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. 2023 May 12;12:e85779. doi: 10.7554/eLife.85779

APOE expression and secretion are modulated by mitochondrial dysfunction

Meghan E Wynne 1, Oluwaseun Ogunbona 1,2, Alicia R Lane 1, Avanti Gokhale 1, Stephanie A Zlatic 1, Chongchong Xu 3, Zhexing Wen 1,3,4, Duc M Duong 5, Sruti Rayaprolu 4, Anna Ivanova 5, Eric A Ortlund 5, Eric B Dammer 5, Nicholas T Seyfried 5, Blaine R Roberts 5, Amanda Crocker 6, Vinit Shanbhag 7, Michael Petris 7, Nanami Senoo 8, Selvaraju Kandasamy 8, Steven Michael Claypool 8, Antoni Barrientos 9, Aliza Wingo 4, Thomas S Wingo 4, Srikant Rangaraju 4, Allan I Levey 4, Erica Werner 1,, Victor Faundez 1,
Editors: Agnieszka Chacinska10, Suzanne R Pfeffer11
PMCID: PMC10231934  PMID: 37171075

Abstract

Mitochondria influence cellular function through both cell-autonomous and non-cell autonomous mechanisms, such as production of paracrine and endocrine factors. Here, we demonstrate that mitochondrial regulation of the secretome is more extensive than previously appreciated, as both genetic and pharmacological disruption of the electron transport chain caused upregulation of the Alzheimer’s disease risk factor apolipoprotein E (APOE) and other secretome components. Indirect disruption of the electron transport chain by gene editing of SLC25A mitochondrial membrane transporters as well as direct genetic and pharmacological disruption of either complexes I, III, or the copper-containing complex IV of the electron transport chain elicited upregulation of APOE transcript, protein, and secretion, up to 49-fold. These APOE phenotypes were robustly expressed in diverse cell types and iPSC-derived human astrocytes as part of an inflammatory gene expression program. Moreover, age- and genotype-dependent decline in brain levels of respiratory complex I preceded an increase in APOE in the 5xFAD mouse model. We propose that mitochondria act as novel upstream regulators of APOE-dependent cellular processes in health and disease.

Research organism: Human

Introduction

Mitochondria are necessary for maintaining cellular and organismal health and function by generating energy and serving as hubs for diverse metabolic and signaling pathways (Nunnari and Suomalainen, 2012). The majority of the mitochondrial functions described so far are cell-autonomous. However, mitochondria are also capable of influencing cellular function from a distance in a non-cell-autonomous manner. These non-cell-autonomous mechanisms, mostly elicited after cellular or mitochondrial damage, encompass intercellular transfer of mitochondria to secretion of endocrine and paracrine factors (D’Acunzo et al., 2021; Durieux et al., 2011; Hayakawa et al., 2016; Liu et al., 2021). These secreted factors include proteins encoded in the nuclear genome, such as alpha-fetoprotein, inflammatory cytokines and type I interferons, and growth factor mitokines (Bar-Ziv et al., 2020; Chung et al., 2017; Dhir et al., 2018; Durieux et al., 2011; Jett et al., 2022; Kim et al., 2013; Riley and Tait, 2020; Shimada et al., 2012; West et al., 2015). A second class of non-cell-autonomous factors are mitochondrially derived peptides, encoded in the mitochondrial genome (Kim et al., 2017). Mitokines and mitochondrially derived peptides modulate cell survival, metabolic and lipid homeostasis, body weight, longevity, and aging, a primary risk factor for cognitive decline in humans (Chung et al., 2017; Flippo and Potthoff, 2021; Klaus and Ost, 2020; Mullican et al., 2017; Tsai et al., 2018). In models of Alzheimer’s disease, the mitochondrially derived peptide humanin can reduce apoptosis, inflammation, accumulation of plaque-forming Aβ peptides, and cognitive deficits (Hashimoto et al., 2001; Tajima et al., 2005; Yen et al., 2013). The ability of factors encoded in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes to regulate inflammation, lipid metabolism, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease mechanisms suggests that mitochondrial-dependent modulation of protein secretion could modify neurological disease pathogenesis prior to cell death.

Here, we sought to identify proteins whose expression and secretion are modulated by mitochondrial function through an unbiased interrogation of human transcriptomes and proteomes. We focused our attention on factors whose expression is sensitive to mutations affecting the inner mitochondrial membrane citrate transporter SLC25A1 and the ADP-ATP transporter SLC25A4 (ANT1). We chose these mitochondrial transporters because they have been genetically implicated in neurodevelopment, brain metabolism, psychiatric disease, and neurodegeneration (Balaraju et al., 2020; Chaouch et al., 2014; Edvardson et al., 2013; Gokhale et al., 2019; Akita et al., 2018; Lin-Hendel et al., 2016; Nota et al., 2013; Rigby et al., 2022; Siciliano et al., 2003). For example, SLC25A1 is a causal gene in two genetic diseases: a severe neurometabolic disease (combined D-2- and L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria) and a congenital myasthenic syndrome presenting with intellectual disability (Balaraju et al., 2020; Chaouch et al., 2014; Nota et al., 2013) (OMIM 615182–618197). In addition, SLC25A1 is part of the chromosomal interval deleted in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a microdeletion syndrome associated with neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative diseases (Butcher et al., 2013; Schneider et al., 2014; Zinkstok et al., 2019). SLC25A1 has been implicated as a hub factor underlying a mitochondrial protein network, which includes SLC25A4, that is disrupted in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome cells (Gokhale et al., 2019). Since SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 coprecipitate (Gokhale et al., 2019), we hypothesized the existence of common downstream secretory and mitochondrial targets elicited by their mutation. We discovered that loss of SLC25A1 or SLC25A4 affected the secreted proteome as well as the mitochondrially annotated proteome. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) was among the secreted factors whose expression was increased in both SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 mutants. We focused on APOE since it is the main carrier of lipids and cholesterol in the brain (Mahley, 2016) and it is tied to cognitive function, neuroinflammation, and neurological disease risk (Belloy et al., 2019; Lanfranco et al., 2021; O’Donoghue et al., 2018; Parhizkar and Holtzman, 2022). Importantly, the APOE4 allele is known as the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (Belloy et al., 2019). We found that APOE expression was increased by mutations of mitochondrial SLC25A transporters, which indirectly compromised the integrity of the electron transport chain, and was also increased by directly mutagenizing either assembly factors or subunits of complexes I, III, and IV of the electron transport chain. While the APOE4 allele is thought to cause mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (Area-Gomez et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2011; Mahley, 2023; Orr et al., 2019; Tambini et al., 2016; Yin et al., 2020), our study places mitochondria upstream of APOE, uncovering a novel function for these multifaceted organelles.

Results

Genetic disruption of inner mitochondrial membrane transporters alters the secretome

Our goal was to identify secreted factors whose expression is modulated by genetic defects in nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes. We hypothesized that changes in the secretome would affect the capacity of conditioned media to support cell growth in a genotype-dependent manner. Thus, we applied conditioned media from wild-type (SLC25A1+) and SLC25A1-null HAP1 cells (SLC25A1Δ) to cells from both genotypes and measured cell growth. We used this near-haploid human leukemia cell line since it has a short doubling time, and thus rapid protein turnover, making it well-suited to rapidly respond to changes in subproteomes, such as the secretome and mitoproteome. We dialyzed conditioned media from wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells to exclude effects of metabolites, pH, and small peptides present in media (Figure 1A). Dialyzed conditioned media from wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells supported wild-type cell growth (Figure 1A). Wild-type cells similarly responded to dialyzed media from both genotypes, increasing growth by 50% as compared to non-dialyzed media (Figure 1A compare columns 1, 3 and 2, 4). In contrast, while SLC25A1Δ cells fed with wild-type dialyzed conditioned media doubled in number (Figure 1A, compare columns 5 and 7), dialyzed conditioned media from SLC25A1Δ cells fed onto themselves did not support their growth as compared to media from wild-type cells (Figure 1A compare columns 7–8 and 6–8). These results suggest that wild-type cells and SLC25A1Δ cells condition media differently.

Figure 1. The secreted and mitochondrial proteomes are Modified by Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Transporter Mutants.

Figure 1.

(A) Cell number determinations of wild-type (columns 1–4) and SLC25A1-null HAP1 cells (SLC25A1Δ, columns 5–8) grown in the presence of conditioned media from each genotype. Conditioned media was applied to cells for 48 hr before (columns 1, 2, 5, and 6) or after dialysis (columns 3, 4, 7, and 8). Cell number was determined by Alamar blue cell viability assay. FU, Normalized Alamar Blue Fluorescence Units. Mean ± SEM, n=5, Two-Way ANOVA followed by Benjamini, Krieger and Yekutieli corrections. (B–C) Volcano plots of TMT proteomic data from wild-type HAP1 cells (n=3), SLC25A1Δ (B, n=3 for two independent CRISPR clones), and SLC25A4Δ mutants (C, n=3), depicted are log10 p values and log2 fold of change. (D) Principal component analysis and 2D-tSNE analyses of datasets in B-C. (E) Hierarchical clustering of all proteome hits where differential expression is significant with an α<0.001 in at least one mutant genotype. (F–G) Volcano plots of RNAseq data from wild-type HAP1 cells (n=4), SLC25A1Δ (B, n=4 for one independent CRISPR clone), and SLC25A4Δ mutants (C, n=4), depicted are log10 p values and log2 fold of change. (H) PCA and 2D-tSNE analyses of datasets in F-G. Subject grouping was determined by k-means clustering. (I) Hierarchical clustering of all RNAseq hits where differential expression is significant with an α=0.001 in at least one mutant genotype. (J) Venn diagram of protein and transcript hits shared by SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ mutants. Twenty-seven shared protein and RNA hits are annotated to either the human secretome (orange font) or annotated to Mitocarta 3.0 (green font). CROT was downregulated and upregulated in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ mutants, respectively. (K) Venn diagram of protein hits in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ mutants annotated in Mitocarta 3.0. (L) Venn diagram of protein hits in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ mutants annotated in the Human Secretome (Uhlén et al., 2019). (M) Hierarchical clustering of all proteins annotated to the human secretome across genotypes. (N) Magnitude of compromise in secreted and mitochondrial proteomes in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ mutants. p value was calculated with exact hypergeometric probability. (O–P) Gene ontology analysis of proteome (O) and transcriptome (P) in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ mutants. Overlapping and mutant-specific ontologies are color-coded by percent of contribution >50% to an ontological category. Gray represents ontologies where all three mutants similarly contribute hits.

To identify compositional differences between wild-type and SLC25A1Δ conditioned media, we analyzed the proteome and transcriptome of SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 1B, D–F–). Fetal bovine serum in media prevented us from a direct analysis of the conditioned media by mass spectrometry. We annotated the SLC25A1Δ proteome and transcriptome with the human secretome database (Uhlén et al., 2019) and the Mitocarta 3.0 knowledgebase (Rath et al., 2021) to comprehensively identify differences in secreted factors and the consequences of the SLC25A1 mutation on mitochondria. We simultaneously analyzed the proteome and transcriptome of SLC25A4Δ cells to determine whether changes in the SLC25A1Δ proteome and transcriptome resulted specifically from the loss of SLC25A1 or could be generalized to another inner mitochondrial membrane transporter (Figure 1C and G). We selected SLC25A4, as it encodes an ADP-ATP translocator that interacts with SLC25A1 (Gokhale et al., 2019). Tandem mass tagging mass spectrometry and RNAseq revealed that SLC25A1Δ cells underwent more extensive changes of their proteome and transcriptome than SLC25A4Δ cells (compare Figure 1B with C and F with G). For example, 668 proteins significantly changed their expression in SLC25A1Δ cells compared to 110 proteins in SLC25A4Δ cells (log2 fold of change of 0.5 and p<0.05, Figure 1B and C). Similarly, the SLC25A1Δ transcriptome was represented by 2433 transcripts whose expression was changed in SLC25A1-null cells, a fourfold difference compared to the 560 transcripts found in SLC25A4Δ cells (log2 fold of change of 1 and p<0.001, Figure 1F and G). Principal component analysis and 2D-tSNE analysis indicated that the whole measured proteome and transcriptome of SLC25A1Δ cells diverged strongly from wild-type cells, while SLC25A4Δ cells were more closely related to wild-type cells than SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 1D and H). The same outcome was obtained by unsupervised clustering when considering proteins and transcripts significantly changed in at least one of these genotypes (Figure 1E, I), as SLC25A4Δ clustered with wild-type cells rather than SLC25A1Δ cells. Despite the abundance of altered gene products in these SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ datasets, there was limited overlap in proteomes and transcriptomes, with only 84 proteins and 385 mRNAs shared by both genotypes (Figure 1J). Notably, the congruency of the shared proteomes and transcriptomes reached only 0.9% of all the gene products whose expression was modified. This represents 27 proteins and transcripts similarly modified in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ datasets (Figure 1J). Of these 27 common hits, one was annotated to mitochondria, FASTKD2, and five were annotated to the secreted human proteome, including soluble proteins such as apolipoprotein E (APOE) and cytokine receptor-like factor 1 (CRLF1; Elson et al., 1998; Wernette-Hammond et al., 1989; Figure 1J). APOE protein and transcript were among the most upregulated factors in both SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ cells (Figure 1B–C and F–G).

Close to 10% of all the SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ proteome hits were proteins annotated to mitochondria, with a discrete overlap of 10 mitochondrial proteins between these two mutant genotypes, mostly downregulated constituents of complex III of the electron transport chain (Figure 1K, UQCRB11, UQCRB, UQCRC2, and UQCRQ) as well as a factor required for the assembly of respiratory supercomplexes, COX7A2L (Figure 1K; Lobo-Jarne et al., 2018). The enrichment of secreted proteome annotated proteins was modest yet significant in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ cells. Surprisingly, this degree of enrichment in components of the secretome was comparable to the enrichment of Mitocarta 3.0 annotated proteins in both mitochondrial mutants (Figure 1L, M and N). These results show that mutations affecting two inner mitochondrial membrane transporters, SLC25A1 and SLC25A4, similarly affect the secreted and mitochondrial proteomes.

We analyzed SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ datasets for additional commonalities at the ontological level, using the ClueGO tool to annotate datasets based on genotype and whether a factor was up- or down-regulated. The annotated datasets were used to simultaneously query the KEGG, REACTOME and GO CC databases. The proteome and transcriptome of both mutants identified developmental ontologies as shared terms, irrespective of whether factors were up- or down-regulated (Figure 1O–P gray nodes and Supplementary file 1; tissue development GO:0009888, Bonferroni corrected P=1.9E-26 and 2.3E-11 for the transcriptome and proteome, respectively). However, there were ontologies that stood out by their genotype- and up-regulation-dependent specificity. For instance, the most prominent ontology annotated to up-regulated SLC25A1Δ proteome and transcriptome hits was steroid biosynthesis (KEGG:00100, Bonferroni corrected P=3.6E-8 and 1.9E-8 for the transcriptome and proteome, respectively; Figure 1O–P). However, the expression of genes annotated to sterol biosynthesis ontologies was not modified in SLC25A4Δ mutants, even though the proteome and transcriptome of SLC25A4Δ cells showed increased expression of APOE, a cholesterol transport lipoprotein. These findings suggest that expression of APOE and other hits common between these two mutant genotypes occurs independently from modifications in cholesterol synthesis pathways.

APOE expression is uncoupled from changes in cholesterol synthesis pathways

We focused on APOE and the sterol biosynthesis pathways to validate our proteome and transcriptome data. We also determined whether cholesterol synthesis pathways correlated with increased APOE expression in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ cells. Electrochemical MesoScale ELISA determinations of APOE with a human-specific antibody revealed increased APOE in cell lysates and conditioned media from SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ cells (Figure 2A and Figure 2—figure supplement 1; Chikkaveeraiah et al., 2012; Gaiottino et al., 2013). APOE protein expression and secretion into media were increased ~5–20 times in two CRISPR SLC25A1Δ clones and SLC25A4Δ cells (Figure 2A compare column 1 with 2–4 and Figure 2—figure supplement 1 compare columns 1, 3, and 5 with 7, 9, and 11). APOE signal in complete media unexposed to cells was undetectable (Figure 2A compare media columns 1 with 5). APOE present in media and cells was sensitive to protein synthesis inhibition with cycloheximide (Figure 2—figure supplement 1 compare columns 1–2 and 7–8) and to disruption of the secretory pathway with brefeldin A (Figure 2—figure supplement 1 compare columns 3–4 and 9–10). Additionally, the lysosome protease inhibitor E-64 minimally affected APOE levels; thus, making unlikely the contribution of lysosomes to the genotype-dependent differences in APOE levels (Figure 2—figure supplement 1 compare columns 5–6 and 11–12). We confirmed the increased levels of APOE in cells by immunoblot with a different APOE antibody. We used recombinant human APOE as a standard (Figure 2B). To exclude that an APOE expression increase was a haploid HAP1 cell peculiarity, we confirmed the increased levels of APOE in the diploid human neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y where we CRISPRed out the SLC25A1 gene (Figure 2C SLC25A1Δ/Δ). Much like HAP1 cells, SLC25A1Δ/Δ cells increased secretion of APOE by ~fourfold, in both cells and conditioned media, compared with wild-type cells (Figure 2C, compare lanes 1 and 2). These results reveal a robust upregulation of both cellular and secreted APOE across mutant cell types.

Figure 2. APOE transcripts and protein are upregulated independent from cholesterol levels in SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 mutants.

(A) MesoScale electrochemiluminescence solid phase ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type (column 1), SLC25A1Δ (columns 2 and 3), and SLC25A4Δ (column 4) HAP1 mutant cell lysates and conditioned media. Two independent SLC25A1Δ clones were tested (columns 2–3). Column 5 depicts complete media not exposed to cells. n=4. (B) APOE immunoblot of cellular extracts from wild-type, SLC25A1Δ, and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 mutant cells. HSP90 was used as a loading control. Lane 4 presents recombinant human APOE (rAPOE). In bold is the predicted molecular weight of rAPOE. (C) MesoScale ELISA measurements of human APOE in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ/Δ SH-SY5Y mutant cell lysates and conditioned media. (D–F) qRT-PCR quantification of APOE, sterol metabolism annotated genes, and housekeeping controls (VAMP2 and RPS20) in wild-type and diverse mutant cell lines. (D) and (E) show transcript levels in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 mutant cells, respectively. (F) depicts transcript levels in SLC25A1Δ/Δ SH-SY5Y mutant cells. All data are expressed as transcript ratio between mutant and wild-type. n=3 for D-F. (G–I) Volcano plots of positive mode untargeted lipidomics performed in SLC25A1Δ, SLC25A4Δ, and SLC25A1Δ/Δ mutant HAP1 and SH-SY5Y cells and their controls. Upper inserts present the distribution of cholesterol ester and triglyceride species marked by triangles. Depicted are log10 p values and log2 fold of change. n=4 per clone for the two SLC25A1Δ clones, n=4 for SLC25A4Δ, and n=4 for SLC25A1Δ/Δ. (J). Total cellular levels of free cholesterol (Ch), cholesterol ester (ChE), and triglycerides (TG) in wild-type, SLC25A1Δ, and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells. (K). Total cellular levels of free cholesterol (Ch), cholesterol ester (ChE), and triglycerides (TG) in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ/Δ SH-SY5Y cells. Average ± SEM, One-way ANOVA followed by Bonferroni or Holm-Šydák’s (D–F) multiple corrections, or unpaired t-test (K). See available source data for (B).

Figure 2—source data 1. Original blots.
Figure 2—source data 2. Original blots.

Figure 2.

Figure 2—figure supplement 1. Effects of diverse mon-mitochondrial inhibitors on APOE expression and secretion.

Figure 2—figure supplement 1.

If APOE expression depends on modifications in cholesterol pathways then the expression of genes annotated to cholesterol metabolism and cholesterol content should be similarly modified in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A1Δ/Δ cells. We measured the transcript levels of APOE and genes involved in cholesterol uptake and synthesis, in SLC25A1Δ, SLC25A4Δ, and SLC25A1Δ/Δ cells. We focused on the LDL receptor (LDLR), as well as cholesterol synthesis enzymes, ACAT2, MSMO1 and HMGCR, the latter the rate-limiting enzyme of the cholesterol synthesis pathway (Brown and Goldstein, 1980; Mazein et al., 2013). We chose these genes as upregulated hits from the transcriptome of SLC25A1Δ cells. We used VAMP2 and RPS20 as housekeeping gene controls (Figure 2D–F). APOE mRNA increased ~threefold in all three mutant cells. In contrast, the expression of cholesterol synthesis pathway genes was increased in SLC25A1Δ (Figure 2D) but not in SLC25A4Δ and SLC25A1Δ/Δ cells (Figure 2E and F). The upregulation of cholesterol synthesis pathway genes resulted in a significant increase of cholesterol and all cholesterol-ester species content in SLC25A1Δ cells, as determined by mass spectrometry (Figure 2G and J). Triglyceride and other measured lipid families were similar in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 2G and J). In contrast, cholesterol and cholesterol-ester species were not modified in SLC25A4Δ (Figure 2H and J) and SLC25A1Δ/Δ cells (Figure 2I and K), even though the expression of APOE was upregulated to the same extent in all these mutant cells. These results make unlikely the hypothesis that increased APOE expression is coupled to an upregulation of cholesterol synthesis pathways.

Perturbation of the electron transport chain complexes I and III increases APOE expression

We turned our attention to common defects in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells that could explain the increased expression of APOE. A shared phenotype in both mutants was a drop in the levels of complex III subunits and the supercomplex III-IV assembly factor COX7A2L (Figure 1K). We hypothesized that defects in the integrity of the electron transport chain could mediate the increased levels of APOE. To test this hypothesis, we first determined the effects of SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 mutations on the organization of the electron transport chain by blue native electrophoresis. Second, we mutagenized assembly factors and subunits of complexes I (NDUFS3 and NDUFAF7), III (COX7A2L and HIGD1A), and IV of the electron transport chain (COX7A2L, HIGD1A, COX17, 18, 19, and 20) and measured APOE levels (Lobo-Jarne et al., 2018; Nývltová et al., 2022; Timón-Gómez et al., 2020a; Zurita Rendón et al., 2014). We determined the robustness of the increased APOE phenotype by studying mutants in three human cell lines (HAP1, SH-SY5Y, and HEK293), which differ in several properties, including their genetic background, rate of growth, and tissue of origin.

