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Serum Sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 Levels in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients

Abstract

Background:

Sirtuins may act in many cellular processes like apoptosis, DNA repair and lipid/glucose metabolism. Experimental studies suggested some sirtuin types may have protective effects against endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, cardiac hypertrophy and reperfusion injury. Data about sirtuins in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients are scarce.

Objectives:

To investigate temporal changes of serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels in AMI patients; to compare the serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels between AMI patients and control subjects; and to investigate the association of serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels with prognostic markers of AMI.

Methods:

Forty patients with AMI and 40 patients with normal coronary arteries were included. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), serum proBNP, CRP, sirtuin1, sirtuin 3 and sirtuin 6 levels were processed. Peak troponin T levels, GRACE score, first day / second day sirtuin levels were recorded of AMI patients. A p value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results:

Serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels in AMI patients were similar to those in normal coronary patients. No temporal change in serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels were found in AMI course. No correlation was evident between the sirtuin levels and the following parameters: proBNP, CRP, peak troponin and LVEF. Baseline sirtuin 1 and 6 levels were positively correlated with reperfusion duration. Baseline sirtuin 3 levels were negatively correlated with GRACE score.

Conclusion:

Serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels in AMI patients were similar to those in normal coronary patients. This study does not represent evidence of the possible protective effects of sirtuin1, 3 and 6 in AMI patients.

Keywords:
Sirtuins/drug effects; Atherosclerosis; Lipid Metabolism; Endothelium/dysfunction; Cardiomegaly; Cellular Senescence; Carcinogenesis

Resumo

Fundamento:

As sirtuínas podem atuar em muitos processos celulares, como a apoptose, reparo de DNA e metabolismo de lipídios e de glicose. Estudos experimentais sugeriram que alguns tipos de sirtuínas possam ter efeitos protetores contra disfunção endotelial, aterosclerose, hipertrofia cardíaca e lesão decorrente de reperfusão. Dados sobre as sirtuínas em pacientes com infarto agudo do miocárdio (IAM) são escassos.

Objetivos:

Avaliar as mudanças temporais dos níveis de sirtuína 1, 3 e 6 entre pacientes com IAM e indivíduos controles; investigar a associação entre os níveis de sirtuína 1, 3 e 6 e marcadores prognósticos de IAM.

Métodos:

Quarenta pacientes com IAM e 40 pacientes com artérias coronárias normais foram incluídos. Foram avaliados fração de ejeção do ventrículo esquerdo (FEVE), concentrações séricas de pró-BNP, proteína C-reativa, sirtuína 1, sirtuína 3 e de sirtuína 6. Pico de troponina T, escore GRACE, concentrações de sirtuínas no primeiro e no segundo dia foram registrados dos pacientes com IAM. Um valor de p<0,05 foi considerado estatisticamente significativo.

Resultados:

Os níveis de sirtuína 1, 3 e 6 em pacientes com IAM foram similares aos de pacientes com coronária normal. Não foram observadas mudanças temporais nos níveis de sirtuína 1, 3 e 6 no curso do IAM. Nenhuma correlação evidente foi observada dos níveis de sirtuína com os seguintes parâmetros: pró-BNP, proteína C-reativa, pico de troponina e FEVE. Níveis basais de sirtuína 1 e 6 apresentaram correlação positiva com a duração da reperfusão. Os níveis basais de sirtuína 3 correlacionaram-se negativamente com o escore GRACE.

Conclusão:

Os níveis de sirtuína 1, 3 e 6 em pacientes com IAM foram similares aos de pacientes com artérias coronárias normais. Este estudo não apresenta evidência de possíveis efeitos protetores da sirtuína 1, 3 e 6 em pacientes com IAM.

