Gastrodin inhibits high glucose‑induced human retinal endothelial cell apoptosis by regulating the SIRT1/TLR4/NF‑κBp65 signaling pathway
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- Published online on: April 3, 2018 https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2018.8841
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Abstract
Introduction
Diabetes is a major public health problem affecting 415 million people worldwide and diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major diabetic complication that can cause significant visual impairment and blindness (1). The early stages of DR can be inhibited by improvement of glycemic control suggesting hyperglycemia to initiate the pathology of the pathology of DR (2,3). Emerging evidence showed that human retinal endothelial cells (HRECs) dysfunction is the initial event of microvascular disorder in the development of DR. HRECs damage is associated with thickening of the capillary endothelial basement membrane (4). Moreover, current studies demonstrated that except sterile-inflammation, high glucose (HG) induced oxidative stress in the retina also plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of retinopathy (5). Administration of antioxidants or genetic overexpression of superoxide dismutase has been demonstrated to inhibit the diabetes-induced degeneration of retinal capillaries (6–8). Accordingly, strategies against intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) production induced cell apoptosis help to reduce HRECs injury (9).
Gastrodin, a major active ingredient of Chinese herbal medicine called Gastrodia elata Blume, has been reported to exert anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects in various diseases (10,11). Importantly, Peng et al (12) found gastrodin treatment reduced reactive oxygen species production in macrophages and protected macrophages against oxidative stress-induced apoptosis. And a recent study identified that gastrodin could stimulate M2 macrophage polarization and rescue macrophages from oxidative stress-induced apoptosis and death (13). To date, no literatures involved in the role of gastrodin on HG-induced HRECs injury.
In the present study, we sought to examine the potential protective effects of gastrodin on HG-induced HRECs damage and to investigate the relationship between its effect and the modulation of TLR4/NF-κBp65 signaling pathway. And our work suggested that gastrodin may have the potential to be a novel pharmaceutical approach for the treatment of DR.
Materials and methods
Cell culture
Human retinal endothelial cells (HRECs) were obtained from Cell Systems (Kirkland, WA, USA). The culture medium was EGM-2 Bulletkit medium (Lonza, Basel Switzerland) with 100 U/ml penicillin/100 µg/ml streptomycin (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA), containing 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). Cells were maintained at 37°C and 5% CO2. HRECs of passages 6–10 were used for experiments.
Cell treatment
After an initial 24 h of culture in serum-free medium, HRECs were treatment with various concentration of gastrodin (0.1, 1, 10, 100 µM) or 100 nM gastrodin in normal medium for various time (6, 12, 24 and 48 h) to detect the optimal concentration and time of intervention. Cells were subjected to medium containing 5 mM glucose (control group) or high glucose medium containing 30 mM glucose (HG group). HRECs cultured in 6-well plates were transfected with recombinant plasmid pcDNA3.1 or pcDNA3.1-SIRT1 (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) to overexpress SIRT1 using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) in accordance with the manufacturer's protocol.
Cell viability assay
The Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8, Biosharp, Hefei, China) was performed to determine cell viability of HRECs. In brief, 5×103 of cells were cultured in a 96-well plate at 37°C and allowed to attach for 24 h. After starvation for 12 h, cells were stimulated with different concentrations of gastrodin for different time in normal median. Then, 10 µl CCK-8 solution was added to each well, plates were incubated at 37°C for another 2 h. The absorbance of cells was then measured at 450 nm.
Intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) analysis
The intracellular ROS level was measured by dihydroethidium (DHE; Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Haimen, China) staining. After various treatment, HRECs were incubated with 5 µM DHE at 37°C for 30 min. Following incubation, cells were fed with normal growth medium without DHE for 1 h, and rinsed with PBS. Fluorescence images were observed using a fluorescence microscope (Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany). The fluorescence intensity was measured using ImageJ software (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA).
Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR)
RT-qPCR analyses were carried out as described previously (14). Total RNA was extracted from cells in groups using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and quantified by measuring the absorbance at 260 nm. Subsequently, 2 µl of total RNA was used for the preparation of cDNA by reverse transcription using the PrimeScript RT reagent kit (Takara Bio, Inc., Otsu, Japan) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The expression of HO-1, NQO1, NRF2 and GCLM mRNA were determined on the Applied Biosystems StepOne Real-Time PCR system (Applied Biosystems; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). The reaction condition was 95°C at 10 min for a hot start, then 40 cycles at 95°C for 15 sec, 60°C for 60 sec and 72°C for 60 sec. The primer sequences used in this study were listed in Table I. The gene expression level was calculated by 2−ΔΔCq methods and normalized to 18S RNA. All experiments were repeated in three times.
Table I.Forward and reverse primers used for reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction. |
Cell apoptosis assay
HRECs cell apoptosis rates were measured by flow cytometric analysis using Annexin V-FITC-PI Apoptosis Detection kit (Vazyme Biotech, Nanjing, China). Briefly, cells were trypsinized after treatment and rinsed with PBS to achieve the final concentration of 5×103/ml. Then, 195 µl cell suspension and 5 µl Annexin V-FITC were mixed under dark for 15 min followed by stained with 10 µl of propidium iodide (PI) for another 5 min. The apoptosis rate was assayed by flow cytometry (FACSCalibur; Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA, USA).
Western blot analysis
After treatment, HRECs lysates were collected in RIPA lysis buffer supplemented with protease/phosphatase inhibitor cocktail (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) and total protein concentrations were measured using the BCA assay (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology). Protein samples were loaded on 6–12% SDS-PAGE, transferred to polyvinylidene fluoride membranes (Bio-Rad) and were blocked with 5% skim milk for 1 h at room temperature. The membranes were incubated with the corresponding primary antibodies against SIRT1 (1:400; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc., Dallas, TX, USA), Bcl-2 (1:1,000), Bax (1:1,000), cleaved caspase 3 (1:400), cytochrome C (1:1,000), TLR4 (1:500), NF-κBp65 (1:1,000), p-NF-κBp65 (1:1,000), and GAPDH (1:1,000; all from Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., Danvers, MA, USA) at 4°C overnight. Subsequently, the blots were washed with PBST and incubated with a peroxidase conjugated immunoglobulin G secondary antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.) for 1 h at room temperature. Signals were visualized using an enhanced chemiluminescence kit (GE Healthcare, Chicago, IL, USA).
Statistical analysis
All data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation, and analyzed with GraphPad Prism 5 (GraphPad Software, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA). Statistical significance was tested using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Tukey's post hoc test, Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn's post hoc test and two-way ANOVA. <P 0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference. All experiments were performed at least three times.
Results
Gastrodin ameliorated HG induced inhibition of HRECs viability
Firstly, to determine whether gastrodin (Fig. 1A) itself affects the cell viability of HRECs in normal median, cells were treated with various concentration of gastrodin. The results revealed that gastrodin had no effects on cell viability even with high concentration at 100 µM (P>0.05; Fig. 1B). In addition, 100 µM gastrodin had no significant effect on cell viability within 48 h (P>0.05; Fig. 1C). Then, we found HRECs treated with HG for 24 h showed significant decrease in cell viability compared to the control group, but 100 µM gastrodin markedly ameliorated the inhibitory effect caused by HG (Fig. 1D).
Gastrodin inhibited HG-induced HRECs apoptosis
HRECs apoptosis rates was measured and Fig. 2A demonstrated that, comparised with the control group, treating of HRECs with HG for 24 h significantly increased apoptosis, which could be reversed by addition of 100 µM gastrodin (Fig. 2A). Additionally, we examined the expression levels of mitochondrial apoptotic markers by Western blot analysis. Expectedly, the ratio of Bcl-2/Bax was decreased, whereas the expressions of cytochrome C and cleaved caspase 3 were increased with the treatment of HG. When the cells were treated with both HG and 100 µM gastrodin, above changes were at least partly abolished (Fig. 2B-D).
