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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 15, 10841-10845, April 13, 2007
Extension of Human Cell Lifespan by Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase*
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| ABSTRACT |
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-galactosidase activity. In contrast, introducing the Nampt gene into aging human SMCs delayed senescence and substantially lengthened cell lifespan, together with enhanced resistance to oxidative stress. Nampt-mediated SMC lifespan extension was associated with increased activity of the NAD+-dependent longevity enzyme SIRT1 and was abrogated in Nampt-overexpressing cells transduced with a dominant-negative form of SIRT1 (H363Y). Nampt overexpression also reduced the fraction of p53 that was acetylated on lysine 382, a target of SIRT1, suppressed an age-related increase in p53 expression, and increased the rate of p53 degradation. Moreover, add-back of p53 with recombinant adenovirus blocked the anti-aging effects of Nampt. These data indicate that Nampt is a longevity protein that can add stress-resistant life to human SMCs by optimizing SIRT1-mediated p53 degradation. | INTRODUCTION |
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Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt, also known as Pre-B-cell colony-enhancing factor and Visfatin (2)) is the rate-limiting enzyme for NAD+ biosynthesis from nicotinamide. The intracellular levels of NAD+ and nicotinamide have recently been identified as important for certain cell survival reactions, including those linked to the sirtuin family of protein deacetylases (3, 4). Sirtuins, such as Sir2 and its mammalian homolog SIRT1, consume NAD+ and generate nicotinamide as they hydrolytically remove a targeted acetyl group (3). Nicotinamide is a known inhibitor of NAD+-dependent deacetylation reactions. Therefore, pathways that both replenish NAD+ and clear nicotinamide could be vital to SIRT1 activity.
Recently, we discovered that Nampt was substantially up-regulated when a uniquely long-lived human vascular SMC line was subjected to the stress of complete serum withdrawal (5). Here, we report that Nampt is a longevity protein that extends the lifespan of human SMCs by activating SIRT1 and restraining the accumulation of p53.
| EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
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To quantify replication, cells were plated at 4,500 cells/cm2, and growth medium with 10% FBS was changed every 2 days until cells reached 9095% confluence. Harvested cells were counted from triplicate plates, and the number of population doublings was calculated based on: log10 [(number of cells harvested) log10 (number of cells seeded)]/log10 (2). Population growth curves were compared using nonlinear regression.
Recombinant Retrovirus and Adenovirus InfectionA retroviral gene delivery system was used to generate human cells stably overexpressing Nampt, using methods described previously (7). Retrovirus containing pQCXIP-Nampt-IRES-PURO or pQCXIP-IRES-PURO (Clontech Laboratories) was generated by calcium phosphate-mediated transfection of the Phoenix-amphotropic retrovirus packaging cell line (ATCC, Manassas, VA). Stable transductants were selected with puromycin (3 µg/ml). Dominant-negative SIRT1 (H363Y) was similarly transduced using the pBABE retroviral expression vector.
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Western Blot and Immunoprecipitation AnalysisProtein expression was assessed by Western blot analysis with chemiluminescence detection, as described (7). Nampt was detected using a rabbit polyclonal anti-human Nampt/Pre-B-cell colony-enhancing factor antibody (Bethyl Laboratories, Montgomery, TX). SIRT1 was detected using a rabbit polyclonal anti-Sirt1 antibody (Abcam, Cambridge, MA), and p53 and
-tubulin were detected with monoclonal antibodies (DO-1 from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA and Clone B-5-1-1 from Sigma, respectively). Cytoplasmic p53 was similarly assessed following cell fractionation (NucBuster, Novagen, Minneapolis, MN). Identification of p53 that underwent NAD+-dependent removal of an acetyl group on residue Lys-382 was determined by pretreating SMCs for 2 h with 5 µM trichostatin A (TSA), immunoprecipitating p53 with a goat polyclonal antibody (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN), and immunoblotting using a rabbit polyclonal anti-acetylated p53 (Lys-382) antibody (American Proteomics, Carlsbad, CA) and horseradish peroxidase-labeled donkey anti-rabbit IgG antibody (Amersham Biosciences).
Nampt ActivityWhole cell lysates were reacted with 5 µM [carbonyl-14C]nicotinamide (Sigma) and 0.5 mM phosphoribosylpyrophosphate in 10 mM NaH2PO4/Na2HPO4 buffer, pH 8.8 (9). Labeled acetone-precipitable nicotinamide mononucleotide was quantified by scintillation counting.
Senescence-associated
-Galactosidase Activity AssaySMCs at
70% confluence were fixed in 2% formaldehyde/0.2% glutaraldehyde in phosphate-buffered saline for 3 min and incubated with X-gal-containing reaction mixture, as described (10). Cells were stained with Hoechst 33258 (2.5 µg/ml), and the proportion of senescence-associated
-galactosidase (SA
-Gal)-positive cells was quantified (Olympus BX51, x20 objective,
1200 cells). Senescence-free survival was determined using Kaplan-Meier analysis of survival versus replicative age.
In Vivo Assessment of SIRT1 DeacetylaseActivityCell-basedassessment of SIRT1 enzymatic activity was performed using the Fluor de Lys-SIRT1 substrate (Biomol, Plymouth Meeting, PA), as described (11). SMCs in phenol red-free M199 with 5% FBS were incubated for 2 h with 5 µM TSA followed by the addition of the fluorogenic substrate for 4 h. Signal was quantified by spectrofluorometry (Wallac, Wellesley, MA) and normalized to total protein content.