We measured the expression of electron transport chain subunits by proteomics in HAP1 cells. We found that even though complex III was affected in both SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ cells (Figures 1K and 3A and Figure 3—figure supplement 1A), the most pronounced defect was in the expression of complex I subunits in SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 3A). We scrutinized the integrity of respiratory chain complexes in SLC25A1Δ cells by SDS-PAGE, blue native electrophoresis, and bidimensional gel electrophoresis (Figure 3B–D). We performed immunoblot analysis of SDS-PAGE resolved respiratory complex subunits with antibodies against subunits that undergo degradation in misassembled respiratory complexes (Civiletto et al., 2018; Ghazal et al., 2021). These experiments revealed that the most degraded subunits were those from complexes I and III (Figure 3B). We then analyzed respiratory complexes by blue native electrophoresis and found decreased expression of high molecular weight complexes containing NDUFS3, UQCRC2, and COX4, which correspond to subunits of the respiratory complexes I, III, and IV, respectively (Figure 3C). Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis showed that high molecular weight respiratory complexes containing subunits of complexes I and III were diminished in SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 3D). Similarly, SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells had reduced levels of complex III subunits (Figure 3—figure supplement 1A), thus affecting the migration of complex III-containing supercomplexes in blue native electrophoresis (Figure 3—figure supplement 1B). The effect of the SLC25A4 mutation on APOE expression was not due to a defect in the SLC25A4 transport activity, as the SLC25A4 inhibitor bongkrekic acid did not increase the levels of APOE (Figure 3—figure supplement 1C, compare columns 1 with 2 and 3), even at concentrations that inhibit mitochondrial respiration to the same extent as the SLC25A4 mutation (Figure 3—figure supplement 1D; Gutiérrez-Aguilar and Baines, 2013).

Figure 3. The integrity of respiratory chain complex I is required to control APOE expression.

(A) Expression of respiratory complex subunits in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ HAP1 cells quantified by TMT mass spectrometry. Kendal Tau hierarchical clustering analysis. (B) Immunoblots with OxPhos antibody mix in mitochondrial fractions from wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells. (C) Blue native electrophoresis of mitochondrial fractions from wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells. Shown are Coomassie stained native gel and immunoblots probed with antibodies against complex, I, III, IV, and SLC25A1. (D) Blue native electrophoresis followed by SDS-PAGE then immunoblot with antibodies against complex, I, II, III, and V in mitochondrial fractions from wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells. (E–G). Seahorse stress test, APOE qRT-PCR, and APOE MesoScale ELISA analysis respectively in wild-type and NDUFS3Δ HAP1 cells. In (F), APOE was measured with two primer sets. (H–J) Seahorse stress test, APOE qRT-PCR, and APOE MesoScale ELISA analysis respectively in wild-type and NDUFAF7Δ HAP1 cells. VAMP2 or RER1 transcripts were used as controls in F and J. All qRT-PCR data are expressed as ratio between mutant and wild-type. (E to M) average ± SEM. One-Way ANOVA followed by Šydák’s multiple correction (F), or unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction (G, I, and J). Arrows in E (n=4) and H (n=3) show sequential addition of oligomycin, FCCP, and rotenone-antimycin during the Seahorse stress test. (K) SLC25A1Δ cells are more sensitive to antimycin than wild-type HAP1 cells. Wild type and SLC25A1Δ cells were exposed to vehicle or increasing concentrations of antimycin. Basal cellular respiration was measured for 90 min after additions (arrow) using Seahorse. Data are presented normalized to basal respiration in the absence of drug. Average ± SEM, n=3, Gray square shows significant differences between wild-type and SLC25A1Δ drug-treated cells as determined by multiple unpaired t-tests followed by corrections with the Benjamini-Krieger-Yekuiteli method (FDR = 5%). (L–M) APOE qRT-PCR and APOE MesoScale ELISA in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ HAP1 cells, respectively, treated with vehicle or antimycin. Twenty nM antimycin was used in qPCR experiments. Twenty to 80 nM was used in MesoScale ELISA experiments. RER1 (columns 1–4) and PCBP1 transcripts (columns 5–8) were used as housekeeping controls. All qRT-PCR data are expressed as ratio between mutant and wild-type. Average ± SEM, One-way ANOVA followed by Benjamini-Krieger-Yekuiteli multiple comparison corrections (FDR = 5%). See available source data for (B and C).

Figure 3—source data 1. Original gels and blots.
Figure 3—source data 2. Original gels and blots.

Figure 3.

Figure 3—figure supplement 1. SLC25A4 null HAP1 cells disrupt complex III and increase expression of APOE.

Figure 3—figure supplement 1.

(A) Expression of respiratory complex subunits in wild-type and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells quantified by TMT mass spectrometry. Kendal Tau hierarchical clustering analysis. (B) Blue native electrophoresis followed by either Coomassie or immunoblotting with antibodies against complex, I, II, III, and IV in mitochondrial fractions from wild-type and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells. n-dodecyl-β-d-maltoside (DDM) was used to disrupt supercomplexes. (C) APOE MesoScale ELISA in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ HAP1 cells treated with vehicle (columns 1 and 4) or bongkrekic acid 0.25 and 0.5 µM for 48 hr (columns 2 and 5 and 3 and 6, respectively). Average ± SEM, One-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test. (D) Wild-type and SLC25A1Δ HAP1 cells were exposed to vehicle or increasing concentrations of bongkrekic acid (BKA). Basal cellular respiration was measured for 90 min after additions (arrow) using Seahorse. Data are presented normalized to basal respiration in the absence of drug. Average ± SEM, n=4 wild-type, n=8 for SLC25A1Δ mutants for treated and untreated cells. Gray square shows significant differences between wild-type and SLC25A1Δ drug-treated cells as determined by Two-way ANOVA followed by Two-stage linear step-up procedure of Benjamini, Krieger and Yekutieli (FDR 5%).
Figure 3—figure supplement 1—source data 1. Original gels and blots.
Figure 3—figure supplement 1—source data 2. Original gels and blots.
Figure 3—figure supplement 2. Effects of inhibitors of the electron transport chain on APOE levels.

Figure 3—figure supplement 2.

Figure 3—figure supplement 3. Interactions between SLC25A1 and NDUFS3.

Figure 3—figure supplement 3.

(A) Proximity ligation map of interactions shared between SLC25A1 and NDUFS3. (B) SLC25A1-FLAG expressing SH-SY5Y cell lysates were immunoprecipitated with magnetic beads alone (lane 1) or FLAG antibodies (lanes 2–3), either in the absence or presence of an excess FLAG peptide for out-competition (Lanes 2 and 3, respectively). Immunoprecipitated complexes were probed by immunoblot with NDUSF3 antibody.
Figure 3—figure supplement 3—source data 1. Original blots.
Figure 3—figure supplement 3—source data 2. Original gels and blots.

The loss of integrity in complexes I and III in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells suggest that respiratory chain defects could be responsible for the increased expression of APOE. We tested this hypothesis by targeting complexes I and III using genetic and pharmacological approaches (Figure 3 and Figure 3—figure supplement 2). We genetically perturbed complex I assembly and function by knocking-out either NDUFS3 or NDUFAF7 or by using the complex I inhibitor piericidin A (Figure 3—figure supplement 2; Bridges et al., 2020). NDUFS3 encodes NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] iron-sulfur protein 3, a non-catalytic subunit of complex I necessary for complex I assembly and activity (Bénit et al., 2004; D’Angelo et al., 2021). NDUFAF7 encodes NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase complex assembly factor 7, a methylase necessary for the early stages of complex I assembly (Zurita Rendón et al., 2014). We targeted NDUFS3 and NDUFAF7 because these genes localize to genetic loci associated with increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease (de Rojas et al., 2021; Kunkle et al., 2019). Moreover, SLC25A1 and NDUFS3 share 91% of their proximity interactions (Antonicka et al., 2020), an observation we corroborated by co-immunoprecipitation of SLC25A1 and NDUFS3 (Figure 3—figure supplement 3). NDUFS3 and NDUFAF7 CRISPR mutants compromised mitochondrial respiration, as shown by Seahorse oximetry (Figure 3E and H). Both mutants increased the expression of APOE mRNA, as compared to reference housekeeping transcripts, (Figure 3F I, RER1 and VAMP2) as well as APOE protein in cells and in conditioned media (Figure 3G and J). These results demonstrate that the integrity and function of complex I regulate APOE expression and secretion.

We inhibited the function of complex III with the specific inhibitor antimycin I (von and Link, 1986). We inquired whether inhibition of complex III by antimycin would upregulate the expression of APOE in wild-type and in SLC25A1Δ cells. Since complex III levels were partially reduced in SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 3A, B and C), we reasoned that inhibition of residual complex III activity in SLC25A1Δ cells would reveal additive respiratory chain mechanisms affecting APOE expression. We measured respiration in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells in the absence and presence of increasing concentrations of antimycin (Figure 3K). SLC25A1Δ cells were more sensitive to low doses of antimycin (Figure 3K), a phenotype predicted for cells with reduced content of complex III. Antimycin addition increased APOE mRNA 3-fold in wild-type cells as compared to vehicle (Figure 3L compare columns 9–10), whereas the expression of two housekeeping mRNAs, RER1 and PCBP1, was minimally affected by complex III inhibition (Figure 3L compare columns 1–2 and 5–6). SLC25A1Δ cells doubled their APOE mRNA when treated with antimycin as compared to vehicle-treated SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 3L compare columns 11–12). Antimycin also increased APOE secretion in both wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells by ~2–3 fold (Figure 3M). No such increase was detectable in cell lysates in both genotypes (Figure 3M). These data show that the effect of antimycin on APOE mRNA expression and protein secretion was additive with the SLC25A1Δ upregulation phenotype. Taken together, these results demonstrate that the expression of APOE is sensitive to complex III inhibition.

We tested the robustness of the increased APOE phenotype in HEK293 cells. We mutagenized SLC25A4 alone or in conjunction with its two homologs, SLC25A5 and 6. SLC25A4 is the main ADP/ATP carrier expressed in HAP1 cells (Figure 4—figure supplement 1). In contrast, SLC25A5 and 6 are the main species expressed by HEK293 cells (Lu et al., 2017). TMT proteomic analysis of whole cell extracts from SLC25A4Δ/Δ HEK293 cells revealed minimal changes in protein levels (Figure 4A). In contrast, we found 223 differentially expressed proteins in SLC25A4,5,6Δ/Δ triple knock-out cells (Figure 4A). Of these 223 proteins, 32 were annotated to the secretome, including APOE (Figure 4B and C). We confirmed increased APOE levels by MesoScale ELISA in SLC25A4,5,6Δ/Δ triple knock-out cells, which increased APOE ~twofold, in both cell extracts and conditioned media, as compared with wild-type and SLC25A4Δ/Δ HEK293 cells (Figure 4D). Among the 223 differentially expressed proteins, we also identified 42 proteins annotated to Mitocarta 3.0 (Figure 4B). These included increased levels of 4 of the 10 subunits in complex III (Figure 4B and E). Formation of complex III supercomplexes was selectively compromised in SLC25A4,5,6Δ/Δ triple knock-out cells as determined by blue native electrophoresis (Figure 4F). These mitochondrial proteome modifications and defective supercomplexes formation reduced mitochondrial respiration by fivefold in triple knock-out cells (Figure 4G). We conclude that increased APOE expression is robustly observed in diverse cell types where the integrity of complex III of the electron transport chain is compromised.

Figure 4. Robustness and redundancy of adenine nucleotide translocators regulating APOE expression.

(A) Volcano plots of TMT proteomic data from wild-type HEK293 cells (n=4), SLC25A4Δ/Δ and triple knock-out SLC25A4,5,6Δ/Δ (B, n=4), depicted are log10 p values and log2 fold of change. (B). Venn diagram of protein hits in SLC25A4Δ/Δ and triple knock-out SLC25A4,5,6Δ/Δ mutants annotated in Mitocarta 3.0 or the Human Secretome (Uhlén et al., 2019). (C) Hierarchical clustering of all proteins annotated to the human secretome across genotypes. (D) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and mutant HEK293 cells. Shown are APOE content in lysates and conditioned media. Mann-Whitney test. (E) Mitocarta 3.0 annotated hits in the triple knock-out SLC25A4,5,6Δ/Δ proteome, see panel B. Red font indicates increased levels in mutant. Hierarchical clustering of all proteins annotated to electron transport chain subunits and SLC25A transporters across genotypes. (F) Blue native electrophoresis followed by immunoblotting with antibodies against complex, I, II, III, and IV in mitochondrial fractions from wild-type and SLC25A4Δ/Δ and triple knock-out SLC25A4,5,6Δ/Δ cells. n-dodecyl-β-d-maltoside (DDM) was used to disrupt supercomplexes. Red arrow and font denote region blotted with SDHA antibodies. (G) Seahorse stress test wild-type and triple knock-out SLC25A4,5,6Δ/Δ cells as in Figure 3. N=3. See available source data for (F).

Figure 4—source data 1. Original gels and blots.
Figure 4—source data 2. Original gels and blots.

Figure 4.

Figure 4—figure supplement 1. SLC25A4 null HAP1 cells disrupt complex III and increase expression of APOE.

Figure 4—figure supplement 1.

Direct and indirect mechanisms affecting complex IV biogenesis increases APOE expression

In order to address if the integrity of respiratory complexes, other than complexes I and III, could modulate APOE expression, we focused on complex IV in the electron transport chain. The assembly of this complex requires a pathway that begins at the plasma membrane to deliver copper, which is necessary for complex IV biogenesis (Figure 5A; Cobine et al., 2021; Garza et al., 2022). At mitochondria, complex IV requires assembly factors to generate the complex itself (HIGD1A, COX18, and COX20), factors to generate complex IV-containing supercomplexes (COX7A2L and HIGD1A), a copper transporter present in the inner mitochondrial membrane (SLC25A3), and metallochaperones that deliver copper I ions to complex IV (COX17 and COX19). In turn, the mitochondrial copper metallochaperone COX17 receives its copper from the plasma membrane copper uptake transporter SLC31A1 (Figure 5A; Cobine et al., 2021; Garza et al., 2022). We knocked out genes belonging to this pathway and assessed the expression of APOE in three cell models.

Figure 5. Direct and indirect disruption of complex IV increases APOE expression.

(A) Direct (COX17-20, HIGD1A) and indirect (SLC25A3, SLC31A1, ATP7A) mechanisms required for complex IV assembly. (B) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and HEK293 cell clones null for the genes indicated in blue font. Shown are APOE content in lysates and conditioned media. (C) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and two independent COX17Δ/Δ mutant SH-SY5Y cell clones. (D) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and two independent SLC31A1Δ/Δ mutant SH-SY5Y cell clones were studied. (E) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and two independent ATP7AΔ/Δ mutant SH-SY5Y cell clones transfected with the endocytosis-deficient ATP7A-LL construct. (F) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and two independent ATP7AΔ/Δ mutant SH-SY5Y cell clones. (G) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and SLC25A3Δ mutant HAP1 cells were studied. N=8 for B and n=4 for C-G. (H) NanoString mRNA quantification of human APOE and TBP transcripts in wild-type, and two independent mutant clones of either COX17Δ/Δ or SLC31A1Δ/Δ mutant SH-SY5Y cells. Wild type and SLC31A1Δ/Δ cells were treated with vehicle or 200 micromolar of the copper chelator bathocuproinedisulfonic acid (BCS). TBP was used as a housekeeping control transcript. n=3. (I) Seahorse basal cellular respiration across different genotypes normalized to the corresponding wild-type cell. (J) Correlation between APOE in conditioned media with either basal cellular respiration (OCR) or the extracellular acidification rate determined by Seahorse (ECAR, n=3–9). Simple linear regression fit and 95% confidence interval is shown. All data are presented as average ± SEM. For B to F, and H One-way ANOVA followed by Benjamini-Krieger-Yekuiteli multiple comparison corrections (FDR = 5%). (G) unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction.

Figure 5.

Figure 5—figure supplement 1. Total cellular copper in wild type and diverse mutant cells.

Figure 5—figure supplement 1.

Figure 5—figure supplement 2. Upregulation of APOE expression and secretion in SLC25A20 mutant cells.

Figure 5—figure supplement 2.

(A) qRT-PCR quantification of SLC25A20 and housekeeping control genes (PCBP1 and RER1) in wild-type and SLC25A20Δ mutant cells. Average ± SEM, One-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test. (B) Seahorse stress test in wild-type and SLC25A20Δ HAP1 cells. Arrows show sequential addition of oligomycin, FCCP, and rotenone-antimycin during the Seahorse stress test. (C) Depicts basal, ATP-dependent and maximal oxygen consumption rates. p value, Mann-Whitney U test, n=4. (D) Immunoblots with OxPhos antibody mix in mitochondrial fractions from wild-type and SLC25A20Δ cells. Left panels represent two exposures and right panel shows blot with COX4 antibodies. (E) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and SLC25A20Δ mutant cells. Shown are APOE content in lysates and conditioned media. p value, Mann-Whitney U test, n=4. All graphs depict average ± SEM.
Figure 5—figure supplement 2—source data 1. Original blots.
Figure 5—figure supplement 2—source data 2. Original blots.
Figure 5—figure supplement 3. Extracellular acidification rate (ECAR) in wild-type and diverse mutant cells.

Figure 5—figure supplement 3.

(A) ECAR was measured by Seahorse stress test in wild-type and mutant HAP1, SH-SY5Y, and HEK293 cells. Arrows mark the sequential addition of oligomycin, FCCP, and rotenone-antimycin during the Seahorse stress test. Average ± SEM, Two-way ANOVA followed by Bonferroni multiple comparisons test, p value represents the effect of genotype, n of experiments is in parentheses. (B) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and PARK2Δ/Δ mutant SH-SY5Y cells. PARK2 mutants were selected as controls where there is strong acidification of media as measured by ECAR. Unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction.
Figure 5—figure supplement 4. Citrate effects on APOE expression in HAP1 cells.

Figure 5—figure supplement 4.

(A) Diagram of citrate pathways and genes studied. (B) Fireworks analysis of co-essentiality genes to identify genes connected to ACLY (Amici et al., 2021). Green denote hubs and purple marks MitoCarta annotated nodes. ACLY is a component of the SLC25A1 interactome, see Gokhale et al., 2021. (C) qRT-PCR quantification of citrate transporter SLC13A5 and a housekeeping control gene (PCBP1) in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ HAP1 cells. (C) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ HAP1 cells incubated with vehicle, 2.5 mM citrate for 48 hr. Average ± SEM, One-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test. (D) qRT-PCR quantification of ACLY and a housekeeping control gene (PCBP1) in wild-type and ACLYΔ mutant cells. Average ± SEM, One-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test. (E) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and ACLYΔ HAP1 cells. Unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction.
Figure 5—figure supplement 5. AMPK, mitochondrial stress, and redox responses in wild type and SLC25A1Δ HAP1 cells.

Figure 5—figure supplement 5.

(A) Activity of AMPK in wild-type (lanes 1–2) and SLC25A1Δ (lanes 3–4) HAP1 cells was assessed with antibodies against AMPK, phospho-AMPK, and SLC25A1. Cells were treated with AICAR at 0.4 mM concentration for 72 hr to induce the activation of AMPK (lanes 2 and 4). (B) RNAseq determinations of FGF21 and GDF21 as well ATF transcription factors in wild-type and mutant cells. (C) Cis-regulatory sequence analysis with iRegulon to infer transcriptional responses activated in the SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ upregulated transcriptome (1429 transcripts p<0.001 and log2 fold of change = 1) (Janky et al., 2014). Significance threshold is set at 3. There are no ATF3, 4, or 5 target genes in the SLC25A1Δ upregulated transcriptome. (D) Activation of the mitochondrial stress response with doxycycline modestly increases APOE in conditioned media from SLC25A1Δ cells but not in wild-type cells. MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type and SLC25A1Δ cells treated in the absence or presence of doxycycline at a concentration of 9.75 micromolar for 48 hr. APOE was measured in cell lysates and media. (E–F) Activation of the mitochondrial stress response with doxycycline in wild-type (D) and SLC25A1Δ (E) HAP1 cells. Doxycycline treatment was performed as in C. Gene expression was determined by qRT-PCR measuring the transcription factors ATF3-5 and their selected target genes ASNS, CHAC1, CHOP, PCK2, and WARS. RER1 and PCBP1 were used as housekeeping control transcripts. n=3. (G). Cells were treated with 2 mM N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) for 48 hr, n=3. RER1 was used as a control gene and glutathione-disulfide reductase (GSR) as a NAC-sensitive gene reporter. (E to G) show data as a ratio between drug/vehicle. All figures depict average ± SEM. For F and G, One-way ANOVA followed by Šydák’s multiple correction. (D and E) One-way ANOVA followed by Benjamini-Krieger-Yekuiteli multiple comparison corrections (FDR = 5%).
Figure 5—figure supplement 5—source data 1. Original blots.
Figure 5—figure supplement 5—source data 2. Original blots.

We mutated the mitochondrial factors COX7A2L, HIGD1A, COX18, COX19, or COX20 in HEK293 cells and measured APOE levels by MesoScale ELISA (Figure 5B). We first focused on COX7A2L and HIGD1A, as these two factors are required for the assembly of complex III-IV supercomplexes, yet they differ in that COX7A2L does not affect the biogenesis of individual complexes, thus keeping mitochondrial respiration intact (Lobo-Jarne et al., 2018). In contrast, HIGD1A affects both supercomplex formation and the biogenesis of individual complexes III and IV (Timón-Gómez et al., 2020a). Mutagenesis of COX7A2L did not affect APOE expression but mutagenesis of HIGD1A increased APOE levels ~12-fold, both in cell lysates and conditioned media (Figure 5B). We confirmed these findings with mutants in the complex IV assembly factors COX18 and 20 (Bourens and Barrientos, 2017; Nývltová et al., 2022). COX18 and 20 gene defects increased APOE expression to the same extent as HIGD1A (Figure 5B).

