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Change in mRNA expression of sirtuin 1 and sirtuin 3 in cats fed on high fat diet

BMC Veterinary Research volume 9, Article number: 187 (2013) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Mammalian sirtuins are homologs to the yeast silent information regulator 2 (Sir2), which is an NAD-dependent deacetylase. Sirtuins are comprised of 7 proteins, and each has different target proteins. Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) plays important roles in maintaining metabolic functions and immune responses, and SIRT3 protects cells from oxidative stress-induced cell death. Both SIRT1 and SIRT3 are regulated by metabolic status and aging. Hence, SIRT1 and SIRT3 have been researched in metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), fatty liver, and heart diseases. Although these diseases have been increasing, there is little information about relation between the diseases and SIRT1 and SIRT3 in cats. Therefore we cloned SIRT1 and SIRT3 cDNA, examined mRNA expression in cat tissues, and investigated the changes in SIRT1 and SIRT3 mRNA expression in peripheral blood leukocyte of cats fed on HFD for 6 weeks.

Results

Cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 contained a catalytic core region and showed high sequence homology with other vertebrate SIRT1 (>61.3%) and SIRT3 (>65.9%) amino acids. Real-time polymerase chain reaction analyses revealed that high expression levels were observed in the liver and skeletal muscle for SIRT1 and in the heart for SIRT3 in cats. In addition, both cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 expression levels in the pancreas were different between individuals. Cat SIRT1 mRNA expression in peripheral blood leukocytes was significantly elevated in obese cats fed on HFD (P < 0.05).

Conclusions

Cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 genes are highly conserved among vertebrates, and HFD feeding may be related to SIRT1 mRNA expression mechanisms in cat peripheral blood leukocytes.

Background

Mammalian sirtuins have been identified as homologs of the yeast silent information regulator 2 (Sir2) [1], which is an NAD-dependent deacetylase and related to metabolism and longevity in yeast [2]. Seven mammalian sirtuins are included in the family and each has different target proteins. Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is found primarily in the nucleus [3] and plays important roles in maintaining metabolic functions and immune responses through deacetylation of many substrates, such as forkhead transcription factors [4], peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma, coactivator 1-alpha [5] and the p65 subunit of nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) [6]. SIRT3 is localized to mitochondria [7] and protects cells from oxidative stress-induced cell death by deacetylating isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 [8] and superoxide dismutase 2 [9]. Gene expression and activity of sirtuins are mainly regulated by metabolic states and aging [10]. These features of SIRT1 and SIRT3 have been studied in metabolic diseases related to aging such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) [11, 12], fatty liver [13, 14], and heart diseases [15, 16].

Prevalence of obesity has increased in cats, and obesity leads to the development of DM [17] and hepatic lipidosis [18]. Because the clinical, physiological, and pathological features of DM in cats closely resemble those in humans, cats are good animal models for human type 2 DM [19]. However, very little information is available on cat SIRT1 and SIRT3. The aims of this study were to determine the cDNA sequences, and examine the SIRT1 and SIRT3 mRNA expression in several tissues (Experiment 1), and to investigate the effects of feeding a high-fat diet (HFD) on the SIRT1 and SIRT3 expression (Experiment 2) in cats.

