Abstract
Dynamic control of thioredoxin (Trx) oxidoreductase activity is essential for balancing the need of cells to rapidly respond to oxidative/nitrosative stress and to temporally regulate thiol-based redox signaling. We have previously shown that cytokine stimulation of the respiratory epithelium induces a precipitous decline in cell S-nitrosothiol, which depends upon enhanced Trx activity and proteasome-mediated degradation of Txnip (thioredoxin-interacting protein). We now show that tumor necrosis factor-α–induced Txnip degradation in A549 respiratory epithelial cells is regulated by the extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK) mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway and that ERK inhibition augments both intracellular reactive oxygen species and S-nitrosothiol. ERK-dependent Txnip ubiquitination and proteasome degradation depended upon phosphorylation of a PXTP motif threonine (Thr349) located within the C-terminal α-arrestin domain and proximal to a previously characterized E3 ubiquitin ligase–binding site. Collectively, these findings demonstrate the ERK mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway to be integrally involved in regulating Trx oxidoreductase activity and that the regulation of Txnip lifetime via ERK-dependent phosphorylation is an important mediator of this effect.
Keywords: thioredoxin, extracellular-signal-regulated kinase (ERK), proteasome, ubiquitylation (ubiquitination), nitrosative stress, oxidative stress, epithelial cell
Introduction
Txnip (thioredoxin-interacting protein) is an α-arrestin family protein which functions in the regulation of thioredoxin (Trx)2 activity. Txnip inhibits Trx oxidoreductase activity through an intermolecular disulfide bond formation involving the Trx dithiol active site Cys32 (1). Increased cell Txnip expression results in oxidative stress, and augmented Txnip expression has been demonstrated in a number of pathologic conditions (e.g. diabetes, sepsis) in which redox homeostasis is known to be altered (2). Furthermore, the NO-dependent decrease in Txnip expression protects cytokine-stimulated macrophages from nitrosative injury via an increase in Trx denitrosylase activity (3). On the other hand, Txnip has been suggested to be a tumor suppressor and enhancer of apoptosis (4, 5), and reduced expression of Txnip is associated with poor prognosis in liver and bladder cancers, among others (6, 7).
The Txnip gene promoter contains antioxidant-response elements, which respond to oxidative stress (via the Keap1–Nrf2 pathway) and negatively regulate Txnip transcription (8). However, intracellular Txnip levels are also controlled by ubiquitination and proteasome degradation, which allows for expediency in augmenting Trx oxidoreductase activity (9). Txnip ubiquitination is mediated by the E3 ligase ITCH, which interacts with two PPXY motifs in the C-terminal region of the protein (5). Interestingly, tyrosine phosphorylation within the PPXY motif inhibits rather than promotes ITCH binding, implicating another signaling mechanism by which Txnip is targeted for ubiquitination and proteasome degradation (10).
The extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK) pathway has been shown to play a role in protecting the cell from oxidative injury with proposed impact on several different molecular pathways (11, 12). For example, ERK has also been shown to enhance NF-κB activation by targeting substrates in both the cytoplasm and nucleus (13, 14). In the respiratory epithelium, we have previously shown that Txnip undergoes rapid proteasome-dependent degradation in response to TNFα stimulation (15). We now show that cytokine-induced Txnip degradation depends upon the ERK kinase pathway, which facilitates Txnip ubiquitination via phosphorylation of a PXTP motif threonine located in the C-terminal region of the protein. The decline in cell Txnip results in an increase in Trx oxidoreductase activity and subsequent decrease in cell ROS and SNO.
Results
TNFα-induced Txnip degradation is ERK-dependent
We have previously shown that TNFα stimulation of A549 respiratory epithelial cells induces a rapid decrease in cell Txnip levels with concomitant increase in Trx denitrosylase activity (15). Given that the ERK kinase pathway has been shown to regulate redox-sensitive pathways (11, 12), we investigated whether ERK activity functions to mediate TNFα-induced Txnip degradation in the respiratory epithelium and thus serves as a regulator of Trx oxidoreductase activity. Pretreatment of A549 cells with the MEK (ERK 1/2) inhibitor U0126 prevented TNFα-induced Txnip degradation 1 h poststimulation (Fig. 1, A and B). Interestingly, A549 cells showed significant ERK activity at baseline (as demonstrated by phosphorylated ERK substrate) and U0126 treatment induced a slight increase in Txnip levels above baseline. Treatment with the proteasome inhibitor MG132 prevented TNFα-induced Txnip degradation, consistent with our previous observations (15), and abrogated the effect of ERK inhibition. These data indicate that the ERK pathway plays a crucial role in regulating Txnip expression with the process dependent upon the proteasome.
