Weifen Zhang
Chengcheng Gai2
Wentong Li- 1Department of Pharmacology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, China
- 2Department of Pathology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, China
- 3School of Clinical Medicine, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, China
Ferroptosis is a type of programmed cell death characterized by the accumulation of lipid reactive oxygen species (L-ROS) driven by the oxidative degeneration of lipids in an iron-dependent manner. The mechanism by which lipid oxidative degradation drives ROS-ferroptosis involves metabolic dysfunctions that result in impaired intracellular metabolic processes and ROS production. Recent studies have found that p53 acts as a positive regulator of ferroptosis by promoting ROS production. p53 directly regulates the metabolic versatility of cells by favoring mitochondrial respiration, leading to ROS-mediated ferroptosis. In mild stress, p53 protects cell survival via eliminating ROS; additionally, in human colorectal cancer, p53 antagonizes ferroptosis by formation of the DPP4–p53 complex. In short, the mechanisms of p53-mediated ROS production underlying cellular response are poorly understood. In the context of recent research results, the indistinct roles of p53 on ROS-mediated ferroptosis are scrutinized to understand the mechanism underlying p53-mediated tumor suppression.
Introduction
Ferroptosis, a new form of cell death, was first described in a high-throughput screening of molecules for selectively inducing cell death in RAS mutant isoform cancer cells (1). As a novel subtype of programmed cell death, ferroptosis is primarily characterized by increased mitochondrial membrane density and volume shrinkage with distinct morphological, biochemical, and genetic differences from other types of cell death, including apoptosis, necrosis, necroptosis, and autophagy; for instance, the typical characteristics of apoptosis, including activated caspases, chromatin condensation, and DNA fragmentation, are absent in ferroptosis (1, 2), the distinctive morphological feature of erastin-treated cells involved smaller mitochondria with increased membrane density (3). In addition, loss of the plasma membrane integrity of necrotic morphological features and formation of double membrane-layered autophagic vacuoles during autophagy are not observed in ferroptosis.
Small molecules belonging to class I and class II ferroptosis-inducing agents trigger ferroptosis via inhibiting cystine-glutamate exchange transporter () and glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4), respectively (4). Class I ferroptosis inducers, such as erastin, sorafenib, sulfasalazine and the neurotransmitter glutamate, , class II ferroptosis inducers, such as RSL3, FIN56 (5), or altretamine (6) are shown to induce ferroptosis via inhibition of GPX4.
Recent studies have reported that p53 activation is essential for ferroptosis in certain cancers. Since the discovery of p53, its role on tumor suppression in tumorigenesis and cancer therapy has attracted considerable attention. Loss of p53 is a vital event in the tumorigenesis of many human cancers (7, 8). In general, the tumor suppression activity of p53 in response to cellular stress relies on its capability to elicit cell-cycle arrest, apoptosis, and senescence. Nevertheless, recent efforts indicate that other unconventional activities of p53 are also crucial for tumor suppression (9, 10).
Novel roles of p53 on tumor suppression have come to light when a synthetic mutant of p53, incapable of transactivating the majority of known p53 target genes, displays antitumor activities in unstressed organisms and some cancer-prone mouse models (10, 11). A mutant p53 that loses acetylation at some definite residues of the DNA binding domain is disabled to evoke growth arrest, senescence, and apoptosis, thereby inhibiting spontaneous tumor development through sensitizing cells to ferroptosis (12, 13). Given that p53 is a main regulatory factor of critically important cellular biological processes, elucidating the mechanism by which p53 responds to stress may clarify the upstream signaling of ferroptosis. In the context of recent insights, the indistinct roles of p53 signaling in reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated ferroptosis via the transcriptional and non-transcriptional regulation of metabolic targets are scrutinized (Table 1).
Table 1. The mechanisms of transcriptional and post-translational regulation on metabolic genes involving in ferroptosis.
Activation of p53 Sensitizes Cells to ROS and Triggers Ferroptosis
Increased accumulation of lipid reactive oxygen species (L-ROS) in an iron-dependent manner is a fundamental characteristic of ferroptosis (14, 27). Metabolic dysfunctions contribute to ferroptosis by elevating the production of ROS independent of mitochondria (5). Thus, several investigations have been devoted to elucidate the regulatory roles of p53 on metabolic targets in ROS production for regulating ferroptosis.
p53 participates in various cellular processes by acting as a DNA binding transcription factor that selectively modulates the expression of target genes. For example, wild-type p53 regulates the transactivation of cytochrome c oxidase 2 (SCO2), favoring mitochondrial respiration over glycolysis (28). In addition, p53 plays a negative regulatory role on glycolysis via transcriptionally modulating glucose transporter (GLUT)1, GLUT4 (24), TP53-induced glycolysis and apoptosis regulator (TIGAR), and glutaminase 2 (GLS2) (15, 29) (Figure 1). p53 could also suppress glucose metabolism directly by binding and inhibiting glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (30). Clearly, p53 directly adjusts the metabolic polyfunctionality of cells by supporting mitochodial respiration, leading to ROS-mediated ferroptosis.
