PMID- 32948607 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210126 LR - 20211203 IS - 1939-327X (Electronic) IS - 0012-1797 (Print) IS - 0012-1797 (Linking) VI - 69 IP - 12 DP - 2020 Dec TI - Autophagy Inhibition Enables Nrf2 to Exaggerate the Progression of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy in Mice. PG - 2720-2734 LID - 10.2337/db19-1176 [doi] AB - Nuclear factor-erythroid factor 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) may either ameliorate or worsen diabetic cardiomyopathy. However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Herein we report a novel mechanism of Nrf2-mediated myocardial damage in type 1 diabetes (T1D). Global Nrf2 knockout (Nrf2KO) hardly affected the onset of cardiac dysfunction induced by T1D but slowed down its progression in mice independent of sex. In addition, Nrf2KO inhibited cardiac pathological remodeling, apoptosis, and oxidative stress associated with both onset and advancement of cardiac dysfunction in T1D. Such Nrf2-mediated progression of diabetic cardiomyopathy was confirmed by a cardiomyocyte-restricted (CR) Nrf2 transgenic approach in mice. Moreover, cardiac autophagy inhibition via CR knockout of autophagy-related 5 gene (CR-Atg5KO) led to early onset and accelerated development of cardiomyopathy in T1D, and CR-Atg5KO-induced adverse phenotypes were rescued by additional Nrf2KO. Mechanistically, chronic T1D leads to glucolipotoxicity inhibiting autolysosome efflux, which in turn intensifies Nrf2-driven transcription to fuel lipid peroxidation while inactivating Nrf2-mediated antioxidant defense and impairing Nrf2-coordinated iron metabolism, thereby leading to ferroptosis in cardiomyocytes. These results demonstrate that diabetes over time causes autophagy deficiency, which turns off Nrf2-mediated defense while switching on an Nrf2-operated pathological program toward ferroptosis in cardiomyocytes, thereby worsening the progression of diabetic cardiomyopathy. CI - (c) 2020 by the American Diabetes Association. FAU - Zang, Huimei AU - Zang H AD - Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. FAU - Wu, Weiwei AU - Wu W AD - Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. FAU - Qi, Lei AU - Qi L AD - Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. FAU - Tan, Wenbin AU - Tan W AD - Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. FAU - Nagarkatti, Prakash AU - Nagarkatti P AD - Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. FAU - Nagarkatti, Mitzi AU - Nagarkatti M AD - Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. FAU - Wang, Xuejun AU - Wang X AD - Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Vermillion, SD. FAU - Cui, Taixing AU - Cui T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9528-7299 AD - Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC taixing.cui@uscmed.sc.edu. LA - eng SI - figshare/10.2337/figshare.12937733 GR - P01 AT003961/AT/NCCIH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AR073172/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL131667/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200918 PL - United States TA - Diabetes JT - Diabetes JID - 0372763 RN - 0 (NF-E2-Related Factor 2) RN - 0 (Nfe2l2 protein, mouse) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Autophagy/*physiology MH - Cell Line MH - Diabetic Cardiomyopathies/*pathology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Knockout MH - Myoblasts MH - NF-E2-Related Factor 2/genetics/*metabolism MH - Rats PMC - PMC7679777 EDAT- 2020/09/20 06:00 MHDA- 2021/01/27 06:00 PMCR- 2021/12/01 CRDT- 2020/09/19 05:28 PHST- 2019/11/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/09/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/09/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/01/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/09/19 05:28 [entrez] PHST- 2021/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - db19-1176 [pii] AID - 191176 [pii] AID - 10.2337/db19-1176 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Diabetes. 2020 Dec;69(12):2720-2734. doi: 10.2337/db19-1176. Epub 2020 Sep 18.