Palavras-chave:
Sirtuínas/efeitos dos fármacos; Aterosclerose; Metabolismo de Lipídeos; Endotélio/disfunção; Cardiomegalia; Senescência Celular; Carcinogênese

Introduction

Sirtuins are NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) dependent enzymes which consist of seven members called Sirt 1-7.11 Mei Z, Zhang X, Yi J, Huang J, He J, Tao Y. Sirtuins in metabolism, DNA repair and cancer. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2016;35(1):182. The best known function of sirtuins is deacetylation, but they can also function as mono ADP ribosyltransferase, lipoamidase, demalonylase and desuccinylase.22 Du J, Zhou Y, Su X, Yu JJ, Khan S, Jiang H, et al. Sirt5 is a NAD-dependent protein lysine demalonylase and desuccinylase. Science. 2011;334(6057):806-9.,33 Mathias RA, Greco TM, Oberstein A, Budayeva HG, Chakrabarti R, Rowland EA, et al. Sirtuin 4 is a lipoamidase regulating pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity. Cell. 2014;159(7):1615-25. Sirtuins are involved in several biological processes like apoptosis, cellular survival, DNA repair/cellular aging and lipid/glucose metabolism.44 Schiedel M, Robaa D, Rumpf T, Sippl W, Jung M. The Current State of NAD(+) -Dependent Histone Deacetylases (Sirtuins) as Novel Therapeutic Targets. Med Res Rev. 2018;38(1):147-200. The information about the functions of sirtuins in carcinogenesis, aging and inflammation is also increasing.44 Schiedel M, Robaa D, Rumpf T, Sippl W, Jung M. The Current State of NAD(+) -Dependent Histone Deacetylases (Sirtuins) as Novel Therapeutic Targets. Med Res Rev. 2018;38(1):147-200.,55 Carafa V, Rotili D, Forgione M, Cuomo F, Serretiello E, Hailu GS, et al. Sirtuin functions and modulation: from chemistry to the clinic. Clin Epigenetics. 2016 May;8:61. Additionally, there exist evidences that circulating sirtuin levels may associate with frailty, reduction of body fat mass or diabetes mellitus.66 Kumar R, Mohan N, Upadhyay AD, Singh AP, Sahu V, Dwivedi S, et al. Identification of serum sirtuins as novel noninvasive protein markers for frailty. Aging Cell. 2014;13(6):975-80.

7 Mariani S, Fiore D, Persichetti A, Basciani S, Lubrano C, Poggiogalle E, et al. Circulating SIRT1 Increases After Intragastric Balloon Fat Loss in Obese Patients. Obes Surg. 2016;26(6):1215-20.
-88 Doulamis IP, Tzani AI, Konstantopoulos PS, Samanidis G, Georgiopoulos G, Toutouzas KP, et al. A sirtuin 1/MMP2 prognostic index for myocardial infarction in patients with advanced coronary artery disease. Int J Cardiol. 2017 Mar;230:447-53. Contemporary knowledge about the functions of sirtuins in the cardiovascular system in health and disease states is also evolving. Recent experimental studies have demonstrated the possible role of sirtuins in various cardiovascular pathologies like cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure, endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis.99 Winnik S, Auwerx J, Sinclair DA, Matter CM. Protective effects of sirtuins in cardiovascular diseases: from bench to bedside. Eur Heart J. 2015;36(48):3404-12.,1010 Sosnowska B, Mazidi M, Penson P, Gluba-Brzozka A, Rysz J, Banach M. The sirtuin family members SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT6: Their role in vascular biology and atherogenesis. Atherosclerosis. 2017 Oct;265:275-82.

Survival of the acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients have significantly improved with the advanced catheter-based therapies and increased availability of coronary care units, but this resulted increase in heart failure population.1111 Ibanez B, James S, Agewall S, Antunes MJ, Bucciarelli-Ducci C, Bueno H, et al. 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Eur Heart J. 2018;39(2):119-77. Infarct size reduction is crucial to decrease the probability of clinical heart failure and to improve prognosis in AMI patients. Early reperfusion and reduction of reperfusion injury are basic management approaches to reduce the infarct size. However, there exist many variables ascertaining infarct size and only a little is known about the underlying sophisticated molecular mechanisms. Inflammation, thrombogenicity, and oxidative stress effect infarct size and prognosis.1212 Patel MR, Mahaffey KW, Armstrong PW, Weaver WD, Tasissa G, Hochman JS, et al. Prognostic usefulness of white blood cell count and temperature in acute myocardial infarction (from the CARDINAL Trial). Am J Cardiol. 2005;95(5):614-8.