Complex IV requires copper for its biogenesis and function. Thus, our model predicts that genetic disruption of proteins in the pathway that leads to delivery of copper to complex IV should increase APOE expression (Figure 5A). Among the factors that help deliver copper into complex IV, we studied COX17 and COX19 (Banci et al., 2008; Cobine et al., 2021; Garza et al., 2022; Leary et al., 2013; Nývltová et al., 2022; Oswald et al., 2009). Mutagenesis of COX19 in HEK293 cells increased the expression of APOE protein in both cells and conditioned media by ~40-fold (Figure 5B). We confirmed this finding in two SH-SY5Y mutants of the metallochaperone COX17 (Figure 5C, COX17Δ/Δ). We decreased cytoplasmic copper availability by either eliminating copper uptake via mutagenesis of the SLC31A1 transporter (Figure 5D, SLC31A1Δ/Δ and Figure 5—figure supplement 1) or by expressing in ATP7A-null SH-SY5Y cells (ATP7AΔ/Δ and Figure 5—figure supplement 1) an ATP7A mutant that constitutively extrudes copper from cells due to mutagenesis of its endocytosis sorting signal (Figure 5E and Figure 5—figure supplement 1, ATP7A-LL) (Petris et al., 1998; Zhu et al., 2016). Both forms of cytoplasmic copper reduction increased APOE expression and secretion in two independent mutant or clonal isolates (Figure 5D–E). Elimination of ATP7A alone did not increase APOE expression (Figure 5F, ATP7AΔ/Δ). Mutagenesis of SLC25A3, also increased the expression and secretion of APOE protein in HAP1 cells (Figure 5G). We confirmed these results by measuring APOE mRNA levels with NanoString technology in two independent mutants of COX17 and SLC31A1, as well as in wild-type cells incubated with a cell impermeant copper chelator, bathocuproinedisulfonic acid (Figure 5H, BCS and Figure 5—figure supplement 1). These pharmacological and genetic approaches to reduction of cytoplasmic copper robustly increased APOE mRNA as compared to wild-type cells (Figure 5H), while levels of a housekeeping gene, TBP, were unchanged. These results demonstrate that impairing complex IV biogenesis, directly or indirectly, increases the expression of APOE transcript and protein in diverse cell lines. Along with our experiments targeting complexes I and III, these findings support the concept that diverse mechanisms converging on respiratory chain function and assembly can induce the expression and secretion of APOE.

To determine whether there was a relationship between the degree of respiratory chain compromise, glycolysis, and the extent of APOE secretion increase, we correlated the normalized secretion of APOE in diverse mitochondrial mutants to their normalized basal oxygen consumption rate, and the rate of extracellular acidification as a proxy for glycolysis (Figure 5I–J). APOE negatively and significantly correlated with basal oxygen consumption (–0.62, Figure 5J, r=−0.62, p=0.022). However, we identified an exception in mutants of the carnitine transporter SLC25A20 that increased APOE levels despite normal respiration (Figure 5—figure supplement 2). The correlation of APOE expression with the rate of extracellular acidification did not differ from zero (Figure 5J, p=0.2 and Figure 5—figure supplement 3). These findings support the idea that respiratory chain integrity and activity rather than glycolytic adaptations in mutants affecting the electron transport chain modulate APOE expression.

We explored alternative mechanisms from electron transport chain assembly and activity required for increased APOE expression and secretion. We ruled out the possibility that either decreased cytoplasmic citrate levels, by mutagenesis of ACLY (Figure 5—figure supplement 4) or bioenergetic stress are responsible for the APOE increase in SLC25A1Δ cells, using activation of the AMPK pathway as a read-out (Figure 5—figure supplement 5). We ruled out accumulation of reactive oxygen species as a causal mechanism for increased APOE, as treatment with the antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine did not affect APOE mRNA levels in wild-type or SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 5—figure supplement 5). We also assessed whether activation of the mitochondrial stress response pathway caused APOE elevation (Figure 5—figure supplement 5). We found that activation of the mitochondrial stress response with doxycycline (Quirós et al., 2017) modestly increased the secretion of APOE in SLC25A1Δ cells (Figure 5—figure supplement 5 panel D columns 7–8) but not in wild-type cells (Figure 5—figure supplement 5 panel D columns 5–6), even though wild-type cells robustly activated the mitochondrial stress response after doxycycline incubation (Figure 5—figure supplement 5 panel E).

Mitochondrial dysfunction induces APOE expression and inflammatory responses in immortalized cells and human astrocytes

The APOE4 allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease and APOE-associated neuroinflammation is thought to play a prominent role in disease pathogenesis (Krasemann et al., 2017; Parhizkar and Holtzman, 2022; Tzioras et al., 2019; Zalocusky et al., 2021). We found that disruption of complex I subunit NDUFS3 and complex I assembly factor NDUFAF7 increases APOE expression (Figure 3). The NDUFS3 and NDUFAF7 genes are encoded in loci that increase Alzheimer’s disease risk (de Rojas et al., 2021; Kunkle et al., 2019). Moreover, the complex IV subunit COX7C is an additional electron transport gene encoded in a novel Alzheimer’s risk locus (Bellenguez et al., 2022). These genetic associations between APOE and the respiratory chain with Alzheimer’s disease risk prompted us to ask the following questions: (1) Do human brain cells modify the expression of APOE after disruption of the respiratory chain? (2) Is mitochondrially induced APOE expression an isolated event, or does it co-occur in the context of inflammatory response?

To address the first question, we treated wild-type human iPSC-derived neurons and astrocytes with antimycin for 48 hr. Cells were treated with antimycin concentrations that inhibit mitochondrial respiration in neurons and astrocytes but do not affect cell viability (unpublished data). Astrocytes increased APOE protein expression twofold after antimycin treatment (Figure 6A). These astrocytic APOE increases were detected both in cell lysates and conditioned media (Figure 6A). In contrast, neuronal cells failed to increase APOE expression after exposure to antimycin (Figure 6A). We did not detect APOE in neuronal conditioned media (not shown). These findings show that APOE expression and secretion are modulated by intoxication of the electron transport chain in iPSC-derived human astrocytes but not neurons. To determine if APOE expression was coordinated with an inflammatory response, we analyzed the expression of 770 genes using a NanoString mRNA quantification panel. This neuroinflammatory panel reports the activity of 23 neuroinflammation pathways and processes across five brain cell types and 14 cell types of the peripheral immune system. We chose this approach since it is validated in Alzheimer’s models, highly sensitive, and measures mRNAs without cDNA amplification (Das et al., 2021; Ramesha et al., 2021). We performed NanoString quantification in wild-type, SLC25A1Δ, and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells, as well as in iPSC-derived astrocytes treated for 48 hr with sublethal doses of antimycin (Figure 6B). We identified upregulation of 3–10% of the genes in the panel across these three cellular models (Figure 6B). Among these genes, APOE mRNA was upregulated sixfold in mutant HAP1 cells and 1.5 times in antimycin-treated astrocytes as compared to a housekeeping control, TBP (Figure 6C). The genes upregulated in antimycin-treated astrocytes were significantly enriched in genes annotated to the secretome, as compared to the content of secretome-annotated genes built into the panel (Figure 6D, compare enrichment factors of 2.8 and 1.6, respectively). Like in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells, this enrichment of altered secretory transcripts induced by mitochondrial damage was similar to changes in mitochondrially annotated transcripts.

Figure 6. APOE expression is increased in human astrocytes after complex III inhibition.

(A) MesoScale ELISA determinations of human APOE in wild-type iPSC-derived human neurons and astrocytes treated with vehicle or 40–80 nM antimycin for 48 h. APOE determinations were performed in cell lysates and conditioned media and expressed normalized to a control value. n=4. p was obtained with two-sided estimation statistics. Untreated iPSC-derived astrocytes secrete ~70 x 104 pg/µg lysate. (B–G) Present analyses of changes in mRNA expression measured with NanoString Neuroinflammation panel. (B) Volcano plots of wild-type, SLC25A1Δ, and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells (n=3 per genotype) and iPSC-derived astrocytes treated with vehicle or 80 nM antimycin for 48 hr (n=3). Yellow symbols represent upregulated genes in mutant or drug treated cells. (C) mRNA expression of APOE and TBP was expressed as APOE /TADA2B or TBP/TADA2B ratios. TBP and TADA2B are both housekeeping control transcripts One-Way ANOVA followed by Benjamini-Krieger-Yekuiteli multiple comparison corrections (FDR = 5%). (D) Magnitude of compromise of significantly upregulated mRNAs annotated to secreted and mitochondrial proteomes in antimycin-treated astrocytes and compared to all genes present in the Neuroinflammation NanoString panel. p value was calculated with exact hypergeometric probability. (E) Circos plot of shared upregulated hits in SLC25A1Δ, SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells, and iPSC-derived astrocytes treated with 80 nM antimycin. Outside arc represents the identity of each gene list. Inside arc represents a gene list, where each gene member of that list is assigned a spot on the arc. Dark orange color represents genes that are shared by multiple lists and light orange color represents genes that are unique to that gene list. Shared genes are presented by purple lines and different genes that belong to the same functional ontologies are connected by light blue lines. (F) Metascape ontology analysis and clustering of genes upregulated in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ HAP1 cells and iPSC-derived astrocytes treated with 80 nM antimycin. Cumulative hypergeometric p-values.

Figure 6.

Figure 6—figure supplement 1. Human iPSC astrocytes treated with antimycin differ in their gene expression as compared to A1 astrocytes.

Figure 6—figure supplement 1.

We identified four upregulated mRNAs common to these three experimental conditions (Figure 6E, APOE, TSPAN18, PTPN6, and LOX). The number of hits increased to 45 upregulated mRNAs when considering shared functional annotations (Figure 6E). These functional annotations were mostly related to cytokine signaling ontologies (Figure 6F and R -HSA-1280215 and GO:0034097 Log q-value=−25.19 and –18.18). To explore whether the 85 upregulated genes in antimycin-treated astrocytes were part of a neurotoxic A1 reactive astrocyte phenotype associated with neurodegeneration, we compared the fold of induction of these transcripts with the changes in expression of these mRNAs in astrocytes after inflammatory LPS administration to elicit the A1 transcriptional phenotype (Liddelow et al., 2017). There was no correlation in gene expression among these datasets (Figure 6—figure supplement 1). These results suggest that increased expression of APOE induced by disruption of mitochondria co-occurs with inflammatory mechanisms, which are distinct from known expression signatures of reactive astrocytes induced by LPS.

The expression of APOE and respiratory chain subunits are inversely correlated in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Increased expression of APOE coinciding with an inflammatory response is reminiscent of Alzheimer’s pathology. We hypothesized that if the expression of APOE and components of the electron transport chain were to be mechanistically linked, such an association should fulfill two predictions in a preclinical Alzheimer’s brain model. First, there should be an inverse correlation in the protein levels of electron transport chain subunits and APOE if mitochondrial disruption were to induce increased APOE expression in diseased brains. Second, alterations in the levels of electron transport chain subunits should precede an APOE increase in diseased brains. To test this hypothesis, we used the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease that expresses human APP and presenilin 1, encoding five human pathogenic mutations that cause familial Alzheimer’s disease (Oakley et al., 2006). Pathology in these mice progresses with aging, and these transgenes induce age-dependent expression of APOE and inflammatory gene products (Bai et al., 2020; Oakley et al., 2006). We analyzed a cohort of mice of both genotypes from ages 1.8–14.4 months (equally balanced for males and females per group), representing young adults to middle-aged adult mice. Neuropathology begins at 2 months of age while cognitive impairment begins after 4 months of age in the 5xFAD mouse model (Girard et al., 2014; Oakley et al., 2006).

We performed TMT mass spectrometry on the cortex from 86 mice and quantified over 8000 proteins from which we performed an analysis on APOE and 914 Mitocarta 3.0 proteins (Rath et al., 2021), including all subunits of the five complexes of the electron transport chain and 33 of the SLC25A transporters present in mitochondria (Figure 7A). We analyzed whether the expression of brain APOE correlated with the expression of these mitochondrial proteins and determined the effects of age, the 5xFAD genotype, and the interaction of these factors (Figure 7A–C). We measured composite protein abundance of all subunits belonging to each one of the respiratory complexes or composite SLC25An transporter protein abundance by calculating the first principal component of all proteins assigned to the complex or composite (Composite protein abundance, Figure 7D). APOE expression across all ages inversely correlated with the expression of complex I, II, and IV subunits in 5xFAD but not in wild-type animals (Figure 7B–C). We further examined the effects of age and genotype on the expression of APOE (Figure 7D) and all complexes of the electron transport chain (Figure 7D). The expression of respiratory complex subunits varied with age in wild-type animals (Figure 7D, gray symbols). For example, complex I subunits increased to a plateau at 6 months of age in wild-type cortex (Figure 7D, gray symbols). APOE expression remained constant with age in wild-type animals (Figure 7D, gray symbols). However, APOE expression progressively increased sevenfold in 5xFAD animals (Figure 7D, blue symbols), while most electron transport chain complexes decreased their expression with age in 5xFAD animals (Figure 7C–D). We detected a significant decrease in the expression of complex I and one of three mitochondrial Alzheimer’s disease risk factors, COX7C, in 5xFAD cortex (Bellenguez et al., 2022). Importantly, these changes in respiratory chain protein levels preceded the APOE increase observed at 6 months of age in mutant animals (Figure 7D). These results reveal that changes in the expression of complex I and COX7C are followed by later increases in APOE in diseased cortex.

Figure 7. Correlative studies of APOE expression and electron transport chain subunits in an Alzheimer’s mouse model and aging humans.

(A) Protein expression similarity matrix of APOE, complexes I to V (CI-CV) of the electron transport chain, and transporters of the SLC25A family in wild-type and 5xFAD mouse models. Data were obtained by TMT mass spectrometry from mouse cortices. Similarity was calculated with Spearman Rank correlation. (B) Kendall Tau Hierarchical clustering of complex I subunits and APOE across ages and genotypes. (C) Correlation of composite protein abundance for complexes I, II, and IV in wild-type and 5xFAD mouse cortices with APOE levels. (D) Quantification of human A beta 42 peptide, APP, APOE, three mitochondrial Alzheimer’s risk factors (NDUFS3, NDUFAF7, and COX7C), and the composite protein abundance for complex I to V, as well as members of the SLC25A family of mitochondrial transporters in wild-type and 5xFAD mice (grey and blue symbols, respectively). Two-way ANOVA followed by Šídák’s multiple comparisons tests. Factors are age (A), genotype (G), and their statistical interaction (I). Asterisks denote significant differences between genotypes at a defined age. Red asterisks denote the earliest age with differences between genotypes. See Supplementary file 1 for all Mitocarta hits in the 5xFAD mouse study. (E) The SLC25A1 RNAseq, proteome, and interactome correlate with the cognitive trajectory of human subjects. Cytoplasmic and mitochondrial ribosome subunits were used as controls. Graphs depict the correlation between the cognitive trajectory (Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)) in subjects belonging to the Banner collection that were longitudinally followed for an average of 14 years (n=106) (Beach et al., 2015; Wingo et al., 2019). The SLC25A1Δ RNAseq, up and downregulated hits, proteome hits, as well as the SLC25A1 interactome hits principal components were derived by estimating eigenvectors of the expression matrix of protein abundance data. Best-fit regression line drawn in blue and the 99.9% confidence interval for the regression line shaded in gray. No covariate was applied because sex, age at enrollment, and education have been regressed out of cognitive trajectory (Wingo et al., 2019). Blue circles represent males, pink circles represent females (48.1%).

Figure 7.

Figure 7—figure supplement 1. Interactions between SLC25A1 and NDUFS3 and neuronal ontology annotated genes downregulated in SLC25A1 mutant cells.

Figure 7—figure supplement 1.

qRT-PCR quantification of neuronal ontology annotated genes and housekeeping controls (TBP and RPS20) in wild-type and SLC25A1 mutant HAP1 and SH-SY5Y cells. Average ± SEM, One-way ANOVA followed by Holm-Šydák’s multiple correction test. n=3.

SLC25A1-sensitive gene expression correlates with human cognitive trajectory during aging

We asked whether the expression of APOE, electron transport chain subunits, and SLC25A transporters correlates with age-dependent cognition in humans. We analyzed the Banner cohort of 106 individuals, of whom, 104 had normal cognitive performance at the time of enrollment (Beach et al., 2015). These adult brain donors were longitudinally assessed to determine their rate of change of cognitive performance over time (i.e. cognitive trajectory), irrespective of neuropathology. Cognitive trajectory refers to change of performance on the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) over time (Folstein et al., 1975). The donor’s quantitative brain proteomic profiles were obtained postmortem. In this and other cohorts, the expression of mitochondrial proteins, in particular complex I and III subunits, predicts cognitive preservation while proteins annotated to inflammatory ontologies predict a faster cognitive decline (Johnson et al., 2022; Wingo et al., 2019).

We assessed whether brain protein expression levels of gene products differentially expressed in SLC25A1-null cells, such as electron transport chain subunits (Figure 1), correlated with cognitive trajectory in the Banner cohort subjects. We used three differentially expressed gene sets from SLC25A1-null cells: the downregulated SLC25A1Δ transcriptome dataset (Figure 1F), which is enriched in genes associated with neuronal differentiation, axon guidance, and neurotransmission ontologies (Figure 1P); the SLC25A1Δ upregulated mRNAs, which includes APOE and sterol synthesis genes (Figure 1F and P); and the differentially expressed proteins in the SLC25A1Δ TMT proteome (Figure 1B and O). These differentially expressed gene sets were represented by the first principal component of their protein expression levels in each one of the 106 human subjects in the Banner cohort (Figure 7E, PC1).

We confirmed the expression of some of the transcripts present in the downregulated SLC25A1Δ transcriptome by qRT-PCR, both in HAP1 cells and human neuroblastoma cells (Figure 7—figure supplement 1), focusing on genes implicated in neurodevelopment and intellectual disability (Abidi et al., 2002; Akita et al., 2018; Ayalew et al., 2012; Bassani et al., 2012; Becker et al., 2009; Curto et al., 2019; Kröcher et al., 2014; Kury et al., 2017; Lee et al., 2015; Leonardo et al., 1997; Picard et al., 2009; Shoukier et al., 2013; Srivastava et al., 2014; Tsuboyama and Iqbal, 2021; Vawter, 2000; Yan et al., 2018; Portnoï et al., 2000; Zurek et al., 2016). In the Banner cohort, the brain protein expression representing the SLC25A1Δ upregulated mRNAs correlated with an accelerated cognitive decline (r=−0.607, p<1.03e-11, Figure 7E). In contrast, the brain protein expression representing the downregulated mRNAs associated with a slower rate of cognitive decline in the Banner cohort proteomes (r=0.472, p<4.45e-07, Figure 7E). Like the SLC25A1Δ upregulated mRNAs, increased brain expression of the differentially expressed proteins in the SLC25A1Δ TMT proteome (Figure 1B) also correlated with accelerated cognitive decline (r=−0.537, p<4.45e-07, Fig. Figure 7E). The SLC25A1Δ upregulated mRNAs and proteome shared APOE and sterol synthesis as a top ontology (Figure 1O–P). These data suggest that genes and proteins sensitive to SLC25A1 expression regulate cellular processes important for cognition.

We used an orthogonal SLC25A1 dataset obtained from SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells to further test the hypothesis that the network of proteins regulated by SLC25A1 influences cognition. We focused on the SLC25A1 interactome, the proteins that co-precipitate with SLC25A1. We previously identified the SLC25A1 interactome using quantitative mass spectrometry and found that this network of proteins is enriched in some respiratory chain subunits as well as other SLC25A inner mitochondrial membrane transporters (Gokhale et al., 2021). We reasoned that if the SLC25A1 interactome converges on similar biological processes as the SLC25A1Δ proteome or transcriptomes, then the SLC25A1 interactome should also have significant correlations with cognitive trajectory in the Banner cohort. In line with this reasoning, we found that greater expression of proteins belonging to the SLC25A1 interactome strongly correlated with a rapid cognitive decline in the Banner cohort (r=−0.527, p<9.92e-08, Figure 7E). We used as controls the mitochondrial and cytoplasmic ribosomes subunit datasets consisting of ~80 subunits each (MitoCarta 3.0 and CORUM complex #306). The mitochondrial ribosome correlated poorly with cognitive decline in the Banner cohort as compared to the SLC25A1 datasets even though the SLC25A1 interactome dataset was of a similar size to the mitochondrial ribosome dataset (Figure 7E, compare SLC25A1 interactome composed of 75 proteins and mitochondrial ribosome composed of 77 proteins). In addition, the expression of cytoplasmic ribosomal proteins did not correlate with the cognitive trajectory of the Banner subjects (r=−0.24 and p=0.249, Figure 7E). Taken together, our data suggest that a network of mitochondrial proteins, including the respiratory chain and several members of the SLC25A transporter family, regulates APOE expression and other cellular processes modulating cognition during aging.

Discussion

Here, we report our discovery that mutations in nuclear-encoded mitochondrial transporter genes, SLC25A1 and SLC25A4, modify the secretome and mitochondrially annotated proteome to a similar extent. Intriguingly, mutations in either one of these mitochondrial transporters upregulated the expression and secretion of the lipoprotein APOE in diverse cellular systems. We focused on APOE, as it is the main risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, a disease associated with compromised mitochondrial function (Wang et al., 2020). We show that this mitochondrial-dependent APOE upregulation phenotype occurs in response to loss of integrity of the electron transport chain secondary to either SLC25A1 or SLC25A4 mutagenesis. We demonstrate that disruption of the assembly and function of electron transport chain complexes I, III, and IV also increases APOE, arguing that a main initiating event in a cascade that increases APOE levels is the disruption of electron transport chain integrity and function. Both mutations that directly or indirectly compromise the electron transport chain increase APOE levels. For example, genetic disruption of copper loading into complex IV with mutants directly targeting copper loading factors, such as COX17 and COX19, increased APOE levels. A similar APOE phenotype is obtained by indirectly disrupting cellular copper homeostasis at the plasma membrane (SLC31A1 and ATP7A), the mitochondrial inner membrane (SLC25A3), or by pharmacological copper chelation with BCS, all conditions that affect complex IV (Boulet et al., 2018; Cobine et al., 2021; Guthrie et al., 2020). The mitochondrial protein network modulating APOE expression includes proteins encoded by prioritized genes within Alzheimer’s disease risk loci necessary for electron transport chain complex I assembly and function (de Rojas et al., 2021; Kunkle et al., 2019). Furthermore, we show that this mitochondrial regulation of APOE expression extends to brain cells, iPSC-derived human astrocytes, and co-occurs with an inflammatory gene expression response. Together, our data demonstrate that mitochondria robustly regulate APOE expression and secretion, placing them in a novel position upstream of APOE. We propose that this mitochondria-to-APOE mechanism may operate in the pathogenesis of dementia, a proposition supported by our protein expression correlation studies in mouse Alzheimer’s brains and aging human brains.

Our results support the idea that there are other intramitochondrial mechanisms connecting mitochondria to APOE expression and secretion beyond the loss of integrity of the electron transport chain. Mutagenesis of the mitochondrial carnitine transporter SLC25A20 also upregulated APOE, despite these cells respiring normally and having wild-type levels of respiratory chain subunits. Similarly, mutagenesis of a cytosolic enzyme that controls the synthesis of acetyl-CoA using citrate as a substrate, ACLY, also increases APOE expression (Figure 5—figure supplement 4). Thus, we postulate that in addition to the integrity of the electron transport chain, there are other mitochondrial and cytoplasmic mechanisms regulating APOE expression.

