Sirtuin-2 (Sirt2), an NAD+-dependent lysine deacylase enzyme, has previously been implicated as a regulator of glucose metabolism, but the specific mechanisms remain poorly defined. Here, we observed that Sirt2-/- males, but not females, have decreased body fat, moderate hypoglycemia upon fasting, and perturbed glucose handling during exercise compared to wild type controls. Conversion of injected lactate, pyruvate, and glycerol boluses into glucose via gluconeogenesis was impaired, but only in males. Primary Sirt2-/- male hepatocytes exhibited reduced glycolysis and reduced mitochondrial respiration. RNAseq and proteomics were used to interrogate mechanisms behind this liver phenotype. Loss of Sirt2 did not lead to transcriptional dysregulation, as very few genes were altered in the transcriptome. In keeping with this, there was also negligible changes to protein abundance. Site-specific quantification of the hepatic acetylome, however, showed that 13% of all detected acetylated peptides were significantly increased in Sirt2-/- male liver versus wild type, representing putative Sirt2 target sites. Strikingly, none of these putative target sites were hyperacetylated in Sirt2-/- female liver. The target sites in male liver were distributed across mitochondria (44%), cytoplasm (32%), nucleus (8%), and other compartments (16%). Despite the high number of putative mitochondrial Sirt2 targets, Sirt2 antigen was not detected in purified wild type liver mitochondria, suggesting that Sirt2 regulation of mitochondrial function occurs from outside the organelle. We conclude that Sirt2 regulates hepatic protein acetylation and metabolism in a sex-specific manner.
[doi:10.25345/C5PK07D0V]
[dataset license: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)]
Keywords: Lysine acetylation ; Data-independent acquisition (DIA) ; Sirtuin-2 (Sirt2) ; Gluconeogenesis ; Quantitative proteomics ; Metabolism
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