Geniposide attenuates cadmium‑induced oxidative stress injury via Nrf2 signaling in osteoblasts
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Abstract
Introduction
Cadmium, an environmental pollutant, seriously affects public health worldwide. A large number of studies have shown that cadmium exerts multi-organ and multi-system toxicity, and that it is able to produce carcinogenic, orthodontic and mutagenic effects, for example, muscle wastage, hemolysis, immunosuppression, and a decrease in fertility (1–4). ‘Itai-itai’ disease was first known to the world after mining-related cadmium poisoning in Japan in 1955 (5,6). Bone is a main target organ for cadmium toxicity. Previous studies have indicated that cadmium may damage osteoblasts in culture by decreasing bone calcium and prostaglandin 2 (PGE2) levels (7–9). It has also been confirmed that cadmium affects bone metabolism both directly and indirectly (10). Researchers also demonstrated that the osteotoxicity of cadmium may be caused by alterations to vitamin D metabolism and disruption of the balance of calcium absorption and excretion (11,12). Moreover, cadmium damage directly increases the risk of bone fracture and osteoporosis, and cadmium can affect the activation of osteoclasts and osteoblasts, leading to imbalance between bone resorption and formation (13–18).
Under normal circumstances, the body or cells constantly produce free radicals, while the antioxidant system scavenges these free radicals. Such a dynamic balance maintains a stable metabolism in contrast to the condition in which an imbalance would cause free radical accumulation and lipid peroxidation (19). Cadmium not only induces the initiation of oxidative damage, produces lipid peroxide, destroys the intracellular state of redox equilibrium, but also interferes with the function of the antioxidant system. Cadmium mainly mediates oxidative stress through an indirect reaction pathway, largely by reducing the level of antioxidants in cells and mediating mitochondrial functional damage, increasing the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) (20–23). Therefore, the toxic effects of cadmium on osteoblasts may be the result of oxidative stress and ROS levels.
Geniposide, a type of iridoid glycoside, is the main active component of Gardenia jasminoides (Rubiaceae). Geniposide is considered to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant activity as well as antitumor properties (24–28). Researchers have reported that geniposide also exhibits effects on brain by reducing inflammatory response of microglial cells and protecting the neural tissue from cerebral ischemia (29,30); and on digestive system diseases, namely by suppressing helicobacter pylori infections (31). Geniposide activates osteoblasts to facilitate osteogenesis, and suppresses osteoclast activity and inhibits bone resorption (32). In addition, geniposide may promote the growth of osteoblast MC3T3-E1 cells, and suppress H2O2-induced apoptosis (33). To the best of our knowledge, current investigations have focused heavily on the antioxidative capacity of geniposide. Recent studies have shown that geniposide protected PC12 cells from oxidative damage through its radical scavenging activity (34,35). Geniposide was also found to protect against oxygen and glucose deprivation-induced neuronal cell death in rat hippocampal slice cultures (36). Thus, it was speculated that geniposide may protect osteoblasts from oxidative stress induced by cadmium.
The present study aimed to determine the protective effects of geniposide against cadmium-induced osteoblast (MC-3T3-E1) injury, and to investigate its underlying protective mechanisms with a focus on oxidative stress.
Materials and methods
Reagents
Geniposide (purity >98%) was purchased from Pure-one Bio Technology, Co., Ltd (Shanghai, China). Geniposide was dissolved in water, pH 7.4. Cadmium chloride (CdCl2) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany).
Cell culture and morphological observation
Rat MC-3T3-E1 cells (Riken Cell Bank, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan) were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and 100 U/ml penicillin (or 100 µg/ml streptomycin) in a 37°C incubator with 5% CO2 humidified atmosphere. The morphology of primary cultured MC-3T3-E1 cells was observed using an inverted microscope (×40).
Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) assay
The CCK-8 assay kit (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Haimen, China) was used to measure cell viability. MC-3T3-E1 cells (5×103 cells/well) were cultured in 96-well plates and were treated with CdCl2 (0–20 µM). Geniposide (100, 200 and 400 µg/ml) was used as previously described (37) to treat the cells in order to detect its effect on CdCl2-induced injury.
For the cell viability assay, 10 µl CCK-8 solution was added into each well, and the cells were incubated for another 3 h at 37°C. Cell viability was determined using a microplate reader as previously described (38) by reading the optical density at a wavelength of 450 nm, and at a reference wavelength of 630 nm.
Flow cytometry
Cell apoptosis was detected in MC-3T3-E1 cell cultures using a flow cytometer. The cells were harvested and re-suspended in Annexin binding buffer at 1×105 cells/ml. Then, the suspension was incubated with Annexin V-FITC and propidium iodide (PI) [cat. no. 70-AP101-60; MultiSciences (Lianke) Biotech Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China] in the dark for 15 min at 4°C. The apoptosis of the cell samples was analyzed by flow cytometry with BD CellQuest Pro Software version 1.2 (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA).
The ROS levels were measured using 2′,7′-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) as previously described (39). DCFH-DA (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA), without fluorescence, can enter the cell membrane and form DCFH in the cell. DCFH is then oxidized to form a fluorescent substance DCF in the presence of ROS. MC-3T3-E1 cells were stained with DCFDA and held for 30 min at room temperature. Finally, DCF fluorescence levels were measured by flow cytometry and the data were analyzed using Summit Software (version 4.3; Dako; Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA).
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
Oxidative stress-related factors malondialdehyde (MDA; cat. no. ml077384; Enzyme-linked Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; cat. no. ml076593; Enzyme-linked Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) and superoxidase dismutase (SOD; cat. no. ml077379; Enzyme-linked Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) were measured using ELISA. MC-3T3-E1 cells were seeded on a 24-well plate, and cell-free supernatants were harvested after 3 h. The concentrations of MDA, LDH and SOD in the supernatants of MC-3T3-E1 cells were determined using ELISA kits following the manufacturer's instructions.
Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR)
RT-qPCR was performed for the purpose of examining gene expression profiles of Bax, Bcl-2, survivin, NF-κB ligand (RANKL), osteoprotegerin (OPG), osterix, nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor (Nrf2), heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and NAD(P)H quinone dehydrogenase 1 (NQO1). Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol® regent (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) following the manufacturer's instructions. RNA was reverse transcribed into cDNA using GoScript™ RT kit (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA). The RT temperature protocol consisted of 37°C for 15 min and at 85°C for 5 sec. RT-qPCR was conducted using SYBR Fast qPCR Mix (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) The thermocycling conditions were: 94°C for 3 min for an initial denaturation, followed by 30 denaturation cycles at 94°C for 5 sec, annealing and elongation at 60°C for 30 sec; and final extension at 72°C for 10 min. The primer sequences are summarized in Table I. The quantity of RNA was calculated using the 2−ΔΔCq method (40), and the level of expression of an RNA was normalized to GAPDH (denoted ‘relative expression’).
