Pro-Proliferative Function of Mitochondrial Sirtuin Deacetylase SIRT3 in Human Melanoma.
Pro-Proliferative Function of Mitochondrial Sirtuin Deacetylase SIRT3 in Human Melanoma.
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10.1016/j.jid.2015.12.026
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2016-04
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Ahmad N
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George J;Nihal M;Singh CK;Zhong W;Liu X;Ahmad N
Melanoma, the most aggressive forms of skin cancer, is often fatal if not treated early. Therefore, novel target-based strategies are required to combat this neoplasm. The objective of this study was to determine the role and functional significance of the mitochondrial sirtuin SIRT3 in melanoma. We found that compared to normal primary and immortalized human melanocytes, SIRT3 is significantly overexpressed in multiple human melanoma cells at mRNA and protein levels. Further, employing human tissue microarray, we found that SIRT3 is significantly upregulated in clinical melanoma tissues, compared to melanocytic nevi tissues. Furthermore, a short hairpin RNA (shRNA)-mediated knockdown of SIRT3 in human melanoma cells resulted in 1) decrease in cellular proliferation, colony formation and cellular migration, 2) induction of senescence as shown by increase in SA-β-Gal activity and formation of SAHF as well as increase in mRNA and protein levels of p16INK4a and p21Waf1, 3) G1-phase arrest of the cell cycle, and 4) decreases in mRNA and protein levels of Cyclins (D1, E1) and Cdks (2, 4, 6). Conversely, forced exogenous overexpression of SIRT3 promoted increase in proliferative potential of Hs294T melanoma cells and normal immortalized Mel-ST melanocytes. Finally, we found that SIRT3 knockdown significantly inhibited tumorigenesis in a xenograft model in vivo. To our knowledge, this is the first study supporting the pro-proliferative function of SIRT3 in melanoma.