The stimulus-regulated degradation of Txnip protein likely reflects a need for cells to rapidly augment Trx oxidoreductase activity as necessitated by stress-induced redox-signaling and as a means to protect the cell from oxidative and nitrosative stress. In this regard, Txnip has been shown to have a short half-life in vivo that is primarily governed by proteasome degradation (5). We have shown that the acute decline in A549 cell Txnip levels after TNFα stimulation depends upon enhanced Txnip ubiquitination and subsequent proteasome degradation (15). Treatment of A549 cells with the ERK kinase inhibitor U0126 prevented the TNFα-induced increase in Txnip ubiquitination (Fig. 1C). Moreover, ERK inhibition attenuated Txnip ubiquitination even under nonstressed, basal conditions that correlated with changes in Txnip expression (Fig. 1, A and B). Collectively, these data indicate ERK to be a principal regulator of Txnip proteasome degradation under both tonic- and stimulus-mediated conditions.
Trx oxidoreductase activity is regulated by ERK
Txnip inhibits Trx oxidoreductase activity by binding to the active site dithiol (1), and we have previously shown TNFα-induced Txnip degradation coincides with an increase in Trx denitrosylase activity in A549 cells with a concomitant decrease in intracellular SNO (15). Given the demonstrated role of ERK in regulating cell Txnip levels, we sought to determine whether there was a resultant impact on Trx activity. Using photolysis–chemiluminescence to quantify intracellular SNO, we found SNO levels in A549 cells to be decreased after TNFα stimulation with inhibition of the ERK pathway reversing this effect (Fig. 2A). Although intracellular ROS were unchanged in A549 cells after TNFα stimulation (likely because of concomitant increase in ROS production) (16), treatment with the ERK kinase inhibitor U0126 did increase ROS levels both at baseline and after TNFα stimulation (Fig. 2B). Moreover, Trx disulfide reductase activity was augmented with TNFα stimulation with the effect attenuated by ERK kinase inhibition (Fig. 2C). Importantly, we saw no change in Trx1 protein expression with either ERK inhibition or TNFα stimulation (Fig. 2D and Fig. S1). These data indicate that the ERK kinase pathway functions to regulate Trx activity primarily by controlling degradation of Txnip.
Thr349 is a target of ERK kinase
The role of phosphorylation in modulating ubiquitin-dependent proteaseomal degradation is well-known, and tyrosine phosphorylation of conserved PPXY motifs in Txnip have been shown to disrupt binding of the E3 ubiquitin ligase ITCH (5, 10). We used MS to identify potential sites of ERK-mediated phosphorylation. N-terminal FLAG-tagged Txnip (TxnipWT) was expressed in A549 cells, and Txnip immunoprecipitates (IPs) were separated by SDS-PAGE and analyzed by LC/tandem MS (GeLC–MS/MS), with or without enrichment for phosphopeptides using titanium dioxide. Despite achieving >70% sequence coverage of Txnip, including the first PPXY motif (Fig. 3A), we detected phosphorylation of only a single peptide, spanning residues 344–371 of Txnip. Although this peptide had a total of six potential acceptor Ser, Thr, and Tyr sites, there was a 95% probability of localization on Thr349 based on Ascore analysis of the MS/MS spectrum (Fig. 3B) (17). In addition, examination of the extracted ion chromatogram for this peptide suggested that there was a single species (Fig. 3C), whereas phosphopeptides containing differing sites of localization can often be resolved by LC (18). We also noted that among sites of phosphorylation that have identified in unbiased MS analyses (as compiled in the Phosphosite database; www.phosphosite.org; Ref. 33),3 pThr349 (annotated in 10 studies) was second only to the PPXY motif target pTyr378 (Fig. 3D; data not shown).