Western blot analysis
MC-3T3-E1 cells were washed three times with PBS, and detached from the dishes by scraping. Cells were centrifuged at 12,000 × g for 5 min at 4°C and re-suspended in RIPA lysis buffer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) with phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) at 1:200 dilution. The homogenate was centrifuged at 12,000 × g for 10 min at 4°C. Protein concentrations were quantified using a bicinchoninic acid protein assay kit (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology). Equivalent amounts of total protein (20 µg/lane) were loaded on a 10% Tris-glycine, 10% SDS-PAGE (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology) for separation. Proteins were then transferred onto a polyvinylidene difluoride membrane, which were blocked with 5% milk in TBS containing 0.2% Tween-20 (TBST) at room temperature for 2 h, and incubated with primary antibodies as follows: Rabbit anti-Bcl-2 (cat. no. ab32124, 1:1,000) anti-Bax (cat. no. ab32503, 1:1,000), anti-survivin (cat. no. ab76424, 1:1,000); rabbit anti-RANKL (cat. no. ab9957, 1:1,000), anti-OPG (cat. no. ab73400, 1:1,000), anti-osterix (cat. no. ab94744, 1:1,000); mouse anti- HO-1 antibody (ab13248, 1:1,000), NQO1 antibody (ab34173, 1:1,000), Nrf2 antibody (ab137550, 1:1,000) and anti-GAPDH (ab9485, 1:1,000) overnight at 4°C, all purchased from Abcam (Cambridge, UK). The membranes were washed with TBST, and then incubated with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies goat anti-rabbit (cat. no. ab205718; 1:2,000; Abcam) and goat anti-mouse (cat. no. ab205719; 1:5,000; Abcam) at 4°C for 1 h. The blots were visualized using enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). An ECL system (Amersham; GE Healthcare, Chicago, IL, USA) was used to detect the bands. Quantity one software version 4.6.2 (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA, USA) was used for densitometry analysis.
Statistical analysis
GraphPad Prism version 6.0 software (GraphPad Software, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA) was used for conducting statistical analysis. Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation. Statistical significance was analyzed using one-way analysis of variance, followed by Turkey's multiple comparison test. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.
Results
Morphological observation of MC-3T3-E1 osteoblasts
After MC-3T3-E1 cells were inoculated and cultured for 24 h, the growth of adherent cells was observed using an inverted microscope (Fig. 1A). The cells showed a fibroblast-like appearance. To be more specific, the cells appeared to be irregular fusi-formed, triangular, or polygonal, and no fusion between cells was identified. As the duration of the culture time prolonged, cell bodies grew larger and the cell morphology was stretched. It appeared fiber bundles, triangles and polygons with more protuberances. Some elongated protuberances were often found to link cells with distant protuberant cells and to increase cell-to-cell contact. Meanwhile, the number of cells was found to increase, and cells were mostly spindle-shaped or cubic.
Protective effect of geniposide on CdCl2-injured MC-3T3-E1 cells
The cytotoxic effects of different CdCl2 concentrations (0–20 µM) at different time points (3, 6, 12 and 24 h) in MC-3T3-E1 cells were determined using CCK-8 assay. The results showed that CdCl2 decreased MC-3T3-E1 cell viability in time- and dose-dependent manners (20 µM, 3 h, P<0.05; 20 µM, 24 h, P<0.01; Fig. 1B). Based on this findings, 20 µM of CdCl2 was employed in all subsequent experiments. Moreover, the cytotoxic effects of geniposide were also detected, and that geniposide had no cytotoxic effects at a concentration of 100–400 µg/ml (Fig. 1C). As showed in Fig. 1D, geniposide was able to ameliorate the CdCl2 injury in cells and increase viability in a dose-dependent manner, and treatment using 400 µg/ml geniposide significantly increased cell viability (P<0.05).
Geniposide decreases the apoptosis induced by CdCl2 in MC-3T3-E1
As showed in Fig. 2A, the effect of geniposide on CdCl2-induced apoptosis was investigated using flow cytometric analysis. We found that the apoptosis induced by CdCl2 was significantly decreased in a concentration-dependent manner after being pretreated with geniposide (100 and 200 µg/ml: P<0.05, 400 µg/ml: P<0.01).
Geniposide decreases the ROS level in CdCl2-injured MC-3T3-E1 cells
As showed in Fig. 2B, CdCl2 exposure increased the ROS generation in MC-3T3-E1 cells (P<0.01). However, pretreatment of MC-3T3-E1 cells with geniposide significantly decreased the generation of ROS in a dose-dependent manner (P<0.01).
