Abstract
Aim:
Sulforaphane (SFN), a natural dietary isothiocyanate, is found to exert beneficial effects for cardiovascular diseases. This study aimed to investigate the mechanisms underlying the protective effects of SFN in a model of myocardial hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) injury in vitro.
Methods:
Cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes pretreated with SFN were subjected to 3-h hypoxia followed by 3-h reoxygenation. Cell viability and apoptosis were detected. Caspase-3 activity and mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) was measured. The expression of ER stress-related apoptotic proteins were analyzed with Western blot analyses. Silent information regulator 1 (SIRT1) activity was determined with SIRT1 deacetylase fluorometric assay kit.
Results:
SFN (0.1–5 μmol/L) dose-dependently improved the viability of cardiomyocytes, diminished apoptotic cells and suppressed caspase-3 activity. Meanwhile, SFN significantly alleviated the damage of ΔΨm and decreased the expression of ER stress-related apoptosis proteins (GRP78, CHOP and caspase-12), elevating the expression of SIRT1 and Bcl-2/Bax ratio in the cardiomyocytes. Co-treatment of the cardiomyocytes with the SIRT1-specific inhibitor Ex-527 (1 μmol/L) blocked the SFN-induced cardioprotective effects.
Conclusion:
SFN prevents cardiomyocytes from H/R injury in vitro most likely via activating SIRT1 pathway and subsequently inhibiting the ER stress-dependent apoptosis.
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Introduction
Ischemic heart disease, including acute myocardial infarction (AMI), is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide1. Early reperfusion is the best strategy for the salvation of ischemic myocardium. However, myocardial reperfusion leads to some problems, such as excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), Ca2+ overload, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and the activiation of apoptotic pathways, all of which contribute to post-ischemic cardiomyocyte death and deteriorate myocardial injury2. Novel pharmacological or other effective therapy approaches to mitigate reperfusion injury are sorely needed.
Sulforaphane (SFN) is a dietary isothiocyanate which is mainly found in cruciferous vegetables3. It has been reported to possess extensive pharmacological effects, including anti-oxidative, anticancer and modulating inflammation properties3,4,5. Moreover, there have been additional studies implicating the cardioprotective role of SFN6. SFN has been proven to protect neonatal rat cardiomyocytes from oxidative stress in vitro7,8 and to blunt postischemic cardiac injury in vivo9. However, the mechanism involved in the cardioprotective role of SFN is still unclear.
Some studies indicated that hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) was associated with ER stress. It has been demonstrated that H/R injury could induce cardiomyocyte apoptosis by triggering ER stress10. The marker proteins of ER stress, including GRP78, CHOP and caspase-12 were elevated during H/R injury11. The silent information regulator 1 (SIRT1) signaling pathway plays an essential role in cell survival and cardioprotection against H/R injury12. It has been shown that SIRT1 is implicated in the changes of cardiomyocyte apoptosis and infarct size. Inhibition of SIRT1 by pharmacological or genetic interference elicited cardiac cell apoptosis and increased infarct size during I/R injury13,14. Both ER stress and SIRT1 signaling pathway are now recognized to play an essential function in deciding cardiac cell life and death. More recently, studies showed that a close relationship may exist between ER and SIRT115. However, little is known between them during I/R injury.
The aims of the present study were to determine the protective effects of SFN on cardiomyocytes exposed to H/R injury and to elucidate the mechanism of SFN protecting cardiomyocytes against ER stress-induced apoptosis by SIRT1 signaling pathway during H/R injury.
Materials and methods
Reagents
SFN was obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St Louis, MO, USA) and diluted in 10% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (Cell Signaling Technology, Inc, Beverly, MA, USA). The final concentration of DMSO never exceeded 0.1% in either control or treated cells. Specific SIRT1 inhibitor Ex-527 was also obtained from Selleck Chemicals (Houston, USA). Fetal bovine serum and DMEM were purchased from Gibco Co Ltd (USA). The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) commercial kit was obtained from Biovision (Mountain View, CA, USA). Bax (1:1000), Bcl-2 (1:500) and SIRT (1:1000) antibodies were purchased from Abcam (Cambridge, MA, USA). GRP78 (1:1000), cleaved caspase-12 (1:1000) and CHOP (1:1000) antibodies were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology Inc (Beverly, MA, USA).
