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Role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in depression

Mao

Jiaxin

1 2 * Hu

Yanran

1 2 * Ruan

Liemin

2 Ji

Yunxin

2 Lou

Zhongze

1Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, Medical School of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, P.R. China 2Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo Hospital of Zhejiang University, Medical School of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315010, P.R. China

Correspondence to: Dr Zhongze Lou or Ms. Yunxin Ji, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo Hospital of Zhejiang University, Medical School of Ningbo University, 59 Liuting Street, Haishu, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315010, P.R. China, E-mail: lorenzo_87@163.com, E-mail: janegege123@163.com *

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Depression is a devastating mood disorder that causes profound disability worldwide. Despite the increasing number of antidepressant medications available, the treatment options for depression are limited. Therefore, understanding the etiology and pathophysiology of depression, and exploiting potential novel agents to treat and prevent this disorder are imperative. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress activates the unfolded protein response and mediates the pathogenesis of psychiatric diseases, including depression. Emerging evidence in human and animal models suggests an intriguing link between ER stress and depression. The ER serves as an important subcellular organelle for the synthesis, folding, modification, and transport of proteins, a process that is highly developed in neuronal cells. Perturbations of ER homeostasis lead to ER stress, and ER stress helps to restore the normal ER function by restoring the protein-folding capacity of the ER. This biological defense mechanism is imperative to prevent the disease. However, excessive or persistent ER stress eventually causes cell death. If the damage occurs in the hippocampus, the amygdala and striatum and other areas of the neurons will be involved in the development of depression. In this review article, we explore how ER stress might have an important role in the pathophysiology of depression and how different drugs affect depression through ER stress.

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1. Introduction

Depression is a highly prevalent mood disorder characterized by depressed mood, declined interest and so-called autonomic function changes, including alterations in appetite, sleep, and energy levels (1). Depression affects many aspects of patients' lives, including social interaction, relationships with family, and working efficiency, and >350 million people worldwide battle with the disorder every day (2). Depression is one of the leading causes of disabling medical conditions worldwide, and >60% of those who commit suicide suffer from the disease (3). Despite its tremendous burden, high prevalence, the extensive research over the last half-century, and the increasing number of antidepressant treatment options available, an efficient cure for depression is lacking.

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an important subcellular organelle involved in the synthesis, post-translational modifications, and proper folding of secretory proteins, and calcium homeostasis (4). A variety of physiological conditions, including hypoxia, stress, hypoglycemia, calcium depletion, oxidative stress, and a high-fat diet, can disrupt the protein folding process and consequently result in the accumulation of unfolded and misfolded proteins in the ER, a condition termed ER stress (5). Under ER stress, the unfolded protein response (UPR) is activated to minimize the overloading caused by the unfolded proteins. However, if ER functions are severely damaged, apoptosis signals are triggered (6).

Maintaining the normal function of the ER requires the help of ER chaperones, of which the 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein (GRP78) and 94-kDa glucose-regulated protein (GRP94) are important members (7). Many cellular processes require ER chaperone involvement, including the transfer of newly synthesized peptides on the ER membrane, the folding and assembly of proteins, the degradation of misfolded proteins by the ubiquitin-proteasome system, the autophagy-lysosomal system, and the regulation of calcium homeostasis, which act as stress sensors for the ER (8–11). Multiple studies have demonstrated that ER stress is associated with psychiatric disorders. Bown et al (12) revealed that levels of the ER stress proteins GRP78, GRP94 and calreticulin are elevated in the postmortem temporal cortex of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), with Nevell et al (13) similarly demonstrating that systemic and persistent activation of ER stress is associated with MDD. Another study reported that stressful life events across the lifespan play an important role in disease etiology (14). Stress is one of the common causes of depressive episodes; sustained stress can also disrupt hippocampal nerve regeneration in adults, indirectly inhibit dopamine function, and exaggerate the amygdala's memory of negative stimuli (15). Therefore, it is hypothesized that ER stress may be a major culprit in the progression of depression. This review aimed to summarize the current knowledge of the role of ER stress in depression.

