Sphingolipid de novo synthesis: its relevance to metabolic diseases and cell polarity Xian-Cheng Jiang (shian-chen chiang) SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Cell plasma membrane Lipid rafts Sphingolipid = sphingomyelin, glycosphingolipid, and ceramide
Sphingolipid Biosynthesis Serine + Palmitoyl-CoA SPT 3-Ketosphinganine Sphingomyelin Lysosphingomyelin Diglyceride SMS Phosphatidylcholine Sphinganine Dihydroceramide Ceramide 3-Ketosphinganine reductase Ceramide synthase Ceramide-1-P Dihydroceramide desaturase Sphingosine S-1-P Kinase Sphingosine-1-P
Serine Palmitol-CoA transferase (SPT) 1. SPT has subunits: Sptlc1 and Sptlc2/Sptlc3. 2. Sptlc1 and Sptlc2 total gene knockouts are embryonic lethal.
Subtopics The relevance of plasma membrane sphingolipid changes to the metabolic diseases. The effect of adenovirus associated virus (AAV)- Cre-mediated liver SPT deficiency on lipoprotein metabolism. The effect of albumin-cre-mediated liver SPT deficiency on hepatocyte polarity.
Blood glucose (mg/dl) Plasma insulin (ng/ml) Body weight (g) Blood glucose (mg/dl) ) m a r g ( t h g i e W y d o B WT 60 50 40 30 20 10 Sptlc2 partial deficiency increases insulin sensitivity * * * * * * * * * 0 0 5 10 15 20 Time (Week) WT KO Sptlc2+/- 600 WT * Sptlc2+/- 500 400 300 200 100 * 0 0 50 100 150 200 * Time (min) * 150 WT Sptlc2+/- 100 50 * * * 4 WT Sptlc2+/- 3 2 1 * * * 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Time (min) 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Time after glucose injection (min)
Sptlc2 partial deficiency increases insulin receptor phosphorylation Phosphorylated insulin receptor levels (% of WT) WT Insulin Sptlc2+/- Insulin IR-P Liver IR β-actin 600 500 400 300 200 100 * WT Sptlc2+/- * * 0 Liver Adipose Muscle Li et al. MCB. 2012
Myeloid cell-specific Sptlc2 deficient mouse preparation B B B R RB R R R B R B Exon 1 2 3 4 WT B B B R RB R R R B R B Neo Sptlc2-Flox Exon 1 2 3 4 LysM-Cre Transgene Loxp B B B R RB R R R B R B B: BgIII; R: EcoRI 1 kb Exon 1 4
Myeloid cell-specific Sptlc2 deficiency decreases atherosclerotic lesions (in arch) Control Sptlc2 KO Chakraborty et al. JCI. 2013
Myeloid cell-specific Sptlc2 deficiency decreases atherosclerotic lesions (root and en face) Control Sptlc2 KO Control Sptlc2 KO Chakraborty et al. JCI. 2013
Summary (1) Sphingolipid de novo synthesis related with the development of metabolic diseases. Inhibition of sphingolipid de novo synthesis may prevent metabolic diseases.
Subtopics The relevance of plasma membrane sphingolipid changes to the metabolic diseases. The effect of adenovirus associated virus (AAV)- Cre-mediated liver Sptlc2 deficiency on lipid metabolism. The effect of albumin-cre-mediated liver Sptlc2 deficiency on hepatocyte polarity.
Liver-specific KO mouse preparation 1. AAV-Cre (for adult) 2. Albumin-Cre transgenic mice (for whole life) 3. Inducible-Cre (for adult)
AAV-Cre/Sptlc2-loxp mice
Liver-specific Sptlc2 KO mouse preparation (for adult) B B B R RB R R R B R B Exon 1 2 3 4 WT B B B R RB R R R B R B Neo Sptlc2-Flox Exon 1 2 3 4 AAV-Cre Loxp B B B R RB R R R B R B B: BgIII; R: EcoRI 1 kb Exon 1 4
Plasma lipid measurement in liver-specific Sptlc2 KO and WT mice (LC/MS/MS) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mice SM PC PC/SM Cer Sph S-1-P DHS-1-P (mm) (mm) (ng/ml) (ng/ml) (ng/ml) (ng/ml) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WT 96+9 1759+97 18+2 1000+85 23+2 264+21 114+14 Sptlc2+/- 61+5* 2096+89* 32+5* 462+42* 31+1* 242+13 99+13 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Value: mean+sd; n=4-5. SM, sphingomyelin; Cer, Ceramide; Sph, Sphingosine; S-1-P, Sphingosine-1-phosphate; DHS-1-P, Dihydroxylsphingosine-1-phosphate. *P<0.01.