13 Hori M, Nishida K. Oxidative stress and left ventricular remodelling after myocardial infarction. Cardiovasc Res. 2009;81(3):457-64.
-1414 Brown AJ, Mccormick LM, Gajendragadkar PR, Hoole SP, West NE. Initial SYNTAX score predicts major adverse cardiac events after primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Angiology. 2014;65(5):408-12 Experimental studies revealed that sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 have beneficial effects against atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia, oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction and inflammation. In addition, sirtuin 1 and 3 may activate cardioprotective pathways in the setting of AMI.99 Winnik S, Auwerx J, Sinclair DA, Matter CM. Protective effects of sirtuins in cardiovascular diseases: from bench to bedside. Eur Heart J. 2015;36(48):3404-12. Therefore, serum sirtuin levels may associate with reduced myocardial infarct size and good prognostic markers in AMI patients. To the best of our knowledge, there is no data about the association between serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels and prognostic markers of AMI patients in English-language literature. The goal of this pilot study is to investigate temporal changes of serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels in AMI patients, to determine if there is any difference in serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels between AMI patients and control subjects and to investigate the association between serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels and prognostic markers of AMI patients like peak serum troponin levels, serum pro-BNP levels, GRACE score and post-MI LVEF.

Methods

The study protocol was approved by the local ethical committee and informed consent forms were obtained from all participants. We enrolled patients with acute ST-segment elevational MI (STEMI) and patients with normal coronary arteries in this cross-sectional study between June 2017 and November 2017. Patients with STEMI were diagnosed according to the third universal definition of myocardial infarction document.1515 Thygesen K, Alpert JS, Jaffe AS, Simoons ML, Chaitman BR, White HD, et al. Third universal definition of myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J. 2012;33(20):2551-67 A primary percutaneous coronary intervention was performed and all of the STEMI patients received guideline-mediated medical therapy. GRACE risk score1616 Fox KA, Dabbous OH, Goldberg RJ, Pieper KS, Eagle KA, Van de Werf F, et al. Prediction of risk of death and myocardial infarction in the six months after presentation with acute coronary syndrome: prospective multinational observational study (GRACE). BMJ. 2006;333(7578):1091. and TIMI risk score1717 Morrow DA, Antman EM, Parsons L, de Lemos JA, Cannon CP, Giugliano RP, et al. Application of the TIMI risk score for ST-elevation MI in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction 3. JAMA. 2001;286(11):1356-9. of the AMI patients were calculated. The duration between symptom onset to reperfusion, location of the infarction in electrocardiogram and presence of pre-infarction angina pectoris were recorded. Serum lipid levels, renal and hepatic function test results, complete blood count results, fasting blood glucose levels, and peak troponin T levels were also recorded. Serum C reactive protein levels and pro BNP levels were processed on the first day of ischemic insult in AMI patients. Venous samples were obtained at the admittance, 24th hour and 48th hour of the infarction for sirtuin 1,3 and 6 analysis to see whether there was any temporal change in serum sirtuin levels after myocardial infarction. Serum lipid levels, renal and hepatic function test results, complete blood count results and fasting blood glucose levels were obtained from local laboratory records and venous samples were collected for C reactive protein, pro BNP and sirtuin level analysis after the coronary angiography in normal coronary artery patients. Transthoracic echocardiography was performed and the LVEF, end diastolic diameter, septal and posterior wall thickness were recorded in all patients. All of the samples for sirtuin level analysis were centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 minutes, serums were separated and were frozen at -80 degrees Celsius. All sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels were processed simultaneously with human sirtuin ELISA kits (YL Biotech, Shanghai, PRC).

Excluded from the study were as follows: The patients with a past history of MI, stable coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, heart failure and any valvular heart disease, the patients with malignancy, active infection, any chronic inflammatory disease, and any chronic renal or hepatic disease.

