Cell Death and Disease (Jul 2022)

Tripartite motif 25 ameliorates doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity by degrading p85α

  • Yihui Shen,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Yangyue Ni,
  • Xuejun Wang,
  • Yifan Chen,
  • Jiahui Chen,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Jinyi Lin,
  • Yuchen Xu,
  • Jian-Yuan Zhao,
  • Leilei Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-022-05100-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 7
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

Read online

Abstract Doxorubicin (DOX)-based chemotherapy is widely used to treat malignant tumors; however, the cardiotoxicity induced by DOX restricts its clinical usage. A therapeutic dose of DOX can activate ubiquitin-proteasome system. However, whether and how ubiquitin-proteasome system brings out DOX-induced cardiotoxicity remains to be investigated. Here we conducted a proteomics analysis of a DOX-induced cardiotoxicity model to screen the potentially ubiquitination-related molecules. Dysregulated TRIM25 was found to contribute to the cardiotoxicity. In vivo and in vitro cardiotoxicity experiments revealed that TRIM25 ameliorated DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. Electron microscopy and endoplasmic reticulum stress markers revealed that TRIM25 mitigated endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis in DOX-induced cardiomyocytes. Mechanistically, the Co-immunoprecipitation assays and CHX pulse-chase experiment determined that TRIM25 affected p85α stability and promoted its ubiquitination and degradation. This leads to increase of nuclear translocation of XBP-1s, which mitigates endoplasmic reticulum stress. These findings reveal that TRIM25 may have a therapeutic role for DOX-induced cardiotoxicity.