Plasma lipid measurement after AAV-Cre injection AAV-lacZ AAV-Cre Change P value Cholesterol (mg/dl) 104 ± 7.5 116 ± 21 Phospholipid (mg/dl) 198 ± 17 211 ± 27 Triglyceride (mg/dl) 47 ± 8 50 ± 7 Sphingomyelin (mg/dl) 28± 5 19± 2-32% P < 0.01 Li et al. JBC 2009
Liver lipid measurement in liver-specific Sptlc2 KO and WT mice (LC/MS/MS) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mice SM PC Cer Sph S-1-P DHS-1-P (mg/mg liver) (ng/mg liver) ------------------------------------------------------------------- WT 0.58+0.02 17+1 134+10 2.2+0.3 0.10+0.01 0.12+0.02 Sptlc2KO 0.42+0.01* 15+2 82+9* 1.8+0.2 0.11+0.02 0.13+0.01 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Value: mean+sd; n=4-5. SM, sphingomyelin; PC, phosphatidylchline; Cer, ceramide; Sph, sphingosine; S-1-P, sphingosine-1-phosphate; DHS-1-P, dihydroxyl-sphingosine-1-phosphate. *P<0.01.
Plasma AAV-LacZ AAV-Cre
Sphingomyelin (OD600) Plasma sphingomyelin distribution Non-HDL HDL 0.20 0.15 WT Sptlc2 KO 0.10 0.05 0.00 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Fractions Li et al. JBC 2009
Summary (2) As expected that AAV-Cre-mediated liver Sptlc2 deficiency decreases plasma sphingomyelin levels.
Subtopics The relevance of plasma membrane sphingolipid changes to the metabolic diseases. The effect of adenovirus associated virus (AAV)- Cre-mediated liver Sptlc2 deficiency on lipoprotein metabolism. The effect of albumin-cre-mediated liver Sptlc2 deficiency on hepatocyte polarity.
Albumin-Cre/Sptlc2-loxp mice
Liver-specific Sptlc2 KO mouse preparation (for whole life) B B B R RB R R R B R B Exon 1 2 3 4 WT B B B R RB R R R B R B Neo Sptlc2-Flox Exon 1 2 3 4 Albumin-Cre Transgene Loxp B B B R RB R R R B R B B: BgIII; R: EcoRI 1 kb Exon 1 4
SPT activity (% of WT) Liver SPT activity and Sptlc1/Sptlc2 protein mass in liver-specific Sptlc2 KO mice Control Sptlc2+/- Sptlc2-/- Sptlc2 Sptlc1 GAPDH 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 WT-Alb-Cre * Sptlc2-loxP/loxP-Alb- Cre
Bile ducks are few in Sptlc2 KO mouse liver (H&E staining, 2 months old) Control Hetero KO Homo KO
Bile ducks are few in Sptlc2 KO mouse liver (H&E staining, 2 months old) Control Sptlc2 KO
Reticular Fiber Staining for liver fibrosis (2 months old) WT Hetero KO Homo KO Silver staining (silver nitrate) ----Gordon-Sweets Method
Sptlc2 deficiency does not cause lipid accumulation in the liver (2 months old) Liver Oil red O staining Control Sptlc2 KO
Sptlc2-deficiency-mediated liver tumor formation (8 months old) Control Sptlc2 KO
Plasma lipid measurement (2 months old) WT Homozygous KO Heterozygous KO Cholesterol (mg/dl) 80 ± 6 354 ± 59* 77 ± 14 Phospholipid (mg/dl) 217 ± 10 746 ± 19* 173 ± 44 Sphingomyelin (mg/dl) 14 ± 2 44 ± 10* 12 ± 2 Triglyceride (mg/dl) 56 ± 8 69 ± 10 58 ± 9
Phospholipids (OD600) Triglycerid (OD490) Sphingomyelin (OD600) Cholesterol (OD600) Plasma lipid distribution (FPLC) (chow diet) 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 WT Sptlc2+/- Sptlc2-/- Non-HDL 0.0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Fractions HDL 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 WT Sptlc2+/- Sptlc2-/- 0.0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Fractions 1.5 WT Sptlc2+/- Sptlc2-/- 0.5 0.4 WT Sptlc2+/- Sptlc2-/- 1.0 0.3 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Fractions 0.0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Fractions