2. ER stress

ER stress refers to the molecular and biochemical changes in the homeostatic morphology and function of the ER upon the stimulation of cells by internal or external factors, which block the processing and transport of proteins, and lead to the accumulation of large amounts of unfolded or misfolded proteins in the ER (16). As a result, cells take corresponding measures to relieve ER stress and promote the recovery of normal ER function. Cellular survival is only achieved when the ER stress response resolves these stimuli and produces normal proteins (17). If residual unfolded proteins are released as mutants, specific apoptotic responses occur (18). To relieve ER stress and restore homeostatic functions within the ER on a cellular level, the UPR triggers three types of protective cellular responses depending on the cause of induction: The upregulation of genes encoding ER chaperones, the attenuation of translation, or the promotion of ER-associated degradation (ERAD) of aggregated proteins (19). These are adaptive responses to protein accumulation in the ER and relieve ER stress by reducing protein synthesis, promoting protein degradation, and increasing molecular chaperones that help protein folding. Protein kinase R-like ER kinase (PERK), inositol-requiring enzyme 1α (IRE1α), and activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6) are important transmembrane proteins that initiate UPR (20). In unstressed cells, these ER transmembrane signaling molecules are maintained in an inactive state by binding to GRP78 (21). Upon detecting ER stress, the UPR signaling pathway is triggered, and GRP78 is rapidly released from these three molecules and binds to unfolded proteins (Fig. 1) (22).

Following dissociation from GRP78, PERK homodimerizes to promote its autophosphorylation and activation (23). PERK activation then triggers the phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α), which activates the expression of multiple transcription factors, such as activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) (23). Phosphorylated eIF2α activity is inhibited during the early stages of stress, which slows down the synthesis and translation of most proteins in the cell, and reduces the load of protein folding in the ER. In addition, ATF4 serves a protective role by regulating amino acid metabolism, redox reactions and protein secretion (24). However, as the time and intensity of the stress response increases, activated ATF4 induces the expression of the pro-apoptotic CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-homologous protein (CHOP) (25).

IRE1α is a transmembrane protein containing serine/threonine kinase and endonuclease domain (26). Following the dissociation of IRE1α from GRP78, IRE1α is self-activated by homodimerization and phosphorylation of the intracytoplasmic domain, resulting in the allosteric activation of its surrounding endonuclease domain (24). Activated IRE1α splices the 26-base intron in the mRNA precursor of X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1), which is induced by ATF6, and the spliced mRNA undergoes translational frame shifting to encode the steady-state transcription factor XBP1 (27). The transcription factor XBP1s not only induces the transcription of the GRP78 and CHOP genes but also activates the ERAD program through ER degradation enhancing α mannosidase-like 1 (EDEM1) in an attempt to restore ER homeostasis (28,29). Therefore, XBP1s is crucial to restoring ER homeostasis.

In the unstressed state, ATF6 is mainly present in the ER as a zymogen, but under ER stress, it is induced to dissociate from GRP78 and transport into Golgi bodies. The ATF6α transcription factor is released following cleavage by the Golgi site-1 and −2 proteases (30). Together with XBP1, ATF6α activates the transcription of targets such as GRP78, thereby counteract ER stress and exert protective effects to promote cell survival (31). Collectively, these transduction pathways coordinate together to counteract ER stress through negative feedback, reducing the number of unfolded proteins and facilitating cell survival (17). Nonetheless, when the mechanism fails, a large amount of calcium is released into the cytoplasm to induce apoptosis, whilst persistent UPR signals induce chronic ER stress (18). The UPR actively promotes cell death through apoptosis following the activation of CHOP, JNKs, proapoptotic Bcl-2-like protein 11 (Bim; a member of the Bcl-2 family), and caspases (Fig. 2) (32).

3. ER stress and depression <sec> <title>Animal studies

Rats or mice exposed to chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) are widely used as depression models (33). Previous results have suggested that the depressive behavior of CUMS mice is related to ER stress, and that the underlying mechanism is the insufficient synthesis of ATP, and the overactivated oxidative and ER stress which leads to neuronal apoptosis or death (34). Another previous study reported that CUMS-induced depression-like behavior in rats is due to the disturbance of hippocampal hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) generation, which in turn promotes hippocampal ER stress responses including the upregulation of GRP78, CHOP, and cleaved caspase-12 expression (35). H₂S is the third most prevalent endogenous signaling gasotransmitter and serves a key role in both neuromodulation and neuroprotection (36). Moreover, H₂S has been suggested to inhibit hippocampal ER stress by upregulating hippocampal silence signal regulator 1, an essential metabolically regulated transcription factor, thereby attenuating depression-like behaviors in rats (37). These findings suggest that H₂S may provide a novel target for the treatment of depression.