We tested several alternative hypotheses that could account for a link between mitochondrial dysfunction and heightened nuclear expression of APOE. We measured the rates of oxygen consumption and extracellular acidification, the latter as a proxy for glycolysis (Zhang and Zhang, 2019). We found that while the oxygen consumption rate negatively correlated with APOE levels, the rate of extracellular acidification did not correlate with APOE expression (Figure 5). These observations make it unlikely that glycolytic adaptations in the mitochondrial mutants used in our studies could account for the APOE phenotype. We also assessed whether decreased cytoplasmic ATP levels led to APOE upregulation. The AMPK pathway senses drops in ATP cytoplasmic levels and coordinates a response to increase ATP generation when cellular energy is depleted (Herzig and Shaw, 2018). If decreased ATP levels mediate increased APOE protein levels, SLC25A1-null cells should display activation of the AMPK pathway at baseline. We found that, while SLC25A1-null cells are sensitized to respond to an AMPK-activating drug, the pathway is minimally active in the cells at baseline (Figure 5—figure supplement 5). This aligns with our previous finding that ATP levels between SLC25A1-null and wild-type cells do not differ (Gokhale et al., 2019). A second possible mechanism is that APOE expression is a coordinated response with an upregulation of cholesterol synthesis via SREBP transcription factors (Horton et al., 2002). We found that SLC25A1-null HAP1 cells had increased expression of cholesterol synthesis pathway enzymes, accompanied by elevated free cholesterol and cholesterol esters, consistent with SREBP transcription factor activation. However, these phenotypes were not shared by SLC25A1-null neuroblastoma cells or SLC25A4-null cells, even though these cells also displayed increased APOE expression and secretion (Figure 2). Thus, increased APOE resulting from mitochondrial dysfunction is not dependent on cholesterol synthesis pathways. A third mitochondria-to-nucleus pathway we investigated is mediated by activation of transcription factors ATF4 and CHOP (Quirós et al., 2017). These factors control the expression of mitokines in response to mitochondrial stress as part of the integrated stress response transcriptional pathway (Chung et al., 2017; Kim et al., 2013). Administration of doxycycline to trigger the stress response mounted an appropriate transcriptional response (Quirós et al., 2017) in both wild-type and SLC25A1-null cells (Figure 5—figure supplement 5), although this response was somewhat blunted in the mutant cells, even at baseline (Figure 5—figure supplement 5). Despite stress response activation, cellular and secreted levels of APOE protein were unaffected besides a mild increase in secretion in the SLC25A1-null cells (Figure 5—figure supplement 5). Furthermore, FCCP, also a potent activator of the mitochondrial stress response (Quirós et al., 2017) failed to induce APOE expression in HAP1 cells, even though inhibition of either complexes I or V with piericidin A or oligomycin increased APOE levels (Figure 3—figure supplement 2). Thus, the ATF4-dependent stress response alone cannot account for elevated APOE expression and secretion. A fourth mechanism that could account for the increased APOE expression is dependent on redox imbalance. We think this mechanism is unlikely because the antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine decreased the expression of the mitochondrial glutathione-disulfide reductase in both wild-type and SLC25A1-null cells, but it did not change APOE mRNA levels (Figure 5—figure supplement 5). Finally, we looked for transcriptional signatures in the SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 upregulated transcriptomes and found neither common predicted transcription factors that could account for the changes in gene expression in both genotypes, nor transcription factors known to regulate APOE transcription such as LXRs or C/EBPβ (Fig. S6C) (Laffitte et al., 2001; Xia et al., 2021). We suggest that a screen targeting large swaths of the genome in astrocytes and mutant cell lines used in this study would be an effective method for uncovering further mechanisms by which mitochondria contribute to APOE expression regulation.

Our findings expand previous work demonstrating that mitochondrial distress regulates the secretion of inflammatory cytokines and type I interferons (Dhir et al., 2018; Riley and Tait, 2020; Shimada et al., 2012; West et al., 2015), the growth factor mitokines GDF15 and FGF21 (Chung et al., 2017; Kim et al., 2013), the production of mitochondrially-derived peptides encoded in the mitochondrial genome (Kim et al., 2017), and alpha fetoprotein in hepatocytes (Jett et al., 2022). Our study makes two key contributions expanding on these non-cell autonomous mechanisms. First, we identified the first apolipoprotein whose expression and secretion is modulated by mutations affecting mitochondria. Second, while we focus on APOE, we think this apolipoprotein is a harbinger of an extended upregulation of the secreted proteome mediated by mitochondria (Uhlén et al., 2019). The importance of this secreted proteome change can be inferred from its extent and magnitude, which is on par with the changes we observed in the mitochondrially annotated proteome. Our findings add to the growing notion that mitochondrial regulation of the secreted proteome is a more common process than previously appreciated (Jett et al., 2022; Sturm et al., 2023). We asked whether the APOE increase may be part of an inflammatory response by using NanoString mRNA quantification to assess the levels of activity of interleukin and interferon pathways in SLC25A1Δ and SLC25A4Δ cells and antimycin-treated astrocytes. Although SLC25A4Δ cells had a paucity of significant hits compared with SLC25A1Δ cells and antimycin-treated astrocytes, we found that all three experimental conditions converged on common hits whose number increased when considering hits belonging to shared ontologies. All cells showed increased levels of secreted cytokines and gene ontologies associated with their transcriptional profiles were enriched for cytokine signaling pathways. Thus, our data suggest that APOE upregulation in response to mitochondrial dysfunction could be part of an inflammatory response initiated by mitochondria. Although mitochondria are often viewed as downstream targets of neuroinflammation, our results with antimycin-treated astrocytes add to growing evidence that mitochondria drive inflammatory signaling in the nervous system (Bader and Winklhofer, 2020; Joshi et al., 2019; Lin et al., 2022).

What role does increasing APOE expression and secretion in response to mitochondrial dysfunction serve for the cell? Increased APOE secretion induced by mitochondrial damage could be adaptive or maladaptive depending on the lipidation and contents of APOE. APOE-mediated lipid exchange between cells can alter the lipid microenvironments of cellular membranes, thereby influencing cell signaling and homeostasis (Martens et al., 2022; Tambini et al., 2016). APOE is a primary lipoprotein in the brain produced mainly by astrocytes, though neurons and other glia also express APOE (Belloy et al., 2019; Martens et al., 2022). APOE particles play necessary roles in handling toxic lipids by shuttling them between cell types, with differential effects depending on the cell type from which the APOE particle originated, the lipid species loaded in the particle, and the fate of the lipid-loaded particle (Guttenplan et al., 2021; Ioannou et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2017). We speculate that either APOE-dependent removal of toxic factors from SLC25A1 mutant cells, or wild-type conditioned media delivering a factor missing from SLC25A1 mutant media, could explain our finding that dialyzed conditioned media from SLC25A1 mutant cells cannot support their own growth. Astrocytes play a prominent role in carrying and processing toxic lipids in the brain through APOE-dependent mechanisms. Since we observed increased APOE secretion in astrocytes, but not neurons, in response to antimycin, we speculate that APOE released from astrocytes following antimycin administration may not sustain either astrocytes and/or neurons. Profiling the contents of antimycin-induced APOE particles released from astrocytes could further clarify their potential impact on the function and health of neighboring cells.

The APOE E4 allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease and APOE, along with amyloidogenic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) into Aβ, is thought of as an initiating and driving factor in disease etiology (Frisoni et al., 2022; Huang and Mahley, 2014; Mahley, 2023; Martens et al., 2022). While mitochondrial dysfunction is acknowledged as an important factor in Alzheimer’s disease, mitochondria are typically placed downstream of Aβ and APOE, with Aβ or the APOE4 allele perturbing mitochondrial function (Area-Gomez et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2011; Mahley, 2023; Orr et al., 2019; Tambini et al., 2016; Yin et al., 2020). Some have proposed that mitochondria act as upstream factors in Alzheimer’s pathogenesis through metabolic and bioenergetic effects (Rangaraju et al., 2018; Swerdlow, 2018; Wang et al., 2020). We argue that mitochondria could also participate in Alzheimer’s pathogenesis through modulation of APOE allele-dependent mechanisms. The increased expression of APOE, which is inversely correlated with the expression of respiratory chain subunits in the 5xFAD mouse model, supports this proposition (Figure 7). For example, increased expression of APOE E4 downstream of mitochondrial dysfunction could either initiate or exacerbate the effects of the APOE4 allele in neurodegenerative processes, since APOE4 is prone to aggregation and poor lipidation (Gong et al., 2002; Hatters et al., 2006; Hubin et al., 2019). Our findings open the possibility that mitochondria could act as initiators or drivers of Alzheimer’s pathogenesis through modulation of APOE-dependent disease processes. The correlation of expression levels in the prefrontal cortex of proteins dysregulated in the SLC25A1 proteome and transcriptome with human cognitive trajectory provides evidence for this conception. Together, our work supports the idea that mitochondria influence brain function and cognition in part through modulation of the secretome, including a novel role in regulation of APOE expression and secretion.

Materials and methods

Cell lines, gene editing, and culture conditions

Human haploid (HAP1) isogenic cell lines were obtained from Horizon Discovery. In addition to the parental wild-type line (C631, RRID: CVCL_Y019), the following CRISPR/Cas9-edited knockout cell lines were used: SLC25A1 (HZGHC001753c010, RRID: CVCL_TM05 and HZGHC001753c003, RRID: CVCL_TM04), SLC25A3 (HZGHC000792c010, RRID:CVCL_TM31), SLC25A4 (HZGHC000778c011, RRID:CVCL_TM45), SLC25A20 (HZGHC000787c00, RRID:CVCL_TM21), SLC25A50/MTCH2 (HZGHC23788), NDUFS3 (HZGHC4722, RRID:CVCL_XQ89), NDUFAF7 (HZGHC55471), PARK2 (HZGHC003208c002, RRID:CVCL_TC07), and ACLY (HZGHC005811c011, RRID: CVCL_SB23 and HZGHC005811c002, RRID: CVCL_XK97). All HAP1 cells were grown in IMDM (Corning 10–016) with 10% Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) (VWR, 97068–085) in a 10% CO2 incubator at 37 °C, unless otherwise indicated. In experiments where a single clone of SLC25A1-null cells was used, the cell line HZGHC001753c010 (RRID: CVCL_TM05) was used. In experiments where a single clone of ACLY-null cells was used, the cell line HZGHC005811c002 (RRID: CVCL_XK97) was used. For each knockout cell line, an individual control line of the HAP1 parental line that was received with the particular knockout line was used. Mutants and their unique control line were cultured and handled as parallel pairs to avoid passage- and culture-induced variation.

Human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells (ATCC, CRL-2266; RRID:CVCL_0019) were grown in DMEM media (Corning, 10–013) containing 10% FBS (VWR, 97068–085) at 37 °C in 10% CO2, unless otherwise indicated. SH-SY5Y cells deficient in SLC31A1 were genome edited using gRNA and Cas9 preassembled complexes by Synthego with a knock-out efficiency of 97%. The gRNAs used were UUGGUGAUCAAUACAGCUGG which targeted transcript ENST00000374212.5 exon 3. Wild-type and mutant cells were cloned by limited dilution and mutagenesis was confirmed by Sanger sequencing with the primer: 5’GGTGGGGGCCTAGTAGAATA. SH-SY5Y cells deficient in ATP7A were genome edited by Synthego using gRNA and Cas9 preassembled complexes with a knock-out efficiency of 80%. The gRNAs used were ACAGACUCCAAAGACCCUAC which targeted transcript ENST00000341514 exon 3. Wild-type and mutant cells were cloned by limited dilution and mutagenesis was confirmed by Sanger sequencing with the primer: 5’TGCCTGATAGGTACCACAGTC. SH-SY5Y cells deficient in Cox17 were genome edited by Synthego using gRNA and Cas9 preassembled complexes with a knock-out efficiency of 94%. The gRNAs used were CCAAGAAGGCGCGCGAUGCG which targeted transcript ENST00000261070 exon 1. Wild-type and mutant cells were cloned by limited dilution and mutagenesis was confirmed by Sanger sequencing with the primer: 5’AGGCCCAATAATTATCTCCAGAGC. The Cox17-deficient cells were supplemented with 50 µg/ml uridine (Sigma, U3003) in their growth media. SH-SY5Y cells deficient in SLC25A1 were genome edited by Synthego using gRNA and Cas9 preassembled complexes with a knock-out efficiency of 86%. The gRNAs used were GGGTTCCCGGTCCCTGCAGG which targeted transcript ENST00000215882 exon 2. Wild-type and mutant cells were cloned by limited dilution and mutagenesis was confirmed by Sanger sequencing with the primer: 5’GATGGAACCGTAGAGCAGGG. For each mutant cell line, an individual control line of the SH-SY5Y parental line that was received with the particular mutant line was used. In APOE protein measurement immunoassays, two separate clones of cells were used to exclude clonal or off-target effects.

ATP7A LL cells contained a di-leucine mutation generated by introducing alanine in L1750 and 1751 by the Emory Genomics Core into the SH-SY5Y ATP7A CRISPR KO cells. HA-tagged ATP7A cDNA in pQCXIP backbone vector was provided by Dr. Michael Petris. SH-SY5Y ATP7A LL and empty vector expressing cells were generated by transfecting ATP7A KO10 cells with lipofectamine 3000 (Invitrogen). Selection was started after 24 hr with 0.5 µg/ml Puromycin (Gibco). Growth of clones was boosted by supplementing the media with 1 µM Copper until sufficient cells grew to freeze down and passage well. All ATP7A and SLC31A1 KO cells were validated by measuring copper content using ICP mass spectrometry.

HEK293 ANT1 single knockout, ANT triple knockout and their wild-type control cells were grown in DMEM containing 10% FBS, supplemented with 2 mM L-glutamine (HyClone, SH30034.01), 100 µg/ml zeocin (Gibco, R25001), and 15 µg/ml Blasticidin S (Sigma, SBR00022). The ANT1, ANT2, ANT3 triple knockout cells were additionally supplemented with 1 mM sodium pyruvate (Sigma, S8636) and 50 µg/ml uridine (Sigma, U3003). gRNAs that targeted ANT1, ANT2, and ANT3 were separately cloned into PX459, a gift from Feng Zhang (Addgene). gRNA sequences are GATGGGCGCTACCGCCGTCT (for ANT1), GGGGAAGTAACGGATCACGT (for ANT2), CGGCCGTGGCTCCGATCGAG (for ANT3), respectively. TREx 293 cells (Invitrogen R71007) were transfected with the PX459 constructs individually in order of ANT3, ANT2, and ANT1. Cell lines lacking only ANT1 were transfected once only with the ANT1 PX459 construct. Following each transfection, cells were selected with puromycin (2 µg/ml) for 72 hr, single clones were isolated by ring cloning and the absence of the protein expression was analyzed by immunoblotting before proceeding to the next transfection.

HEK293 cells knockout cell lines for HIGD1A, COX7A2L, COX18, COX19, and COX20 and their control cell line were grown in DMEM media (Corning, 10–013) containing 10% FBS (VWR, 97068–085), 50 µg/ml uridine (Sigma, U3003), and 1 x GlutaMAX (Gibco, 35050061) at 37 °C in 10% CO2. Details about the generation of the cell lines using TALEN can be found in Nývltová et al., 2022 (Nývltová et al., 2022, COX19), Bourens and Barrientos, 2017 (Bourens and Barrientos, 2017, COX18), Lobo-Jarne et al., 2018 (Lobo-Jarne et al., 2018, COX7A2L), (Timón-Gómez et al., 2020a, HIGD1A), and (Bourens and Barrientos, 2017, COX20).

This work used cell lines which were obtained from ATCC and Horizon Discovery. Cell lines were authenticated by provider and were tested to be free of mycoplasma in house.

Antibodies

Antibody Dilution Cat.No RRID
ACTIN 1:5000 A5441 AB_476744
AMPK 1:1000 2532 S AB_330331
APOE 1:250 60531 AB_920623
COX4 1:1000 4850 AB_2085424
FLAG 1:1000 A190-102A AB_67407
HSP90 1:1000 610418 AB_397798
HSP90 1:1000 610418 AB_397798
mouse HRP 1:5000 A10668 AB_2534058
MT-ATP6 1:500 55313–1-AP AB_2881305
MTCO2 1:1000 AB110258 AB_10887758
NDUFB11 1:1000 ab183716
NDUFS3 1:200 15066–1-AP AB_2151109
OXPHOS mix 1:250 ab110412 AB_2847807
P-AMPK 1:1000 2535T AB_331250
rabbit HRP 1:5000 G21234 AB_2536530
SDHA 1:1000 11998 AB_2750900
SLC25A1 1:500 15235–1-AP AB_2297856
TFRC 1:1000 13–6800 AB_86623
UQCRC2 1:500 ab 14745 AB_2213640
Antibody Dilution Cat.No RRID
SDHA 1:1000 11998 AB_2750900
SLC25A1 1:500 15235–1-AP AB_2297856
HSP90 1:1000 610418 AB_397798
MT-ATP6 1:500 55313–1-AP AB_2881305
MTCO2 1:1000 AB110258 AB_10887758
TFRC 1:1000 13–6800 AB_86623
ACTIN 1:5000 A5441 AB_476744
COX4 1:1000 4850 AB_2085424
OXPHOS mix 1:250 ab110412 AB_2847807
NDUFS3 1:200 15066–1-AP AB_2151109
UQCRC2 1:500 ab 14745 AB_2213640
HSP90 1:1000 610418 AB_397798
APOE 1:250 60531 AB_920623
AMPK 1:1000 2532 S AB_330331
P-AMPK 1:1000 2535T AB_331250
FLAG 1:1000 A190-102A AB_67407
mouse HRP 1:5000 A10668 AB_2534058
rabbit HRP 1:5000 G21234 AB_2536530

Primers

Primer Forward Sequence Reverse Sequence
ACAT2 CCCAGAACAGGACAGAGAATG AGCTTGGACATGGCTTCTATG
ACLY CTCACTAAGCCCATCGTCTG TCCTTCAAAGCCTGGTTCTTG
APOE TGGGTCGCTTTTGGGATTAC TTCAACTCCTTCATGGTCTCG
ASNS ATCACTGTCGGGATGTACCC TGATAAAAGGCAGCCAATCC
ATF3 GGAGCCTGGAGCAAAATGATG AGGGCGTCAGGTTAGCAAAA
ATF4 CAGCAAGGAGGATGCCTTCT CCAACAGGGCATCCAAGTC
ATF5 GAGCCCCTGGCAGGTGAT CAGAGGGAGGAGAGCTGTGAA
CAMK2B CAGCCAGAGATCACCAGAAG CACCAGTGACCAGATCGAAG
CHAC1 GTGGTGACGCTCCTTGAAGA TTCAGGGCCTTGCTTACCTG
CHL1 ATGGCTCCCCAGTTGACA TGATTTGGTTGAAGGTTGGTAA
CHOP AGCCAAAATCAGAGCTGGAA TGGATCAGTCTGGAAAAGCA
GABRA5 CCTCCATATTCACCTGCTTCA CTGGTTGGCATCTGTGAAAAG
GABRB2 ACTCAGAATCACAACCACAGC CCACGCCAGTAAAACTCAATG
GSR TTCCAGATGTTGACTGCCTG GCCTTTGACGTTGGTATTCTG
HMGCR ACAGATACTTGGGAATGCAGAG CTGTCGGCGAATAGATACACC
LDLR TTCACTCCATCTCAAGCATCG ACTGAAAATGGCTTCGTTGATG
MSMO1 TGAACTTCATTGGAAACTATGCTTC TCTTTCAGGAAGGTTTACGTGAG
NCAM1 TTGTTTTTCCTGGGAACTGC ACTCTCCAACGCTGATCTCC
NRG2 CACTCCTGTTCTCCTTCTCAC TTTGCTGGTACCCACTGATG
PCBP1 AAGACTTGACCACGTAACGAG ATGCTTCCTACTTCCTTTCCG
PCK2 CATCCGAAAGCTCCCCAAGT GCTCTCTACTCGTGCCACAT
RER1 CTTTCTTCGACGCTTTCAACG CTGTACCTTCTCTTCCCATGTG
RPS20 TGCTGACTTGATAAGAGGCG GATCCCACGTCTTAGAACCTTC
SLC13A5 AGAGGTTGTGTAAGGCCATG AGCAAAGTTCACGAGGTCC
SLC25A20 AGAAGCTGTACCAGGAGTTTG ACTGACCCTCTTTCCCTCC
ST8SIA4 CATTAGGAAGAGGTGGACGATC AGAGCTATTGACAAGTGACCG
TBP GAGAGTTCTGGGATTGTACCG ATCCTCATGATTACCGCAGC
TRPC3 CAAATGCAGAAGGAGAAGGC CGTGTTGGCTGATTGAGAATG
TSPAN7 CCTTATTGCCGAGAACTCCAC ACACCAGGGACAGAAACATG
UNC5A CTGTACCAGTGACCTCTGTG AAACGAGGATGAGGACAAGC
VAMP2 TCATCTTGGGAGTGATTTGCG GGGCTGAAAGATATGGCTGAG
WARS TCAGCAACTCATTCCCACAG GCAGGGCTGGTTTAGGATAG

Generation of iNeurons from human iPSCs

Accutase (Gibco, A11105) was used to disassociate iPSC cells. On day –2, the cells were plated on a 12-well plate coated in matrigel (Corning, 354230) in mTeSR medium (StemCell Technologies, 85850) at a density of at 380,000 cells per well. On day −1, hNGN2 lentivirus (TetO-hNGN2-P2A-PuroR (RRID: Addgene_79049) or TetO-hNGN2-P2A-eGFP-T2A-PuroR (RRID: Addgene_79823)) together with FUdeltaGW-rtTA (RRID: Addgene_19780) lentivirus were added in fresh mTeSR medium containing 4 μg/μl polybrene (Sigma, TR-1003). The lentiviruses were added at 1×106 pfu/ml per plasmid (multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 2). On day 0, the culture medium was replaced with fresh KSR, consisting of KnockOut DMEM (Gibco, 10829018), Knockout Replacement Serum (Gibco, 10828028), 1 X Glutamax (Gibco, 35050061), 1 X MEM Non-essential Amino Acids (NEAA, Gibco, 11140050) and 100 μM β-Mercaptoethanol (Gibco, 21985023). In addition, 2 μg/ml doxycycline (Sigma, D9891) was added to the media, inducing TetO gene expression. Doxycycline was retained in the medium until the end of the experiment. Puromycin selection (5 μg/ml) was started on day 1. On day 4, the culture medium was replaced with Neurobasal medium (Gibco, 21103049), supplemented with B27 supplement (Gibco, 17504044), 1 X Glutamax, 20% Dextrose (Sigma, D9434), 10 ng/ml BDNF (Peprotech, 45002), 10 ng/ml GDNF (PeproTech, 45010), 2 μg/ml doxycycline (Sigma, D9891) and 5 μg/mL puromycin (InvivoGen, ant-pr-1). Beginning on day 7, half of the medium in each well was replaced every week. On day 24, hNGN2-induced neurons were assayed (Zhang et al., 2013).