Figure 1. p53 binding sites within the upstream regulatory region of the target gene promoters. Schematic diagram indicates the p53 binding sites within the upstream regulatory region of the SLC7A11, SAT1, SCO2, TIGAR, and GSL2 promoters.
Modulation of p53 on the Expression of SLC7A11 to Mediate Ferroptosis
p53 Represses SLC7A11 Expression
SLC7A11 (xCT) is a light-chain subunit of the membrane Na+-dependent , which is a disulfide-linked heterodimer composed of SLC7A11 and a heavy-chain subunit (SLC3A2) (31). Previous experiments showed the inconformity in the p53 activation and expression of SLC7A11, which could directly affect ferroptosis in mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells (32). transfers intracellular glutamate to the extracellular space and extracellular cystine into cells (33). Cystine is then converted into cysteine for synthesizing glutathione (GSH), which protects cells from oxidative stress. Inhibition of reduces intracellular GSH, resulting in an iron-dependent ferroptosis mediated by the accumulation of L-ROS (23).
Activation of p53 by nutlin-3 markedly decreases SLC7A11 expression in HT-1080 cells with basal activity (34). Knockdown of p53 completely abrogates the inhibition of SLC7A11 (35), and function and SLC7A11 expression in p53KO cells are insensitive to nutlin-3 (36). Furthermore, microarray analysis confirmed that SLC7A11 is a novel target gene of p53 in a tetracycline-controlled p53-inducible cell line (13). A previous study identified a p53-binding sequence at the 5′ flanking region of the SLC7A11 gene and subsequently confirmed the formation of a p53–DNA complex at the promoter region (13). The transcriptional repression of p53 on SLC7A11 leads to the destruction of cystine import, resulting in declined glutathione production and enhanced ROS-mediated ferroptosis (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Schematic diagram of transcriptional regulation of p53 on targets. (a) p53 transcriptionally represses the expression TIGAR, GLS2, and SCO2 to mediate ferroptosis. (b) SOCS1 is required for p53 modulating some target genes and SOCS1–p53 complex preserves a pool of preactive p53 via preventing p53 degradation. (c) Modulation of p53 on the expression of SLC7A11 system X activity to mediate ferroptosis.
p53-Dependent Repression of SLC7A11 Is Independent of p53 Mutation
The molecular cascade whereby p53 restrains cystine transfer by suppressing SLC7A11 expression to induce ferroptosis may be conducive to the oncosuppressive roles of p53 (13). Although an acetylation-absent p533KR (K117/161/162R) variant at certain lysine residues cannot transcriptionally activate gene expression involved in pro-apoptotic and cell cycle arrest, knock-in mice expressing p533KR are not tumor prone and exhibit similar overall survival with the wild-type mice (12). Similarly, studies on p5325, 26, a transactivation-compromised mutant variant of p53, displayed intact tumor suppression of p533KR in the absence of the most downstream genes of p53 (10). Reduced levels of SLC7A11 expression caused by the p533KR variant in xenograft tumor models lead to an apparent depression of tumor growth (13). This finding indicates that the intact p53-SLC7A11 axis, reserved in the p533KR variant, promotes the inhibition of tumorigenesis independent of the conventional tumor suppression mechanisms of p53. Thus, ferroptosis can ensue from the transcriptional repression of SLC7A11 in a p53-dependent mechanism in response to stress, irrespective of p53 mutational status (37).
However, whether cell ferroptosis upon ROS-induced by p533KR in human cancer cells is similar to that of wild-type p53 remains unclear. In addition, whether cyclophilin D could be a downstream responder of p53 activation has yet to be clarified (38).