Recent evidence has demonstrated that chronic restraint stress (CRS) induces cognitive impairment, and anxiety- and depression-like behavior in rodents (38). Previous findings by Jangra et al suggest that honokiol (a traditional Chinese medicine isolated from the bark of Magnolia officinalis tree) eliminates CRS-induced cognitive impairment and depressive-like behavior by preventing the elevation of GRP78 and CHOP in the hippocampus of mice (39). Furthermore, in CRS mice, the expression levels of GRP78 and CHOP in the hippocampus, and of CHOP in the prefrontal cortex, are significantly upregulated compared with those in the control group, while sodium phenylbutyrate (an ER stress inhibitor) and edaravone (a free radical scavenger) not only reverse the high expression of these genes, but also improve the cognitive deficits and depression-like behavior observed in the model mice (40). The expression levels of GRP78, ATF6, XBP1, CHOP, and growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible protein (a regulatory subunit of an eIF2α-specific phosphatase complex) are also increased in the CRS rat striatum, indicating that ER stress is involved in CRS-induced depression-like abnormal behaviors (41).

Lipopolysaccharide is an endotoxin that causes anxiety- and depression-like behavior in rodents after central or peripheral administration (42). Its administration is reported to significantly upregulate GRP78 mRNA expression in the hippocampus, suggesting that UPR is involved in lipopolysaccharide-evoked behavioral anomalies (43). Social defeat stress-vulnerable mice also demonstrate depression-like behavior, which is associated with a significant increase in the expression of GRP78, CHOP and choline acetyltransferase in the amygdala (44). Liu et al found that the expression of GRP78 and XBP1 were significantly increased in the hippocampus of mice with social defeat stress (45). Furthermore, chronic social defeat stress can activate the PERK-eIF2α signaling pathway in the hippocampus, leading to the downregulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression levels, and eventually depression-like behavior and memory impairment in mice (46). Sharma et al also demonstrated that inhibition of PERK expression in the hippocampus can enhance hippocampal-dependent memory and reverse memory deterioration in mice (47), suggesting that cognitive function can be improved by regulating the expression levels of PERK at the Cornu Ammon 1 region of the hippocampus. In addition, plasma levels of corticosterone and the expression of genes encoding GRP78, GRP94, ATF6, XBP1, ATF4, and CHOP increased in the hippocampus of rats with learned helplessness, suggesting that depression-like behavior may be associated with excessive persistence of ER stress (48). Spinal cord injury in rodent models causes depressive-like behavior and impairment of spatial memory retention (49–51). Experimental studies have reported that chronically activated ER stress in the brain and newly formed immature neurons in the subgranular area of the hippocampus may be detrimental to the survival and regeneration of impaired cognitive and depressive neurons following spinal cord injury (52). Finally, the introduction of an Alzheimer's patient-associated mutation in the gene encoding carboxypeptidase E/NF-α1 into transgenic mice leads to increased ER stress and decreased expression of a pro-survival protein, Blc-2, ultimately resulting in symptoms resembling dementia and depression (53). In summary, the above animal studies have demonstrated a link between ER stress and depression.

