Metabolic Regulation of Protein N-Alpha-Acetylation by Bcl-xL Promotes Cell Survival

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MetabolicRegulation

ofProteinN-Alpha-Acetylation

byBcl-xLPromotesCellSurvival

CarolineH.Yi,1HelingPan,1,11JanSeebacher,1,11Il-HoJang,4,11SvenG.Hyberts,2GregoryJ.Heffron,2MatthewG.VanderHeiden,3,7,8RenliangYang,9FupengLi,9JasonW.Locasale,3HadarSharfi,3BoZhai,1RicardRodriguez-Mias,2HarryLuithardt,10LewisC.Cantley,3,5,6GeorgeQ.Daley,4JohnM.Asara,5,6StevenP.Gygi,1GerhardWagner,2Chuan-FaLiu,9andJunyingYuan1,*

1DepartmentofCellBiology2DepartmentofBiologicalChemistryandMolecularPharmacology3DepartmentofSystemsBiology4Children’sHospitalBoston5DivisionofSignalTransductionBethIsraelDeaconessMedicalCenter,Boston,MA02115,USA6DepartmentofMedicine7DanaFarberCancerInstituteHarvardMedicalSchool,Boston,MA02115,USA8KochInstitute,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,Cambridge,MA02142,USA9DivisionofChemicalBiologyandBiotechnology,SchoolofBiologicalSciences,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,60NanyangDrive,Singapore637551,RepublicofSingapore10SolutionsLabs,400TechnologySquare,Cambridge,MA02139,USA11Theseauthorscontributedequallytothiswork*Correspondence:jyuan@hms.harvard.eduDOI10.1016/j.cell.2011.06.050

SUMMARY

Previousexperimentssuggestaconnectionbetween

theN-alpha-acetylationofproteinsandsensitivity

ofcellstoapoptoticsignals.Here,wedescribe

abiochemicalassaytodetecttheacetylationstatus

ofproteinsanddemonstratethatproteinN-alpha-

acetylationisregulatedbytheavailabilityofacetyl-

CoA.BecausetheantiapoptoticproteinBcl-xLis

knowntoinfluencemitochondrialmetabolism,we

reasonedthatBcl-xLmayprovidealinkbetween

proteinN-alpha-acetylationandapoptosis.Indeed,

Bcl-xLoverexpressionleadstoareductioninlevels

ofacetyl-CoAandN-alpha-acetylatedproteinsin

thecell.ThiseffectisindependentofBaxandBak,

theknownbindingpartnersofBcl-xL.Increasing

cellularlevelsofacetyl-CoAbyadditionofacetate

orcitraterestoresproteinN-alpha-acetylationin

Bcl-xL-expressingcellsandconferssensitivityto

apoptoticstimuli.Weproposethatacetyl-CoAserves

asasignalingmoleculethatcouplesapoptoticsensi-

tivitytometabolismbyregulatingproteinN-alpha-

acetylation.

INTRODUCTION

Increasingevidencesuggeststhatspecificmetabolicalterations

associatedwithcancercellsmaynotbeancillarytotheirtrans-formationbutareinstrumentaltotheirtumorigenicpotentialby

mediatingcellproliferation,growth,andsurvival(VanderHeiden

etal.,2009).Manyoncogenesandtumorsuppressorgenes

knowntopromoteexcesscellproliferationalsoalterbiosyn-

thetic(oranabolic)processes.Forexample,Aktexpression

stimulatesglucoseuptakeandglycolysis,thepentosephos-

phatepathway,andfattyacidsynthesis.c-Mycexpression

promotesglutaminemetabolismaswellaspurineandpyrimidine

biosynthesis.Furthermore,mutationsingenesencodingmeta-

bolicenzymeshavebeenidentifiedbycancergeneticassocia-

tionstudies(VanderHeidenetal.,2009).Howspecificmetabo-

litescontributetoincreasedproliferationandapoptotic

resistanceintumorcellsremainsacentralunansweredquestion.

Theproto-oncogeneBcl-xLhasaprominentroleinpromoting

cellsurvivalandcancerdevelopment(Boiseetal.,1993).Itis

wellestablishedthatBcl-xLprotectsagainstapoptosisby

directlybindingandinhibitingBax/Bakoligomerization-medi-

atedmitochondrialpermeabilization.However,certainBcl-xL

mutants,suchasF131V/D133AandG148E,thatareunableto

bindtoBaxorBak,neverthelessretain70%–80%antiapoptotic

activityofWTBcl-xL(Chengetal.,1996).Curiously,Bcl-xLhas

alsobeenshowntoregulatemitochondrialrespirationand

metabolism(Gottliebetal.,2000;VanderHeidenetal.,1999).

WhetherthemetabolicfunctionofBcl-xLcontributestoitsrole

inmediatingapoptoticresistanceisunclear.

OurunexpectedidentificationofanN-terminalacetyltransfer-

ase,ArrestDefective1(dARD1),inagenome-wideRNAinterfer-

ence(RNAi)screeninDrosophilacellsforapoptoticregulators

(Yietal.,2007)promptedustopositthatproteinN-alpha-acety-

lation,amajorN-terminalmodification,linkscell

metabolism

Cell146,607–620,August19,2011ª2011ElsevierInc.607toapoptoticinductionincancercells.SincedARD1isepistatic

todiap1,whichencodesforadirectinhibitorofcaspasesin

Drosophila,andARD1isrequiredforcaspaseactivationin

mammaliancells(Yietal.,2007),theroleforARD1inmediating

caspaseactivationisevolutionarilyconserved.HowARD1

regulatescaspaseactivationhasnotyetbeenillustrated.

Inmammaliancells,proteinN-alpha-acetylationismediated

bythehighlyconservedN-acetyltransferaseproteincomplexes

(NatA,NatB,NatC,NatD,andNatE).TheNatAcomplex

consistsofthecatalyticsubunit,ArrestDefective1(hNaa10p/

ARD1),andtheauxiliarysubunit,N-acetyltransferase1(NAT1/

hNaa15p/NATH),whereasNatBconsistsofN-terminalacetyl-

transferase3(hNaa20p/NAT3)andmitochondrialdistribution

andmorphology20(hNaa25p/Mdm20).AlthoughtheNatcom-

plexesareimplicatedinregulatingcell-cycleprogression,

cellproliferation,andtumorigenesis,themechanismsthat

connectN-alpha-acetylationtothecellularproteinapparatus