α-Lipoic acid promotes α-tubulin hyperacetylation and blocks the turnover of mitochondria through mitophagy

Lysine acetylation is tightly coupled to the nutritional status of the cell, as the availability of its cofactor, acetyl-CoA, fluctuates with changing metabolic conditions. Recent studies have demonstrated that acetyl-CoA levels act as an indicator of cellular nourishment, and increased abundance of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Biochemical journal 2016-06, Vol.473 (12), p.1821-1830
Hauptverfasser: Stoner, Michael W, Thapa, Dharendra, Zhang, Manling, Gibson, Gregory A, Calderon, Michael J, St Croix, Claudette M, Scott, Iain
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Zusammenfassung:Lysine acetylation is tightly coupled to the nutritional status of the cell, as the availability of its cofactor, acetyl-CoA, fluctuates with changing metabolic conditions. Recent studies have demonstrated that acetyl-CoA levels act as an indicator of cellular nourishment, and increased abundance of this metabolite can block the induction of cellular recycling programmes. In the present study we investigated the cross-talk between mitochondrial metabolic pathways, acetylation and autophagy, using chemical inducers of mitochondrial acetyl-CoA production. Treatment of cells with α-lipoic acid (αLA), a cofactor of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, led to the unexpected hyperacetylation of α-tubulin in the cytosol. This acetylation was blocked by pharmacological inhibition of mitochondrial citrate export (a source for mitochondria-derived acetyl-CoA in the cytosol), was dependent on the α-tubulin acetyltransferase (αTAT) and was coupled to a loss in function of the cytosolic histone deacetylase, HDAC6. We further demonstrate that αLA slows the flux of substrates through autophagy-related pathways, and severely limits the ability of cells to remove depolarized mitochondria through PTEN-associated kinase 1 (PINK1)-mediated mitophagy.
ISSN:0264-6021
1470-8728
DOI:10.1042/BCJ20160281