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