Time-lapse Analysis of SMC Response to Oxidative StressThe morphologic response to oxidative stress was dynamically assessed by digital time-lapse microscopy, using methods previously described (12). Hoffman-modulated contrast images (Axiovert S100; Carl Zeiss, Inc. Thornwood, NY) were digitally acquired every 5 min over 3 h, beginning immediately after the addition of 150 µM H2O2 to SMCs in M199 containing 1% FBS.
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-galactosidase activity at pH 6.0 (Fig. 1, A and B). In both SMC preparations, Nampt protein expression declined significantly as SMCs approached senescence (Fig. 1, C and D). Nampt enzyme activity, assessed by quantifying the conversion of nicotinamide to nicotinamide mononucleotide (5), fell in presenescent SMCs even more strikingly than Nampt expression, reaching 14 ± 3% (mean ± S.D., n = 3) of basal activity (Fig. 1C). These findings identify the regeneration of NAD+ from nicotinamide as a metabolic pathway that becomes exhausted as SMCs approach senescence.
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To determine the role of endogenous Nampt in SMC lifespan and senescence, SMCs were incubated with the specific Nampt antagonist FK866 (14). FK866 is a long, almost linear molecule that binds Nampt from within a narrow tunnel at the Nampt dimer interface, an unusual structural relationship that accounts for its specificity (15). We quantified the proportion of senescent SMCs in successive subcultures incubated with 10 nM FK866, a concentration we determined reduced Nampt activity in SMCs to 22 ± 2% of baseline. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis revealed a substantially shortened senescence-free survival of Nampt-inhibited cells SMCs (p < 0.0001) (Fig. 2B). In contrast, there was markedly extended senescence-free survival in Nampt-overexpressing SMCs versus vector-infected cells (p < 0.0001) (Fig. 2C). Therefore, a direct relationship exists between Nampt activity and the number of replication cycles a SMC can undergo before becoming senescent. Together with the age-related decline in Nampt activity, these data firmly establish Nampt as a longevity enzyme for human SMCs.
Nampt Postpones Senescence by Activating SIRT1To explore the mechanism by which Nampt regulates SMC lifespan, we considered that Nampt both stimulates NAD+ production and consumes nicotinamide, positioning this enzyme as a potential regulator of the NAD+-dependent deacetylase, SIRT1 (16). SIRT1 consumes NAD+, is inhibited by nicotinamide, and mediates lifespan extension of caloric restricted animals (17). To test whether Nampt could stimulate SIRT1 activity in human SMCs, TSA-independent deacetylation of a fluorogenic SIRT1 substrate (Biomol) was quantified. As shown in Fig. 3A, SMCs overexpressing Nampt had a 86 ± 4% (p = 0.03, n = 4) increase in SIRT1 activity. We were surprised to find that Nampt overexpression also modestly increased abundance of SIRT1 protein (1.3 ± 0.3-fold, p = 0.02), although not enough to fully account for the increased deacetylase activity (Fig. 3B). To determine whether the lifespan extending actions of Nampt were mediated by the increased SIRT1 expression and activity, human SMCs were double-transduced to express Nampt and a dominant-negative form of SIRT1 (H363Y) (18). This revealed that the extended lifespan conferred by Nampt was abrogated when the SIRT1 H363Y allele was co-expressed (5.4 ± 0.5 versus 0.3 ± 0.3 of additional population doublings, p = 0.003). Furthermore, the reduction in senescent SMCs in late passage (37th subculture) Nampt-overexpressing SMCs (19 ± 2%, p = 0.003) was no longer observed when dominant-negative SIRT1 was coexpressed (p = 0.3), with a relative increase in senescence that was greater than for vector-infected SMCs expressing SIRT1 H363Y (55 ± 12 versus 15 ± 10%, p = 0.01, Fig. 3C).
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Nampt Protects against Oxidative Cell DamageFinally, using time-lapse microscopy (12), we established that the additional replicative life conferred by Nampt was associated with a healthy, stress-resistant phenotype. Although vector-infected SMCs responded to 150 µM H2O2 by global retraction of plasma membrane, Nampt-overexpressing SMCs, matched for cumulative population doubling, largely maintained their morphology and ability to migrate (Fig. 4A and supplemental video file). Concurrently, H2O2 induced a rapid increase in cytoplasmic p53 in control SMCs, whereas the response was blunted in Nampt-overexpressing SMCs (Fig. 4B).
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Cell senescence is strongly implicated in age-related pathologies as well as the recognized decline in tissue regenerative potential with age (24). Vascular SMC senescence, a hallmark of atherosclerotic lesions (25), can be particularly dangerous because the resulting proinflammatory and nonreparative state can incite lesion disruption and acute vascular occlusion. The current findings identify Nampt as underlying an aging suppression pathway in SMCs, with potential relevance to controlling atherosclerosis and possibly other diseases of aging.
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The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains two supplemental movies showing time-lapse delineation of the changes discussed in the legend for Fig. 4. ![]()
1 A recipient of a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada studentship. ![]()
2 A recipient of a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Career Investigator Award. To whom correspondence should be addressed: London Health Sciences Centre, 339 Windermere Rd., London, Ontario N6A 5A5. Tel.: 519-663-3973; Fax: 519-434-3278; E-mail: gpickering{at}robarts.ca.
3 The abbreviations used are: SMC, smooth muscle cell; Nampt, nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase; TSA, trichostatin A; FBS, fetal bovine serum; SA
-Gal, senescence-associated
-galactosidase; X-gal, 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-
-D-galactopyranoside; ANOVA, analysis of variance. ![]()
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