Results

Experiment 1

CDNA cloning of cat SIRT1 and SIRT3

Cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 were cloned from a cat cerebral cortex cDNA library. The cat SIRT1 cDNA consisted of a 63 bp 5′-untranslated region (UTR), a 2241 bp open reading frame (ORF), which encoded a 746 amino acids, and a 1781 bp 3′-UTR. The calculated molecular mass of this protein was 81.8 kDa. The cat SIRT3 cDNA sequence consisted of a 54 bp 5′-UTR, a 1119 bp ORF, which encoded 372 amino acids, and a 481 bp 3′-UTR. The calculated molecular mass of this protein was 40.9 kDa. Both cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 had a potential polyadenylation signal near the 3′-end (data not shown). Sequence alignment of the deduced cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 amino acids indicated that they contained a conserved catalytic core region and exhibited high homology with the corresponding region in Sir2 like proteins (Figure 1). In addition, similar to others, the cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 core region had a zinc finger and NAD+ binding sites. The deduced cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 amino acids sequences were compared with those of other vertebrates, which revealed high sequence similarity (SIRT1: 95.3% [with dog], 88.0% [with human], 83.2% [with mouse], 91.3% [with cow], 91.4% [with pig], 67.4% [with chicken], and 61.3% [with zebrafish]; SIRT3: 83.0% [with dog], 76.6% [with human], 73.7% [with mouse], 68.9% [with cow], 78.3% [with pig], 66.0% [with chicken], and 65.9% [with zebrafish]). In the phylogenic analysis, the evolutionary positions of cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 were located at the mammalian SIRT1 and SIRT3 branches, respectively (Figure 2).

Figure 1
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Multiple alignment of the deduced amino acid sequences of silent information regulator 2 (Sir2) like family core region. The deduced amino acid sequences of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (s.c) Sir2 (NP_010242.1), cat (c) sirtuin (SIRT)1 and 3, dog (do) SIRT1 (XP_546130.2) and 3 (XP_855809.1), human (hu) SIRT1 (NP_036370.2) and 3 (NP_036371.1), mouse (mo) SIRT1 (NP_001153061.1) and 3 (NP_001171275.1), cow (co) SIRT1 (NP_001179909.1) and 3 (NP_001193598.1), pig (pi) SIRT1 (NP_001139222.1) and 3 (NP_001103527.1), chicken (ch) SIRT1 (NP_001004767.1) and 3, (NP_001186422.1), and zebrafish SIRT1 (XP_001334440.4) and 3 (NP_001073643.1). Starting and ending residue numbers are shown. Black shaded background indicates 100% homology, whereas gray shaded backgrounds indicate >50% homology. The GAGxSxxxGIPDFR, TQNID, HG(S/T), and CxxC-(18–20)x-CxxC motifs are indicated with the box. The nucleotide sequences appear in the GenBank database with accession numbers (caSIRT1) and (caSIRT3).

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Figure 2
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Phylogenetic tree of the silent information regulator 2 (Sir2) like protein family. The evolutionary tree of cow (co), pig (pi), dog (do), cat (ca), human (hu), mouse (mo), chicken (ch), zebrafish (ze), and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (s.c) sequences for sirtuin (SIRT)1, SIRT3, and Sir2 was made with the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean method using GENETYX-win Ver.9.1.0 (GENETYX Corp). The data base accession nos. for each amino acid sequence used in this analysis are described in Figure 1. The bars and values of 0.1 in the figure represent evolutionary distances.

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Cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 mRNA expression profiles in tissues

SIRT1 and SIRT3 mRNA expression levels in cat tissues were examined by quantitative real time PCR (q-PCR) (Figure 3). In two 3-year-old male cats, expression of both mRNAs were observed in a wide range of tissues, including the cerebral cortex, heart, kidneys, liver, skeletal muscles, pancreas, duodenum, spleen, stomach and adipose tissue. High expression levels were observed in the liver and skeletal muscle for SIRT1 and in the heart for SIRT3 in cats. In addition, both cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 expression levels in the pancreas were different between individuals.

Figure 3
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Tissue distribution profile of cat sirtuin (SIRT)1 and SIRT3 mRNA. Expression levels of (a) SIRT1 and (b) SIRT3 in tissues of two 3- year-old male cat (cat 1; white box bars, cat 2; black box bars) were determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Each SIRT1 and SIRT3 value was normalized to that of beta-actin mRNA.

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Experiment 2

Changes in cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 gene expression after HFD feeding

We fed HFD to healthy cats for 6 weeks to examine the effect of HFD on cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 gene expression. Clinical characteristics and plasma metabolite concentrations are provided in Table 1. HFD caused significant increases in BW and hepatocellular injury markers (ALT, AST, and ALP) compared with those at baseline (P < 0.01). Peripheral blood leukocyte SIRT1 mRNA expression levels in cats significantly increased (P < 0.05) compared with those at baseline (Figure 4a). However, SIRT3 expression was not significantly different between the two conditions.