Geniposide affects MDA, LDH and antioxidant enzyme SOD activities in CdCl2-injured MC-3T3-E1 cells
As shown in Fig. 3, the effects of geniposide on CdCl2-induced oxidative stress-related factors were assessed using ELISA assay. We found that the level of MDA was not significantly increased by exposure of the cells to CdCl2, and that pretreatments at different concentrations of geniposide also showed no significant effect on the level of MDA (P>0.05, Fig. 3A). However, LDH was significantly increased following exposure of the cells with CdCl2. By contrast, a medium concentration of geniposide pretreatment significantly decreased the level of LDH, compared to the cells incubated with CdCl2 (P<0.05, Fig. 3B). Our results also showed that antioxidant key enzyme SOD was decreased following CdCl2 exposure, but SOD was significantly higher following pretreatment with a high concentration of geniposide (P<0.05, Fig. 3C).
Geniposide regulates the expression of Bax, Bcl-2 and survivin at the mRNA and protein levels of CdCl2-injured MC-3T3-E1 cells
We determined the expression levels of Bax, Bcl-2 and survivin in MC-3T3-E1 cells using both western blotting and qPCR analyses. As shown in Fig. 3D-G, compared with levels in cells exposed to CdCl2, pretreatment with geniposide increased the expression of Bcl-2 and survivin both at mRNA and protein levels in a concentration-dependent manner (survivin, 200 µg/ml P<0.05; 400 µg/ml P<0.01) and reduced the expression of Bax at the mRNA and protein levels (400 µg/ml, P<0.01). Both western blot and qPCR analysis showed that medium and high concentrations of geniposide could inhibit Bax, and increase Bcl-2 and survivin. These results showed that geniposide strongly antagonized the apoptotic process of CdCl2-induced MC-3T3-E1 cells.
Geniposide regulates the expression of RANKL, OPG and osterix at both the mRNA and protein levels in CdCl2-injured MC-3T3-E1 cells
In order to investigate whether geniposide could reverse the inhibition of CdCl2 on osteoblast formation, we assessed the expression of osteoblast-related factors, RANKL, OPG and osterix, by carrying out western blot and qPCR analyses in MC-3T3-E1 cells. The results showed that exposure to CdCl2 significantly inhibited osteoblast formation by increasing the expression of OPG and by decreasing the expression of RANKL and osterix both at the mRNA and protein levels. Medium concentration of geniposide significantly reversed of the inhibition mediated by CdCl2 on osteoblast formation through upregulating the expression of RANKL and osterix (P<0.01) and downregulating the expression of OPG (P<0.05). The protein levels (Fig. 4A-C) were consistent with the expression of mRNA (Fig. 4D).
Geniposide regulates the downstream target genes of Nrf2 at both the mRNA and protein levels in CdCl2-injured MC-3T3-E1 cells
In order to understand the mechanism of geniposide in Cd-induced osteoblast injury, the Nrf2 signaling pathway was evaluated in MC-3T3-E1 cells. As shown in Fig. 5, both qPCR and western blot analysis identified an increase in Nrf2, HO-1 and NQO1 expression in a dose-dependent manner following pretreatment with geniposide in the CdCl2-injured MC-3T3-E1 cells. We found that a low concentration of geniposide significantly increased the mRNA expression of Nrf2 in comparison to that in cells exposed to CdCl2 (P<0.05, Fig. 5A). However, both the increase of HO-1 and NQO1 mRNA expression required treatment with a medium concentration of geniposide (P<0.05, Fig. 5B and C). Western blot analyses also showed that a low concentration of geniposide increased the protein expression of Nrf2, HO-1 and NQO1 compared to that in cells exposed only to CdCl2 (P<0.01, Fig. 5D).
Discussion
In the present study, osteoblast MC-3T3-E1 cells were pretreated with three different concentrations (100, 200 and 400 µg/ml) of geniposide for 24 h, and exposed to 20 µM CdCl2 for additional 3 h. Furthermore, qPCR and western blot analysis showed that geniposide at a high concentration was able to significantly enhance the cell viability, while a low concentration of geniposide could antagonize apoptosis by downregulating Bax and upregulating both Bcl-2 and survivin.