Differentiation of iPSCs into forebrain-specific neural progenitors and astrocytes

One hour of 1 mg/ml collagenase (Therm Fisher Scientific, 17104019) treatment was used to detach iPSC colonies. Following collagenase treatment, cells were suspended in embryoid body (EB) medium in non-treated polystyrene plates for 7 days. During this time, the medium was changed daily. EB medium consisted of DMEM/F12 (Gibco, 11330032), 20% Knockout Serum Replacement (Gibo, 10828028), 1 X Glutamax (Gibco, 35050061), 1 X MEM Non-essential Amino Acids (NEAA, Gibco, 11140050), 100 μM β-Mercaptoethanol (Gibco, 21985023), 2 μM dorsomorphin (Tocris, 3093) and 2 μM A-83 (Tocris, 692). After 7 days, EB medium was replaced by neural induction medium (hNPC medium), consisting of DMEM/F12, 1 X N2 supplement (Gibco, 17502048), B27 supplement, 1 X NEAA, 1 X Glutamax, 2 μg/ml heparin (Sigma) and 2 μM cyclopamine (Tocris, 1623). On day 7, the floating EBs were then transferred to Matrigel-coated six-well plates to form neural tube-like rosettes. The attached rosettes were kept for 15 days. During this time, the hNPC media of the rosettes was changed every other day. On day 22, the rosettes were picked mechanically and transferred to low attachment plates (Corning) in hNPC medium containing B27 supplement.

For astrocyte differentiation (Tcw et al., 2017), resuspended neural progenitor spheres were disassociated with accutase at 37 °C for 10 min. After disassociation, they were placed on Matrigel-coated six-well plates. Forebrain NPCs were maintained at high density in hNPC medium. To differentiate NPCs to astrocytes, disassociated single cells were seeded at a density of 15,000 cells/cm2 on Matrigel-coated plates and grown in astrocyte medium (ScienCell: 1801, astrocyte medium (1801-b), 2% fetal bovine serum (0010), astrocyte growth supplement (1852) and 10 U/ml penicillin/streptomycin solution (0503)). From day 2, cells were fed every 48 hr for 20–30 days. Astrocytes were split when the cells reached 90–95% confluency (approximately every 6–7 days) and seeded again at their initial seeding density (15,000 cells/cm2) as single cells in astrocyte medium.

Seahorse metabolic oximetry

Extracellular flux analysis was performed on the Seahorse XFe96 Analyzer (Seahorse Bioscience) following manufacturer recommendations. HAP1 cells and SH-SY5Y cells were seeded at a density of 40,000 cells/well and HEK293 cells were seeded at a density of 20,000 cells/well on Seahorse XF96 V3-PS Microplates (Agilent Technologies, 101085–004) after being trypsinized and counted (Bio-Rad TC20 automated Cell Counter) All Hap1 cells were grown in normal growth media (IMDM) with 10% FBS except for Ndufaf7-null cells and their control line, which were also supplemented with uridine at 50 µg/ml (Sigma, U3003). SH-SY5Y cells were grown in normal growth media (DMEM) with 10% FBS, except for COX17-deficient cells and their control line, which were also supplemented with uridine at 50 µg/ml (Sigma, U3003). XFe96 extracellular flux assay kit probes (Agilent Technologies, 102416–100) incubated with the included manufacturer calibration solution overnight at 37 °C without CO2 injection. The following day, wells were washed twice in Seahorse stress test media. The stress test media consisted of Seahorse XF base media (Agilent Technologies, 102353–100) with the addition of 2 mM L-glutamine (HyClone,SH30034.01), 1 mM sodium pyruvate (Sigma, S8636), and 10 mM D-glucose (Sigma, G8769). After washes, cells incubated at 37 °C without CO2 injection for approximately 1 hr prior to the stress test. During this time, flux plate probes were loaded and calibrated. After calibration, the flux plate containing calibrant solution was exchanged for the Seahorse cell culture plate and equilibrated. Seahorse injection ports were filled with 10-fold concentrated solution of oligomycin A (Sigma, 75351), carbonyl cyanide-4-(trifluoromethoxy)phenylhydrazone (FCCP; Sigma, C2920), and rotenone (Sigma, R8875) mixed with antimycin A (Sigma, A8674) for final testing conditions of oligomycin (1.0 μM), FCCP (0.125 μM for Hap1 and HEK293, 0.25 μM for SH-SY5Y), rotenone (0.5 μM), and antimycin A (0.5 μM). In antimycin A sensitivity experiments, a separate solution of antimycin A was made at 100 nm and 50 nm concentrations to give a concentration of 10 nm and 5 nm in the well. In bongkrekic acid (BKA) sensitivity experiments, ready-made BKA solution (Sigma, B6179) was added to seahorse media to obtain solutions at at 25 μM and 50 μM, giving a final concentration of 0.25 μM and 0.5 μM in the well. Seahorse drugs were dissolved in DMSO and diluted in Seahorse stress test media for the Seahorse protocol. The flux analyzer protocol included three basal read cycles and three reads following injection of oligomycin A, FCCP, and rotenone plus antimycin A. In antimycin sensitivity experiments, antimycin A was injected following the basal read cycles and ten reads were taken before the protocol proceeded as usual with injections of oligomycin A, FCCP, and rotenone plus antimycin A. Each read cycle included a 3 min mix cycle followed by a 3 min read cycle where oxygen consumption rate was determined over time. In all experiments, oxygen consumption rate readings in each well were normalized by protein concentration in the well. Protein concentration was measured using the Pierce BCA Protein Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, 23227) according to manufacturer protocol. The BCA assay absorbance was read by a BioTek Synergy HT microplate reader using Gen5 software. For data analysis of oxygen consumption rates, the Seahorse Wave Software version 2.2.0.276 was used. Experiments were repeated at least in triplicate. Non-mitochondrial respiration was determined as the lowest oxygen consumption rate following injection of rotenone plus antimycin A. Basal respiration was calculated from the oxygen consumption rate just before oligomycin injection minus the non-mitochondrial respiration. Non-mitochondrial respiration was determined as the lowest oxygen consumption rate following injection of rotenone plus antimycin A. ATP-dependent respiration was calculated as the difference in oxygen consumption rates just before oligomycin injection to the minimum oxygen consumption rate following oligomycin injection but before FCCP injection. Maximal respiration was calculated as the maximum oxygen consumption rate of the three readings following FCCP injection minus non-mitochondrial respiration.

Electrochemiluminescent immunoassays for APOE protein measurement

HAP1, SH-SY5Y, and HEK293 cells were plated in six-well dishes (Falcon, 353046). Each experimental condition was plated in three or four replicate wells. iPSC neurons and astrocytes were plated in 24-well dishes and grown to approximately 80% confluence. For iPSC cells, eight wells were used for each experimental condition and material from two wells was combined to generate an experimental replicate. For experiments where there was no drug treatment, cells were left overnight and samples were collected 22–26 hr later. In these experiments, Hap1 cells were plated at a density of 750,000 cells per well and SHYSY5Y and HEK293 cells were plated at a density of 1,000,000 cells per well. In experiments with doxycycline (Sigma, D9891) or BKA (Sigma, B6179), cells were left incubating for 46–50 hr in drug or vehicle (cell culture grade water for doxycycline or 0.01 M Tris buffer at pH 7.5 for BKA) before sample collection, with fresh drug and vehicle media applied after approximately 24 hr. In these experiments, Hap1 cells were plated at a density of 300,000 cells per well and SH-SY5Y cells were plated at a density of 500,000 cells per well. In experiments with E-64 (Sigma E8640), brefeldin A (BFA, Sigma B6542) and cycloheximide (CHX, Thermo Scientific AC357420010), HAP1 cells were plated at a density of 750,000 cells/well in and left to grow overnight. The following day, growth media was exchanged for media containing the drug or vehicle (DMSO) and the cells were left for 8 hr before collection of the conditioned media and cell lysis. The following drug concentrations were used: E-64–50 μm, BFA – 5 μg/mL, CHX – 20 μg/mL.

To collect samples of cell lysate and conditioned media, cells were washed twice with ice-cold PBS containing 0.1 mM CaCl2 and 1.0 mM MgCl2, and then lysed on a rocker at 4 °C in Buffer A (10 mM HEPES, 0.15 M NaCl, 1 mM EGTA, and 100 μM MgCl2)+0.5% Triton X-100 containing 10% protease inhibitor cocktail cOmplete (Roche, 118614500, prepared at 50 x in distilled water). The lysis was spun down at 4 °C at 13,000 rpm for 20 min. The supernatant was collected and flash frozen for APOE protein measurement. Conditioned media was spun down at 4 °C at 13,000 rpm for 15 min to clarify before collecting and flash freezing for APOE protein measurement. Growth media unexposed to cells was incubated and collected in the same manner to serve as a control for APOE present in the media that might be detected by the antibody. Cell lysis and media samples were stored at –80 °C for up to a month before APOE was measured. Media was spun down again at 4°C, 2000rpm for 5 min to get rid of any precipitate after thawing. APOE measurements were conducted by the Emory Immunoassay Core facility using electrochemiluminescent detection of the APOE antibody (Meso Scale Diagnostics, F212I) according to manufacturer protocols with the suggested reagents (Diluent 37 (R50A), MSD GOLD Read Buffer A (R92TG), and MSD GOLD 96-well Small Spot Streptavidin SECTOR Plates (L45SA-1)). Samples were not diluted for the electrochemiluminescence protocol (Chikkaveeraiah et al., 2012; Gaiottino et al., 2013).

Conditioned media dialysis

HAP1 SLC25A1-null cells and their control cell line were grown for approximately 48 hr to confluency before collecting their media. The conditioned media was spun down for 5 min at 800 g and 4 °C and then filtered with a syringe and 0.22 μm filter (Millipore, SLGV033RS) and stored at 4 °C for no more than three days before being applied to cells. Conditioned media was dialyzed using 10 K molecular weight cutoff cassettes (Thermo Scientific, 88252) according to manufacturer instructions. Cassettes were dialyzed three times consecutively with the volume in the cassette to the naive media (IMDM, Corning 10–016) being 1:1000. The media was exchanged after 3 hr of dialysis for each cycle, with the final dialysis cycle occurring overnight. The dialyzed media was collected the next morning and stored at 4 °C for no more than 3 days before being applied to cells. Viability of cells exposed to the conditioned media was assessed using an Alamar blue assay. For Alamar blue cell viability, HAP1 cells were plated at a density of 2000 cells/well in a 96-well plate and allowed to adhere for 30 min in normal growth media, IMDM (Corning 10–016) with 10% FBS, before this media was swapped out with conditioned media (dialyzed or undialyzed) collected previously. Cells grew in conditioned media for approximately 48 hr, with fresh conditioned media being put on after approximately 24 hr. After 48 hr, viability was measured with the BioTek Synergy HT plate reader using Gen5 software after a 2-hr incubation in Alamar blue (R&D Systems, AR002). Wells without cells and incubated in Alamar blue were used as a background reading.

RNA extraction, cDNA preparation, and qPCR

In all experiments, cell growth media was changed approximately 24 hr before RNA extraction occurred. At least three replicate plates per experimental condition were used in each experiment. For experiments with doxycycline (Sigma, D9891) and N-Acetyl-L-cysteine (Sigma, A9165), cells incubated in the drug or vehicle (cell culture grade water, Corning 25–055) for 48 hr and fresh drug or vehicle was applied in new media 24 hr before RNA extraction. Doxycycline was applied at 9.75 μM and N-Acetyl-L-cysteine was applied at 2 mM. RNA was extracted from cells using Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, 15596026). Cells were washed twice in ice-cold PBS containing 0.1 mM CaCl2 and 1.0 mM MgCl2 and then 1 ml of Trizol was added to the samples. A cell scraper was used before collecting the sample into a tube. The samples in Trizol incubated for 10 min at room temperature on an end-to-end rotator and then 200 µl of chloroform was added to each tube. After vigorous vortexing and a brief incubation, the chloroform mixture was centrifuged at 13,000 rpm at 4 °C for 15 min. The aqueous layer was collected and 500 µl of isopropanol was added to it. The isopropanol mixture then rotated for 10 min at room temperature, followed by centrifugation at 13,000 rpm for 15 min at 4 °C. The supernatant was discarded and the remaining pellet was washed with freshly prepared 75% ethanol in Milli-Q purified water using a brief vortex to lift the pellet. After washing, the pellet in ethanol was centrifuged again for 5 min at 13,000 rpm at 4 °C. The ethanol was aspirated and the pellet was allowed to air dry. Lastly, the pellet was dissolved in 20–50 µl of molecular grade RNAase-free water and stored overnight at –20 °C before the concentration and purity were checked using the Nanodrop OneC (Thermo Fisher Scientific). cDNA was synthesized using 5 µg RNA as a template per reaction with the Superscript III First Strand Synthesis System Kit (Invitrogen, 18080–051) and its provided random hexamers. RNA was incubated with the random hexamers and dNTPs at 65 °C for 5 min. The samples were then placed on ice while a cDNA synthesis mix was prepared according to the kit instructions. The cDNA synthesis mix was added to each of the tubes and the samples were then incubated at 25 °C for 10 min, followed by 50 min at 50 °C. The reaction was terminated at 85 °C for 5 min. Finally, the samples were treated with kit-provided RNase H at 37 °C for 20 min. A BioRad T100 thermal cycler was used to carry out this synthesis protocol.

For qPCR, the Real-Time qPCR Assay Entry on the IDT website was used to design primers. Primers were synthesized by Sigma-Aldrich Custom DNA Oligo service. Primer annealing and melting curves were used to confirm primer quality and specificity for single transcripts. qRT-PCR was performed using LightCycler 480 SYBR Green I Master (Roche, 04707516001) with 1 µl of the newly synthesized cDNA on the QuantStudio 6 Flex instrument (Applied Biosystems) in a 96-well format. The qRT-PCR protocol carried out by the QuantStudio 6 Flex consisted of initial denaturation at 95 °C for 5 min, followed by 45 cycles of amplification with a 5 s hold at 95 °C ramped at 4.4 °C/s to 55 °C. Temperature was maintained for 10 s at 55 °C, then ramped up to 72 °C at 2.2 °C/s. Temperature was held at 72 °C for 20 s and a single acquisition point was collected before ramping at 4.4 °C/s to begin the cycle anew. The temperature was then held at 65 °C for 1 min and ramped to 97 °C at a rate of 0.11 °C/s. Five acquisition points were collected per °C. Standard curves collected for each individual primer set were used to quantify data using QuantStudio RT-PCR Software version 1.2.

Lipidomics

HAP1 or SH-SY5Y cells were grown to 80–90% confluency on 15 cm sterile dishes in normal growth media. Material from two to four plates was combined for a single replicate and four replicates were used for an experiment. The cells were washed three times in ice-cold PBS containing 10 mM EDTA and then incubated for approximately 30 min at 4 °C. After incubation, the cells were lifted from the plate on ice and spun down at 800 rpm for 5 min at 4 °C. Since SH-SY5Y cells lifted easily, the incubation step was skipped in these experiments. Cells were resuspended in ice-cold PBS and a cell count was then taken (Bio-Rad TC20 automated Cell Counter) for normalization and to ensure cells were at least 90% alive and at least 20 million cells would be present in each replicate sample. After counting, cells were again spun down at 800 rpm for 5 min at 4 °C and the resulting cell pellets were flash-frozen and stored at –80 °C for a few weeks before lipidomic analysis was performed by the Emory Integrated Metabolomics and Lipidomics Core.

Briefly, for lipidomics HPLC grade water, chloroform, methanol, and acetonitrile were purchased from Fisher Scientific (Hampton, NH, USA). Formic acid and ammonium acetate were purchased from Sigma Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). Lipid standards SPLASH LIPIDOMIX Mass Spec (cat# 330707) were purchased from Avanti Polar Lipids Inc (Alabaster, AL, USA).

Prior to the lipid extraction samples were thawed on ice and spiked with SPLASH LIPIDOMIX deuterium-labeled internal standards (Avanti Polar Lipids Inc). The lipids were extracted from samples using a modified Bligh and Dyer total lipid extraction method (Bligh and Dyer, 1959). Briefly, 2 ml of the ice-cold mixture of methanol:chloroform (2:1, v/v) and 0.1% butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) to prevent the auto-oxidation of polyunsaturated lipid species was added to the samples. The resulting monophasic mixtures were incubated at 4 °C for 30 min. Then samples were centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 min and the supernatant was separated from the pellet by transferring to another tube. For the organic and aqueous phase separation 1 ml of 0.5 M sodium chloride solution was added and samples were vortexed for 10 min and centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 min. The organic fractions were separated and collected in glass vials. LC-MS/MS analysis was performed on Q Exactive HF mass spectrometer system coupled to the Ultimate 3000 liquid chromatography system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) and reverse phase C18 column (2.1*50 mm, 17 mm particle size) (Waters, USA). The mobile phase A and B consisted of 40:60 water: acetonitrile (v/v) and 90:10 isopropanol: acetonitrile (v/v) respectively and both phases contain 10 mM ammonium acetate and 0.1% formic acid. The gradient flow parameters of mobile phase B were as follows: 0–1 min 40–45%, 1.0–1.1 min 45–50%, 1.1–5.0 min 50–55%, 5.0–5.1 min 55–70%, 5.1–8.0 min 70–99%, 8.0–8.1 min 99–40%, 8.1–9.5 min 40%. The flow rate was 0.4 mL/min during total 9.5 min run. The temperature for the autosampler and column was set for 4°C and 50°C, respectively. Data acquisition was performed in positive electrospray ionization (ESI) mode and full and data-dependent acquisition (DDA) scans data were collected. LC-MS data processing and lipid species identification were performed using LipidSearch software version 4.2 (Thermo Fisher Scientific).

Preparing cell lysates for immunoblot

HAP1 cells were grown to 80–90% confluency in normal growth media (IMDM +10% FBS). In experiments with the OXPHOS mix antibody (RRID: AB_2085424), cells were enriched for mitochondrial membranes as detailed below. The cells were washed three times with ice-cold PBS containing 10 mM EDTA and then incubated for approximately 30 min at 4 °C. After incubation, the cells were lifted from the plate on ice and spun down at 800 rpm for 5 min at 4 °C. The resulting cell pellet was resuspended in a lysis buffer of Buffer A+0.5% Triton X-100 containing 5% protease inhibitor cocktail cOmplete (Roche, 118614500, prepared at 50 x in distilled water). Protein concentration was determined using the Bradford Assay (Bio-Rad, 5000006) and samples were diluted to 2 ug/ul. Equal volumes of these cell lysate samples were combined with Laemmli buffer (SDS and 2-mercaptoethanol) reduced and denatured and heated for 5 min at 75 °C. Samples were flash frozen and stored at –80 °C until immunoblotting. In immunoblot experiments with the OXPHOS mix antibody and blue native gel electrophoresis experiments, cell lysates were enriched for mitochondrial membranes as follows. For each experimental condition, two 150 mm dishes with HAP1 cells at 80–90% confluency were used. Trypsin was used to release the cells were and the cell pellet was washed by centrifugation with PBS.

Immunoblots

HAP1 or SH-SY5Y cell lysates or one nanogram of recombinant APOE (Novus Biologicals, 99158) were suspended in Buffer A+0.5% Tx-100 and Laemmli sample buffer. Along with protein ladder (Bio-Rad, 161–0373), the cell lysates or recombinant protein were loaded on a 4–20% Criterion gel (Bio-Rad, 3450032) for SDS-PAGE and transferred to PVDF membrane (Millipore, IPFL00010) using the semidry transfer method. In experiments with AICAR (Sigma, A9978), cells were exposed to the drug at 0.4 mM concentration for 72 hr before lysate preparation. Membranes were incubated in a blocking solution of TBS containing 5% nonfat milk and 0.05% Triton X-100. The membranes then incubated overnight with primary antibody solutions diluted in a buffer containing PBS with 3% BSA and 0.2% sodium azide. The following day, membranes were washed three times in TBS containing 0.05% Triton X-100 (TBST) and then incubated in secondary antibody (mouse HRP or rabbit HRP) diluted in blocking solution at room temperature for 30 min. The membranes were then rinsed in TBST three times and treated with Western Lightning Plus ECL reagent (PerkinElmer, NEL105001EA). Membranes were exposed to GE Healthcare Hyperfilm ECL (28906839) for visualization.

Blue native gel electrophoresis

Procedures were performed according to established protocols (Díaz et al., 2009; Timón-Gómez et al., 2020b). Crude mitochondria were enriched according to an established protocol (Wieckowski et al., 2009). Briefly, cell homogenization took place in isolation buffer (225 mM mannitol [Sigma, M9647], 75 mM sucrose [Thermo Fisher S5-500], 0.1 mM EGTA, and 30 mM Tris–HCl pH 7.4) using 20 strokes in a Potter-Elvehjem homogenizer at 6000 rpm at 4 °C. Centrifugation at 600 g for 5 min was used to collect unbroken cells and nuclei and mitochondria were recovered from this supernatant by centrifugation at 7000 g for 10 min. After 1 wash of this pellet, membrane solubilization took place in 1.5 M 6-aminocaproic acid (Sigma A2504), 50 mM Bis-Tris pH 7.0 buffer with cOmplete antiprotease (Roche) and freshly prepared 4 g/g (digitonin/protein) (Miillipore, 300410). n-dodecyl-β-d-maltoside (DDM) was used at 4 g/g (DDM/protein). 3–12% gradient native gels (Invitrogen, BN2011BX10) were used to separate proteins by blue native gel electrophoresis. Molecular weight standards used were 10 mg/ml Ferritin (404 and 880 kDa, Sigma F4503) and BSA (66 and 132 kDa) (Roche, 03116956001). The first dimension was run at 150 V for 30 min at room temperature with Coomassie blue (Serva, 17524), then at 250 V for 150 min at 4 °C in cathode buffer without Coomassie. For immunoblot, proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes and probed with the indicated antibodies, as detailed above. For separation in a second dimension, the lanes from the native gels were cut and loaded on a 10% denaturing SDS-PAGE gel with a single broad lane.