Primary culture of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes and simulated ischemia reperfusion in vitro
Cardiomyocytes were isolated from 1 to 2-d-old Sprague-Dawley rats as previously described16. Sprague-Dawley rats were obtained from the Laboratory Animal Center of Guangdong Province (Guangzhou, China). All animals received humane care in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the United States National Institute of Health (NIH Publication No 85-23, revised 1996). All investigations were approved by the Bioethics Committee of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. The isolated cells were cultured in DMEM with 10% FBS and 1% penicillin/streptomycin, and then maintained in 5% CO2 incubator at 37 °C. After 72 h, cultured cardiomyocytes were used in subsequent experiments. To simulate the ischemia reperfusion model, cardiomyocytes were plated in a hypoxia chamber (5% CO2 and 95% N2) for 3 h at 37 °C, followed by reoxygenation in a normoxia chamber (5% CO2 and 95% O2) for 3 h at 37 °C in DMEM with 10% FBS.
The experimental design was divided into four steps
Step 1: After 72 h, cultured cardiomyocytes were randomly divided into five groups: 1) control group: cardiomyocytes were maintained in normoxic condition without any treatment; 2) H3/R3 group: Hypoxia 3 h, following Reoxygenation 3 h; 3) H3/R6 group: Hypoxia 3 h, following Reoxygenation 6 h; 4) H3/R9 group: Hypoxia 3 h, following Reoxygenation 9 h; 5) H3/R12 group: Hypoxia 3 h, following Reoxygenation 12 h.
Step 2: When the reoxygenation duration of experimental model was determined, cardiomyocytes were randomly divided into six groups to be exposed to the optional concentration: control group, H/R group and SFN groups (0.1, 0.5, 1 and 5 μmol/L).
Step 3: When ideal concentration of SFN was screened out, cardiomyocytes were randomly divided into four groups: 1) control group: cardiomyocytes were treated with PBS and incubated in normoxic condition. 2) SFN group: cardiomyocytes were treated with 5 μmol/L SFN and incubated in normoxic condition. 3) H/R group: as above design, cardiomyocytes were subjected to hypoxia for 3 h, followed by reoxygenation for 3 h. 4) SFN+H/R group: cardiomyocytes pretreated with 5 μmol/L SFN were exposed to 3 h of hypoxia followed by 3 h reoxygenation. SFN was pretreated 1 h before hypoxia.
Step 4: To explore the role of SIRT1 in myocardial protection with SFN pretreatment during H/R injury, cardiomyocytes were randomly divided into six groups (Figure 1): 1) Control group; 2) Ex-527 (E) group; 3) H/R group; 4) Ex-527 (E)+H/R group; 5) SFN+H/R group; 6) SFN (5 μmol/L)+Ex-527 (E)+H/R group. Ex-527 was pretreated 1 h before hypoxia. The concentration of Ex-527 is 1 μmol/L.
Cell viability analysis
Cell viability was determined by the MTS Cell Proliferation Assay kit as previously described17,18. Cells were seeded at a density of 4×104 cells/well in a flat-bottomed 96-well plates. After the treatment, 20 μL MTS solution was added to each well and incubated for 3 h at 37 °C. The absorbance measurement was detected at 490 nm and used to calculate the relative ratio of cell viability.
LDH measurement
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage is usually monitored to evaluate the extent of cell injury. After experimental treatment, 100 μL of culture medium was taken to assess LDH levels by measuring the conversion of pyruvate to lactate. The activities of LDH was analyzed with microplates at 450 nm accoring to the manufacturer's instruction.
Detection of apoptotic cells
Evaluation of apoptosis was performed with a commercially available cell death detection kit to find DNA strand breaks using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUDP nickend labeling (TUNEL) reagent according to the manufacturer's protocol (Promega). Cells that showed positive TUNEL staining in the nuclei were identified as apoptotic.To further visualize fragmented nuclei, Hoechst 33258 staining was used to identify the morphological features of apoptosis as previously described19. Cardiomyocytes were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde (pH 7.4) for 1 h at room temperature and washed three times in PBS. Cells were then stained with Hoechst 33258 for 15 min and washed in PBS three times. Apoptotic cells with nuclear staining of Hoechst 33258 contained characters of apoptosis, condensed chromatin and nuclear shrinkage. The percentage of apoptosis cells were counted from each optical field as the apoptotic ratio in comparison to control group.
Determination of mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm)
Mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) was measured with a cationic dye of 5,5′,6,6′-tetrachloro 1,1′,3,3′-tetraethylbenzimidazolcarbocyaenina iodide (JC-1) as previously described20. Cardiomyocytes were incubated with fluorescent probe JC-1 for 30 min at 37 °C. After incubation, the cells were washed in PBS for three times. Fluorescence was imaged at a 488 nm excitation wavelength, and emission signals were captured at 590 and 530 nm for red and green channels with confocal microscopy, separately, and the JC-1 ratio always refers to the red/green ratio.