Thr349 is located within a canonical PX(S/T)P motif preferred by MAP kinases (including ERK; Fig. 3A). To confirm the phosphorylation at this site, we immunoprecipitated TxnipWT and T349V Txnip (Txnip349V) protein expressed in A549 cells followed by immunoblotting with PXpTP-specific antibody. We found that TxnipWT had basal PXTP phosphorylation that was attenuated by treatment with ERK inhibitor and modestly enhanced by TNFα stimulation (Fig. 4A). On the other hand, PXTP phosphorylation was not detectable in the Txnip349V IP at baseline or after TNFα stimulation, indicating Thr349 to be the kinase effector site. To determine whether Txnip Thr349 is phosphorylated by direct interaction with ERK, we performed an in vitro ERK kinase assay with TxnipWT and Txnip349V expressed in A549 cells and purified by IP. ERK-mediated PXTP phosphorylation was observed only with WT substrate and not the T349V mutant substrate (Fig. 4, B and C). Thus, our results establish that Thr349 is the only PXpTP motif site in Txnip and that this site is directly targeted by ERK for phosphorylation.
ERK-dependent degradation of Txnip is modulated by Txnip phosphorylation
To determine whether phosphorylation of Thr349 facilitates Txnip protein degradation, we performed cyclohexamide (CHX) chase assays on A549 cells expressing either TxnipWT or Txnip349V. Degradation of TxnipWT was observed at 30 and 60 min post-CHX, with TNF enhancing and ERK inhibition attenuating the process, respectively (Fig. 5, A and B). On the other hand, the degradation of Txnip349V was not significantly altered by either TNFα stimulation or treatment with ERK inhibitor.
We next evaluated the effects of Thr349 mutation on Txnip ubiquitination. Consistent with the effects on Txnip protein degradation, TNFα stimulation significantly enhanced ubiquitination of TxnipWT protein but induced no change in Txnip349V ubiquitination (Fig. 6, A and B). Collectively, these findings establish the importance of the ERK kinase pathway in regulating cell Txnip expression and identify a specific molecular signaling mechanism (phosphorylation of Txnip Thr349) by which ERK targets Txnip for ubiquitination and proteasome degradation with the resultant downstream effect being augmentation of Trx oxidoreductase activity.
Discussion
In the context of redox signaling and under conditions of acute oxidative or nitrosative stress, it is essential that cells have the capability to expeditiously enhance Trx oxidoreductase activity. In this regard, Txnip, an inhibitor of Trx activity and a protein with a half-life tightly regulated by the proteasome, is an ideal mediator. We have previously shown that in the respiratory epithelium, which expresses both constitutive and inducible nitric-oxide synthase (19, 20), TNFα induces rapid ubiquitination and proteasome degradation of Txnip concurrent with an increase in Trx denitrosylase activity (15). We now show this response to be mediated by the ERK signaling pathway and that phosphorylation of a single threonine residue in Txnip is critical for the effect. The ERK pathway has long been known to play a protective role in both oxidative and nitrosative cell injury (21, 22). In the respiratory epithelium, oxidant-induced Nrf2 nuclear translocation and antioxidant-response element–dependent gene transcription has been shown to be dependent on ERK activity (12). Although Trx expression is regulated, in part, by Nrf2, in the current study we saw no change in Trx expression in A549 cells with either TNFα stimulation or ERK inhibition (Fig. 2D). Rather, the change in Trx activity occurred in conjunction with modification in cellular levels of the Trx inhibitor Txnip.
Regulation of intracellular Txnip levels occurs predominantly through enhanced proteasome degradation. The E3 ubiquitin protein ligase ITCH targets Txnip for ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation with two PPXY motifs located in the C-terminal region of Txnip instrumental in ITCH–Txnip protein interaction (5, 10). Phosphorylation of these tyrosine residues inhibits ITCH–Txnip interaction, thus prolonging the half-life of the protein (10). Interestingly, we did not detect phosphorylation of either tyrosine in our phosphoprotein analysis nor did mutation of the ERK-targeted PXTP phosphorylation site (Thr349) alter ITCH binding to Txnip (Fig. S2). It is possible that the observed increase in Txnip ubiquitination may be the result of Thr349 phosphorylation enhancing transfer of ubiquitin from the E2-conjugating enzyme irrespective of attenuation in ITCH–Txnip interaction. Txnip now joins a growing list of proteins, including c-Myc, STAT1, and the tumor suppressor protein FBW7, in which ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation are regulated by ERK-dependent phosphorylation (23–25).
