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A single mutation in NFU1 gene metabolically reprograms pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells


ABSTRACT: NFU1 is an iron-sulfur (Fe-S) scaffold protein, involved in Fe-S assembly and transfer to a range of mitochondrial metalloproteins. Patients with the NFU1G208C mutation develop pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) with 70% penetrance. Rats with NFU1G206C homozygous mutation demonstrated the PAH phenotype showing increased pulmonary vasculature remodeling, right ventricular (RV) hypertrophy, and RV pressure. In the present study, we discovered phenotypic metabolic changes in pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMC) from NFU1G206C homozygous mutant rats associated with alterations in the mitochondrial proteome. Quantitative analysis of the mitochondrial proteome showed significant changes in the abundance of 208 proteins involved in various metabolic and antioxidant functions in response to the NFU1 mutation. Our data indicates that the NFU1G206C homozygous mutant rats have decreased expression of complex I and II, which are known to depend on iron-sulfur clusters, and increased expression of complexes III to V, accompanied with a significant decrease in mitochondrial function, pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) activity and amplified glycolysis and anabolism in PASMC. The NFU1 mutation produced a dysregulated antioxidant system in the mitochondria which leads to increased levels of reactive oxygen species. Due to alterations in apoptosis regulating proteins, the NFU1G206C cells were found to exhibit high proliferation rates and resistance to apoptosis as compared with the wild type (WT). Finally, the NFU1G206C mitochondrial proteome showed significant abundance changes in proteins that regulate fatty acid (FA) metabolism and exhibited increased FA oxidation compared to WT, suggesting increased FA oxidation compensates for the decreased PDH activity. In conclusion, our data indicates that the NFU1G206C mutation induces a metabolic shift in the PASMC, which results in a hyper-proliferative and apoptosis resistant phenotype and presents a novel cellular model to study PAH.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos

ORGANISM(S): Rattus Norvegicus (rat)

TISSUE(S): Hepatocyte, Liver

DISEASE(S): Pulmonary Hypertension

SUBMITTER: Paul Langlais  

LAB HEAD: Paul Langlais

PROVIDER: PXD015022 | Pride | 2021-09-08

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Single Mutation in the <i>NFU1</i> Gene Metabolically Reprograms Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells.

James Joel J   Zemskova Marina M   Eccles Cody A CA   Varghese Mathews V MV   Niihori Maki M   Barker Natalie K NK   Luo Moulun M   Mandarino Lawrence J LJ   Langlais Paul R PR   Rafikova Olga O   Rafikov Ruslan R  

Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 20201210 2


<h4>Objective</h4>NFU1 is a mitochondrial iron-sulfur scaffold protein, involved in iron-sulfur assembly and transfer to complex II and LAS (lipoic acid synthase). Patients with the point mutation NFU1<sup>G208C</sup> and CRISPR/CAS9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat-associated 9)-generated rats develop mitochondrial dysfunction leading to pulmonary arterial hypertension. However, the mechanistic understanding of p  ...[more]

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