Measurement of caspase-3 activity
Caspase-3 activity was measured by using a commercialized caspase-3 assay kit (BioVision Inc, Milpitas Blvd, Calif, USA). Caspase-3 activity was expressed as optical density. The absorbance at 405 nm of the released pNA was monitored with a spectrophotometer. The relative activity of enzyme is evaluated through the rate of absorption value in treatment group and normal group. We suppose the activity in normal group is 1.
SIRT1 activity analysis
Sirt 1 activity was determined with SIRT1 Deacetylase Fluorometric Assay kit as previously described21. Nuclear proteins were extracted using the Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Protein Extraction kit according to the manufacturer's instructions. The resulting fluorescence was measured at 340 nm excitation and 440 nm emission wavelengths with a fluorescent microplate reader.
Western blotting analysis
Cardiomyocytes were washed by ice PBS for three times. Cell lysates were centrifuged at 12 000 r/min at 4 °C for 15 min, and the supernatant was collected. The samples were denatured by SDS sample buffer and in boiling water for 10 min, exposed to 10% SDS-PAGE, and then electroblotted onto nitrocellulose membranes. The membranes were blocked by 5% non-fat milk for 2 h at room temperature. The membranes were incubated overnight at 4 °C with different primary antibodies. The membranes were rinsed with TBS-T and incubated with the secondary HRP-conjugated antibodies. GAPDH antibody was used as the loading control. The data analysis were used with Image-Pro Plus through measuring the densities of immunoreactive bands.
Statistical analysis
All of the values were expressed as the mean±SD and statistically ananlyzed with SPSS 19.0. One-way ANOVA was performed to test significance of biochemical data of different groups. A difference of P<0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. For each assessment, at least three independent experiments were performed.
Results
SFN alleviated H/R injury
To explore the optional reoxygenation time, cell viability of different time durations was measured by MTS. As shown in Figure 2A, cell viability significantly declined in a time-dependent manner (P<0.05). The release of LDH was used as an index of cardiomyocyte injury. LDH activity increased with prolonged duration of reoxygenation (Figure 2B). Taken together, to conduct our experiment with a relatively ideal cell viability and to provide an accurate result, we decided the optional duration for mimicking I/R is hypoxia 3 h and reoxygenation 3 h.
We next determined the effect of SFN on cradiomyocytes viability during H/R. The results demonstrated that H/R caused a significant decline in cell viability compared with the control group (P<0.05). Pretreatment with SFN (0.1, 0.5, 1, and 5 μmol/L) was found to increase cell viability significantly in a dose-dependent manner. The cell viability went to the peak at a concentration of 5 μmol/L (P<0.05 vs H/R group, Figure 2C and 2D). Therefore, 5 μmol/L SFN was used in treated group for subsequent experiments.
SFN attenuated H/R-elicited apoptotis in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes
As shown in Figure 3, representative photomicrographs of TUNEL assay results depicted apoptotis of H/R-induced cardiomyocytes. TUNEL staining showed that the apoptotic cells increased remarkedly in the I/R group compared with the control group and SFN decreased apoptotic cells obviously (P<0.05, Figure 3A and 3B) Caspase-3 has been known as a pivotal protein in the final pathway of apoptosis22. To further characterize the inhibitory effect of SFN on myocardial cell apoptosis, we examined whether SFN could suppress caspase-3 activity. In our present study, the activity of caspase-3 was significantly greater in H/R group than that in control group (P<0.05). However, SFN could decrease the activity of caspase-3 which was induced by H/R injury (P<0.05, Figure 3C). Therefore, SFN could attenuate H/R-induced apoptosis in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes.
SFN preserved the cardiomyocytes against H/R injury partly through the attenuation of ER stress-induced apoptosis activation
We then moved to investigate the underlying mechanism of the protective effects offered by SFN. As shown in Figure 4A and 4B, in accordance with ER stress-dependent apoptosis activation, H/R remarkedly suppressed Bcl-2/Bax ratio compared with control group (P<0.05). However, SFN pretrement could elevate the ratio of Bcl-2/Bax (P<0.05).