Our results further emphasize the importance of Txnip interaction with Trx in regulating cell ROS and SNOs. Under conditions of oxidative stress, Txnip interaction with Trx-2 in the mitochondria results in activation of ASK1 (Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1) and the induction of apoptosis (26). Txnip-induced increase in ROS has also been demonstrated to augment mitophagy and autophagy with signaling, at least in part, via the mTOR pathway (27, 28). In turn, ROS have been shown to induce Txnip dissociation from Trx with subsequent binding to NLRP3 and activation of the inflammasome (29). Although we and others have shown Txnip to inhibit the pro-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic NF-κB pathway by attenuating Trx activity (6, 15), in the present study we saw no change in TNFα-induced NF-κB activity despite the observed decrease in Txnip degradation with ERK inhibition (Fig. S3). ERK inhibition has been shown to enhance NF-κB activity by increasing phosphorylation of the p65 subunit, which could explain these findings (30). Nevertheless, it is clear that Txnip–Trx interaction is important in regulating the immune response, with manipulation in this interaction holding promise as a therapeutic maneuver in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
Experimental procedures
Reagents
Antibodies were purchased from the following vendors: Txnip rabbit polyclonal (Invitrogen); Txnip mouse monoclonal (MBL International); ERK1/2, phospho-ERK1/2, and phospho-MAPK substrate (PXTP) rabbit polyclonal antibodies (Cell Signaling); IκBα (C-21), NF-κB p65 (C-20), α-tubulin (B-7), Lamin A (H-102), and β-actin (C-11) (Santa Cruz Biotechnology). Other reagents were purchased from the following vendors: MEK1/2 inhibitor U0126 and MG132 (Cell Signaling), cycloheximide (Cayman Chemical), ERK2 kinase (Millipore Sigma), phosphatase inhibitors (Abcam), and TNFα (Peprotech). All other reagents were purchased from Sigma unless otherwise indicated.
Cell culture
A549 (CCL-185) cells were grown in F12K medium (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 units/ml penicillin, and 100 μg/ml streptomycin. HEK 293-T cells were grown in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 units/ml penicillin, and 100 μg/ml streptomycin. All cultures were maintained in 95% air, 5% CO2 at 37 °C. For the Txnip overexpression experiments, the cells were infected with lentivirus Txnip expression vectors, and positive transduction was confirmed by puromycin resistance (5.0 μg/ml concentration). After puromycin selection, cell stocks were prepared and stored in liquid nitrogen for later use. Whole cell, cytoplasmic, and nuclear lysates were prepared as previously described (15). Protein concentration of cell extracts was determined by BCA (Pierce).
Thioredoxin activity assays
Total cell SNOs were quantified in A549 protein lysates using photolysis–chemiluminescence as previously described (15). Quantification of intracellular ROS was determined using a cell-permeable fluorescent dye (cellular ROS detection assay kit; Abcam). A549 cells were grown on 96-well plates and loaded with dye followed by the addition of MEK1/2 inhibitor and TNFα. Fluorescence was then measured using a multiwall fluorimeter (excitation, 520; emission, 605 nm).
Trx oxidoreductase activity was measured using a fluorescence-labeled insulin substrate kit (Cayman Chemical). Briefly, cell lysates were preincubated in a 96-well plate with 0.9 mm NADPH for 10 min at 37 °C, after which eosin-labeled insulin was added. Fluorescence intensity was then quantified on a multiwall fluorimeter (excitation, 485; emission, 520 nm) with measurements recorded every 5 min for 50 min to determine the rate of insulin disulfide reduction.
ERK kinase assay
A549 cells were infected with lentivirus that expressed either C-terminally FLAG-tagged TxnipWT or Txnip349V. Txnip was immunoprecipitated from cell lysate with anti–FLAG-agarose, resuspended in kinase buffer (20 mm HEPES, 10 mm MG132, 0.1% Nonidet P-40, 2 mm DTT, protease and phosphatase inhibitors, 500 μm ATP), and treated with ERK2 kinase (5 ng/μL, 60 min, 30 °C). Proteins were then eluted from agarose beads and separated by SDS-PAGE, and PXTP were immunoblots prepared from IP eluate.
