Z-REX uncovers a bifurcation in function of Keap1 paralogs
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States
- University of Utah, United States
- Xiamen University, China
- University of Sydney, Australia
- University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract
Studying electrophile signaling is marred by difficulties in parsing changes in pathway flux attributable to on-target, vis-à-vis off-target, modifications. By combining bolus dosing, knockdown, and Z-REX-a tool investigating on-target/on-pathway electrophile signaling, we document that electrophile labeling of one zebrafish-Keap1-paralog (zKeap1b) stimulates Nrf2- driven antioxidant response (AR) signaling (like the human-ortholog). Conversely, zKeap1a is a dominant-negative regulator of electrophile-promoted Nrf2-signaling, and itself is nonpermissive for electrophile-induced Nrf2-upregulation. This behavior is recapitulated in human cells, wherein following electrophile treatment: (1) zKeap1b-transfected cells are permissive for augmented AR-signaling through reduced zKeap1b-Nrf2 binding; (2) zKeap1a-transfected cells are non-permissive for AR-upregulation, as zKeap1a-Nrf2 binding capacity remains unaltered; (3) 1:1 ZKeap1a:zKeap1b-transfected cells show no Nrf2-release from the Keap1-complex, rendering these cells unable to upregulate AR. We identified a zKeap1a-specific point-mutation (C273I) responsible for zKeap1a's behavior. Human-Keap1(C273I), of known diminished Nrf2-regulatory capacity, dominantly muted electrophile-induced Nrf2-signaling. These studies highlight divergent and interdependent electrophile signaling behaviors, despite conserved electrophile sensing.
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Alexandra Van Hall-Beauvais
Funding
Novartis FreeNovation
- Yimon Aye
European Research Council
- Yimon Aye
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- Yimon Aye
National Institutes of Health (NIH T32GM008500)
- Jesse R Poganik
AHA predoctoral Fellowship (17PRE33670395)
- Jesse R Poganik
HHMI International Fellow
- Saba Parvez
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Reviewing Editor
- Jonathan A Cooper, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All procedures performed at Cornell (2017-2018) and EPFL (2018-present) conform to the animal care, maintenance, and experimentation procedures followed by Cornell University's and EPFL's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) guidelines and approved by the respective institutional committees. All experiments with zebrafish performed at EPFL (2018-present) have been performed in accordance with the Swiss regulations on Animal Experimentation (Animal Welfare Act SR 455 and Animal Welfare Ordinance SR 455.1), in the EPFL zebrafish unit, cantonal veterinary authorization VD-H23).
Version history
- Received: September 9, 2022
- Preprint posted: October 12, 2022 (view preprint)
- Accepted: October 12, 2022
- Accepted Manuscript published: October 27, 2022 (version 1)
- Accepted Manuscript updated: October 31, 2022 (version 2)
- Version of Record published: December 15, 2022 (version 3)
- Version of Record updated: June 1, 2023 (version 4)
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© 2022, Van Hall-Beauvais et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Z-REX uncovers a bifurcation in function of Keap1 paralogs
eLife 11:e83373.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83373