Statistical analysis

SPSS 18.0 software for Windows (SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL) was used for analysis of data. For continuous variables, the normality of distribution was tested using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The results were presented as the mean ± standard deviation for variables with normal distribution and as median (interquartile range 25-75) for variables with abnormal distribution. The statistical comparisons of continuous variables were performed using independent samples t-test or Mann-Whitney U test regarding the distribution pattern. The comparisons of categorical variables were performed using Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test. While investigating the association between sirtuins and prognostic markers of AMI, the correlation coefficients and their significance were calculated using the Spearman test. In AMI patients, serial serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 levels were processed at the admittance, first day and the second day of the infarction and the Friedman test was conducted to test whether there was a significant temporal change in serum sirtuin levels in AMI patients. A p value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results

Forty consecutive STEMI patients and 40 consecutive control patients with normal coronary arteries were included into the study. Baseline clinical and laboratory characteristics of the patients were shown in table 1. White blood cell count, neutrophil count, serum creatinine, CRP, proBNP values and left ventricle mass index were significantly higher in the AMI group than in the control group. The control group was composed of more female patients and less smoking patients. The mean platelet count and the mean left ventricular ejection fraction were significantly higher in the control group than in the AMI group. There was no significant temporal change in serum sirtuin levels in AMI patients (Figure 1).

Table 1
Clinical and laboratory characteristics of the study patients

Figure 1
Baseline, first day and second day median serum sirtuin levels of the acute myocardial infarction patients. Temporal changes of serum sirtuin 1,3 and 6 were statistically insignificant in acute myocardial infarction course.

Clinical and laboratory features of AMI patients were shown in table 2. Fifteen patients experienced pre-infarction angina pectoris before the ischemic insult. Median peak troponin level was 41.6 ng/L in patients without pre-infarction angina and 28.2 ng/L in patients with pre-infarction angina (p = 0.202). Baseline serum sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 levels were similar in the patients with and without pre-infarction angina. No correlation was evident between baseline serum sirtuin levels and following parameters: CRP levels, peak troponin T levels, proBNP levels and LVEF. Baseline sirtuin 1 and 6 levels were positively correlated with reperfusion duration. On the other hand, baseline sirtuin 3 levels were significantly negatively correlated with GRACE score (Table 3).

Table 2
Clinical and laboratory features of AMI patients (n = 40)
Table 3
Correlation analysis of prognostic variables of AMI patients with sirtuins

Discussion

In this pilot study, we investigated serum sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 levels in AMI patients and patients with normal coronary arteries. We found that median serum sirtuin levels were similar in AMI patients and control patients. We observed that serum sirtuin levels did not show a significant temporal change in AMI course. There was no correlation between serum sirtuin levels and prognostic markers of AMI patients like peak troponin, proBNP, CRP and ejection fraction. Serum sirtuin 1 and 6 levels were positively correlated with reperfusion duration. In addition, we found a significant negative correlation between serum sirtuin 3 levels and GRACE score.