Table 1 Clinical characteristics and plasma metabolite concentrations
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Effect of a high-fat diet on mRNA levels of cat sirtuin (SIRT)1 and SIRT3. Prior to the 8-week feeding period (Baseline) and the conclusion of the 8-week feeding schedule (Endpoint), SIRT1 (a; white box bars) and SIRT3 (b; black box bars) mRNA expression levels in peripheral blood leucocytes were determined by the quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay. Each SIRT1 and SIRT3 value was normalized to that of beta-actin mRNA and the mean ± standard error of mean (n = 5) for an individual RNA sample. Statistical analysis was performed using Student’s paired t-test; *P < 0.05.

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Discussion

We successfully cloned the cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 cDNAs. Sequence alignment of the cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 amino acids revealed that they contained a conserved catalytic core domain [20]. This core domain included the motifs CxxC-(18–20)x-CxxC, which are known to be involved in zinc fingers, and conserved in all Sir2-like enzymes [21]. The other highly conserved motifs GAG(I/V)SxxxG(I/V)PDFRS, TQNID, and HG(S/T) create NAD+ binding sites [22]. SIRT1 and SIRT3 were genetically conserved in the phylogenetic tree, and may have an enzymatic function in cats.

SIRT1 and SIRT3 mRNA are expressed in a variety of tissues in humans [1, 7], mice [23], cows, [24] and pigs [25]. In our study, cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 mRNA was expressed in various tissues similar to other animals, and high expression levels were observed in the liver and skeletal muscle for SIRT1 and in the heart for SIRT3 in cats. In an SIRT1 heterozygous knockout mice study, acceleration of hepatic steatosis and increased inflammatory gene expressions were observed in the liver [26]. Liver expression of cat SIRT1 may be related to control fatty acid homeostasis. Since SIRT1 enhance skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity in mice [27], a high SIRT1 mRNA expression levels in the skeletal muscle is considered to be related to glucose metabolism in cats. Although SIRT3 deficient mice appear to have normal activity, they show signs of cardiac hypertrophy at 8 weeks of age [28]. Cat SIRT3 expression in the heart may be related to protection against cardiac hypertrophy. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heart disease in cats and remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality associated with the risk of sudden death [29]. Therefore, we think it might be interesting to study the relationship between SIRT3 and HCM in cats. Additionally, both SIRT1 and SIRT3 expression levels in the pancreas were different between individuals. SIRT1 regulate insulin secretion in pancreatic β cells [30] and SIRT3 is suppressed in pancreatic islets isolated from human type 2 diabetic patients [31]. Therefore, the expression levels of SIRT1 and SIRT3 in the pancreas may be considered to be fluctuating by the metabolic state in cats.

Sirtuins are regulated by nutritional status, for instance, caloric restriction up-regulates SIRT1 [32] and SIRT3 [8] activity in cultured mammalian cells. In contrast, obesity and HFD reduce SIRT1 [13] and SIRT3 [14] activity in vivo. SIRT1 protein expression is down-regulated in the liver of rat and adipose tissue of mice [13, 33], whereas expression of cat SIRT1 mRNA was up-regulated in peripheral blood leukocytes by HFD. These differences in expression patterns may be considered to be differences in reactivity to HFD between tissues. In our study, early phase liver inflammation was inferred because hepatocellular injury markers were up-regulated by HFD. Some inflammatory factors are released in greater amounts from adipose tissue in obese subjects and cause chronic inflammation in animals [34, 35]. HFD triggers a pro-inflammatory effect, and induces SIRT1 cleavage in adipose tissue [33]. On the other hand, pro-inflammatory factors enhance the NF-κB signal, and SIRT1 mRNA is also up-regulated as part of a feedback mechanism [6]. In addition, SIRT1 inhibits inflammatory pathways in macrophages to regulate inflammatory responses [36]. Hence we propose the hypothesis that HFD induces early phase inflammation in tissues such as liver and adipose tissue, and cat SIRT1 mRNA expression levels is up-regulated in peripheral blood leukocytes to suppress inflammation. Since peripheral blood leukocytes SIRT1 mRNA level was increase before total cholesterol and glucose level is increase, SIRT1 may become a candidate marker for early diagnosis of metabolic diseases including obesity in cats.