Immunoprecipitation
A549 cells were lysed in IP buffer (0.1% Nonidet P-40, 150 mm NaCl, 10 mm Na2HPO4, 2 mm EDTA, protease inhibitors). Anti-DYKDDDDK affinity resin (BioLegend) and anti-ubiquitin TUBE resin (LifeSensor) was used to isolate FLAG-tagged Txnip and ubiquitinated proteins, respectively. Resin was washed extensively with IP buffer, and proteins were eluted by boiling in Laemmli buffer and separated by SDS-PAGE followed by Western blotting.
Txnip lentivirus construction
N-terminal FLAG-tagged Txnip was amplified from human Txnip cDNA (IMAGE clone 7939547) by PCR using the primers: 5′-NheI_FLAG_TXNIP (5′-GCC GTC GCT AGC ACC ATG GAC TAC AAA GAC GAT GAC GAC AAG ATG GTG ATG TTCA AGA AG-3′) and 3′-TXNIP_NotI (5′-GCT TAA GCG GCC GCT CAC TGC ACA TTG TTG TTG AGG-3′) and ligated into the NheI and NotI endonuclease sites of the pCDH-CMV-MCS-EF1-puro vector (System Biosciences). Mutation of Txnip threonine 349 (to valine) was performed using QuikChange site-directed mutagenesis kits (Agilent Technologies) using the following forward and reverse primers: 5′-CGA TTG GAG AGC CCA ACC GTT CCT CTG CTA GAT GAC AT-3′ and 5′-ATG TCA TCT AGC AGA GGA ACG GTT GGG CTC TCC AAT CG-3′. Lentivirus expressing FLAG-tagged WT and T349V Txnip lentivirus were produced in HEK-293T cells by co-transfection with VSV-G and deltaNRF plasmids as previously described (31). Supernatants containing lentivirus were collected 48 h post-transfection, filtered with a 0.45-μm filter, and stored at −80 °C. Viral titers were determined by p24 ELISA (Cell Biolabs).
Mass spectrometry
Txnip IPs were separated by SDS-PAGE (NuPage 4–20% Bis-Tris) followed by Colloidal Blue staining. The ∼50-kDa region containing Txnip was excised and subjected to in-gel digestion with trypsin as previously described (32). Phosphopeptides were enriched using titanium oxide and enriched samples analyzing by LC–MS/MS using a Waters NanoACQUITY interfaced to a Thermo Q-Exactive Plus MS or Thermo Fusion Lumos as previously described (18), followed by database searching with Mascot 2.4 (Matrix Sciences) and annotation at a 1% peptide false discovery in Scaffold (Proteome Software). Confidence of site localization was evaluated using the Ascore algorithm in Scaffold PTM (Proteome Software).
Data analysis
The data are expressed as means ± S.D. Significant differences between groups were identified by Student's and one-sample t tests.
Author contributions
Z. T. K., M. W. F., and H. E. M. data curation; Z. T. K., C. W., and M. W. F. formal analysis; Z. T. K., C. W., and M. W. F. validation; Z. T. K., C. W., M. W. F., and H. E. M. investigation; Z. T. K., M. T. F., M. W. F., and H. E. M. methodology; Z. T. K., M. W. F., and H. E. M. writing-review and editing; M. T. F., M. W. F., and H. E. M. conceptualization; M. T. F., M. W. F., and H. E. M. visualization; M. W. F. software; H. E. M. resources; H. E. M. supervision; H. E. M. funding acquisition; H. E. M. writing-original draft; H. E. M. project administration.
Supplementary Material
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant HL092994 (to H. E. M.). The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest with the contents of this article. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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- Trx
- thioredoxin
- SNO
- S-nitrosothiol
- Txnip
- thioredoxin-interacting protein
- ERK
- extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase
- ROS
- reactive oxygen species
- IP
- immunoprecipitate/immunoprecipitation
- CHX
- cycloheximide
- TNF
- tumor necrosis factor
- MAP
- mitogen-activated protein
- MEK
- MAP kinase/ERK kinase.
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