Herbal terpenoids activate autophagy and mitophagy through modulation of bioenergetics and protect from metabolic stress, sarcopenia and epigenetic aging [Quantseq_muscle]
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ABSTRACT: Herbal terpenoids activate autophagy and mitophagy through modulation of bioenergetics and protect from metabolic stress, sarcopenia and epigenetic aging [Quantseq_muscle]
Project description:Herbal terpenoids activate autophagy and mitophagy through modulation of bioenergetics and protect from metabolic stress, sarcopenia and epigenetic aging [Quantseq_cell]
Project description:Small molecular food components contribute to health benefits of diets rich in fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices. The cellular mechanisms by which non-caloric bioactives promote healthspan are not well understood, limiting their use for disease prevention. Here, we deploy a whole organism, high-content screen in zebrafish to profile food-derived compounds for activation of autophagy, a cellular quality control mechanism promoting healthy aging. We identify thymol and carvacrol as activators of autophagy and mitophagy through short-acting dampening of mitochondrial membrane potential. Chemical stabilization of thymol-induced mitochondrial depolarization blocks mitophagy activation, suggesting a mitochondrial membrane-originating mechanism. Supplementation of thymol prevents excess liver fat accumulation in a diet-induced obesity mouse model, improves pink1-dependent heat stress-resilience in Caenorhabditis elegans and slows decline of skeletal muscle performance and epigenetic aging in SAMP8 mice. Thus, terpenoids from common herbs promote autophagy during aging and metabolic overload, making them attractive for nutrition-based healthspan promotion.
Project description:Small molecular food components contribute to health benefits of diets rich in fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices. The cellular mechanisms by which non-caloric bioactives promote healthspan are not well understood, limiting their use for disease prevention. Here, we deploy a whole organism, high-content screen in zebrafish to profile food-derived compounds for activation of autophagy, a cellular quality control mechanism promoting healthy aging. We identify thymol and carvacrol as activators of autophagy and mitophagy through short-acting dampening of mitochondrial membrane potential. Chemical stabilization of thymol-induced mitochondrial depolarization blocks mitophagy activation, suggesting a mitochondrial membrane-originating mechanism. Supplementation of thymol prevents excess liver fat accumulation in a diet-induced obesity mouse model, improves pink1-dependent heat stress-resilience in Caenorhabditis elegans and slows decline of skeletal muscle performance and epigenetic aging in SAMP8 mice. Thus, terpenoids from common herbs promote autophagy during aging and metabolic overload, making them attractive for nutrition-based healthspan promotion.
Project description:Elevated or chronic innate immune activation plays a role in the progression of metabolic diseases such as diabetes, yet the influence of innate immune signaling on pancreatic β-cells is not well characterized. Here we report that TRAF6, an E3 ubiquitin ligase downstream of TLR signaling, maintains β-cell function during diet-induced obesity. Deletion or inhibition of TRAF6 impairs glucose homeostasis, mitochondrial function, and mitophagy during metabolic stress in both mouse and human islets. The combination of TRAF6 deficiency and palmitate exposure reduces localization of mitophagy machinery, such as BNIP3, to the mitochondria. Interestingly, co-deletion of Parkin restores glucose-stimulated insulin section, mitochondrial bioenergetics, and mitophagy. These findings suggest that Parkin-independent mitophagy mechanisms may be important for maintenance of β-cell function during metabolic stress.
Project description:This study aims to investigate the role and mechanism of DEK in asthmatic airway inflammation and in regulating PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1)-Parkin mediated mitophagy, NLRP3 (NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3) inflammasome activation, and apoptosis. We found that recombinant DEK protein (rmDEK) promoted eosinophils recruitment, mitochondrial fragmentation, and outer membrane 20 (TOM20) and LC3 co-localization representing mitophagosomes in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) in house dust mite (HDM) induced-asthma. rmDEK also reduced co-localization of mitochondrial fusion protein mitofusin1 (MFN1) and mitochondria, and the protein level of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), enhanced microtubule-associated protein1 light chain 3 (LC3) and voltage-dependent anion channels (VDAC) co-localization which also represent the mitophagosomes in airway epithelial cells, furthermore, increased dynamin-related protein 1 (DRP1) expression, PINK1-Parkin-mediated mitophagy, NLRP3 inflammasome activation, and apoptosis. In the DEK knockout mice, HDM induced asthmatic airway inflammation, MnSOD, PINK1-Parkin protein level, Parkin mediated mitophagy characterized by LC3 and Parkin co-localization in the airways, ROS generation, NLRP3 inflammation and apoptosis were fully reversed. Similar effects of rmDEK were also observed in the BEAS-2B cells, which were rescued by the autophagy inhibitor 3-MA. Moreover, DEK silencing diminished the Parkin, LC3, DRP1 translocation to mitochondria; as well as mitochondrial ROS; TOM20 and mitochondrial DNA mediated mitochondrial oxidative damage. ChIP-sequence analysis showed that DEK was enriched on the AAA domain-containing protein 3A (ATAD3A) promoter and could positively regulate ATAD3A expression. Additionally, ATAD3A was highly expressed in HDM-induced asthma models. Furthermore, ATAD3A interacted with DRP1, and knockdown of ATAD3A could down-regulate DRP1 and mitochondrial oxidative damage. Conclusively, DEK deficiency alleviates airway inflammation in asthma by down-regulating PINK1-Parkin mitophagy, NLRP3 inflammasome activation, and apoptosis. The mechanism may be through the DEK/ATAD3A/DRP1 signaling axis. Our findings may provide new potential therapeutic targets for asthma treatment.
Project description:To investigate the metabolic dysfunction in the process of sarcopenia, we collected the skeletal muscles from the participants of healthy aged, pre-sarcopenia and sarcopenia. We then performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of skeletal muscle tissue from healthy aged, pre-sarccopenia and sarcopenia.
Project description:Mis-localized mitochondrial ribosomes guide ceramide-dependent mitophagy for inducing cell death via alterations of the bioenergetics and metabolism
Project description:In this work, we set out experiments to determine the mechanisms that regulate mitochondrial trafficking of p17/PERMIT-CerS1 complex in response to Drp1 activation to induce mitophagy and cellular consequences of this process altering mitochondrial metabolism in cultured cells in situ and genetic mice models in vivo. The data revealed that mislocalized mitochondrial ribosomes on the outer membrane due to Drp1-mediated fission are recognized by p17/PERMIT for CerS1 localization leading to ceramide-dependent mitophagy in response to oxidative stress by the generation of nitric oxide species (NOS). This process then leads to mitochondrial dysfunction resulting in decreased malate/fumarate/aspartate exhaustion, which is restored and prevented by molecular and genetic ablation of p17/PERMIT, LC3, Drp1, and Parkin in cancer cells or patient-derived 2D-organoids or mice brains in response to SoSe or ceramide analog drug, LCL768.