Furthermore, we found that geniposide could reverse the injury of CdCl2 on osteoblast formation, which is consistent with another study in which geniposide promoted osteoblast formation (33). As previously reported, the RANKL/RANK/OPG system is an important signal transduction pathway in the process of bone metabolism. The receptor activator of RANKL with its cognate receptor (RANK) promotes differentiation and bone resorption activity of osteoclasts. OPG can also combine RANK, disrupting the balance of bone metabolism (17,41,42). It has been suggested that cadmium can accumulate in human osteoblast-like MG-63 cells and affect their viability, and that high concentrations of cadmium could inhibit bone formation via the OPG/RANKL pathway (17,43). However, a limited number of studies have focused on geniposide in relation to RANKL and OPG in osteoblast cells. In the present study, we demonstrated that low-dose geniposide obviously increased expression of RANKL, and that a medium-dose could decrease expression of OPG. Osterix is a novel transcription factor in the differentiation of osteoblasts, and it is specifically expressed in all developing bones (44). Geniposide promotes osteogenic activity of osteoblasts by increasing the expression of osterix in a dose-dependent manner. It was indicated that geniposide promoted the balance of bone metabolism.
Occupational cadmium exposure and domestic cadmium pollution seriously affect the health of individuals worldwide, causing neuronal damage, cardiovascular effects, reproductive toxicity and osteoblast injury (4,7,45,46). A large amount of evidence has confirmed that reducing internal oxidative stress and increasing endogenous antioxidant proteins are vital in avoiding cell injury (26,34,39,47). Pan et al (48) highlighted the importance of oxidative stress in cadmium exposure disorder, and many compounds produce protective effects against cadmium-induced oxidative injury, for example, quercetin, catechin and nobiletin (49–51). Geniposide had been reported to protect against cadmium-induced toxic oxidative stress in rat kidney tissue (25). Thus, we concluded that geniposide may prevented cadmium-induced injury.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generally produced in the mitochondria. Excessive exogenous oxidants and certain extreme environments including heavy metal, chemotherapeutic drugs, sodium fluoride lead to the overproduction of ROS (52–54). Over-generated ROS damage proteins, lipids and DNA, ultimately causing cell death or apoptosis. CdCl2 exposure was found to significantly increase ROS generation (55,56). Geniposide was found to noticeably decrease ROS levels, to downregulate LDH and to upregulate antioxidase SOD. In order to understand the protective mechanism of geniposide against oxidative stress injury, we detected the downstream target genes of Nrf2, HO-1 and NQO1. Nrf2, a basic leucine-zipper transcription factor, plays an important role in preventing the development of oxidative stress and is also one of the essential regulators of antioxidative stress genes. The role of Nrf2 has been confirmed using Nrf2 knock-out mice in vivo, and it binds to antioxidant response element (ARE) sites in the promoter of cytoprotective phase II genes to regulate their expression (57–61). Our study showed that geniposide not only completely increased the mRNA and protein expression of Nrf2, but also increased antioxidant protein HO-1 and phase II detoxifying enzyme NQO1. Thus, we inferred that the induction of Nrf2 could promote the downstream genes HO-1 and NQO1 so as to attenuate the oxidative stress reaction. Taken together, our study indicated that geniposide could induce Nrf2, suggesting that the Nrf2 pathway may take part in the progressive effects of geniposide on antioxidative stress.
In conclusion, our finding suggests that geniposide could antagonize oxidative stress caused by CdCl2. Activation of Nrf2, HO-1 and NQO1 may be associated with the effect of geniposide on MC-3T3-E1 cells. Our study identifies a potential agent for the treatment of cadmium-induced osteoblast injury.
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The datasets used during the present study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Authors' contributions
TH and HS made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the study. JZ, YZ, HL and YH performed data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation. TH and HS drafted the article, critically revised its intellectual content. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript. TH, HS, ZL and HL agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work and ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of the work were appropriately investigated and resolved.
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