As ER stress was often implicated in the activation of apoptosis during H/R injury, we next examined whether SFN preserved cardiomyocytes by modulating ER stress-dependent apoptosis. The levels of ER stress protein markers GRP78, CHOP and cleaved caspase-12 in H/R group were higher than those in H/R group (P<0.05), but lower in SFN and SFN+H/R groups compared with those in H/R group (Figure 4A, 4C, 4D and 4E, P<0.05).
SFN reversed the decrease in mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) and cell viability of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes after H/R injury
Mitochondria plays an essential function in cell apoptosis during H/R injury. The decline of ΔΨm was regarded as an early event in the apoptotic cascade23. The ΔΨm and cell viability were decreaed after H/R injury. SFN reversed the decrease in ΔΨm and cell viability of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes after H/R injury (P<0.05). Specific SIRT1 inhibitor Ex-527 blocked the effect of SFN (P<0.05, Figure 5).
SFN pretreatment increased the expression of SIRT1 protein
To investigate whether SFN could activate SIRT1 signal pathway, we detected the protein expression of SIRT1 by Western blotting. The expression of SIRT1 increased significantly in SFN pretreated group compared with the H/R group (P<0.05, Figure 4A, 4F). Specific SIRT1 inhibitor Ex-527 could block the effect (P<0.05, Figure 6A and 6F). However, no significant difference in SIRT1 expression was detectable between control group and H/R group (P>0.05, Figure 6A and F). Meanwhile, SFN significantly elevated the ratio of Bcl-2/Bax in cardiomyocytes exposed to H/R injury (P<0.05). Compared with the H/R+SFN group, the expression of SIRT1 and the ratio of Bcl-2/Bax were markedly decreased in H/R+SFN+Ex-527 group (P<0.05, Figure 6A and 6F). Thus, SIRT1 pathway was involved in the anti-apoptotic effects of SFN on neonatal rat cardiomyocytes.
SIRT1 pathway was involved in modulating ER stress-induced apoptosis activation
To explore whether SIRT1 was involved in the cardioprotective effect of SFN against ER stress, we used SIRT1-specific inhibitor Ex-527 to block SIRT1 pathway. SFN pretreatment decreased the up-regulation of GRP78, CHOP and cleaved caspase-12 expression levels in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes after H/R injury (P<0.05). Ex-527 partially abolished the cardioprotective efffects of SFN against ER stress-induced apoptosis after H/R injury (P<0.05, Figure 6A, 6C-6E).
SFN pretreatment increased SIRT1 activity to attenuate the H/R injury
To further verify our results, we detected the SIRT1 activity in different groups. We found that H/R inhibited the SIRT1 activity compared with control group (P<0.05). SFN pretreatment elevated the downregulation of SIRT1 activity of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes exposed to H/R injury (P<0.05). Ex-527 partially blocked the effect of SFN (P<0.05, Figure 7).
Discussion
In the present study, we demonstrated SFN could alleviate H/R injury by surpressing ER stress-dependent apoptosis in primary neonatal rat cardiomyocyte. In addition, we further demonstrated that the cardioprotective effects of SFN depended on the activation of SIRT1 signaling pathway, which was shown to suppress ER stress and cardiomyocytes apoptosis in cardiomyocytes exposed to H/R.
(SFN), an isothiocyanate that is present in cruciferous vegetables, has been shown to exert beneficial preventive effect for cardiovascular diseases9,24,25. However, the mechanism still remains unclear. Mounting evidence indicates that apoptosis results in post-ischemic cardiomyocyte death26. In a previous study, SFN could protect cardiomyocytes against oxidative damage27. Our present study found SFN had anti-apoptotic effects in primary neonatal rat cardiomyocytes undergoing H/R. SFN improved cell viability and reduced LDH release in cardiomyocytes subjected to H/R. Anti-apoptotic effect with TUNEL staining assay indicated that SFN might exert a protective effect against apoptosis undergoing H/R. Caspase-3 is one of the key executioners of mammalian cell apoptosis. In this study, SFN also significantly suppressed caspase-3 activity. In short, these data indicated that SFN may have a beneficial effect on cardiomyocytes subjected to H/R.
We investigated the effect of SFN on ER stess in cardiomyocytes undergoing H/R injury. The ER is an important membranous organelles in all eukaryotic cells, which is extremely sensitive to the stimiulation of ischemia and hypoxia28. Studies have shown that ER stress is a pivotal pathophysiological mechanism of myocardial ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury29,30,31. In addition, some studies demonstrated that SFN reduces ER stress in different models of cell injury. SFN reduces ER stress in type 1 diabetic mouse model accompanying with a reduction of testicular apoptotic cell death32. Similar effects were also observed in human hepatocytes33. Consistent with previous findings, we found that the expression levels of ER stress-associated apoptosis proteins, including GRP78, CHOP and cleaved caspase-12, were upregulated in cardiomyocytes exposed to H/R. Interestingly, pretreatment with SFN decreased the expression levels of GRP78, CHOP and cleaved caspase-12. Meanwhile, the results were in agreement with changes of Bcl-2/Bax ratio. Therefore, the results indicated that SFN partially protected cardiomyocytes against H/R injury via mitigating ER stress-dependent apoptosis.