Co-Immunoprecipitation

Stable cell lines expressing FLAG-tagged SLC25A1 were prepared by transfecting human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells (ATCC, CRL-2266; RRID:CVCL_0019) with ORF expression clone containing N terminally tagged FLAG-SLC25A1 (GeneCopoeia, EX-A1932-Lv1020GS) (Gokhale et al., 2019). These cell lines were grown in DMEM containing 10% FBS, 100 µg/ml penicillin and streptomycin, and puromycin 2 µg/ml (Invitrogen, A1113803). For co-imunoprecipitation experiments, cells were grown in 10 cm dishes. On the day of the experiment, the plated cells were placed on ice and rinsed twice with cold PBS (Corning, 21–040) containing 0.1 mM CaCl2 and 1.0 mm MgCl2. Lysis buffer containing 150 mm NaCl, 10 mM HEPES, 1 mM EGTA, and 0.1 mM MgCl2, pH 7.4 (Buffer A) with 0.5% Triton X-100 and Complete anti-protease (Roche, 11245200) was added to the plates and cells were scraped and put into Eppendorf tubes. Cell lysates were incubated on ice for 30 min and centrifuged at 16,100×g for 10 min. Bradford Assay (Bio-Rad, 5000006) was used to determine protein concentration of the recovered clarified supernatant. A total of 500 µg of the soluble protein extract was incubated with 30 µl Dynal magnetic beads (Invitrogen, 110.31) coated with 1 µg of mouse monoclonal FLAG antibody (RRID: AB_259529). The beads combined with the cell lysates were incubated on an end-to-end rotator for 2 hr at 4 °C. In some cases, as controls, beads were incubated with the lysis buffer, without any antibodies or the immunoprecipitation was outcompeted with the 3XFLAG peptide (340 μm; Sigma, F4799). Beads were then washed six times with Buffer A with 0.1% Triton X-100 followed by elution with Laemmli buffer. Samples were then analyzed by SDS-PAGE, immunoblot using polyclonal antibodies against FLAG (RRID: AB_67407) and NDUFS3 (AB_2151109).

NanoString mRNA quantification

HAP1 cells or SH-SY5Y cells were grown to confluency in a 10 cm sterile dish in normal growth media. SH-SY5Y SLC31A1 knockout cells were treated with vehicle (cell culture grade water) or BCS (Sigma, B1125) at 200 μm for 24 hr. Three replicate plates were used for each experimental condition in experiments with HAP1 or SH-SY5Y cells. Astrocytes were seeded at a density of 15,000 cells/cm2 on six-well tissue culture dishes and grown until they reached 80% confluency. At least 500,000 cells per replicate were used. Astrocytes were treated either with a DMSO vehicle control or 80 nM Antimycin A (Sigma, A8674) for 48 hr, with media being replaced every 24 hr. For preparation of samples, all cells were washed twice in ice-cold PBS containing 0.1 mM CaCl2 and 1.0 mM MgCl2. 1 ml of Trizol was added to the samples and the Trizol mixture was flash frozen and stored at –80 °C for a few weeks until RNA Extraction and NanoString processing was completed by the Emory Integrated Genomics Core. The Core assessed RNA quality before proceeding with the NanoString protocol. The NanoString Neuroinflammation gene panel kit (115000230) or Metabolic Pathways Panel (115000367) was used for mRNA quantification. mRNA counts were normalized by the expression of the housekeeping gene TADA2B. Data were analyzed using Qlucore Omics Explorer Version 3.7 (24) as indicated below.

Preparation of cell pellets for proteomics and RNAseq

Wild type or gene-edited HAP1 cells (SLC25A1 and SLC25A4) were grown in IMDM supplemented with 10% FBS and 100 µg/ml penicillin and streptomycin at 37 °C in a 10% CO2 incubator. Cells were grown on 10 cm tissue culture dishes to 85% confluency. Cells were placed on ice, washed 3 times with ice cold PBS (Corning, 21–040), and then incubated with PBS with 10 mM EDTA for 30 min at 4 °C. Mechanical agitation with a 10 ml pipette was used to remove cells from plates. The collected cells were then centrifuged at 800xg for 5 min at 4 °C. Following centrifugation, the supernatant was removed and the pellet was washed with ice cold PBS. The resuspended pellet was then spun at 16,100 x g for 5 min. The supernatant was aspirated away and the remaining pellet was flash frozen on dry ice for at least 5 min and stored at –80 °C until further use. For proteomic and transcriptomic analysis, the experiment was conducted at least in triplicate.

TMT mass spectrometry for proteomics

Cell pellets were lysed in 200 μL of urea lysis buffer (8 M urea, 100 mM NaH2PO4, pH 8.5), supplemented with 2 μL (100 x stock) HALT protease and phosphatase inhibitor cocktail (Pierce). Lysates were then subjected to hree rounds of probe sonication. Each round consisted of 5 s of activation at 30% amplitude and 15 of seconds of rest on ice. Protein concentration was determined by bicinchoninic acid (BCA) analysis and 100 μg of each lysate was aliquoted and volumes were equilibrated with additional lysis buffer. Aliquots were diluted with 50 mM and was treated with 1 mM DTT and 5 mM IAA in sequential steps. Both steps were performed in room temperature with end-to-end rotation for 30 min. The alkylation step with IAA was performed in the dark. Lysyl endopeptidase (Wako) was added at a 1:50 (w/w) enzyme to protein ratio and the samples were digested for overnight. Samples were then diluted with 50 mM triethylammonium bicarbonate (TEAB) to a urea concentration of 1 M. Trypsin (Promega) was added at a 1:50 (w/w) enzyme to protein ratio and digestion proceeded overnight. Resulting peptides were desalted with a Sep-Pak C18 column (Waters). An aliquot equivalent to 20 µg of total protein was taken out of each sample and combined to obtain a global internal standard (GIS) use later for TMT labeling. All samples (16 individual and 4 GIS) were then dried under vacuum.

TMT labeling was performed according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Briefly (Ping et al., 2018), the reagents were allowed to equilibrate to room temperature. Dried peptide samples (90 μg each) were resuspended in 100 μl of 100 mm TEAB buffer (supplied with the kit). Anhydrous acetonitrile (41 μl) was added to each labeling reagent tube and the peptide solutions were transferred into their respective channel tubes. The reaction was incubated for 1 hr and quenched for 15 min afterward with 8 μl of 5% hydroxylamine. All samples were combined and dried down. Peptides were resuspended in 100 μl of 90% acetonitrile and 0.01% acetic acid. The entire sample was loaded onto an offline electrostatic repulsion–hydrophilic interaction chromatography fractionation HPLC system and 96 fractions were collected. The fractions were combined into 24 fractions and dried down. Dried peptide fractions were resuspended in 100 μl of peptide loading buffer (0.1% formic acid, 0.03% trifluoroacetic acid, 1% acetonitrile). Peptide mixtures (2 μl) were separated on a self-packed C18 (1.9 μm Dr. Maisch, Germany) fused silica column (25 cm ×75 μm internal diameter; New Objective) by a Easy-nLC 1200 and monitored on a Fusion Lumos mass spectrometer (ThermoFisher Scientific). Elution was performed over a 140 min gradient at a rate of 350 nl/min with buffer B ranging from 3% to 90% (buffer A: 0.1% formic acid in water, buffer B: 0.1% formic in 80% acetonitrile). The mass spectrometer cycle was programmed to collect at the top speed for 3 s cycles. The MS scans (375–1500 m/z range, 400,000 AGC, 50ms maximum ion time) were collected at a resolution of 120,000 at m/z 200 in profile mode. HCD MS/MS spectra (1.2 m/z isolation width, 36% collision energy, 50,000 AGC target, 86ms maximum ion time) were collected in the Orbitrap at a resolution of 50000. Dynamic exclusion was set to exclude previous sequenced precursor ions for 15 s within a 10 ppm window. Precursor ions with +1 and+8 or higher charge states were excluded from sequencing.

MS/MS spectra were searched against human database from Uniprot (downloaded on 04/2015) with Proteome Discoverer 2.1.1.21 (ThermoFisher Scientific). Methionine oxidation (+15.9949 Da), asparagine, and glutamine deamidation (+0.9840 Da) and protein N-terminal acetylation (+42.0106 Da) were variable modifications (up to 3 allowed per peptide); static modifications included cysteine carbamidomethyl (+57.0215 Da), peptide n terminus TMT (+229.16293 Da), and lysine TMT (+229.16293 Da). Only fully tryptic peptides were considered with up to two miscleavages in the database search. A precursor mass tolerance of ±20 ppm and a fragment mass tolerance of 0.6 Da were applied. Spectra matches were filtered by Percolator to a peptide-spectrum matches false discovery rate of <1%. Only razor and unique peptides were used for abundance calculations. Ratio of sample over the GIS of normalized channel abundances were used for comparison across all samples. Data files have been uploaded to ProteomeExchange.

Animal husbandry and euthanasia was carried out as approved by the Emory University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees. For mouse brain proteomic studies, we performed TMT mass spectrometry on whole cortical brain homogenates from 43 WT and 43 5xFAD mice (MMRC#034848-JAX) and sampled age groups from 1.8 mo to 14.4 months. All groups contained equal numbers of males and females, with n=4 males and 4 females per age group. The methods used for these studies have been previously published (Johnson et al., 2022). Briefly, brain tissues were homogenized using a bullet blender along with sonication in 8 M Urea lysis buffer containing HALT protease and phosphatase inhibitor (ThermoFisher). Proteins were reduced, alkylated and then digested with Lysyl endopeptidase and Trypsin, followed by peptide cleanup. TMT (16-plex kit) peptide labeling was performed as per manufacturer’s instructions, with inclusion of one global internal standard (GIS) in each batch. All samples in a given batch were randomized across six TMT batches, while maintaining nearly-equal representation of age, sex, and genotype across all six batches. A complete description of the TMT mass spectrometry study, including methods for sample preparation, mass spectrometry methodology and data processing, are available online (https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn27023828) and a comprehensive analysis of these data will be published separately. Mass spectrometry raw data were processed in Proteome Discover (Ver 2.1) and then searched against Uniprot mouse database (version 2020), and then processed downstream as described for human brain TMT mass spectrometry studies above. Batch effect was adjusted using bootstrap regression which modeled genotype, age, sex and batch, but covariance with batch only was removed (Wingo et al., 2020). From the 8535 proteins identified in this mouse brain proteome, we analyzed data related to APOE and 914 proteins that were also found in the Mitocarta database (Rath et al., 2021).

ICP mass spectrometry

Samples were prepared for ICP-MS, processed, and analyzed as described in Lane et al., 2022. In brief, media was changed the day before samples were collected. Cells were detached using trypsin, centrifuged at 130 g (800 rpm) for 5 min at 4 °C, and resuspended in ice cold PBS. The cell suspension was distributed into microcentrifuge tubes and centrifuged at 210 g (1500 rpm) for 5 min at 4 °C. The supernatant was removed and the cells were flash frozen in dry ice and stored at –80 °C. twemn24 hours before running samples on the ICP-MS instrument, samples were dissolved in 20 μL of 70% nitric acid and incubated at 95 C for 10 min. Immediately prior to running samples, they were diluted 1:40 in 2% nitric acid in a deep 96-well plate (to a total volume of 800 μL). Quantitation of trace elements was performed using a Thermo iCAP-TQ series ICP-MS operated in oxygen reaction mode with detection of elements of interest with the third quadrupole. In experiments with BCS, cells were treated for 24 hr using 200 μM concentration. Detailed operating procedures and acquisition parameters are described in Lane et al., 2022.

RNAseq and data analysis

RNA isolation, library construction, and sequencing were performed by the Beijing Genomics Institute. Total RNA concentration was measured with Agilent 2100 Bio analyzer (Agilent RNA 6000 Nano Kit), QC metrics: RIN values, 28 S/18 S ratio and fragment length distribution. mRNA purification was achieved by poly-T oligo immobilized to magnetic beads. the mRNA was fragmented using divalent cations plus elevated temperature. RNA fragments were copied into first strand cDNA by reverse transcriptase and random primers. Second strand cDNA synthesis was performed with DNA Polymerase I and RNase H. A single 'A' base and subsequent ligation of adapter was done on cDNA fragments. Products were purified and enriched with PCR amplification. The PCR yield was quantified using a Qubit and samples were pooled together to make a single strand DNA circle (ssDNA circle) producing the final library. DNA nanoballs were generated with the ssDNA circle by rolling circle replication to enlarge fluorescent signals during the sequencing process. DNA nanoballs were loaded into the patterned nanoarrays and pair-end reads of 100 bp were read through on the DNBseq platform. The DNBseq platform combined the DNA nanoball-based nanoarrays and stepwise sequencing using Combinational Probe-Anchor Synthesis Sequencing Method. On average, we produced ~4.41 Gb bases per sample. The average mapping ratio with reference genome was 92.56%, the average mapping ratio with gene was 72.22%; 17,240 genes were identified. 16,875 novel transcripts were identified. Read quality metrics: 4.56% of the total amount of reads contained more than 5% unknown N base; 5.92% of the total amount of reads which contained adaptors; 1.38% of the total reads were considered low quality meaning more than 20% of bases in the total read have quality score lower than 15. 88.14% of total amount of reads were considered clean reads and used for further analysis.

Sequencing reads were uploaded to the Galaxy web platform. We used the public server usegalaxy.eu to analyze the data (Afgan et al., 2018). FastQC was used to remove samples of suboptimal quality (Andrews, 2010). All mapping was performed using Galaxy server (v. 19.09) running Hisat2 (Galaxy Version 2.1.0+galaxy5), HTseq-Count (Galaxy Version 1.6.2), and DeSeq2 (Galaxy Version 2.11.40.2) (Anders et al., 2015; Kim et al., 2015; Love et al., 2014). The Genome Reference Consortium build of the reference sequence (GRCh38/hg38) and the GTF files (NCBI) were used and can be acquired from iGenome (Illumina). Hisat2 was run with the following parameters: paired-end, unstranded, default settings were used except for a GTF file was used for transcript assembly. Alignments were visualized using IGV viewer (IGV-Web app version 1.7.0, igv.js version 2.10.5) with Ensembl v90 annotation file and Human (GRCh38/hg38) genome (Jin et al., 2020; Robinson et al., 2011).

Aligned SAM/BAM files were processed using HTseq-count (Default settings except used GRCh38 GTF file and output for DESeq2 and gene length file). HTseq-count output files and raw read files are publicly available (GEO with accession GSE201889). The HTseq-count compiled file is GSE201889_ RawHTseqCounts_ALL. Gene counts were normalized using DESeq2 (Love et al., 2014) followed by a regularized log transformation. Differential Expression was determined using DESeq2 with the following settings: Factors were cell type, pairwise comparisons between mutant cell lines versus control line was done, output all normalized tables, size estimation was the standard median ratio, fit type was parametric, outliers were filtered using a Cook’s distance cutoff.

Human cognitive trajectory and proteome correlations

The Banner Sun Health Research Institute participants (Banner) project is a longitudinal clinicopathological study of normal aging, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Most subjects were enrolled as cognitively normal volunteers from the retirement communities of the greater Phoenix, Arizona, USA (Beach et al., 2015). Recruitment efforts were also directed at subjects with AD and PD from the community and neurologists’ offices. Subjects received standardized general medical, neurological, and neuropsychological tests annually during life and more than 90% received full pathological examinations after death (Beach et al., 2015).

Person-specific cognitive trajectory was estimated using a linear mixed model. In this model, the annual MMSE score was the longitudinal outcome, follow-up year as the independent variable, sex as the covariate, and with random intercept and random slope per subject using the lme4 R package (version 1.1–19).

Proteomic quantification from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of post-mortem brain tissue using mass spectrometry was described in detail here (Wingo et al., 2019). Raw data were analyzed using MaxQuant v1.5.2.8 with Thermo Foundation 2.0 for RAW file reading capability. Co-fragmented peptide search was enabled to deconvolute multiplex spectra. The false discovery rate (FDR) for peptide spectral matches, proteins, and site decoy fractions were set to 1%. Protein quantification was estimated by label free quantification (LFQ) algorithm by MaxQuant and only considered razor plus unique peptides for each protein isoform. After label-free quantification, 3710 proteins were detected. Only proteins quantified in at least 90% of the samples were included in the analysis. log2 transformation of the proteomic profiles was performed. Effect of protein sequencing batch was removed using Combat (Johnson et al., 2007). Effects of sex, age at death, and post-mortem interval (PMI) were removed using bootstrap regression. Association between cognitive trajectory and datasets listed in Figure 7E was examined using linear regression, in which cognitive trajectory was the outcome and the first principal component of the dataset was the predictor.

Composite protein abundance calculations

Composite protein abundances of respiratory complexes and SLC25An paralogs in the 5xFAD mouse were calculated as the first principal component of individual protein abundances across 86 samples in the data set, using the WGCNA moduleEigengenes function with the standard imputation method allowed, similar to the calculation of synthetic eigengenes as described in Johnson et al., 2022; Wingo et al., 2019. Given that protein abundances were log2-transformed, changes in composite values represent log2 fold change.

Bioinformatic analyses and statistical analyses

Data from proteomes, RNAseq, NanoString, and lipidomics were processed with Qlucore Omics Explorer Version 3.6 (33) normalizing log2 data to a mean of 0 and a variance of 1. Qlucore Omics was used to generate volcano plots, Euclidean hierarchical clustering, PCI and 2D- tSNE. 2D-tSNE was calculated with a perplexity of 5. All other statistical analyses were performed with Prism v9.2.0 (283) using two tailed statistics and Alpha of 0.05 using test specified in each figure legend. No outlier identification and exclusion were applied. Asterisks denoting significance followed Prism specifications. Estimation statistics in Figure 5A was performed as described (Ho et al., 2019).

Gene ontology analyses were carried out with Cluego. ClueGo v2.58 run on Cytoscape v3.8.2 (Bindea et al., 2009; Shannon et al., 2003). ClueGo was run querying GO BP, REACTOME, and KEGG considering all evidence, Medium Level of Network Specificity, and selecting pathways with a Bonferroni corrected P-value <0.001. ClueGo was run with Go Term Fusion. Analysis of Nanostring Ontologies was performed with Metascape (Zhou et al., 2019). All statistically enriched terms based on the default choices under Express Analysis, cumulative hypergeometric p-values and enrichment factors were calculated and used for filtering. Remaining significant terms were then hierarchically clustered into a tree based on Kappa-statistical similarities among their gene memberships. Kappa score of 0.3 was applied as the threshold to cast the tree into term clusters (Zhou et al., 2019).

The interactome of NDUFS3 and SLC25A1 was generated from the proximity interaction datasets by Antonicka et al., 2020. Data were imported into Cytoscape v3.8.2.

Enrichment (Representation Factor) and exact hypergeometric probability of gene set enrichments with hits from the Human Secretome (Uhlén et al., 2019) and Human Mitocarta 3.0 (Rath et al., 2021) in Figures 1N and 5D were calculated with the engine nemates.org using the 20,577 gene count of the Uniprot Human Proteome Reference.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by grants from the NIH 1RF1AG060285 and Developmental Project through the Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC - P30AG066511) to VF, U01AG061357 to NTS, F31AG067623 and 5T32NS007480 to MEW, R01NS11430 and RF1AG071587 to SRangaraju, F32AG064862 to SRayaprolu, and 1F31NS127419 to ARL. ARL is supported by an ARCS Foundation Award and a Robert W Woodruff Fellowship. This study was supported in part by the Emory Integrated Genomics, Immunoassay, and the Integrated Metabolomics and Lipidomics Cores, which are subsidized by the Emory University School of Medicine. Additional support was provided by the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR002378. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Elemental analyses were performed by Anne M Roberts. VF is grateful for mitochondria provided by Maria Olga Gonzalez.

Funding Statement

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Contributor Information

Erica Werner, Email: ewerner@emory.edu.

Victor Faundez, Email: vfaunde@emory.edu.

Agnieszka Chacinska, IMol Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Suzanne R Pfeffer, Stanford University, United States.

Funding Information

This paper was supported by the following grants:

  • National Institute on Aging 1RF1AG060285 to Victor Faundez.

  • Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Emory University P30AG066511 to Victor Faundez.

  • National Institute on Aging U01AG061357 to Nicholas T Seyfried.

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke F31AG067623 to Meghan E Wynne.

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 5T32NS007480 to Meghan E Wynne.

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke R01NS11430 to Srikant Rangaraju.

  • National Institute on Aging RF1AG071587 to Srikant Rangaraju.

  • National Institute on Aging F32AG064862 to Sruti Rayaprolu.

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 1F31NS127419 to Alicia R Lane.

  • ARCS Foundation to Alicia R Lane.

  • Emory University Robert W Woodruff Fellowship to Alicia R Lane.

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Additional files

Supplementary file 1. Raw Data for Proteomics, Transcriptomics and Gene Ontologies.
elife-85779-supp1.xlsx (13.6MB, xlsx)
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Data availability

The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRIDE (Deutsch et al., 2020) partner repository with dataset identifiers: PXD038974 and PXD017501. RNAseq data were deposited in GEO with accession GSE201889.

The following datasets were generated:

Crocker A, Faundez V. 2022. APOE Expression and Secretion are Modulated by Copper-Dependent and -Independent Mitochondrial Dysfunction. NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus. GSE201889

Faundez V 2023. Faundez Comparison of 2 Cell lines (Hek and Hep) ProteomeXchange. PXD038974

Faundez V 2023. Faundez TMT 12 samples - 2 batches with 24 fractions each. ProteomeXchange. PXD017501

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Editor's evaluation

Agnieszka Chacinska 1

This study presents compelling evidence that ApoE is upregulated in various models of mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction. The work is of fundamental interest for those studying neurodegeneration and the role of ApoE in Alzheimer's disease; future work will be needed to reveal the molecular basis of this dramatic phenotype.

Decision letter

Editor: Agnieszka Chacinska1
Reviewed by: Agnieszka Chacinska2

In the interests of transparency, eLife publishes the most substantive revision requests and the accompanying author responses.

Decision letter after peer review:

[Editors’ note: the authors submitted for reconsideration following the decision after peer review. What follows is the decision letter after the first round of review.]

Thank you for submitting the paper "APOE Expression and Secretion are Modulated by Copper-Dependent and -Independent Mitochondrial Dysfunction" for consideration by eLife. Your article has been reviewed by 3 peer reviewers, one of whom is a member of our Board of Reviewing Editors, and the evaluation has been overseen by a Senior Editor. The reviewers have opted to remain anonymous.

We are sorry to say that, after consultation with the reviewers, we have decided that this manuscript will not be considered further for publication by eLife at this stage.

As you will see from the detailed comments below, the reviewers have raised several concerns related to the depth of mechanistic understanding and the largely correlative nature of the data provided. However, the reviewers would be pleased to consider a new submission that addresses their major concerns discussed below.

