Solovieva Marina, Shatalin Yuri, Odinokova Irina, Krestinina Olga, Baburina Yulia, Lomovskaya Yana, Pankratov Anton, Pankratova Natalia, Buneeva Olga, Kopylov Arthur, Medvedev Alexei, Akatov Vladimir
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Russia.
Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS-The Branch of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Russia.
Membranes (Basel). 2022 Aug 29;12(9):845. doi: 10.3390/membranes12090845.
Disulfiram (DSF) and its derivatives were here investigated as antineoplastic agents, and their important feature is the ability to influence the UPS. We have recently shown that hydroxocobalamin catalyzes the aerobic oxidation of diethyldithiocarbamate to form disulfiram and its oxy-derivatives (DSFoxy; i.e., sulfones and sulfoxides), which induce cytoplasm vacuolization and paraptosis-like cancer cell death. We used LC-MS/MS and bioinformatics analysis to determine the key points in these processes. DSFoxy was found to induce an increase in the number of ubiquitinated proteins, including oxidized ones, and a decrease in the monomeric ubiquitin. Enhanced ubiquitination was revealed for proteins involved in the response to exogenous stress, regulation of apoptosis, autophagy, DNA damage/repair, transcription and translation, folding and ubiquitination, retrograde transport, the MAPK cascade, and some other functions. The results obtained indicate that DSF oxy-derivatives enhance the oxidation and ubiquitination of many proteins regulating proteostasis (including E3 ligases and deubiquitinases), which leads to inhibition of protein retrotranslocation across the ER membrane into the cytosol and accumulation of misfolded proteins in the ER followed by ER swelling and initiates paraptosis-like cell death. Our results provide new insight into the role of protein ubiquitination/deubiquitination in regulating protein retrotranslocation across the ER membrane into the cytosol and paraptosis-like cell death.
本文研究了双硫仑(DSF)及其衍生物作为抗肿瘤药物的作用,其重要特性是能够影响泛素蛋白酶体系统(UPS)。我们最近发现,羟钴胺催化二乙基二硫代氨基甲酸盐的有氧氧化,生成双硫仑及其氧化衍生物(DSFoxy,即砜类和亚砜类),这些物质可诱导细胞质空泡化和类副凋亡的癌细胞死亡。我们使用液相色谱-串联质谱(LC-MS/MS)和生物信息学分析来确定这些过程中的关键点。结果发现,DSFoxy可导致泛素化蛋白数量增加,包括氧化型泛素化蛋白,同时单体泛素数量减少。研究还发现,参与对外源应激反应、细胞凋亡调节、自噬、DNA损伤/修复、转录和翻译、折叠和泛素化、逆向转运、丝裂原活化蛋白激酶(MAPK)级联反应以及其他一些功能的蛋白质的泛素化增强。所得结果表明,DSF氧化衍生物增强了许多调节蛋白质稳态的蛋白质(包括E3连接酶和去泛素化酶)的氧化和泛素化,这导致蛋白质跨内质网(ER)膜逆向转运到细胞质中的过程受到抑制,错误折叠的蛋白质在内质网中积累,随后内质网肿胀,并引发类副凋亡的细胞死亡。我们的研究结果为蛋白质泛素化/去泛素化在调节蛋白质跨内质网膜逆向转运到细胞质以及类副凋亡细胞死亡中的作用提供了新的见解。