The effects of lidocaine and procaine on microRNA expression of adipocyte-derived adult stem cells

doi:10.4097/kjae.2012.62.6.552

Korean J Anesthesiol. 2012 June; 62(6): 552–557.

Published online 2012 June 19. doi: 10.4097/kjae.2012.62.6.552

PMCID: PMC3384794

The effects of lidocaine and procaine on microRNA expression of adipocyte-derived adult stem cells

Sang Hoon Sung,¹ Jeong Gil Lee,¹ Soo Bong Yu,¹ Hee Kyung Chang,² and Sie Jeong Ryu¹

¹Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.

²Department of Pathology, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.

Corresponding author.

Corresponding author: Sie Jeong Ryu, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kosin University College of Medicine, 34, Anam-dong, Seo-gu, Busan 602-702, Korea. Tel: 82-51-990-6265, Fax: 82-51-254-2504, Email: siejeong/at/ns.kosinmed.or.kr

Received February 1, 2012; Revised February 20, 2012; Accepted March 6, 2012.

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Abstract

Background

The microRNA (miRNA) pathway has emerged as one of the biologic pathways implicated in stem cell regulation. miRNA is a noncoding, single-stranded RNA consisting of 20-25 nucleotides that inhibits the protein production at the step of translation. The molecular effects of lidocaine and procaine on adipose stem cells were investigated by examining RNA expression array.

Methods

Adipose stem cells were isolated from a prior abdominal liposuction procedure. The human adipose stem cells were cultured and then added to a mixture of 1 ml of culture medium plus 1 ml of 2% lidocaine or 2% procaine for the duration of 30 minutes. The expression levels of miRNAs were estimated by using peptide nucleic acid (PNA)-miRNA array analysis throughout the denaturation and hybridization processes after the isolation of miRNA. The miRNAs detected by microarray that either decreased by half fold or increased by 1.5 fold from the control level were interpreted as significant.

Results

According to microarray analysis there were 61 miRNAs in total, and no miRNA had decreased expression levels. The stem cells treatment with lidocaine showed 4 alteration of expression with miR-9a^* (1.53 fold), miR-29a (1.64 fold), miR-296-5p (1.64 fold) and miR-373 (1.94 fold). The stem cells treated with procaine showed 32 miRNAs that were significantly up-regulated with a range of 1.5 to 2.06 fold. They were stem cell differentiation-related miRNAs, apoptosis and cell cycle-associated miRNAs, immunity-associated miRNAs and hormonal response-related miRNAs.

Conclusions

Lidocaine and procaine affect the miRNA expression on adipose stem cells and the effect of procaine is more marked than that of lidocaine.

Keywords: Lidocaine, MicroRNA, Procaine, Stem cells

Introduction

In recent years, the clinical application of stem cells has emerged. In mammals, there are 2 broad types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells. Mesenchymal stem cells have been isolated from several adult tissue sources, such as bone marrow, placenta, and adipose tissues [1-3]. Among these, adipose stem cell has been applied for autologous transplantation under local anesthesia. Stem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, which can divide (through mitosis), differentiate into diverse specialized cell types, and can self-renew to produce more stem cells. Stem cells suggest that a specific molecular control network underlies their unique features [1-3]. The microRNA (miRNA) pathway has emerged as one of the biologic pathways implicated in stem cell regulation [4].

The miRNA, a family of small non-coding RNA species with approximately 22 nucleotides, can cause either miRNA degradation or translational repression. Recent studies have provided evidence that miRNA affect critical pathways of cell proliferation and several biological processes that include cell differentiation, development, metabolism, tumorigenesis and other diseases by negative regulation of protein-coding genes [4,5]. Recently the study has been made in miRNA expression and as a biologic role in animal development, including the differentiation and maintenance of stem cells [6,7]. Investigation of the gene regulation mediated by miRNA has pointed to new directions for the therapeutic application of stem cells [4,6,7].

Local anesthetics can adversely affect cell growth in vitro. Their effects on wound healing are controversial, however, the adverse effects of local anesthetics on wound healing at surgical sites have been suggested, and may be related to their cytotoxicity [8-10]. However, little has been reported about the relationship between miRNA and local anesthetics, especially on stem cells. Therefore, this study attempted to explore the molecular effects of local anesthetics on stem cells and to examine miRNA expression profiles.

Materials and Methods

Human adipose-derived stem cells

Adipose-derived stem cells (ASC) (provided by Dr. YI Yang) were isolated from lipoaspirates from patients undergoing cosmetic liposuction, as described by Zuk et al. [11]. In accordance with a consensus reached by the investigators, the author referred to this adherent cell population as ASC. Briefly, the tissue was digested for 45 min with 0.075% collagenase I (Gibco, New York, USA). The stromal-vascular fraction was separated from the remaining fibrous material and the floating adipocytes by centrifugation at 300 X g. The sedimented cells were filtered through a 100 µm pore filter. Erythrocyte contamination was reduced by density gradient centrifugation with Bicoll (Biochrom, Munich, Germany). High contamination with erythrocytes was found to markedly decrease cell adherence and proliferation. A preceding density gradient separation provided a better yield of adherent cells than treatment with an erythrocyte lysing buffer. For initial cell culture and expansion of the cells, DMEM with a physiologic glucose concentration (100 mg/dl) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum was used. Primary cell isolates and cultured cells were characterized as described by Brzoska et al. [12]. Cultured ASC were CD29+, CD44+, CD49a+, CD73+, CD90+, CD105+, CD166+, and CD14-, CD31-, CD45-. In vitro differentiation potential of ASC was proven by specific media and described. For these experiments, the 2nd-5th passage of ASC were used.