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death all over the world.1818 Gaziano JM. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease. In: Libby P,Bonow RO,Mann DL,Zipes DP (Ed). Braunwald's Heart Disease, 8 ed. Philedelphia:Elsevier;2008.p.1-23. Primary and secondary prevention attempts are evolving to decrease the global burden of this devastating disorder.1919 Piepoli MF, Hoes AW, Agewall S, Albus C, Brotons C, Catapano AL, et al. 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: The Sixth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of 10 societies and by invited experts)Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR). Atherosclerosis. 2016 Sep;252:207-74. Atherosclerosis pathogenesis is complicated and researches on the molecular basis of atherosclerosis proceed all over the world. In this context, this study evaluated the implication of serum sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 levels in AMI patients. Preliminary data about the sirtuins in cardiovascular diseases were obtained from experimental studies. It was demonstrated that sirtuin 1 exhibits antiatherogenic properties via acting on endothelium by endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation and reducing macrophage foam cell formation by nuclear factor kB inhibition.2020 Zhang QJ, Wang Z, Chen HZ, Zhou S, Zheng W, Liu G, et al. Endothelium-specific overexpression of class III deacetylase SIRT1 decreases atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Cardiovasc Res. 2008;80(2):191-9.,2121 Stein S, Lohmann C, Schäfer N, Hofmann J, Rohrer L, Besler C, et al. SIRT1 decreases Lox-1-mediated foam cell formation in atherogenesis. Eur Heart J. 2010;31(18):2301-9. Another study showed that sirtuin 1 decrease serum LDL cholesterol levels.2222 Miranda MX, van Tits LJ, Lohmann C, Arsiwala T, Winnik S, Tailleux A, et al. The Sirt1 activator SRT3025 provides atheroprotection in Apoe-/- mice by reducing hepatic Pcsk9 secretion and enhancing Ldlr expression. Eur Heart J. 2015;36(1):51-9. It was found that sirtuin 1 have antithrombotic effect in addition to the other atheroprotective effects that were mentioned above.2323 Stavrou EX, Fang C, Merkulova A, Alhalabi O, Grobe N, Antoniak S, et al. Reduced thrombosis in Klkb1-/- mice is mediated by increased Mas receptor, prostacyclin, Sirt1, and KLF4 and decreased tissue factor. Blood. 2015;125(4):710-9. Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and previous studies reported the antioxidant role of sirtuin 3.2424 Tao R, Coleman MC, Pennington JD, Ozden O, Park SH, Jiang H, et al. Sirt3-mediated deacetylation of evolutionarily conserved lysine 122 regulates MnSOD activity in response to stress. Mol Cell. 2010;40(6):893-904.,2525 Sundaresan NR, Gupta M, Kim G, Rajamohan SB, Isbatan A, Gupta MP. Sirt3 blocks the cardiac hypertrophic response by augmenting Foxo3a-dependent antioxidant defense mechanisms in mice. J Clin Invest. 2009;119(9):2758-71. Sirtuin 6 has anti-inflammatory and LDL lowering features.2626 Lappas M. Anti-inflammatory properties of sirtuin 6 in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Mediators Inflamm. 2012 Oct;2012:597514.,2727 Tao R, Xiong X, Depinho RA, Deng CX, Dong XC. FoxO3 transcription factor and Sirt6 deacetylase regulate low density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol homeostasis via control of the proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (Pcsk9) gene expression. J Biol Chem. 2013;288(41):29252-9. Human data about sirtuins and cardiovascular disorders are limited. Gorenne et al.2828 Gorenne I, Kumar S, Gray K, Figg N, Yu H, Mercer J, et al. Vascular smooth muscle cell sirtuin 1 protects against DNA damage and inhibits atherosclerosis. Circulation. 2013;127(3):386-96. reported that sirtuin 1 expression is reduced in human carotid atherosclerotic plaque.2828 Gorenne I, Kumar S, Gray K, Figg N, Yu H, Mercer J, et al. Vascular smooth muscle cell sirtuin 1 protects against DNA damage and inhibits atherosclerosis. Circulation. 2013;127(3):386-96. Breitenstein et al.2929 Breitenstein A, Wyss CA, Spescha RD, Franzeck FC, Hof D, Riwanto M, et al. Peripheral blood monocyte Sirt1 expression is reduced in patients with coronary artery disease. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e53106. found that peripheral monocyte sirtuin 1 expression was lower in coronary artery disease patients compared to healthy subjects.2929 Breitenstein A, Wyss CA, Spescha RD, Franzeck FC, Hof D, Riwanto M, et al. Peripheral blood monocyte Sirt1 expression is reduced in patients with coronary artery disease. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e53106. Judging by our results, this study may arise a debate about the protective functions of circulating sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 in cardiovascular disorders. The first issue is about the association between atherosclerosis and sirtuins. In our study population, median serum sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 levels did not significantly differ between the groups. According to our knowledge, this study is the first one comparing ‘serum’ sirtuin levels between normal coronary artery patients and AMI patients. There exist several studies evaluating sirtuin 1 levels in human atherosclerosis using different methodological manners. Breitenstein et al.2929 Breitenstein A, Wyss CA, Spescha RD, Franzeck FC, Hof D, Riwanto M, et al. Peripheral blood monocyte Sirt1 expression is reduced in patients with coronary artery disease. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e53106. measured sirtuin 1 mRNA levels in peripheral monocytes and Gorenne et al.2828 Gorenne I, Kumar S, Gray K, Figg N, Yu H, Mercer J, et al. Vascular smooth muscle cell sirtuin 1 protects against DNA damage and inhibits atherosclerosis. Circulation. 2013;127(3):386-96. measured sirtuin 1 mRNA and protein expression amount in human carotid endarterectomy materials.2828 Gorenne I, Kumar S, Gray K, Figg N, Yu H, Mercer J, et al. Vascular smooth muscle cell sirtuin 1 protects against DNA damage and inhibits atherosclerosis. Circulation. 2013;127(3):386-96. While both of these studies found a negative association between atherosclerosis and sirtuin expression, Kilic et al.3030 Kilic U, Gok O, Bacaksiz A, Izmirli M, Elibol-Can B, Uysal O. SIRT1 gene polymorphisms affect the protein expression in cardiovascular diseases. PLoS One. 2014;9(2):e90428. found that serum sirtuin 1 levels were higher in stable CAD patients than in the control patients.3030 Kilic U, Gok O, Bacaksiz A, Izmirli M, Elibol-Can B, Uysal O. SIRT1 gene polymorphisms affect the protein expression in cardiovascular diseases. PLoS One. 2014;9(2):e90428.