Higher cholesterol in liver Sptlc2 KO mice has no impact on atherosclerosis WT Sptlc2 KO
Liver Sptlc2 KO mice have severe jaundice Control Sptlc2 +/- Sptlc2 -/-
Cholestasis Cholestasis is a condition where bile cannot flow from the liver to the duodenum. 1. Gallstone or malignance 2. Genetic defects
Plasma Bilirubin (mg/dl) Plasma Bilirubin 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 * * WT-Alb-Cre Sptlc2-loxp/loxp-Alb-Cre * Total Direct Indirect
EM picture for lipoprotein-x Felker et al. PNAS, 1978
Accumulation of lipoprotein-x in Sptlc2 KO mouse plasma Control Sptlc2 KO
Sptlc2 KO mice have much less microvilli in bile canaliculus Control Sptlc2 KO
Bile flow rate (ul/min/100 g body weight) Liver Sptlc2 deficiency dramatically decreases flow rate of bile Control KO 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 * 0 WT Sptlc2-loxp/loxp-Alb-Cre Collect bile for 1 hr
Hepatocyte polarity
Bile production ABCA1 (ABCB11) (ABCB4)
Sptlc2 KO mice lose hepatocyte polarity ABCB11 ABCA1 Merge Control KO
Sptlc2 KO mice lose hepatocyte polarity (Filipin staining) Control Sptlc2 KO
Comparison between liver LKB1 KO and liver Sptlc2 KO mice LKB1-Flox/albumin-Cre (Woods et al. BJ 2011) LpX accumulation in the blood Defective targeting of ABCB11 Jaundice Abnormal bile canaliculus Died at age 30 days Sptlc2-Flox/albumin-Cre LpX accumulation in the blood Defective targeting of ABCB11 Jaundice Abnormal bile canaliculus Normal life span with liver tumors Above abnormalities do not exist in AdV-Cre-mediated LKB1 liver deficiency (Shaw et al. Science, 2005) and AAV-Cre-mediated Sptlc2 liver deficiency (Li et al. JBC, 2009).
Sphingomyelin Biosynthesis Serine + Palmitoyl-CoA SPT 3-Ketosphinganine Sphingomyelin Lysosphingomyelin myriocin Fumonisin B1 Diglyceride SMS Phosphatidylcholine Sphinganine Dihydroceramide Ceramide 3-Ketosphinganine reductase Ceramide synthase Ceramide-1-P Dihydroceramide desaturase Sphingosine S-1-P Kinase Sphingosine-1-P
Myriocin treatment attenuates LKB1 activation Primary hepatocytes 0 50 100 200 Myriocin µm P-LKB1 GAPDH Huh7 Cells 0 50 100 200 Myriocin μm P-LKB1 GAPDH
Fumonisin B1 treatment attenuates LKB1 activation in primary hepatocytes 0 50 Fumonisin B1 μm P-LKB1 GAPDH
Ceramide treatment attenuates LKB1 activation in primary hepatocytes Primary hepatocytes 0 5 10 20 Ceramide μm P-LKB1 GAPDH Huh7 Cells 0 10 30 Ceramide µm P-LKB1 GAPDH
Sphingomyelin treatment promotes LKB1 activation Huh7 Cells 0 10 30 Sphingomyelin µm P-LKB1 GAPDH
Summary (3) In the early stage of life, Sptlc2 is involved in the formation of liver cell polarity. In adult livers, cell polarity formation would have progressed normally through development. Sptlc2 deficiency in adulthood do not influence cell polarity. Both LKB1 and Sptlc2 deficiencies in the liver have similar phenotype, in terms of cell polarity. Do LKB1 and Sptlc2 have a linkage?
LKB1: cell polarity and metabolism Hezel and Bardeesy, 2008
Questions: Sphingolipid de novo synthesis Where? membrane? Which factors? PKCs?
Enterocyte polarity Tight junction Basal lamina
Macrophage polarity
Mahua Zhiqiang Jiang
Acknowledgement Downstate Medical Center Zhiqiang Li Mahua Chakraborty Chongmin Huan Inamul Kair Gachon University of Medicine and Science Tae-Sik Park Eli Lilly & Company Ming-Shang Kuo Guoqing Cao