PMID- 28482072 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180604 LR - 20200730 IS - 1096-0929 (Electronic) IS - 1096-6080 (Print) IS - 1096-0929 (Linking) VI - 158 IP - 2 DP - 2017 Aug 1 TI - Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Induced CHOP Inhibits PGC-1alpha and Causes Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Diabetic Embryopathy. PG - 275-285 LID - 10.1093/toxsci/kfx096 [doi] AB - Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress has been implicated in the development of maternal diabetes-induced neural tube defects (NTDs). ER stress-induced C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) plays an important role in the pro-apoptotic execution pathways. However, the molecular mechanism underlying ER stress- and CHOP-induced neuroepithelium cell apoptosis in diabetic embryopathy is still unclear. Deletion of the Chop gene significantly reduced maternal diabetes-induced NTDs. CHOP deficiency abrogated maternal diabetes-induced mitochondrial dysfunction and neuroepithelium cell apoptosis. Further analysis demonstrated that CHOP repressed the expression of peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1alpha (PGC-1alpha), an essential regulator for mitochondrial biogenesis and function. Both CHOP deficiency in vivo and knockdown in vitro restore high glucose-suppressed PGC-1alpha expression. In contrast, CHOP overexpression mimicked inhibition of PGC-1alpha by high glucose. In response to the ER stress inducer tunicamycin, PGC-1alpha expression was decreased, whereas the ER stress inhibitor 4-phenylbutyric acid blocked high glucose-suppressed PGC-1alpha expression. Moreover, maternal diabetes in vivo and high glucose in vitro promoted the interaction between CHOP and the PGC-1alpha transcriptional regulator CCAAT/enhancer binding protein-beta (C/EBPbeta), and reduced C/EBPbeta binding to the PGC-1alpha promoter leading to markedly decrease in PGC-1alpha expression. Together, our findings support the hypothesis that maternal diabetes-induced ER stress increases CHOP expression which represses PGC-1alpha through suppressing the C/EBPbeta transcriptional activity, subsequently induces mitochondrial dysfunction and ultimately results in NTDs. CI - (c) The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Toxicology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. FAU - Chen, Xi AU - Chen X AD - Center for Translational Research, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China. AD - Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences. FAU - Zhong, Jianxiang AU - Zhong J AD - Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences. FAU - Dong, Daoyin AU - Dong D AD - Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences. FAU - Liu, Gentao AU - Liu G AD - Center for Translational Research, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China. FAU - Yang, Peixin AU - Yang P AD - Center for Translational Research, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China. AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. LA - eng GR - R01 DK101972/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL118491/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL131737/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK103024/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL139060/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK083243/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL134368/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PL - United States TA - Toxicol Sci JT - Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology JID - 9805461 RN - 0 (Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Coactivator 1-alpha) RN - 0 (Ppargc1a protein, mouse) RN - 11089-65-9 (Tunicamycin) RN - 147336-12-7 (Transcription Factor CHOP) RN - IY9XDZ35W2 (Glucose) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Apoptosis/genetics MH - Cell Line MH - Diabetes, Gestational/*physiopathology MH - Dimerization MH - Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress/*physiology MH - Female MH - Fetal Diseases/*physiopathology MH - Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects MH - Glucose/administration & dosage MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Mitochondria/*physiology MH - Neural Tube Defects/genetics MH - Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Coactivator 1-alpha/*antagonists & inhibitors MH - Pregnancy MH - Transcription Factor CHOP/genetics/*physiology MH - Tunicamycin/pharmacology PMC - PMC5837255 OTO - NOTNLM OT - C/EBPbeta OT - CHOP OT - ER stress OT - PGC-1alpha OT - diabetic embryopathy OT - mitochondrial dysfunction OT - neural tube defects EDAT- 2017/05/10 06:00 MHDA- 2018/06/05 06:00 PMCR- 2018/08/01 CRDT- 2017/05/09 06:00 PHST- 2017/05/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/06/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/05/09 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 3804411 [pii] AID - kfx096 [pii] AID - 10.1093/toxsci/kfx096 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Toxicol Sci. 2017 Aug 1;158(2):275-285. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfx096.