By taking all these data together, the causality between sirtuins and human atherosclerosis needs more investigation. Additionally, we firstly investigated the temporal change of serum sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 levels in the AMI course and did not found any significant change between admission, first and second day of AMI. Another issue needs to be addressed is the association between inflammation and sirtuin levels. In our study, serum sirtuin 1 and 3 levels were not correlated and serum sirtuin 6 levels were positively correlated with serum CRP levels, a widely accepted inflammatory marker. As we mentioned above, experimental studies suggested that sirtuins have anti-inflammatory effects and this is hypothesized as one of the mechanisms for atheroprotection.3131 Vachharajani VT, Liu T, Wang X, Hoth JJ, Yoza BK, Mccall CE. Sirtuins Link Inflammation and Metabolism. J Immunol Res. 2016 Dec;2016:8167273. We expected to find a negative association between sirtuins and CRP, but the results were not concordant with our hypothesis. Although sirtuin 6 has an anti-inflammatory feature, a possible positive regulatory role for SIRT6 in the induction of pro-inflammatory cytokine expression is evident both in innate and adaptive immune cells. Thus our positive correlation finding between sirtuin 6 and CRP can be interpreted in this context.3232 Galli M, Van Gool F, Leo O. Sirtuins and inflammation: Friends or foes?. Biochem Pharmacol. 2011;81(5):569-76.

Our findings regarding the association between sirtuins and the parameters reflecting infarction size like peak troponin, ejection fraction and pro BNP levels were also remarkable. Opening the occluded artery and restoring the blood flow to the myocardium is the mainstay of the AMI management. However, it was suggested that restoration of blood flow may account for further myocardial damage and it is termed as reperfusion injury.3333 Kloner RA. Does reperfusion injury exist in humans? J Am Coll Cardiol. 1993;21(2):537-45. Microvascular obstruction, myocyte hypercontracture and contraction band necrosis, free radical generation and inflammatory cell accumulation are the proposed mechanisms for reperfusion injury.3434 Cannon RO. Mechanisms, management and future directions for reperfusion injury after acute myocardial infarction. Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2005;2(2):88-94.

