Arsenite methyltransferase 3 regulates hepatic energy metabolism which dictates the hepatic response to arsenic exposure

Author:

Delaney Patrice,Khan Nouf,O’Connor Matthew J.,Ambrosio Elizabeth Mayela,Garcia-Sabaté Anna,M. Teo Jeremy C.,Pergantis Spiros A.,Ober Elke,Sadler Kirsten C.ORCID

Abstract

ABSTRACTInorganic arsenic (iAs(III)) is among the most pervasive environmental toxicants in the world. The iAs metabolizing enzyme, arsenite methyltransferase (AS3MT), is a key mediator of iAs(III) toxicity and has been almost exclusively investigated in the context of iAs(III) exposure. We use functional genomics approach with zebrafishas3mtmutants which lack arsenite methyltransferase activity to uncover novel, arsenic-independent functions for As3mt. Transcriptomic analysis of untreated whole larvae, and the larval and adult livers fromas3mtmutants revealed thousands of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) compared to wild-type controls. These were enriched for genes functioning in the ribosome or mitochondria. Nearly all genes in the citric acid cycle and mitochondrial transport were downregulated inas3mtmutant livers. This resulted in reduction in reactive oxygen species levels by half and fatty liver in 81% ofas3mtmutant larvae. An inverse expression pattern was detected for over 2,000 of the As3mt regulated DEGs in the liver of larvae with transgenic overexpression of As3mt in hepatocytes. Replacingas3mtexpression in hepatocytes ofas3mtmutants prevented fatty liver, demonstrating that As3mt has novel, cell-autonomous and arsenic-independent functions regulating mitochondrial metabolism. We suggest that these functions contribute to iAs toxicity, as the mitochondrial function genes that were downregulated in the liver of unexposedas3mtmutants were further downregulated upon iAs exposure andas3mtmutants were sensitized to iAs. This indicates that As3mt regulates hepatic energy metabolism and demonstrates that, in addition to its role in iAs detoxification, the physiological functions of As3mt contribute to arsenic toxicity.SIGNIFICANCEArsenic is an endemic environmental toxicant, and the current paradigm is that susceptibility to arsenic toxicity is dictated by levels of expression of the arsenite 3 methyltransferase gene (As3mt), which is dedicated enzyme involved in arsenic detoxification. Our data showing that As3mt serves arsenic-independent functions in energy metabolism challenge this paradigm. We show that zebrafishas3mtmutants have loss of mitochondrial function and develop fatty liver and suggest thatas3mtmutants are sensitized to arsenic toxicity due, in part, to impaired mitochondrial function. This finding opens an entirely new area of study to identify the cellular function of As3mt and further advances the understanding of how genetic variants in As3mt confer sensitivity arsenic toxicology.

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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