Gastrodin alleviated HG-induced activation of oxidative stress
Sincere the key role of oxidative stress in HG-triggered cell apoptosis, we tested the levels of ROS production in HRECs. Intriguing, HG treatment caused increase in ROS generation compared to the control and 100 µM gastrodin alleviated ROS generation significantly (Fig. 3A). Subsequently, we tested the expression levels of oxidative stress related genes including hemeoxygenase-1 (HO-1), NAD(P)H dehydrogenase quinone 1 (NQO1), NF-E2-related factor 2 (NRF2), and γ-glutamate-cysteine ligase modifier (GCLM) via RT-qPCR. HG dramatically increased the mRNA levels of above four genes compared to the control group. However, co-treatment with HG and gastrodin resulted in a decrease in the expression of oxidative stress related genes (Fig. 3B-E).
Gastrodin induced activation of SIRT1 and subsequent inhibition of TLR4/NF-κBp65 signaling pathway in HRECs
Activation of NF-κB was shown to promote expression of various pro-apoptotic regulators in HRECs (15) and TLR-mediated NF-κB activation were commonly shown in HRECs under HG conditions (16). We thereby investigated whether TLR4/NF-κBp65 signaling pathway was involved in protective of gastrodin on HRECs. As shown in Fig. 4A, HG inhibited the increase in TLR4 protein expression level and phosphorylation of NF-κB in a concentration dependent manner. Whereas, 100 µM gastrodin inhibited the activation of TLR4/NF-κBP65 induced by HG (Fig. 4B). In addition, emerging evidence suggested that SIRT1 appears to target numerous cellular factors to regulate oxidative stress and apoptosis resulting in improving diabetic retinopathy. Fig. 4C revealed that the expression level of SIRT1 protein was decreased in a HG concentration-dependent manner. However, when the HRECs were co-treated with gastrodin with HG, SIRT1 protein expression was significantly increased as compared with that treated with HG along (Fig. 4D). Moreover, overexpression of SIRT1 was then conducted to further validate the pathway involved. As a result, SIRT1 was increased by pcDNA3.1-SIRT1 but no significant change with HG or pcDNA3.1-vector treatment were observed (Fig. 4E). Compared with vector group with no treatment, TLR4/NF-κBP65 pathway was inhibited after SIRT1 overexpressed. Besides, overexpression of SIRT1 at least partly reversed TLR4/NF-κBP65 activation induced by HG in HRECs in the vector group (Fig. 4F).
Discussion
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the main microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus and one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide (17). A large body of evidences showed that inhibition of HRECs apoptosis may have protective effects against DR (18,19). In this study, we demonstrated that interference of gastrodin counteracted HG-induced oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis of HRECs.
Gastrodin, which is also known a 4-Hydroxybenzyl alcohol 4-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside, was widely used clinically as an anticonvulsant, an analgesic, and a sedative that was effective against vertigo, general paralysis, epilepsy and tetanus (20,21). It is available in the market in the form of tablets, capsules and injections. Gastrodin can be absorbed sufficiently and rapidly in the intestine (22), which was facilitated by SGLT1 (23). A study identified that administration of gastrodin effectively attenuated the allodynia and hyperalgesia-related to the experimental diabetes by reciprocal regulation of sodium and potassium currents in small dorsal root ganglion neurons (24). Researchers also indicated that gastrodin could restrain the hypoxia-induced calcium ion and nitric oxide increase in cultured rat hippocampal neurons (25). Besides, gastrodin was found to decrease cell apoptosis and reduce the release of inflammatory factors (10). Similarly, the anti-apoptosis effect of gastrodin was observed in our study in HRECs stimulated by HG. In mitochondria-dependent apoptosis, the released cytochrome c activates caspase-9 and sequentially activates the downstream effector caspase-3 (26). Antiapoptotic Bcl-2 protein inhibits the release of cytochrome c, while proapoptotic Bax enhances the progression of apoptosis (27). Similar with previous studies (10,28), we showed that HG-mediated reduction of the Bcl-2/Bax ratio was increased by the treatment with gastrodin in HRECs. In addition, HG-induced activation of the caspase 3 was suppressed by gastrodin. The underlying molecular mechanisms of gastrodin-mediated protection of HG-indcued apoptosis were then investigated.