Acetylation Is Crucial for p53-Mediated Ferroptosis
p53 activity is controlled by a complex fine-tuning network that includes protein stability, recruitment of co-inhibitor or activator, and various post-translational modifications, such as acetylation, ubiquitination, phosphorylation, and methylation (25, 39). In particular, acetylation of p53 serves a vital role in regulating downstream targets in a promoter-specific activation during stress responses. Acetylation of p53 at K120 by Tip60/MOF is crucial for p53-induced apoptosis (40). Nevertheless, p53-mediated cell cycle arrest is involved in the combinative acetylation of K120 by Tip60/MOF and K164 by CBP/p300 (41). The p533KR mouse expressing acetylation-deficient p53, similar to the K120/164R mutations in human, displays intact p53-dependent metabolic regulation but lacks p53 functions in pro-apoptosis activity and growth arrest (12).
A recent study has found that p53 is acetylated at lysine residue K98 by acetyltransferase CBP. Acetylation of p53 at K98 lysine residue in mouse does not interfere with the steady-state, DNA-binding abilities and transcriptional activity of p53. However, combinatorial absence of K117/161/162 acetylation and K98 acetylation abrogates p53-mediated transcriptional regulation on SLC7A11, TIGAR, and GLS2 (32).
Binding of p53 With DPP4 Limits Ferroptosis by Regulating SLC7A11
Although p53 induces ferroptosis in a transcription-dependent manner in various cancers, in human colorectal cancer (CRC), it unusually functions in the regulation of erastin-mediated ferroptosis. p53-deficiency contributes to the increased lipid oxidation and GSH downregulation in CRC cells treated with erastin (42). Interestingly, the aforementioned alterations in malondialdehyde and GSH were recovered after transfecting p53 cDNA into p53−/− CRC cells (42).
Depletion of p53 contributing to ferroptosis is involved with interdicting dipeptidyl-peptidase-4 (DPP4) activity in a transcription-independent mechanism. DPP4, a membrane-bound dimeric peptidase, is widely expressed in different cell types and can cleave and degrade various bioactive peptides biologically (43, 44). The function of DPP4 in tumorigenicity has been studied in many tumors (45). Deviant expression of DPP4 is associated with tumor aggressiveness in different cancers (18, 46). Paradoxically, some advanced malignancies, including lung squamous cell carcinoma and endometrial carcinoma, show the absence of DPP4 (22). Thus, DPP4 may play different roles in different backgrounds or cancers, and further studies are needed to elucidate the exact mechanism of DPP4 in cancer.
DPP4 has been related to increased proportion of cancer stem cells and worse prognosis of CRC patients (16). Loss of p53 restrains the nuclear localization of DPP4 and boosts plasma-membrane-associated DPP4-dependent lipid peroxidation in CRC cells; then, the DPP4–NOX complex is formed and facilitates lipid peroxidation-induced ferroptosis. p53 antagonizes ferroptosis in CRC cells by facilitating DPP4 into nuclear to form the DPP4–p53 complex; dismantling of the DPP4–p53 complex can recover the ferroptosis sensitivity of CRC cells to erastin (Figure 3). This mechanism differs from the previously recognized role of p53 as a positive regulator of ferroptosis in non-CRC cells (13, 32, 47, 48). Thus, the bidirectional regulation of ferroptosis by p53 in a transcription-dependent and transcription-independent manner is dependent on tumor types and background.
Figure 3. Schematic diagram of post-translational regulation of p53 on targets. (a) p53 antagonizes ferroptosis by favoring DPP4 into a nuclear to form of the DPP4–p53 complex and impeding formation of the DPP4–NOX complex, which is required for lipid peroxidation in ferroptosis. (b) p53 suppresses glucose metabolism and production of NADPH via inhibiting glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase directly.
However, many vital questions need to be elucidated. First, only two types of CRC cell lines are used in Xie's experiment (42), which is insufficient to prove the role of p53 and DPP4 on ferroptosis in CRC. Second, DPP4 is ubiquitously expressed in various cell types, including different tumors, whereas mutations and deletions of p53 are also common in malignant tumors. Further studies are needed to reveal the mechanism underlying the different roles of the DPP4–p53 complex on the regulation of SLC7A11 in CRC and other types of malignant tumors. Third, whether that p53 favors the localization of DPP4 into nuclear to form the DPP4–p53 complex could be affected by the mutation of p53 or modification of p53, such as acetylation, should be illuminated, and this may provide an answer to the opposite effects of p53 in different cellular context.
p53 Represses The TIGAR, GLS2, SCO2, and SAT1 Genes to Mediate Ferroptosis
Tigar Plays an Antioxidant Functions in a p53-Dependent Manner
As a target of p53, TIGAR is prefigured to participate in tumor suppression and plays a role in antioxidant functions, which is in line with its functions in preventing cells from the acquirement of injury (49) (Figure 2). Nevertheless, in mouse models, the absence of TIGAR reduces capabilities to regenerate injured intestinal epithelium and represses tumor development with ROS restriction (50). TIGAR is upregulated in some cancer models and tumor types via a pattern that may be independent on the maintenance of p53 (51, 52). Furthermore, TIGAR expression negatively correlates with p53 expression in human breast cancer (53). p53-independent expression of TIGAR is poorly understood, although some transcription factors, such as SP1, CREB, and other members of the p53 family (p63 and p73), have been implicated in the regulation of p53 (17, 19, 54). In brief, these results highlight that TIGAR functions as a tumor suppressor in response to p53 but might also participate in cancer development when TIGAR expression is deregulated and uncoupled from p53 (20).
