PLoS ONE (Jan 2015)

SIRT1 is a regulator in high glucose-induced inflammatory response in RAW264.7 cells.

  • Yanhui Jia,
  • Zhao Zheng,
  • Yunchuan Wang,
  • Qin Zhou,
  • Weixia Cai,
  • Wenbin Jia,
  • Longlong Yang,
  • Maolong Dong,
  • Xiongxiang Zhu,
  • Linlin Su,
  • Dahai Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120849
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
p. e0120849

Abstract

Read online

Sepsis is defined as a systemic inflammatory response syndrome that disorders the functions of host immune system, including the imbalance between pro- and anti-inflammatory responses mediated by immune macrophages. Sepsis could also induce acute hyperglycemia. Studies have shown that the silent mating type information regulation 2 homolog 1 (SIRT1), an NAD+-dependent deacetylase, mediates NF-κb deacetylation and inhibits its function. Therefore, SIRT1 is likely to play an important role in high glucose-mediated inflammatory signalings. Here we demonstrate that high glucose significantly downregulates both the mRNA and protein levels of SIRT1 and upregulates the mRNA level and the release of two pro-inflammatory cytokines, IL-1β and TNF-α, in RAW264.7 macrophages. Interestingly, the reduced level of SIRT1 by high glucose is remarkably upregulated by SIRT1 activator SRT1720, while the level and the release of IL-1β and TNF-α significantly decrease with the use of SRT1720. However, when the function of SIRT1 is inhibited by EX527 or its expression is suppressed by RNAi, the upregulated level and release of IL-1β and TNF-α by high glucose are further increased. Taken together, these findings collectively suggest that SIRT1 is an important regulator in many high glucose-related inflammatory diseases such as sepsis.