Clinical studies

To explore the hypothesis that ER stress has an important influence on the pathophysiology of depression in human studies, Behnke et al (8) measured the expression levels of GRP78, GRP94, and calreticulin in postmortem samples of psychiatric patients. Higher expression levels of GRP78, GRP94, and calreticulin were found in the temporal cortex of patients with MDD who died by suicide compared with MMD patients with non-suicide deaths or other groups (8). Although some of the patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia died by suicide, no such differences in the expression levels of these proteins were found in these patients (12). Furthermore, xanthine oxidase activity, which produces reactive oxygen species and is a central mechanism of oxidative stress, is increased in temporal lobe tissue of patients with recurrent depression (54,55). In addition, upon analyzing the expression levels of GRP78, EDEM1, CHOP, and XBP1, the major indicators of the ER stress response, with reverse transcription-quantitative PCR using leukocyte-derived RNA samples from 86 participants in the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study, patients with MDD had significantly higher levels of GRP78, EDEM1, CHOP, and XBP1 compared to control patients (13). These data suggest that the ER stress response pathways in those MDD patients are indicative of sustained activation. Altogether, these studies have suggested that the ER stress response pathway is continuously activated in MDD patients and warrants further investigation.

4. ER stress and medicine <sec> <title>Herbal medicine

Previous studies have found that numerous compounds exert antidepressive properties that may be linked to their ability to affect ER stress. Chronic luteolin treatment results in an antidepressant-like effect by inhibiting apoptosis induced by hippocampal ER stress, leading to the increased expression of the genes encoding GRP78 and GRP94 and reduced cleavage of caspase-3 (56). By contrast, longistyline C exerts antidepressive properties by inhibiting the levels of GRP78, CHOP and XBP1, thus, relieving ER stress (57). Another previous study reported that the water extraction product of Panax ginseng possesses antidepressant-like activity in both acute and chronic stress models of depression, with the underlying molecular mechanism depending on the downregulation of ER stress-related proteins, such as CHOP, GRP78, XBP1, and caspase-12 (58). Saikosaponins may also exert antidepressant-like effects through their protective effects on neuronal cells, including their ability to downregulate GRP78, CHOP and XBP1 to stabilize ER stress and restore mitochondrial membrane potential activity to recover mitochondrial function (59). Finally, a recent study demonstrated that gastrodin can improve depression-like behavior in mice by inhibiting ER stress (60), and the mechanism by which Aralia elata treats depression after illness also involves ER stress (61).

Antidepressants

Fluvoxamine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) with high affinity for the σ-1 receptor (Sig-1R) (62). In a leptin resistance study, Hosoi et al revealed that fluvoxamine attenuated ER stress through the Sig-1R (63). Sig-1R forms a complex with another molecular chaperone, such as GRP78, at the ER-mitochondrial interface to regulate calcium ion signaling and cell survival (64). Similarly, a previous study by Omi et al demonstrated that fluvoxamine-mediated upregulation of Sig-1R expression promoted neuroprotection by inhibiting ER stress-mediated apoptosis and increasing ATF4 translation (65). Finally, Terada et al reported that fluvoxamine improved depression-like behavior in mice following chronic dexamethasone infusions via the recovery of brain-derived neurotrophic factor/XBP1/Sig-1R/5-hydroxytryptamine 2A receptor signaling cascades (66).

Fluoxetine is a widely used SSRI in clinical practice that can prolong and increase the action of serotonin (67). Ma et al revealed that fluoxetine induced apoptosis through CHOP-dependent ER stress-related apoptotic pathways in glioma cells, such as the PERK/eIF2α/ATF4/CHOP and ATF6/CHOP signaling pathways (68). In addition, desipramine promotes antitumor activity in glioma by inducing autophagy through the PERK/eIF2α and ATF6 signaling pathways (69) and the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine may also be related to ER stress (70). Notably, previous experimental studies suggest that liver damage caused by some drugs is also associated with excessive activation of ER stress. For example, the commonly used SSRI antidepressant sertraline leads to an increase in PERK, IRE1α, and CHOP expression levels (71) and nefazodone significantly increases CHOP, ATF4, and phosphorylated eIF2α levels (72). In addition, a recent study demonstrated that the SSRI escitalopram significantly reduces the expression level of ER stress marker proteins, thereby exerting its antidepressant effect (73). To sum up, most studies suggest that antidepressants work by reducing ER stress.