Conclusions

Our study reveals the full length cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 by cDNA cloning and found that these SIRTs were highly conserved among vertebrates. And the mRNA expression analysis revealed that high expression levels were observed in the liver and skeletal muscle for SIRT1 and in the heart for SIRT3 in cats. In addition, both cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 expression levels were different between individuals. Our results provide fundamental information to reveal the cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 function about relationship of metabolic diseases. Furthermore, HFD affected cat SIRT1 mRNA expression in peripheral blood leukocytes. This represent HFD feeding may be related to SIRT1 mRNA expression mechanisms in cat peripheral blood leukocytes.

Methods

Experiment 1

Cloning of cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 cDNA

Total RNA from tissues of a cat (3-year-old male) was purchased from Zyagen (San Diego, California). The amount of RNA was measured by a spectrophotometer at 260 nm. A cDNA library was prepared from cerebral cortex RNA using the SMARTer RACE cDNA Amplification Kit (Clontech, Mountain View, CA). We referred to the human SIRT1 (GenBank accession number NM_012238) and SIRT3 (GenBank accession number NM_012239) cDNA sequences and the cat genome DNA sequence to design specific primers for cat SIRT1 and SIRT3. We designed primers 1 and 2 for SIRT1 and 7 and 8 for SIRT3 to obtain the partial cat cDNA sequence (Table 2). Primers 3 and 9 were to amplify the 3′ ends of the cat SIRT1 and SIRT3 cDNA sequences respectively, and primers 4 and 10 were used for 5′ rapid amplification of cDNA ends polymerase chain reaction (RACE-PCR). Thirty cycles of PCR were performed at 98°C for 10 s, 60°C for 15 s, and 68°C for 1 min/kb with PrimeSTAR GXL DNA polymerase (Takara, Shiga, Japan), and 0.2 μM of each of the primers. The amplified fragment was cloned into the pCR-Blunt II-TOPO vector (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) and the cDNA sequence was determined by a commercial DNA sequencing service (FASMAC Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan).

Table 2 Sequences and kind of primers used for polymerase chain reaction
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Quantitative real-time PCR (q-PCR) analysis of SIRT1 and SIRT3 in various cat tissues

Total RNA (1 μg) was reverse transcribed by QuantiTect Reverse Transcription Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). Genomic DNA was removed by DNase treatment, and cDNA was synthesized. After inactivating the reverse transcription reaction by heating at 95°C for 3 min, the cDNA product was used for q-PCR. Reactions were carried out with Perfect Real Time SYBR Premix Ex Taq II (Takara) using an ABI 7300 Real Time PCR Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) and the following Shuttle PCR protocol: 95°C for 30 s, followed by 40 cycles of 95°C for 5 s, and 60°C for 35 s, in 20 μl reaction volumes containing 2 μl template cDNA, 0.8 μl primers (0.4 μl of each), 10 μl of SYBR Premix Ex Taq II, 0.4 μl ROX Reference Dye, and 6.0 μl distilled water. Primers 5 and 6 and 11 and 12 were designed from the cloned SIRT1 and SIRT3 sequences respectively. Primers 13 and 14 were used for beta-actin mRNA. Following the real-time PCR, the fragment was subjected to dissociation-curve analysis to avoid nonspecific PCR amplification. Quantitative measurements were performed by establishing a linear amplification curve from serial dilutions of the plasmid containing cat SIRT1, SIRT3, and beta-actin cDNA fragments.

