ALDH2 mediates the dose-response protection of chronic ethanol against endothelial senescence through SIRT1/p53 pathway

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2018 Oct 12;504(4):777-783. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.08.081. Epub 2018 Sep 11.

Abstract

Aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) plays essential roles in drinking-associated diseases or effects. As we have previously reported, ALDH2 mediates acute ethanol-induced eNOS activation in vitro. However, whether chronic ethanol treatment has a dose-response endothelial protection, as well as the possible mediating role of ALDH2 involved, is unclear. Here, we show that appropriate dose of ethanol preserved the expression and activity of ALDH2 and eNOS, and alleviated senescence-associated phenotypes in human aortic endothelial cells. Furthermore, ALDH2 deficiency impairs the dose-response protection of ethanol against endothelial senescence by promoting the accumulation of 4-HNE, the formation of 4-HNE-SIRT1 protein adducts and the subsequent decrease in SIRT1-dependent p53 deacetylation. Collectively, our data indicate that ALDH2 mediates the protection of appropriate ethanol by modulating SIRT1/p53-dependent endothelial senescence.

Keywords: 4-HNE; ALDH2; Endothelial senescence; Ethanol; SIRT1; eNOS.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acetylation
  • Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Mitochondrial / genetics
  • Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Mitochondrial / metabolism*
  • Aorta / cytology
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Cellular Senescence
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Endothelial Cells / drug effects*
  • Endothelial Cells / metabolism
  • Endothelial Cells / pathology
  • Ethanol / toxicity*
  • Humans
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III / genetics
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III / metabolism
  • Protein Transport / drug effects
  • Reactive Oxygen Species / metabolism
  • Sirtuin 1 / genetics
  • Sirtuin 1 / metabolism*
  • Toxicity Tests, Chronic
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / metabolism*

Substances

  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • TP53 protein, human
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
  • Ethanol
  • NOS3 protein, human
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III
  • ALDH2 protein, human
  • Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Mitochondrial
  • SIRT1 protein, human
  • Sirtuin 1