Ischemic preconditioning, which reduces reperfusion injury can be defined as transient, sublethal ischemic episodes rendering the myocardium more resistant to a sustained, lethal ischemic period. Since first described by Murry et al.,3535 Murry CE, Jennings RB, Reimer KA. Preconditioning with ischemia: a delay of lethal cell injury in ischemic myocardium. Circulation. 1986;74(5):1124-36. ischemic preconditioning has become the most relevant entity against reperfusion injury. Ischemic preconditioning requires complex intracellular molecular interactions and the molecular mechanism is still unclear.3636 Heusch G. Molecular basis of cardioprotection: signal transduction in ischemic pre-, post-, and remote conditioning. Circ Res. 2015;116(4):674-99. It is suggested that some sirtuin types reduces ischemia reperfusion injury. In an experimental study, inhibition of sirtuin 1 resulted in reduction of bakuchiol induced cardioprotection in rat hearts.3737 Feng J, Yang Y, Zhou Y, Wang B, Xiong H, Fan C, et al. Bakuchiol attenuates myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury by maintaining mitochondrial function: the role of silent information regulator 1. Apoptosis. 2016;21(5):532-45. Opening of the mitochondrial permeability transposition pores are crucial in the pathophysiology of ischemia reperfusion injury. Sirtuin 3 deacetylates the regulatory component of the mitochondrial permeability transposition pore and sirtuin 3 deficient mice myocytes exhibited an increase in mitochondrial swelling due to increase in the number of opened mitochondrial permeability transposition pores.3838 Hafner AV, Dai J, Gomes AP, Xiao CY, Palmeira CM, Rosenzweig A, et al. Regulation of the mPTP by SIRT3-mediated deacetylation of CypD at lysine 166 suppresses age-related cardiac hypertrophy. Aging (Albany NY). 2010;2(12):914-23. In this study, we investigated whether there was any association between serum sirtuin levels and infarct size markers. There was no correlation between serum sirtuin levels and peak troponin levels, LVEF and pro BNP levels in AMI patients. These findings reflect that serum sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 levels were not associated with the infarct size. Pre infarction angina pectoris can be used as the surrogate marker of ischemic preconditioning in daily practice and is associated with reduced peak troponin levels in AMI patients.3939 Kiziltunc E, Abaci A, Ozkan S, Alsancak Y, Unlu S, Elbeg S, et al. The Relationship between Pre-Infarction Angina and Serum Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Levels. Acta Cardiol Sin. 2014;30(6):546-52. Although the number of subjects were low to make a firm conclusion, no difference was evident about serum sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 levels in the patients with and without pre infarction angina.

Finally, we should mention about the association between serum sirtuin 3 levels and GRACE score, and between reperfusion duration and serum sirtuin 1/6 levels. GRACE score is a well-known and validated risk score for morbidity and mortality in AMI patients.1616 Fox KA, Dabbous OH, Goldberg RJ, Pieper KS, Eagle KA, Van de Werf F, et al. Prediction of risk of death and myocardial infarction in the six months after presentation with acute coronary syndrome: prospective multinational observational study (GRACE). BMJ. 2006;333(7578):1091. Although we could not find any correlation between serum sirtuin 3 levels and prognostic markers like peak troponin, pro-BNP and LVEF, the negative correlation between serum sirtuin 3 levels and GRACE score may be an inspiration for further studies to investigate the role of serum sirtuin 3 levels for the risk assessment in AMI patients. We found a positive correlation between serum sirtuin 1/sirtuin 6 levels and reperfusion duration. The duration between symptom onset and reperfusion was not a marker of mortality in STEMI patients.4040 Cho YW, Jang JS, Jin HY, Seo JS, Yang TH, Kim DK, et al. Relationship between symptom-onset-to-balloon time and long-term mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with drug-eluting stents. J Cardiol. 2011;58(2):143-50. Although correlated with reperfusion duration positively, sirtuin 1 and sirtuin 6 levels were not correlated with prognostic markers in AMI patients.

There are some limitations of our study. The small sample size seems the most important limitation of the study. The other important limitation is the methodological differences with previous studies. In previous studies, sirtuin analysis was performed with specimens from atherosclerotic plaques or peripheral mononuclear cells. Sirtuin mRNA levels and protein expression levels were evaluated in those studies. In our study, we directly measured serum sirtuin levels. Although our methodology was not the same with other studies, we firstly investigated serum sirtuin levels in our particular study population. This can be accepted as the originality of our study.

Conclusion

Serum sirtuin 1, sirtuin 3 and sirtuin 6 levels did not significantly differ between AMI patients and patients with normal coronary arteries. No temporal change was found in the serum levels of these sirtuins in the AMI course and there was no correlation between the serum levels of these sirtuins and the parameters reflecting myocardial infarct size like peak troponin level, LVEF and pro-BNP. We detected a negative correlation between sirtuin 3 and GRACE score, as a secondary finding. Cardioprotective role of serum sirtuin 1, 3 and 6 needs more investigation in AMI patients.

  • Sources of Funding
    This study was funded by Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital.
  • Study Association
    This study is not associated with any thesis or dissertation work.
  • Ethics approval and consent to participate
    This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital under the protocol number E-17-1399. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    10 July 2019
  • Date of issue
    July 2019

History

  • Received
    21 Aug 2018
  • Reviewed
    25 Oct 2018
  • Accepted
    01 Nov 2018
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