To date, mitochondrial production of ROS in response to HG may also be a key initiating step in the pathogenesis of DR (29). Our results showed that HG stimulation caused significant increase in the production of ROS in HRECs and the involvement of transcription levels of the oxidative stress associated genes was confirmed. Due to the anti-oxidant and anti-inflammation activities of gastrodin (12), we found treatment of HG exposed HRECs with gastrodin could effectively HG-stimulated oxidative stress. These clarified that gastrodin protected HRECs from HG-induced cell apoptosis via inhibition of oxidative stress related pathway.
It is known that Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling pathway participates in the induction of several immune-related diseases (30) and is a major contributor of inflammation including TNF-α and IL-1. MyD88 is a common signaling molecule for all TLRs, leading to downstream activation of nuclear factor-kappa beta (NF-κB) (31). Studies revealed that TLR4 is involved in the activity of late endothelial progenitor cells (32) and was upregulated in the retina of DR rats and in HRECs cultured in HG (33). The TLR4/NF-κB signaling pathway was activated in retinal ganglion cells under high glucose and TLR4 inhibition suppressed HG-induced apoptosis (34). Consist with previous studies, the activation of TLR4/NF-κB pathway was observed with the treatment of HG in a dose-dependent manner. Moreover, we identified that SIRT1 may act as a regulator of TLR4/NF-κB pathway in HG-induced HRECs in vitro. A recent study demonstrated that knockdown of SIRT1 markedly augmented the protein expression of TLR4 and p-NF-κBp65 in renal inner medullary collecting duct cells treated with lipopolysaccharide (35). In this study, we found SIRT1 protein expression was decreased by HG in a dose-dependent manner and restored SIRT1 significantly caused inhibition of TLR4/NF-κB pathway in HRECs under HG. The role of SIRT1 in diabetic retinopathy had been widely investigated. Hyperglycemia reduced the expression of SIRT1 and restored SIRT1 leading to decreased apoptosis, inflammation, oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage and protects against DR (36). Although a study had identified that SIRT1 could suppress NF-κB to reduce inflammatory responses and inhibit cell apoptosis (15), the exact molecular mechanism is still unclear. We firstly determined the key role of TLR4 in regulating NF-κB signaling under the inhibition of SIRT1 in HG-treated HRECs. We demonstrated that SIRT1/TLR4/NF-κB pathway may be involved in the protective effects of gastrodin on HG-induced. However, the effects and the mechanism of gastrodin on HG-induced impairment of retinal angiogenesis should be further explored in vitro and in vivo.
Additionally, recent research has demonstrated that DR is not only a microvascular disease but may be a result of neurodegenerative processes (37). As the neuroprotective effect of gastrodin had been widely accepted and a recent study found it could also exert a neuroprotective effect on retinal ganglion cells via inhibiting microglia activation and microglial-mediated neuroinflammation (38), we believe gastrodin might be developed as potential candidate for the treatment of DR for both microvascular dysfunction and neurodegeneration.
In summary, this study demonstrated that gastrodin effectively attenuated HG-induced oxidative stress and associated apoptosis regulation of SIRT1/TLR4/NF-κBP65 signaling pathway. These findings identified that gastrodin may be an avenue during the treatment of DR.
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Authors' contributions
QJ designed the study; CMH and XG performed the research on cell viability and apoptotic analysis; LLH performed the ROS-associated analysis; and THZ and JW performed the western blot analysis. XG performed statistical analysis, and THZ and JW prepared the manuscript.
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Glossary
Abbreviations
Abbreviations:
DR |
diabetic retinopathy |
HG |
high glucose |
HRECs |
human retinal endothelial cells |
ROS |
reactive oxygen species |
TLR4 |
Toll-like receptor 4 |
NF-κB |
nuclear factor-κB |
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