The anti-apoptotic effects of the SIRT1 have been demonstrated by several studies in myocardial I/R injury. Previous studies have verified that some drugs such as curcumin, melatonin and sildenafil can protect cardiomyocyte against I/R injury by modulating SIRT1 signaling13,34,35. In the present study, we paid attention to the effect of SIRT1 pathways in SFN-elicited protection. First of all, we detected the protein expression of SIRT1 by Western blotting. The expression of SIRT1 increased significantly in SFN pretreated group compared with the H/R group. Specific SIRT1 inhibitor Ex-527 could block the effect. However, there was no significant difference in SIRT1 expression between control group and H/R group. To further verify our results, we detected the SIRT1 activity and found that SFN elevated SIRT1 activity and Ex-527 decreased SIRT1 activity to abrogate the effect of SFN. Moreover, H/R decreased the SIRT1 activity compared with control group. Consistent with our findings, Liu L et al. demonstrated that exogenous NAD+ supplementation restored SIRT1 activity without changing SIRT1 expression under the H/R condition in H9c2 cardiac myoblasts21. Some other studies reported that myocardial I/R insult decreased SIRT1 expression36. It may be resulted from different experimental conditions and model making time37. Our results showed that SFN pretreatment remarkedly elevated the SIRT1 activity compared with the H/R group. Ex-527, the inhibitor of SIRT1, blocked the cardioprotective effect of SFN against apoptotic cell death during H/R injury, including reducing cell viability and increasing apoptotic caridomyocytes by measuring mitochondrial membrane potential. Consistent with previous studies, our study also showed that SIRT1 activation played an essential function in modulating antiapoptic signals by upregulating the ratio of Bcl-2/Bax. In this study, our results indicated that SIRT1 activation and ER stess were closely related during H/R injury-elicited apoptotic process. SFN pretreatment elevated the expression of SIRT1,which was associated with the ER stress. The function of the SIRT1 pathway in the mediation of cardioprotective effect of SFN against H/R-elicited ER stress was further verified by the SIRT1 inhibitor Ex-527. Inhibition of SIRT1 activity contributed to upregulation of ER stress protein markers GRP78, CHOP and Cleaved caspase-12. Moreover, the cardioprotective effect of SFN was suppressed. Therefore, these results manifested that SFN can mitigate ER stress-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis by activating of SIRT1 signal pathway during H/R injury. However, we should acknowledge that there are still some limitations in the present study. First, our experiment was limited in vitro, which requires further study in vivo. In addition, the underlying mechanisms by which SFN mitigated ER stess remains poorly defined and needs further study.
In conclusion, the study demonstrated that SFN can protect cardiomyocytes against H/R injury and the underlying mechanisms of SFN-mediated cardioprotecion may be dependent on the activation of SIRT1 signaling pathway, which alleviated ER stress-induced apoptosis. Our findings provides a preclinical evidence of the cardioprotective effect of SFN in H/R injury. Due to its efficacy, we suggest that SFN could be considered as a potential pharmacological approach to limit myocardial ischemic reperfusion damage.
Author contribution
Ai-hua CHEN and Li-zi WANG designed the research; Yun-peng LI, Shu-lin WANG, Bei LIU and Lu TANG performed the research; Xian-bao WANG, Cong ZHAO and Xue-ming CAO contributed new analytical tools and reagents; Yun-peng LI, Xu-dong SONG, Xiang WU and Ping-zhen YANG analyzed data; Yun-peng LI wrote the paper.
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This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 81270218 to Dr Ai-hua CHEN and No 81400190 to Dr Xian-bo WANG) and Science and Technology Project of Guangdong Province (No 2014A020212191 to Dr Ping-zhen YANG).
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Li, Yp., Wang, Sl., Liu, B. et al. Sulforaphane prevents rat cardiomyocytes from hypoxia/reoxygenation injury in vitro via activating SIRT1 and subsequently inhibiting ER stress. Acta Pharmacol Sin 37, 344–353 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/aps.2015.130
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