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Sirt3 Promotes Chondrogenesis, Chondrocyte Mitochondrial Respiration and the Development of High-Fat Diet-Induced Osteoarthritis in Mice

Journal

JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
Volume 37, Issue 12, Pages 2531-2547

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.4721

Keywords

OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; HIGH-FAT DIET; Sirt3; PRIMARY JUVENILE MURINE CHONDROCYTES; METABOLISM

Funding

  1. National Institutes of Health [R01AG049058, P30GM114731, P20GM139763]
  2. Oklahoma Center for Adult Stem Cell Research (OCASCR, a program of TSET)
  3. Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology [HF18-022]
  4. OMRF Clinical Genomics Core

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This study investigates the contribution of obesity-induced metabolic stress to synovial joint tissue damage. The researchers found that dysfunction of chondrocyte mitochondria is related to osteoarthritis pathology, and the enzyme Sirt3 plays an important role in regulating this process. Surprisingly, depleting Sirt3 in cartilage at a young age protected against the development of cartilage degeneration and synovial hyperplasia induced by a high-fat diet. The protection mechanism involves increased cartilage glycolysis and reduced mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism.
Understanding how obesity-induced metabolic stress contributes to synovial joint tissue damage is difficult because of the complex role of metabolism in joint development, maintenance, and repair. Chondrocyte mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in osteoarthritis (OA) pathology, which motivated us to study the mitochondrial deacetylase enzyme sirtuin 3 (Sirt3). We hypothesized that combining high-fat-diet (HFD)-induced obesity and cartilage Sirt3 loss at a young age would impair chondrocyte mitochondrial function, leading to cellular stress and accelerated OA. Instead, we unexpectedly found that depleting cartilage Sirt3 at 5 weeks of age using Sirt3-flox and Acan-Cre(ERT2) mice protected against the development of cartilage degeneration and synovial hyperplasia following 20 weeks of HFD. This protection was associated with increased cartilage glycolysis proteins and reduced mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism proteins. Seahorse-based assays supported a mitochondrial-to-glycolytic shift in chondrocyte metabolism with Sirt3 deletion. Additional studies with primary murine juvenile chondrocytes under hypoxic and inflammatory conditions showed an increased expression of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF-1) target genes with Sirt3 deletion. However, Sirt3 deletion impaired chondrogenesis using a murine bone marrow stem/stromal cell pellet model, suggesting a context-dependent role of Sirt3 in cartilage homeostasis. Overall, our data indicate that Sirt3 coordinates HFD-induced changes in mature chondrocyte metabolism that promote OA. (c) 2022 The Authors. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR).

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