of the protein interact with membranal VDAC (Abu-Hamad et al., 2006; Junankar et al., 1995; Shoshan-Barmatz et al., 2004) and that mobility of the N- α terminal -helix may modulate the accessibility of apoptosis- Fig. 1. N-terminally truncated VDAC1 restores growth in T-REx293 cells regulating proteins of the Bcl2 family (i.e. Bax and Bcl-xL) to their silenced for hVDAC1 expression by shRNA-hVDAC1. (A) T-REx293 cells binding sites on VDAC1 (Shi et al., 2003). (᭹) silenced for hVDAC1 expression by shRNA-hVDAC (᭺) showed ᭢ In the present study, the role of the VDAC1 N-terminal domain inhibited cell growth, which was restored by expression of either native ( ) or Δ(26)mVDAC1 (᭞) under the control of 1 μg/ml tetracycline. Cells were in regulating VDAC1 activity in cell life and apoptotic cell death stained with trypan blue and counted under a microscope. (B) Oxygen was investigated. Using Δ(26)mVDAC1, an N-terminal truncated consumption was determined polarographically using a Clark oxygen form of murine VDAC1 expressed in human (h)VDAC1-shRNA electrode, as described in Materials and Methods. Oxygen utilization of T- cells expressing low levels of endogenous hVDAC1, the N-terminal REx293, hVDAC1-shRNA T-REx293 cells expressing stable native or Δ ϫ 6 region of VDAC1 was shown to be required for the release of (26)mVDAC1 (2 10 ) cells was measured in the absence (black bars) and presence (grey bars) of rotenone (5 μM) for up to 10 minutes each. Rotenone cytochrome c and apoptotic cell death. Furthermore, the VDAC1 was added directly into the respiration chamber and measurement of oxygen N-terminal α-helix was shown to mediate the interaction of VDAC1 consumption was continued. The data represent the means from two different with the anti-apoptotic, pro-survival factors, hexokinase (HK)-I, experiments. (C) A representative immunoblot analysis of VDAC expression level in the various cell types used in experiment B, using anti-VDAC Journal of Cell Science HK-II and Bcl2. The findings of this study thus indicate that VDAC1 antibodies. (D) hVDAC1-shRNA-T-REx293 expressing GFP, mVDAC1-GFP is a critical component in mitochondria-mediated apoptosis and its or Δ(26)mVDAC1-GFP were visualized using confocal microscopy. Scale bar: regulation and point to the N-terminal domain of VDAC1 as being 10 μm. (E) Immunoblot analysis of GFP, mVDAC1-GFP or Δ(26)mVDAC1-
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