Reviewer #1 (Recommendations for the authors):

Wynne et al. asked how the proteome and transcriptome of HAP1 cells are affected by the knockout of mitochondrial citrate carrier SLC25A1 and ADP/ATP carrier SLC25A4. Next the authors searched for proteins/transcripts that were similarly regulated at both protein and transcript levels in both tested knockout cell lines and found only 27 of such proteins, among which the one highly differentially regulated was APOE – the protein whose certain polymorphic alleles are attributed as one of the major risk factors for developing Alzheimer's Disease. Next, the authors explored how other conditions affecting mitochondria impact the cytoplasm and serum levels of APOE. The authors observed that cells with a knockout of SLC25A1 or SLC25A4 share a phenotype of decreased abundance of complex I and complex III as well as defects in the assembly of the functional complexes. Therefore they reasoned that affecting complex I and III alone by knocking out crucial complex I assembly factors and treating cells with complex III inhibitor antimycin would affect APOE expression/secretion. Indeed both genetic and pharmacological manipulation on complex I and III led to upregulation of APOE expression/secretion. Similarly, alternations in APOE levels in cell lysates and medium were also observed after affecting plasma membrane and mitochondrial copper transporters and knocking down the COX17 complex IV assembly factor. Next, some of the above experiments were performed on astrocytes and neurons differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells. In line with the previous literature data, the effects on APOE upregulation were pronounced in astrocytes but not neurons. Finally, the authors present data from a well-established mouse model of AD (5xFAD mice) showing that APOE overexpression positively correlated with aging and a decrease in expression of complex I, III, and IV in 5xFAD mice but not in controls. The study concludes with statistical analysis aiming at testing the association between the expression of mRNAs and proteins differentially regulated in SLC25A1 mutant in the collection of post-mortem brain proteomes and the cognitive performance tests of the brain donors. The authors conclude that expression of proteins upregulated in the studied mutant was positively correlated with cognitive decline, while increased expression of protein products of mRNAs downregulated in the mutant was associated with the protection from cognitive decline.

General strengths of the study

1. The observation of an increase in APOE expression/secretion being downstream of conditions affecting mitochondria is of high relevance as current studies are focused on the effects of APOE on mitochondria. Hence, the study by Wynne et al. provides the foundation for the understanding of intercellular non-cell-autonomous signaling responsible for APOE-mediated mitochondria metabolism alternations in response to mitochondrial stress.

2. Results showing the increase in APOE expression/secretion are performed in different cellular models including those with implications for AD such as astrocytes.

General weaknesses of the study

1. The manuscript in its current form lacks proper presentation of the data on APOE overexpression that would allow the reader to easily compare the magnitude of the effect in different conditions and cell lines studied. It is not discussed and presented in the figure what the differences in basal/induced APOE in different models and conditions studied are. The manuscript is lacking the bar plots displaying a comparison of the normalized to control APOE expression values for different conditions and basal non-normalized APOE levels in different cell lines studied.

2. Although the authors excluded particular mechanistic explanations for the observed increase in APOE expression/secretion they did not manage to provide a comprehensive mechanistic explanation of the observed phenomenon. In that context as the authors study citrate carrier, it would be interesting to check citrate levels and whether manipulating citrate levels alone would affect the expression of APOE, and whether baseline citrate levels in studied models correspond to the magnitude of the observed APOE overexpression.

3. The manuscript lacks a clear description of the metabolic context for the studied conditions – what is the impact of SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 on metabolic activity-viability in response to stress, ATP/ADP, glycolysis, citrate levels, copper levels, etc. As there is a certain degree of functional redundancy within the SLC25 family it would be interesting to highlight and discuss SLC25A1/A4 paralogs with redundant functions. Double knockout experiments and/or combined siRNA screen may help to answer the question of whether APOE upregulation in mutants is related to canonical channeling function or some other "moonlighting" signaling mechanism specific to the particular paralogs of transporters. It is not discussed why in triple ATP/ADP carrier knockout the upregulation of APOE was only 50 % while in single SLC25A4 knockout more than 4 fold – is it due to a switch to glycolytic metabolism, the addition of pyruvate, uridine to the medium, or something else?

Palmieri, F. & Monne, M. Discoveries, metabolic roles and diseases of mitochondrial carriers: A review. Biochim Biophys. Acta 1863, 2362-2378 (2016).

Shi, X., Reinstadler, B., Shah, H. et al. Combinatorial GxGxE CRISPR screen identifies SLC25A39 in mitochondrial glutathione transport linking iron homeostasis to OXPHOS. Nat Commun 13, 2483 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30126-9

4. The authors attribute APOE overexpression to copper ion levels and assembly of complex IV however experiments on cells with a defect in copper transporters lack measurements of copper; the functional redundancy of copper transporters is not discussed. Are those having functional paralogs?

5. In the present form of the manuscript it is not clear how authors view the mode of APOE overexpression – apart from experiments showing an increase in APOE mRNA abundance there are no experiments explaining if it is due to an increase in transcription and/or mRNA stability. There are also no experiments and discussion on APOE regulation on the level of translation/degradation.

Reviewer #2 (Recommendations for the authors):

Overall, this' work is innovative for identifying dysfunctional mitochondria that can increase APOE in diverse cell types and an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. This work provides insights into how mitochondria dysfunction may influence brain and cognition function partially through modulation of APOE. While exciting, some key questions are unanswered. First, what specifically triggers increased APOE expression in the setting of various mitochondrial insults is not clear. Additionally, it is not clear how mitochondrial dysfunction is signaled to increase the expression of APOE from the nuclear genome, although some mechanisms, such as AMPK and the integrated stress response are ruled out. Finally, it is not clear what function up-regulating APOE in response to mitochondrial dysfunction serves and whether this response is adaptive or maladaptive. This study nonetheless establishes a novel link between mitochondrial dysfunction and APOE in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

While innovative and the conclusions are generally well supported and described, the manuscript would be enhanced by clarifying some unclear statements and a few additional experiments to support the authors' major findings.

1. The authors demonstrate that several mitochondrial perturbations lead to APOE increases, but a unifying mitochondrial deficit among these is not identified as the trigger of APOE increase. This should be further explored with further experiments to manipulate electron transport and/or mitochondrial membrane potential. For instance, hypoxia increases APOE, which might point to decreased electron transport as a common trigger? Can decreased mitochondrial membrane potential cause APOE increase. The authors could test whether oligomycin + antimycin has a stronger effect than antimycin treatment alone, as the addition of the F1FO-ATP synthase inhibitor will keep it from running in reverse to maintain MMP in the setting of decreased electron transport. Similarly, the authors could test whether mitochondrial uncouplers such as FCCP or BAM15 similarly increase APOE expression. These dissipate the MMP but increase electron transport.

2. Relatedly, it is suggested that the mechanistic link between SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 and APOE increase is through destabilization of respiratory complexes, in particular CIII, as well as higher-order complexes containing complexes I, III, and/or IV. To support this model in Figures 3C and D, the authors show changes in higher order respiratory complexes by BN-PAGE. The effect of SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 on the respiratory complexes, however, remains unclear. Depending on the detergent used different supercomplexes are stabilized (e.g., CI containing supercomplexes are better stabilized by Triton-X100 or digitonin compared to DDM). I was not able to find which detergent was used in these experiments, but it would be worth checking for supercomplexes using the milder detergents Triton-X100 or digitonin if this was not done. Also, only SLC25A1 KO is explored in this experiment. The authors should also assess SLC25A4. Finally, it is notable that in Figure 1K among the few shared differentially regulated proteins between SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 KO is COX7A2L in addition to CIII subunits. As COX7A2L is known to stabilize CIII-CIV within supercomplexes, the authors should explore whether this is part of the mechanism explaining the decreased formation of higher order complexes.

3. The physiologic significance of increased APOE in response to mitochondrial dysfunction remains unclear. In figure 1, it is established that conditioned media from WT cells promotes the growth of WT and SLC25A1 KO cells while conditioned media from SLC25A1 KO cells promotes the growth of WT but not SLC25A1 KO cells. This is interpreted in the discussion to suggest that "APOE dependent removal of toxic factors [from, e.g., SLC25A1 KO cells] may be the mechanism" (in ln 619 – 621). However, it's not clear whether this is why WT conditioned media rescues the growth of SLC25A1 KO cells or whether conditioned media from SLC25A1 KO cells promotes the growth of WT cells? Don't these results suggest that WT-conditioned media is providing something missing from SLC25A1 KO media that promotes the growth of SLC25A1 cells? Additionally, it remains very speculative that this factor is related to APOE. Does knockdown of APOE from either WT or SLC25A1 cells influence the effect of the conditioned media in this assay?

APOE4 is a major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. In their manuscript, Wynne et al. show that intracellular and secreted APOE protein increases in response to mitochondrial dysfunction, including perturbations mitochondrial complexes I and III, and factors involved in complex III biogenesis such as copper and SLC25A1 and SLC25A4. The correlation between APOE and respiratory chain subunits was further explored in 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, demonstrating a positive correlation between mitochondrial dysfunction in this model and APOE4 increase. Finally, they found that during aging, SLC25A1 sensitive gene expression correlates with human cognitive trajectory.

Reviewer #3 (Recommendations for the authors):

This study uses multiple systems approaches using cell lines deleted for two mitochondrial carriers and identifies changes in the secretome at the transcriptional and proteome level. Among these changes, increased ApoE transcription, protein level and secretion appeared particularly interesting and conserved, leading the authors to expand their study to several other conditions of mitochondrial dysfunction. The authors analyze cell lines deleted for components of the respiratory chain, for genes involved in copper trafficking, and for astrocytes treated with mitochondrial poisons, and demonstrate increased secretion of ApoE in all these conditions, albeit in very different amounts. In addition, they correlate ApoE levels in the brain of a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease with decreased mitochondrial dysfunction. Since alleles of ApoE are known risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, the results are of potential interest.

The weakness of the study is that data are entirely correlative and there is no attempt to understand the causal relationship between mitochondrial dysfunction and increased ApoE transcription and secretion.

1) The statement that SLC25A1Δ cells condition media differently than wild-type cells is not supported by the data. If this were the case, the conditioned media of SLC25A1Δ cells would affect differently also WT cells. Instead, it seems from the data that the dialyzed SLC25A1Δ conditioned medium lacks some metabolite that cannot be produced by SLC25A1Δ cells. Since this effect is only evident with the dialyzed medium it is unlikely that it can be attributed to ApoE. Moreover, to really appreciate the data of Figure 1A. graphs should show the y-axis starting from 0 and show WT and KO cells in the same graph normalized to WT. How different is the growth of SLC25A1Δ cells?

2) Levels of ApoE in the lysate and media from different cell lines and experimental conditions range from 80ng/microg to 3pg/mg, depending on the cell line examined. The authors should comment on this high variability, especially since they try to make the case that this ApoE secretion is relevant across many models of mitochondrial dysfunction. Is this physiologically relevant in all cases?

3) In Figure 3C, the Coomassie stained gels and the blotted ones appear very different. Also, the molecular weight markers indicate different runs, so it is unclear why there are these big differences in the western blots, but much less is apparent in the Coomassie and in panel D. The positions of the complexes should be indicated also on the Coomassie gel. I could not find an indication in the methods about the amount and type of detergent used. Are these performed using DDM or digitonin? How many times have these experiments been repeated?

4) In several parts of the manuscript, the authors argue that the changes in the secretome were equivalent to changes in the mitochondrial proteome as evidence for the relevance of the observed changes in the secretome. This argument seems rather weak since these omics changes can reflect a direct effect of a gene loss as well as very downstream events. Ultimately, what would be really important here is to demonstrate how this increased secretion of ApoE occurs and dissect at least in part how mitochondrial dysfunction affects ApoE expression transcriptionally.

5) The last part of the manuscript correlates changes in the transcriptome, proteome, and interactome of SLC25A1Δ cells with the cognitive progression of AD patients. As the authors write, it is already known that AD patients' cognitive decline negatively correlates with mitochondrial function. Although catching, these data remain very correlative, and also not very surprising.

6) In Figure S1, why is AICAR not increasing pAMPK in WT cells?

7) The title emphasizes copper-dependent and independent mitochondrial dysfunction. This puts an emphasis on copper metabolism that is totally unnecessary. The rationale all over the paper for the choice of models to use is not always very clear.

8) The scheme in Figure4B should be redrawn to show Cox17 in the IMS.

[Editors’ note: further revisions were suggested prior to acceptance, as described below.]

Thank you for resubmitting your work entitled "APOE Expression and Secretion are Modulated by Mitochondrial Dysfunction" for further consideration by eLife. Your revised article has been overseen by Suzanne Pfeffer (Senior Editor) and a Reviewing Editor.

The manuscript has been improved but there are some remaining issues that need to be addressed, as outlined below:

The authors should aim to specify the mode of APOE abundance regulation (the original comment no 5 of Reviewer 1) with some basic experiments and a short discussion. For example, for the HAP1 SLC25A1 mutant, the increase in mRNA is 3-fold but the increase in APOE cell lysate concentration is almost 8-fold. These minor revisions may include experiments with protein degradation inhibitors to evaluate a potential regulation of the level of degradation.

The manuscript would benefit from streamlining and focusing. The authors could not dissect a mechanism, but could convincingly show that ApoE upregulation occurs across several models with different respiratory dysfunction. This should be at the center of the manuscript.

The sentence in the Abstract: "This upregulation of secretory proteins was of similar extent as modifications to the mitochondrial annotated proteome" is confusing and prone to misunderstanding and should be rephrased.

The claim that changes in cholesterol synthesis are not involved is too strong. The authors have not formally proved that this is not the case in δ SLC25A1 cells. It is possible that it is beneficial for cells with respiratory defects to increase APOE secretion, but different mutants achieve this with different mechanisms.

eLife. 2023 May 12;12:e85779. doi: 10.7554/eLife.85779.sa2

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[Editors’ note: the authors resubmitted a revised version of the paper for consideration. What follows is the authors’ response to the first round of review.]

Reviewer #1 (Recommendations for the authors):

Wynne et al. asked how the proteome and transcriptome of HAP1 cells are affected by the knockout of mitochondrial citrate carrier SLC25A1 and ADP/ATP carrier SLC25A4. Next the authors searched for proteins/transcripts that were similarly regulated at both protein and transcript levels in both tested knockout cell lines and found only 27 of such proteins, among which the one highly differentially regulated was APOE – the protein whose certain polymorphic alleles are attributed as one of the major risk factors for developing Alzheimer's Disease. Next, the authors explored how other conditions affecting mitochondria impact the cytoplasm and serum levels of APOE. The authors observed that cells with a knockout of SLC25A1 or SLC25A4 share a phenotype of decreased abundance of complex I and complex III as well as defects in the assembly of the functional complexes. Therefore they reasoned that affecting complex I and III alone by knocking out crucial complex I assembly factors and treating cells with complex III inhibitor antimycin would affect APOE expression/secretion. Indeed both genetic and pharmacological manipulation on complex I and III led to upregulation of APOE expression/secretion. Similarly, alternations in APOE levels in cell lysates and medium were also observed after affecting plasma membrane and mitochondrial copper transporters and knocking down the COX17 complex IV assembly factor. Next, some of the above experiments were performed on astrocytes and neurons differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells. In line with the previous literature data, the effects on APOE upregulation were pronounced in astrocytes but not neurons. Finally, the authors present data from a well-established mouse model of AD (5xFAD mice) showing that APOE overexpression positively correlated with aging and a decrease in expression of complex I, III, and IV in 5xFAD mice but not in controls. The study concludes with statistical analysis aiming at testing the association between the expression of mRNAs and proteins differentially regulated in SLC25A1 mutant in the collection of post-mortem brain proteomes and the cognitive performance tests of the brain donors. The authors conclude that expression of proteins upregulated in the studied mutant was positively correlated with cognitive decline, while increased expression of protein products of mRNAs downregulated in the mutant was associated with the protection from cognitive decline.

General strengths of the study

1. The observation of an increase in APOE expression/secretion being downstream of conditions affecting mitochondria is of high relevance as current studies are focused on the effects of APOE on mitochondria. Hence, the study by Wynne et al. provides the foundation for the understanding of intercellular non-cell-autonomous signaling responsible for APOE-mediated mitochondria metabolism alternations in response to mitochondrial stress.

2. Results showing the increase in APOE expression/secretion are performed in different cellular models including those with implications for AD such as astrocytes.

General weaknesses of the study

1. The manuscript in its current form lacks proper presentation of the data on APOE overexpression that would allow the reader to easily compare the magnitude of the effect in different conditions and cell lines studied. It is not discussed and presented in the figure what the differences in basal/induced APOE in different models and conditions studied are. The manuscript is lacking the bar plots displaying a comparison of the normalized to control APOE expression values for different conditions and basal non-normalized APOE levels in different cell lines studied.

We thank the reviewer for this suggestion that adds clarity to the manuscript. We modified all figures as suggested by depicting fold change of APOE from WT and/or vehicle condition in every graph, allowing for easy comparison across all experiments.

2. Although the authors excluded particular mechanistic explanations for the observed increase in APOE expression/secretion they did not manage to provide a comprehensive mechanistic explanation of the observed phenomenon. In that context as the authors study citrate carrier, it would be interesting to check citrate levels and whether manipulating citrate levels alone would affect the expression of APOE, and whether baseline citrate levels in studied models correspond to the magnitude of the observed APOE overexpression.

The reviewer suggests an interesting idea. We think is unlikely that decreased cytoplasmic citrate levels in SLC25A1 cells are causally related to increased APOE levels. We tested a role of citrate in APOE levels by two approaches presented in Figure S5. First, we confirmed the presence of the plasma membrane citrate transporter SLC13A5 in HAP1 cells. We then measured the effect of citrate addition to the media of either wild type or SLC25A1-null cells on APOE levels. Citrate incubation does not change expression of APOE in either genotype. Second, we mutated ACLY or ATP citrate lyase, which is the primary enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of cytosolic acetylCoA from cytoplasmic citrate (Zaidi et al., 2012). ACLY mutants cause accumulation of cytoplasmic citrate, which is the opposite effect of an SLC25A1 mutation (Baardman et al., 2020; Majd et al., 2018; Rensvold et al., 2022). These ACLY null cells increased APOE levels and secretion. Thus, we believe that decreased cytoplasmic citrate is an unlikely mediator of the APOE response in SLC25A1 null cells. Third, we used the Pagliarini metabolomics data curated in MITOMICS.app. This database reports two of the cell lines used in our studies, SLC25A1 and NDUFS3 KO HAP1 cells (Rensvold et al., 2022). Both mutations increase the levels of APOE in our studies but total cellular citrate levels are only affected (decreased) in SLC25A1 cells. We conclude that citrate is not a mediator of APOE increased levels in mutants that affect the respiratory chain.

3. The manuscript lacks a clear description of the metabolic context for the studied conditions – what is the impact of SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 on metabolic activity-viability in response to stress, ATP/ADP, glycolysis, citrate levels, copper levels, etc.

This is an important question that we have addressed in part by adding new copper and ECAR studies in several mutants. We previously reported the effects of SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 mutations on the ATP/ADP ratios (Gokhale et al., 2019). ATP levels are decreased only in SLC25A4 mutant HAP1 cells making unlikely a bioenergetic model for increased APOE levels in SLC25A1 mutants we have analyzed.

As suggested by the reviewer, we measured the total cell copper levels in many of the cells utilized in our studies. Copper content is modified in cells that carry mutations in copper transporters (ATP7A, SLC31A1, SLC25A3) and in HEK293 cells that are triple KO for ADP/ATP carriers. There is no universal copper phenotype across all mutants tested.

Finally, we have added the ECAR data to revised Figure 5J and Figure S4. This data shows that there is no correlation between ECAR and APOE levels (p=0.2). To stress this point, we used as a control a PARK2 mutant SH-SY5Y cell line that possesses an elevated rate of extracellular acidification but that does not increase APOE levels. Our data suggest that glycolytic adaptations in mutant cells are unlikely to contribute to the increased APOE level phenotype.

What about other aspects of intermediate metabolism? We think that to address the reviewer’s comment in full we should perform untargeted metabolomics studies in whole cells and isolated mitochondria in several of the 14 mutants we used in our studies. Such studies are akin of those performed by Sabatini and Pagliarini (Chen et al., 2016; Rensvold et al., 2022). However, the material and time resources needed are beyond our reach at this point. We believe we have built a solid case for the integrity and function of the respiratory chain as a trigger of increased APOE expression, which is a common phenotype in mutants studied here. Since the published metabolic profiles of inhibiting different complexes of the respiratory chain differ both in total cell extract and isolated mitochondria (Chen et al., 2016), we suspect that a common metabolite may be an analyte not commonly considered in targeted metabolomes. We hope the reviewer will waive a request for a full metabolic characterization of cells.

As there is a certain degree of functional redundancy within the SLC25 family it would be interesting to highlight and discuss SLC25A1/A4 paralogs with redundant functions. Double knockout experiments and/or combined siRNA screen may help to answer the question of whether APOE upregulation in mutants is related to canonical channeling function or some other "moonlighting" signaling mechanism specific to the particular paralogs of transporters. It is not discussed why in triple ATP/ADP carrier knockout the upregulation of APOE was only 50 % while in single SLC25A4 knockout more than 4 fold – is it due to a switch to glycolytic metabolism, the addition of pyruvate, uridine to the medium, or something else?

This is a great suggestion that we address with new experimentation in revised manuscript Figure 4 and Figure S2.

HAP1 cells express mainly SLC25A4 (Figure S2E) while HEK293 cells express preponderantly SLC25A5 and SLC25A6 as ADP/ATP carriers (Lu et al., 2017). We tested redundancy of ADP/ATP carriers in these cells. SLC25A4 KO in HAP1 cell is sufficient to disrupt the proteome, respiratory chain integrity and function, and to induce APOE. However, a SLC25A4 KO does not have any effects in HEK293 cells. This mutation minimally affects mitochondrial respiration (Lu et al., 2017). Only a KO of all three ADP/ATP carriers alters the proteome, respiratory chain integrity and function, and induces APOE in HEK293 cells (Figure 4). These findings demonstrate redundancy among carriers of similar function.

Second, we performed prolonged inhibition of ADP/ATP carriers with bongkrekic acid (Figure S2). This inhibitor targets all three ADP/ATP carriers (Gutierrez-Aguilar and Baines, 2013).

Bongkrekic acid does not induce APOE even at concentrations that decrease mitochondrial respiration by 50%. This suggests that the ADP/ATP carrier functions are dispensable for the induction of APOE. These findings point to structural defects caused by ADP/ATP carrier null mutations such as the integrity of the respiratory chain, which we document in Figure S2 and 4.

Finally, to address if there is redundancy of SLC25A1 and ADP/ATP carriers, we applied bongkrekic acid to SLC25A1 null HAP1 cells. We reasoned this mutation could sensitize SLC25A1 mutants to bongkrekic acid much like we observed for antimycin. SLC25A1 null cells are more sensitive to bongkrekic acid (Figure S2), however this toxin does not increase APOE expression. We conclude that there are no additive effects between SLC25A1 mutations and the function of ADP/ATP carriers in HAP1 cells.