GLS2 Plays an Antioxidant Functions in a p53-Dependent Manner
Glutaminolysis plays crucial roles in ferroptosis (27). Glutaminolysis refers to the switch of glutamine into glutamate under the catalysis of GLS1 and GLS2. Although both enzymes are similar in structure and enzyme catalysis, GLS2 is required for ferroptosis (27). Human GLS2 gene is located on chromosome 12q13 and contains two potential p53 binding sites (BS). Adenovirus-mediated expression of p53 binds to both BS1 and BS2, but only BS2 is associated with endogenous p53. These data show that p53, once activated, can directly combine with BS2 in the GLS2 promoter and augment the mRNA expression of GLS2 (21). Upregulation of GLS2 contributes to p53-dependent ferroptosis by favoring aerobic glycolysis over oxidative phosphorylation and contributing to Warburg effect (27, 47, 55, 56) (Figure 2).
p53-Mediate Metabolisms via Repressing the SCO2
Synthesis of SCO2 is essential for regulating the cytochrome c oxidase complex, which is the main site of oxygen utilization in eukaryotic cells. The balance between the utilization of respiratory and glycolytic pathways is modulated by SCO2, which is a downstream target of p53 (57) (Figure 2). The source of energy from cellular respiration to glycolysis caused by the loss of p53 function resembles metabolic switch toward glycolysis in cancer cells with wild-type p53 when the SCO2 gene is depleted. SCO2 coupling p53 to mitochondrial respiration provides a possible interpretation for the Warburg phenomenon and supplies new ideas as to how p53 influences metabolism and ferroptosis (28).
p53-Mediated Activation of SAT1 Engages in Ferroptosis
The polyamines, amino acid-derived polycationic alkylamines, are basic for the growth and survival of eukaryotic cells (58). Polyamine metabolism is frequently dysregulated in cancers (59). Spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase 1 (SAT1), a rate-limiting enzyme, catalyzes the acetylation of spermidine and spermine into N1-acetylspermidine and N1-acetylspermine (60).
SAT1 could be highly induced by p53 (48). It is a p53-regulated target in wild-type p53 melanoma cells treated with Nutlin using RNA sequencing and two p53-binding sites have been found on the promoter region of SAT1. SAT1 transcriptionally activated in a p53-dependented manner is critical for lipid peroxidation and ROS-induced ferroptosis, and decreased expression of SAT1 significantly abrogates p53-induced ferroptosis. Elevation of prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 (PTGS2), a ferroptosis inducer, was identified in high-SAT1-expression xenograft tumors. Ferroptosis induced by SAT1 is arachidonate 15-lipoxygenase (ALOX15) dependent (Figure 2). ALOX15 is a lipoxygenase that catalyzes the peroxidation of arachidonic acid, and inhibition of ALOX15 can entirely rescue SAT1-induced ferroptosis. These results are consistent with the previous finding that ALOX15 is a main adjuster with which oxidative stress is transformed into lipid peroxidation and cell death (61). Nevertheless, whether that SAT1 plays a role in tumor suppression remains largely unknown.
SOCS1 Regulates Ferroptosis by Activating p53 via Phosphorylation and Stabilization
Suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) family proteins have been implicated as negative feedback regulators of cytokine signaling pathways mediated by JAK-STAT (62). SOCS is involved in tumor development by regulating STATs in the background of aberrant activation of the JAK/STAT5 pathway. In particular, SOCS1 is thought to act as a pivotal tumor suppressor through negative regulation of JAKs and plays vital roles in tumor progression. Downregulated SOCS1 expression in various human cancers has been associated with dysregulation of cytokine receptor signaling pathways (63), whereas upregulated SOCS1 expression is associated with earlier tumor stages and better clinical outcomes in breast cancer (64).