Experiment 2

Animals

This experiment was conducted with 5 domestic female cats (mean age, 14.0 ± 1.4 months; age range, 10–30 months; body weight [BW], 2.5 ± 0.1 kg). Veterinarians confirmed that the cats were healthy and without any clinical manifestations. All cats were individually housed and maintained for 6 weeks at AQS Co. Ltd. (Narita, Japan). The cats were fed on HFD, which was made to order by Nippon Pet Food, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan). The composition of HFD was moisture (7.0%), crude protein (32.7%), crude fat (23.9%), crude fiber (0.9%), crude ash (5.5%), and nitrogen free extract (29.9%). The caloric content was 4660 kcal/kg. The fatty acid composition of HFD was 14:0 (1.3%), 14:1 (0.4%), 15:0 (0.2%), 16:0 (22.6%), 16:1 (2.3%), 17:0 (0.4%), 17:1 (0.3%), 18:0 (23.1%), 18:1 (35.7%), 18:2n-6 (10.9%), 18:3n-3 (0.4%), 20:0 (0.5%), 20:1 (0.3%), 20:4n-6 (0.2%), 22:0 (0.2%), and unidentified (1.2%). The cats were fed the diet ad libitum for their daily energy requirement (DER) from 9:00 AM to 8:30 AM the next day. Any surplus diet was removed at 4:00 PM a day prior to blood sampling. DER was calculated as 1.4 × resting energy requirement (RER) (BW0.75 × 70). RER was based on BW before the meal at 9:00 AM. Cats were housed in individual cages and provided with water ad libitum. The animal room was maintained at 24 ± 2°C and 55 ± 10% relative humidity on a 12:12 h light: dark cycle (lights on from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM). Approval for this study was provided by the Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University Animal Research Committee.

Blood sampling

Pre-prandial blood samples (4–5 ml) were withdrawn from the jugular vein of cats without sedation prior to the 6 week feeding period (Baseline); 2.5 ml of this blood was collected in PAX gene RNA tubes (PreAnalytiX, Hombrechtikon, Switzerland) for RNA stabilization, preservation, and sample transport, and the remainder was collected in heparinized tubes, for immediate centrifugation at 1500 × g for 10 min at 4°C to obtain plasma, which was stored at -30°C until analysis. At the conclusion of the 6 week feeding schedule (Endpoint), pre-prandial blood (5 ml) was withdrawn again from the same site and treated in the same manner.

Plasma metabolite and hepatic injury marker enzyme analysis

Plasma total cholesterol, total protein, glucose, blood urea nitrogen, and creatinine concentrations as well as alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), asparate aminotransferase (AST), and lactate dehydrogenase activities were determined using an autoanalyzer (AU680, Beckman Coulter, CA, USA).

q-PCR analysis of peripheral blood leukocyte mRNA

Total leukocyte RNA was extracted from the blood samples using TRIzol (Invitrogen), according to the manufacturer’s protocol. RNA concentration was assessed by spectrophotometer at 260 nm, and the presence of isolated RNA was assessed by native agarose gel electrophoresis on a 0.8% agarose gel. The cDNA synthesis and q-PCR analysis were performed as described above.

Statistical analysis

Data are presented as mean ± standard error of mean (SEM) and were analyzed using Student’s paired t-test. All analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA). A P < 0.05 was considered significant.

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    Shingo Ishikawa, Gebin Li, Hiroshi Takemitsu, Megumi Fujiwara, Nobuko Mori, Ichiro Yamamoto & Toshiro Arai

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SI designed the study, performed experiments, analyzed data, and drafted the manuscript. GL, MF, HT, and NM participated in data collection and experimental procedure. IY helped with study design and data analysis. TA contributed to the study design and helped with editing and revision of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Ishikawa, S., Li, G., Takemitsu, H. et al. Change in mRNA expression of sirtuin 1 and sirtuin 3 in cats fed on high fat diet. BMC Vet Res 9, 187 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-9-187

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