4. The authors attribute APOE overexpression to copper ion levels and assembly of complex IV however experiments on cells with a defect in copper transporters lack measurements of copper; the functional redundancy of copper transporters is not discussed. Are those having functional paralogs?

We have added the copper determinations in the copper mutants as requested.

We suspect that there are adaptations in ATP7A KO cells as they have normal copper levels (Figure S3) and normal mitochondrial respiration (data not shown). We are exploring adaptive mechanisms, which is of great interest to us. We would like to request from the reviewer a waiver in discussing this issue, which we are working on for a future manuscript.

We have extended our studies to diverse copper-dependent and -independent assembly factors for complex IV (see Figure 5). All of them increased expression of APOE between ~10-40 fold. These experiments stress the point that the integrity of complex IV is necessary to maintain APOE levels in cells.

5. In the present form of the manuscript it is not clear how authors view the mode of APOE overexpression – apart from experiments showing an increase in APOE mRNA abundance there are no experiments explaining if it is due to an increase in transcription and/or mRNA stability. There are also no experiments and discussion on APOE regulation on the level of translation/degradation.

This are interesting suggestions that would require extensive experimentation in several mutants. We think such experiments would be appropriate for a different manuscript. We hope the reviewer will grant us a waiver of this extensive experimentation that we feel will not change the main point we are making in this submission.

Reviewer #2 (Recommendations for the authors):

Overall, this' work is innovative for identifying dysfunctional mitochondria that can increase APOE in diverse cell types and an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. This work provides insights into how mitochondria dysfunction may influence brain and cognition function partially through modulation of APOE. While exciting, some key questions are unanswered. First, what specifically triggers increased APOE expression in the setting of various mitochondrial insults is not clear. Additionally, it is not clear how mitochondrial dysfunction is signaled to increase the expression of APOE from the nuclear genome, although some mechanisms, such as AMPK and the integrated stress response are ruled out. Finally, it is not clear what function up-regulating APOE in response to mitochondrial dysfunction serves and whether this response is adaptive or maladaptive. This study nonetheless establishes a novel link between mitochondrial dysfunction and APOE in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

While innovative and the conclusions are generally well supported and described, the manuscript would be enhanced by clarifying some unclear statements and a few additional experiments to support the authors' major findings.

1. The authors demonstrate that several mitochondrial perturbations lead to APOE increases, but a unifying mitochondrial deficit among these is not identified as the trigger of APOE increase. This should be further explored with further experiments to manipulate electron transport and/or mitochondrial membrane potential. For instance, hypoxia increases APOE, which might point to decreased electron transport as a common trigger? Can decreased mitochondrial membrane potential cause APOE increase. The authors could test whether oligomycin + antimycin has a stronger effect than antimycin treatment alone, as the addition of the F1FO-ATP synthase inhibitor will keep it from running in reverse to maintain MMP in the setting of decreased electron transport. Similarly, the authors could test whether mitochondrial uncouplers such as FCCP or BAM15 similarly increase APOE expression. These dissipate the MMP but increase electron transport.

These are great suggestions. We tested the effects of FCCP, piericidin A, and oligomycin in wild type HAP1 cells. The expression of APOE was increased in piericidin A- and oligomycin-treated cells (Figure S6G). These data support a model where the function and integrity of the electron transport chain modulate APOE expression. Furthermore, the lack of effect of FCCP on APOE levels adds new strength to our assertion that the increase APOE after electron transport chain disruption is independent of the mitochondrial stress response.

We did not test a combination of oligomycin + antimycin since the 48h incubation would kill cells. We added new data that include several new assembly factors for complex IV and demonstrate defects in the integrity of the electron transport chain in SLC25A4 KO HAP1 cells and triple ADP/ATP carrier mutant HEK293 cells. These data support the hypothesis that the integrity of the electron transport chain is a factor that controls the expression of APOE.

2. Relatedly, it is suggested that the mechanistic link between SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 and APOE increase is through destabilization of respiratory complexes, in particular CIII, as well as higher-order complexes containing complexes I, III, and/or IV. To support this model in Figures 3C and D, the authors show changes in higher order respiratory complexes by BN-PAGE. The effect of SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 on the respiratory complexes, however, remains unclear. Depending on the detergent used different supercomplexes are stabilized (e.g., CI containing supercomplexes are better stabilized by Triton-X100 or digitonin compared to DDM). I was not able to find which detergent was used in these experiments, but it would be worth checking for supercomplexes using the milder detergents Triton-X100 or digitonin if this was not done. Also, only SLC25A1 KO is explored in this experiment. The authors should also assess SLC25A4. Finally, it is notable that in Figure 1K among the few shared differentially regulated proteins between SLC25A1 and SLC25A4 KO is COX7A2L in addition to CIII subunits. As COX7A2L is known to stabilize CIII-CIV within supercomplexes, the authors should explore whether this is part of the mechanism explaining the decreased formation of higher order complexes.

The description of the detergent was misplaced in the “Preparing cell lysates for immunoblot” section of the prior version. We have amended the text and these details are now in the Blue Native section of the revised version.

The data in Figure 3B were obtained with digitonin. New blue native data in in SLC25A4 KO HAP1 cells and triple ADP/ATP carrier mutant HEK293 cells use either DDM or digitonin to show the effects on these mutations on supercomplexes.

The suggestion of testing COX7A2L mutants is an outstanding idea. We tested this mutant in HEK293 cells in conjunction with a collection of complex IV assembly factor mutants. All these mutants are isogenic. COX7A2L does not change the expression of APOE (Figure 5B). However, all other complex IV assembly factors increase APOE levels >10 fold. We conclude that the formation of a COX7A2L-assisted III-IV complex does not affect the levels of APOE but the integrity of complex IV is necessary to maintain APOE expression.

3. The physiologic significance of increased APOE in response to mitochondrial dysfunction remains unclear. In figure 1, it is established that conditioned media from WT cells promotes the growth of WT and SLC25A1 KO cells while conditioned media from SLC25A1 KO cells promotes the growth of WT but not SLC25A1 KO cells. This is interpreted in the discussion to suggest that "APOE dependent removal of toxic factors [from, e.g., SLC25A1 KO cells] may be the mechanism" (in ln 619 – 621). However, it's not clear whether this is why WT conditioned media rescues the growth of SLC25A1 KO cells or whether conditioned media from SLC25A1 KO cells promotes the growth of WT cells? Don't these results suggest that WT-conditioned media is providing something missing from SLC25A1 KO media that promotes the growth of SLC25A1 cells? Additionally, it remains very speculative that this factor is related to APOE. Does knockdown of APOE from either WT or SLC25A1 cells influence the effect of the conditioned media in this assay?

We agree with the reviewer that it is not possible to conclude that "APOE dependent removal of toxic factors [from, e.g., SLC25A1 KO cells] may be the mechanism". We intended this sentence as a speculation in the discussion. We have amended the text to clearly indicate this is a speculation. Concerning the interpretation of the reviewer that “WT-conditioned media is providing something missing from SLC25A1 KO media that promotes the growth of SLC25A1 cells”, we agree that this is an alternative explanation. We concur with the reviewer that the generation of SLC25A1 and APOE double KO (DKO) cells would allow us to resolve between these two hypotheses. We are in the process of generating these DKO mutants. This will take a couple of months followed by clone isolation and their characterization. We hope the DKO clones will survive. While this is doable, the experiments in Figure 1A took 6 months once the clones were at hand and characterized as there is a need for big amounts of media collected for these experiments. This will put us with a potential answer in about a year. We would like to request a waiver for this experimental suggestion due to the prolonged nature of these experiments just to address an interesting but speculative point.

Reviewer #3 (Recommendations for the authors):

This study uses multiple systems approaches using cell lines deleted for two mitochondrial carriers and identifies changes in the secretome at the transcriptional and proteome level. Among these changes, increased ApoE transcription, protein level and secretion appeared particularly interesting and conserved, leading the authors to expand their study to several other conditions of mitochondrial dysfunction. The authors analyze cell lines deleted for components of the respiratory chain, for genes involved in copper trafficking, and for astrocytes treated with mitochondrial poisons, and demonstrate increased secretion of ApoE in all these conditions, albeit in very different amounts. In addition, they correlate ApoE levels in the brain of a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease with decreased mitochondrial dysfunction. Since alleles of ApoE are known risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, the results are of potential interest.

The weakness of the study is that data are entirely correlative and there is no attempt to understand the causal relationship between mitochondrial dysfunction and increased ApoE transcription and secretion.

1) The statement that SLC25A1Δ cells condition media differently than wild-type cells is not supported by the data. If this were the case, the conditioned media of SLC25A1Δ cells would affect differently also WT cells. Instead, it seems from the data that the dialyzed SLC25A1Δ conditioned medium lacks some metabolite that cannot be produced by SLC25A1Δ cells. Since this effect is only evident with the dialyzed medium it is unlikely that it can be attributed to ApoE. Moreover, to really appreciate the data of Figure 1A. graphs should show the y-axis starting from 0 and show WT and KO cells in the same graph normalized to WT. How different is the growth of SLC25A1Δ cells?

We understand a metabolite as small organic molecules (molecular weight < 1500 Da, Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry 8th Edition). If this is the definition used by the reviewer, then we do not agree with the reviewer interpretation that “SLC25A1Δ conditioned medium lacks some metabolite that cannot be produced by SLC25A1Δ cells”. The reviewer’s hypothesis predicts that wild type dialyzed media should not support the growth of SLC25A1 KO cells, as such putative metabolite produced only by wild type cells would be dialyzed away. In contrast, wild type dialyzed media rescues the growth phenotype.

Concerning the statement “Since this effect is only evident with the dialyzed medium it is unlikely that it can be attributed to ApoE”. We do not agree with the reviewer. The dialysis membrane we used has a cut-off of 10kDa. APOE is 34 kDa. Thus, APOE cannot be dialyzed away.

We have modified the graphs as suggested by the reviewer showing the 0 at the y-axis. In the previous version of Figure 1A data were presented in a log2 y axis scale, now data are in a linear scale.

The reviewer asked us to present data in Figure 1A all normalized to wild type cells. We would like to request for a waiver of this request. Wild type and SLC25A1 KO cells differ in growth by 30%. We seed equal number of cells at day 0 and wait for two days to measure cell amounts after conditioned media treatments. After two days, cell numbers will be low in mutants as compared to wild types in untreated cells.

We split graphs between wild type and SLC25A1 KO cells because we opted for a statistical hypothesis testing with 2-Way ANOVA followed by multiple comparisons testing. Our 2-way ANOVA focuses on the variables conditioned media type (wild type or mutant) and plus-minus dialysis. The experiment was powered to 99.9% with n=5 for these two variables. If we merge the two graphs it will change the statistical design by adding as a variable cell genotype. Cell genotype is a variable that we are not interested in as we know mutant cells grow at a slower pace. By adding cell genotype, we would need to perform a 3-Way ANOVA. If we add cell genotype as a variable and perform 3-Way ANOVA, the current data presented in Figure 1A would become powered to a ~51%. We would have to do the experiment with n=10 to achieve a power of 99.3%. As a point of reference, the experiments in Figure 1A took 6 months due to the need to grow cells in large batches. We hope the reviewer will see our predicament.

We think that the suggested change of adding cell genotype as a variable will not alter the whole body of work presented in this manuscript. The only point we want to make is very simple: there are differences in the conditioned media between wild type and mutant cells. Finally, we would like to stress that our approach and analysis is no different from the one used by other investigators (for example see (O'Brien et al., 2000) and (Guttenplan et al., 2021))

2) Levels of ApoE in the lysate and media from different cell lines and experimental conditions range from 80ng/microg to 3pg/mg, depending on the cell line examined. The authors should comment on this high variability, especially since they try to make the case that this ApoE secretion is relevant across many models of mitochondrial dysfunction. Is this physiologically relevant in all cases?

We thank the reviewer for noticing this. We found there was a mixed up between Symbol and Arial font confusing µg and mg in our transitions between Mac and PC computers. All determinations should have been expressed as pg/µg of lysate. We amended all figures. Now the range of concentrations is within one order of magnitude. Cell lines secrete APOE at about ~1-10 x 104 pg/µg lysate while human iPSC-derived astrocytes secrete ~70 x 104 pg/µg lysate. Thus, we think our APOE determinations in cell lines are within a range physiological for human astrocytes, the cells that express the most APOE in brain. We have added this information to the Results section.

3) In Figure 3C, the Coomassie stained gels and the blotted ones appear very different. Also, the molecular weight markers indicate different runs, so it is unclear why there are these big differences in the western blots, but much less is apparent in the Coomassie and in panel D. The positions of the complexes should be indicated also on the Coomassie gel. I could not find an indication in the methods about the amount and type of detergent used. Are these performed using DDM or digitonin? How many times have these experiments been repeated?

We apologize for misplacing the critical information about detergent. We used digitonin in Figure 3B. We amended the text.

The differences between blots and the Coomassie we believe is due to the fact that we used a P2 mitochondrial-enriched fraction rather than isolated mitochondria. The Coomassie and blots in Figure 3B are from the same run. However, we cut the gel in two pieces, one for blotting and one for staining. We did this because the commercial MW standards for Coomassie were not suitable for MW determinations in immunoblot. We solved this issue in new Figures4 and S2 where we implemented most of the reviewer suggestions. We used DDM and digitonin. DDM was utilized to reveal multicomplexes sensitive to DDM. Furthermore, we used the same gel for Coomassie and blotting as we developed our own MW standards suitable for both Coomassie and blotting. We also changed the antibody to detect complex I to NDUFB11. We noticed that the anti NDUFS3 used in Figure 3B did not react with all complex I species in Blue Native blots.

Experiments were done twice as one dimension BN electrophoresis and once as a 2D gel.

4) In several parts of the manuscript, the authors argue that the changes in the secretome were equivalent to changes in the mitochondrial proteome as evidence for the relevance of the observed changes in the secretome. This argument seems rather weak since these omics changes can reflect a direct effect of a gene loss as well as very downstream events.

The assertion that changes in “the secretome were equivalent to changes in the mitochondrial proteome” just indicates that the number of differentially expressed proteins belonging to the annotated secretome and mitochondrial proteome is similar in their fold of enrichment even when the mutated genes are mitochondrial. We find this interesting and novel as there are few examples of secreted factors whose expression level goes up in mitochondrial mutants, such as mitokines (FGF21 and GDF15) and α-fetoprotein. The assertion does not intend to make any claims as to whether these changes are direct or indirect for either the secretome or the mitochondrial proteome. We have revised the text to make clear this point and prevent unintended interpretations of this statement.

Ultimately, what would be really important here is to demonstrate how this increased secretion of ApoE occurs and dissect at least in part how mitochondrial dysfunction affects ApoE expression transcriptionally.

Like the reviewer, we are very interested in the mechanism that connects the disruption of the electron transport chain and the nuclear expression of APOE and its secretion. We suspect that the connection between mitochondria and the expression of APOE is a novel pathway. Thus, the reviewer suggestion could be answered by an unbiased CRISPR screen looking for suppressors or enhancers of the APOE secretion phenotype. We want to do this because our candidate approach excluded several options (Figure 2, S4, S5, and S6).

We have invested most of our efforts to define triggering events at the mitochondria. A chief focus is the loss of integrity and function of the electron transport chain. In our view this is the first link in a cascade of molecular events. We would like to quote Peter Novick who stated that “a pathway of a hundred genes starts with a single mutant…” (Novick, 2014). In our case, we have deployed 14 mutants that compromise the integrity of the electron transport chain as a first step. We hope that a CRISPR screen will give us the other “hundred genes”. The magnitude of such an effort exceeds what could be done in a reasonable time. We hope the reviewer will side with us.

5) The last part of the manuscript correlates changes in the transcriptome, proteome, and interactome of SLC25A1Δ cells with the cognitive progression of AD patients. As the authors write, it is already known that AD patients' cognitive decline negatively correlates with mitochondrial function. Although catching, these data remain very correlative, and also not very surprising.

The correlation described by our collaborator Dr. Wingo is driven by 11 mitochondrial hub proteins, five of them subunits of complex I. Our findings expand this to orthogonal datasets where the hub gene is SLC25A1. These datasets are larger than the 11 hub proteins. For example, the SLC25A1 interactome is 75 proteins which are sufficient to drive the correlation. This is new and exciting information using hypothesis driven interrogation of the human Banner dataset rather than discovery proteomics as done by our collaborator in (Wingo et al., 2019). The perception of novelty is shared by our co-author, Dr. Wingo, who made the initial discovery.

Concerning, the criticism that the “data remain very correlative”, we agree. However, we do not know other way to do this on human postmortem samples where experimental options are limited. To assure the reviewer that correlative expression analyses are a sound approach, we have done hypothesis-driven interrogation of our 5xFAD mouse proteome. We tested two predictions of our model that disruption of respiratory complexes is causally linked to increased APOE. Namely, that the expression of respiratory complexes negatively correlates with the expression of APOE in a 5xFAD genotype-dependent manner. The second prediction is that disruption of respiratory complexes should precede the increase of APOE in the 5xFAD mouse model during aging. Both predictions are satisfied by the new analyses. These new findings are now presented in Figure 7.

6) In Figure S1, why is AICAR not increasing pAMPK in WT cells?

We titrated the amount of AICAR to concentrations below IC25 lethal dose for SLC25A1 mutant cells. The AICAR needed to have an effect in wild type cells is likely to kill mutant cells.

7) The title emphasizes copper-dependent and independent mitochondrial dysfunction. This puts an emphasis on copper metabolism that is totally unnecessary. The rationale all over the paper for the choice of models to use is not always very clear.

We have amended the text to explain the rationale of our choices of mutants and modified the title of the paper. We thank the reviewer for his/her suggestion to make our title more concise and precise.

8) The scheme in Figure4B should be redrawn to show Cox17 in the IMS.

We have done as indicated.

[Editors’ note: what follows is the authors’ response to the second round of review.]

The manuscript has been improved but there are some remaining issues that need to be addressed, as outlined below:

The authors should aim to specify the mode of APOE abundance regulation (the original comment no 5 of Reviewer 1) with some basic experiments and a short discussion. For example, for the HAP1 SLC25A1 mutant, the increase in mRNA is 3-fold but the increase in APOE cell lysate concentration is almost 8-fold. These minor revisions may include experiments with protein degradation inhibitors to evaluate a potential regulation of the level of degradation.

We thank the editors for this interesting suggestion. We screened diverse drugs, their concentrations, and time of incubation. We searched for optimal conditions that would not compromise cell viability while allowing us to detect APOE in cell lysates and conditioned media. We found that the 8 hours of media conditioning was the shortest time where we could detect APOE levels differences observed between wild type and SLC25A1 null cells.

We used as benchmarks brefeldin A and cycloheximide because the mechanism of these two drugs made clear predictions of their effects in APOE content in cell lysates and conditioned media. For example, brefeldin A abrogated the presence of APOE from media while increasing cellular APOE levels 3-fold in both genotypes (Figure 2-supplement 1). To address the editors request, we used the lysosomal inhibitor E-64 (PMID: 7039681). We selected this lysosomal inhibitor because it did not compromise the viability of our wild type and mutant cells at concentrations used in the literature to inhibit cathepsins (PMID: 27592448- 29386126). E-64 did not modify APOE content in media from both genotypes (Figure 2-supplement 1). However, it modestly increased APOE by 20% in SLC25A1 null cells. We think these experiments make unlikely a contribution of lysosomal degradation to APOE levels.

We also tried other proteolysis inhibitors yet those prove to be toxic to cells.

The manuscript would benefit from streamlining and focusing. The authors could not dissect a mechanism, but could convincingly show that ApoE upregulation occurs across several models with different respiratory dysfunction. This should be at the center of the manuscript.

We thank the editors for this comment. We tried to address it by pointing in every section of the manuscript the main conclusion ‘genetic and pharmacological disruption of the electron transport chain causes upregulation apolipoprotein E (APOE)’. We hope that by stating this conclusion along the manuscript, we have achieved an enhanced focus.

The sentence in the Abstract: "This upregulation of secretory proteins was of similar extent as modifications to the mitochondrial annotated proteome" is confusing and prone to misunderstanding and should be rephrased.

We have done as requested. We also modified similar statements in the body of the manuscript.

The claim that changes in cholesterol synthesis are not involved is too strong. The authors have not formally proved that this is not the case in δ SLC25A1 cells. It is possible that it is beneficial for cells with respiratory defects to increase APOE secretion, but different mutants achieve this with different mechanisms.

We agree with the editors, we have softened this and similar statements accordingly.

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    Data Citations

    1. Crocker A, Faundez V. 2022. APOE Expression and Secretion are Modulated by Copper-Dependent and -Independent Mitochondrial Dysfunction. NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus. GSE201889
    2. Faundez V 2023. Faundez Comparison of 2 Cell lines (Hek and Hep) ProteomeXchange. PXD038974
    3. Faundez V 2023. Faundez TMT 12 samples - 2 batches with 24 fractions each. ProteomeXchange. PXD017501

    Supplementary Materials

    Figure 2—source data 1. Original blots.
    Figure 2—source data 2. Original blots.
    Figure 3—source data 1. Original gels and blots.
    Figure 3—source data 2. Original gels and blots.
    Figure 3—figure supplement 1—source data 1. Original gels and blots.
    Figure 3—figure supplement 1—source data 2. Original gels and blots.
    Figure 3—figure supplement 3—source data 1. Original blots.
    Figure 3—figure supplement 3—source data 2. Original gels and blots.
    Figure 4—source data 1. Original gels and blots.
    Figure 4—source data 2. Original gels and blots.
    Figure 5—figure supplement 2—source data 1. Original blots.
    Figure 5—figure supplement 2—source data 2. Original blots.
    Figure 5—figure supplement 5—source data 1. Original blots.
    Figure 5—figure supplement 5—source data 2. Original blots.
    Supplementary file 1. Raw Data for Proteomics, Transcriptomics and Gene Ontologies.
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    Data Availability Statement

    The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRIDE (Deutsch et al., 2020) partner repository with dataset identifiers: PXD038974 and PXD017501. RNAseq data were deposited in GEO with accession GSE201889.

    The following datasets were generated:

    Crocker A, Faundez V. 2022. APOE Expression and Secretion are Modulated by Copper-Dependent and -Independent Mitochondrial Dysfunction. NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus. GSE201889

    Faundez V 2023. Faundez Comparison of 2 Cell lines (Hek and Hep) ProteomeXchange. PXD038974

    Faundez V 2023. Faundez TMT 12 samples - 2 batches with 24 fractions each. ProteomeXchange. PXD017501


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