A significant correlation exists between the expression of SOCS1 and the SOCS1-dependent p53 target genes in human fibroblasts, and SOCS1 is required for p53 activation (26, 65). SOCS1-regulated genes overlap with a set of genes induced by oxidized phospholipids, which has been recently linked to ferroptosis (66). The regulation of SAT1 by p53 is SOCS1-dependent, suggesting a role for SOCS1 in ferroptosis. Aside from influencing p53 target gene expression, SOCS1 also plays a general role in senescence by stabilizing the interactions of p53 with protein complexes at DNA damage foci (Figure 2). This function of SOCS1 allows the maintenance of a pool of preactive p53 that could be slowly released and contribute to generate a lasting chronic p53 response (67). SOCS1 activates the functions of p53 via facilitating the serine 15 phosphorylation of p53 and stabilizing p53 by interfering with KAP1 (67).
Delayed Ferroptosis Onset Requires p21
CDKN1A (encoding p21) is a well-characterized target of p53 and key mediator of p53-dependent cell-cycle progression. p21 upregulation could cause a coordinated p53-mediated response that normally decreases cystine import to match the lower metabolic demands of growth-arrested cells. The impact of p21 on GSH metabolism renders it a reasonable target for inducing ferroptosis in the context of p53 (68). Stabilization of p53 and activation of the p53–p21 axis make many cancer cells insensitive to ferroptosis induced by inhibition or direct cystine deprivation. p21-dependent suppression of CDKs may be required to preserve GSH by regulating CDK-regulated metabolic enzymes and inhibit ferroptosis by inducing a complete cell-cycle arrest (69). However, the mechanism through which the p53–p21 axis reduces cellular reliance on -mediated cystine import and ongoing de novo GSH synthesis is unclear (36). Thus, the p53–p21 axis may help cancer cell survive metabolic stress, such as cystine deprivation, by suppressing the onset of ferroptosis, indicating that the p53–p21 transcriptional axis negatively regulates ferroptosis in cancer cells.
S47 Polymorphism of p53 Decreases Ferroptosis
Aside from mutations that impair p53 activity, single-nucleotide polymorphisms of p53 also alter cancer risk and clinical outcome significantly by impairing p53 signaling. About 20 years earlier, a naturally occurring polymorphism in p53 was discovered in Africans and African Americans; this polymorphism transforms the proline residue adjacent to Ser46 to a serine in human p53 (70). In particular, the Pro47Ser polymorphism (S47) impairs p53 apoptotic and transcriptional functions through reducing phosphorylation on serine 46 (47, 55). The defect in p53 function is traced to a restriction in downstream gene regulation that reduces cell ferroptosis in response to stress (70).
Profound cell death is induced in wild-type MEFs cells treated with erastin. However, cell viability assays certified that S47 MEFs and heterozygote S47/wild-type MEFs are resistant to erastin, especially S47 MEFs (47). Interestingly, treatment with erastin remarkably upregulates GLS2 expression in wild-type cells but not S47 cells, and depletion of GLS2 in wild-type MEFs recapitulates the cell death defect that is exhibited in S47 cells treated with erastin (47). The defective capacity of S47 to transactivate GLS2 might annotate the ferroptosis defect and tumor-prone characteristics of S47 mice (55).
In brief, elucidating the relevancy between p53 and ferroptosis has shown the other features of p53 biology and provided insights into the tumor suppression roles of p53. Clarification of the mechanism provides further insights into exploiting feasible therapeutic means through inducing ferroptosis defined by the occurrence of ROS in p53-retaining tumors. Nevertheless, the roles of p53 in ferroptosis remain formally demonstrated in different contexts due to the appearance of opposite effects in various cancer cells. Moreover, p53 could protect cells from slight stress damage via eliminating ROS, but p53-mediated ferroptosis owing to serious stress in cancer cells relies on the accumulation of ROS. Nevertheless, the mechanism of p53-mediated ROS production underlying cellular response is poorly understood.
Author Contributions
WZ and CG took part in the writing of the article. DD and FW participated in the data arrangement and drawing. WL examined and verified the article.
Funding
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81774125, 81572578).
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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Keywords: p53, ferroptosis, reactive oxygen species, tumor suppression, metabolic gene
Citation: Zhang W, Gai C, Ding D, Wang F and Li W (2018) Targeted p53 on Small-Molecules-Induced Ferroptosis in Cancers. Front. Oncol. 8:507. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2018.00507
Received: 23 September 2018; Accepted: 16 October 2018;
Published: 02 November 2018.
Edited by:
Zhe-Sheng Chen, St. John's University, United StatesReviewed by:
Wenjun Wu, University of Chicago, United StatesPranav Gupta, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States
De-shen Wang, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC), China
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