Other

The Bax inhibitor 1 (BI-1) is an evolutionarily conserved ER protein that has an antiapoptotic effect on ER stress-induced cell death (74). Therefore, in the short term, BI-1 may serve a protective role in the depression-like behaviors induced by chronic mild stress (75). In addition, previous findings by Hunsberger et al indicated that the expression of BI-1 was protective against anhedonia (76). Alternatively, evidence suggests that an estrogen receptor β agonist could ameliorate ER stress-induced anxiety- and depression-like behavior through the IRE1α/XBP1 pathway (77). Finally, in rats, a soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibitor mitigated the development of depression-like behaviors by alleviating ER stress (78).

5. Conclusions

Current research suggests that ER stress serves a key role in the pathophysiology of depression. ER stress-related proteins are significantly increased in animal models of depression, including within the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and striatum, indicating that ER stress is involved in the pathogenesis of depression. Clinical studies are relatively limited, but evidence has revealed that patients with depression exhibit persistent activation of the ER stress system. This suggests that the treatment and prevention of depression should focus on ER stress-related signaling pathways. Future research should elucidate further the signaling pathways involved in depression-related ER stress. Furthermore, studies with antidepressant drugs are contradictory; herbal medicine and fluvoxamine inhibit the excessive activation of the ER stress system, whereas fluoxetine, desipramine, sertraline, and nefazodone potentiate ER stress. Although the latter can activate ER stress to promote cell apoptosis, no studies have definitely demonstrated that they cause neuronal apoptosis. Thus, the effects of these antidepressant drugs on different types of cellular ER stress systems should be explored in depth. Concurrently, the role of ER stress in depression should be further clarified from the perspective of gene transcription and translation. In addition, the activation of ER stress in animal models of depression is often accompanied by the occurrence of oxidative stress and inflammation. Hence, the mechanism of the interactions among oxidative stress, inflammation, and ER stress in the development of depression requires further investigation.

Acknowledgements

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Funding

The present study was funded by The Medical and Health Science and Technology Plan Project of Zhejiang Province (grant nos. 2018KY671 and 2019KY564), The Ningbo Health Branding Subject Fund (grant no. PPXK2018-01), The Major Social Development Special Foundation of Ningbo (grant no. 2017C510010), The Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang province (grant no. LY14H090003) and The Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo (grant no. 2016A610156).

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JXM, YRH and ZZL drafted the manuscript. JXM, YXJ and ZZL conceived and designed the framework of this article, LMR, YRH, YXJ and ZZL collected and analyzed the literature. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Abbreviations

endoplasmic reticulum

UPR

unfolded protein response

GRP78

78-kDa glucose-regulated protein

GRP94

94-kDa glucose-regulated protein

ERAD

ER-associated degradation

MDD

major depressive disorder

PERK

protein kinase R-like ER kinase

IRE1α

inositol-requiring enzyme 1α

ATF6

activating transcription factor 6

eIF2α

eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α

ATF4

activating transcription factor 4

CHOP

CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-homologous protein

XBP1

X-box binding protein 1

EDEM1

ER degradation-enhancing-α- mannosidase-like 1

CUMS

chronic unpredictable mild stress

H2S

hydrogen sulfide

CRS

chronic restraint stress

SSRI

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

Sig-1R

σ-1 receptor

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Figure 1.

A variety of physiological conditions can disrupt the protein folding process and consequently result in the accumulation of unfolded and misfolded proteins in the ER, a condition termed ER stress. Under ER stress, the UPR is activated to minimize overloading. If the UPR is successful in reducing the number of unfolded and misfolded proteins, UPR signaling is attenuated and the cell survives. ER, endoplasmic reticulum; GRP78, 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein; PERK, protein kinase R-like ER kinase; eIF2α, eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α; ATF4, activating transcription factor 4; ATF6, activating transcription factor 6; IRE1α, inositol-requiring enzyme 1α; XBP1, X-box binding protein 1; ERAD, endoplasmic reticulum associated degradation; UPR, unfolded protein response.

Figure 2.

When the function of ER is severely impaired, a large amount of calcium is released into the cytoplasm to induce apoptosis. UPR also triggers apoptotic signals through CHOP, JNKs, Bim, and caspases. ER, endoplasmic reticulum; GRP78, 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein; PERK, protein kinase R-like ER kinase; ATF6, activating transcription factor 6; IRE1α, inositol-requiring enzyme 1α; CHOP, CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-homologous protein; Bim, Bcl-2-like protein 11.