Cell culture

Cells were grown in T75 culture flasks containing DMEM-F12 supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 1% antibiotics (10 U/L penicillin and 10 ug/L streptomycin), 10 ng/ml EGF and 2 ng/ml in a humidified 5% CO₂ atmosphere at 37 [degree celsius]

. Upon reaching confluence, cells were detached using Trypsin-EDTA solution.

Treatment with local anesthetics

Human adipose stem cells were treated with 1 ml of 2% lidocaine (Lidocaine HCl, Huons, Korea) and 2% procaine (Procaine HCl, Daehan, Korea) admixed with 1 ml culture media for 30 minutes, in each. Viability was determined directly after treatment and during the ensuing cultivation. A 1 × 10⁶ (28 × 10⁴ cell/cm²) of cells was cultured in T75 culture flask containing DMEM-F12 at 37 [degree celsius]

for 72 hours and then to a mixture of 1 ml of culture medium plus 1 ml of 2% lidocaine or 2% procaine for 30 minutes. This experiment was set up to approach the in vivo dilution, because a lack of nutrients may cause cell death, culture medium was added in this protocol. After 30 minutes of treatment, local anesthetics were removed and washed with 5 ml FBS-free media, then cells were harvested and transferred into a 1.5 ml tube and then the tube was frozen immediately to prevent RNA degradation.

miRNA extraction

The total RNA of each sample was extracted using the Trizol reagent (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA) according to the instructions of the manufacturer. Low molecular weight (LMW) enriched RNA was isolated from 50 ug of total RNA using the mirVana miRNA extraction kit (Ambion, Inc, Austin, TX, USA), and quantified using a ND-1000 spectrophotometer (NanoDrop Technologies, Wilmington, DE, USA). RNA quality was evaluated using the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA).

Microarray analysis

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA)-miRNA array kit (Panazene, Daejeon, Korea) was used for miRNA expression profiling. The used PNA in PNA-miRNA array is an artificial nucleotide, in which the entire negatively charged sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced with a neutral N-(2-amino ethyl)-glycine units repeatedly linked by peptide bonds. Because PNA is uncharged unlike DNA, the electrostatic repulsion is greatly reduced between PNA/RNA duplex compared to its DNA/RNA equivalent, which results in a stronger binding affinity.

Denaturation

An miRNA denaturation mixture containing miRNA 400 ng, RNase-free water 15 ug was prepared. The mixture was incubated at 95 [degree celsius]

in a circulating water bath or heat block for 5 minutes and then immediately transferred to ice.

Hybridization

Eighty-five microliter of hybridization mixture was added to 15 ul of denatured RNA sample to a total volume of 100 ul and then was mixed well and gently vortexed for 2-3 seconds. An incubator, a hybridization oven, was preheated to 55 [degree celsius]

and was set up on a slide chamber on a microarray slide. All mixtures were added into each well. The mixture was hybridized at 55 [degree celsius]

for 4 hours. Humidity was maintained to prevent desiccation.

Washing the microarray slides

The 20 X washing buffer was diluted to a 1 X washing buffer of 250 ml. A 1 X washing buffer was added with a magnetic stir bar to a glass jar. The slide chamber was carefully removed from the microarray slides. The slides were loaded into a slide holder and immersed in 1 X washing buffer in a glass jar. The slides were washed at room temperature for 5 minutes in 1 X washing buffer. The buffer was decanted. This washing step was repeated with fresh washing buffer. The washed microarray slide was spun dry at 1,000 rpm for 5 minutes.

Ligation reaction

The 10 X T4 RNA ligase buffer was warmed at 37 [degree celsius]

and vortexed until all precipitates were dissolved. The ligation mixture containing 10 X T4 RNA ligase buffer 10 ul, 0.1% BSA 2 ul, pCp-Cy3 3 ul, T4 RNA ligase (10 U/ul) 1 ul, and RNase-free water 84 ul were prepared. A slide chamber was set up on the hybridized microarray slide. Immediately 100 ul of the ligation mixture was added into each well and then was incubated at 37 [degree celsius]

for 2 hours in a humidified condition. Then, the ligation mixture was washed immediately.

Scanning and image analysis

Hybridized arrays were scanned using an Axon GenePix 4000B scanner (Molecular devices Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) and median spot intensities were collected using Axon GenePix 4.0 (Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA, USA). Expression profiling analysis was performed using GeneSpring 7.0 (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA). The expression level was altered significantly at more than 1.5 fold or at less than 0.5 fold. Array experiments were carried out in duplicate.

miRNA target predictions

The human targets of the differentially expressed miRNAs were predicted using public Web-based prediction tools, such as TargetScan, PicTar, and miRBase Targets. For references to the published studies, a list of chosen miRNAs were based on miRNAs showing at least a 1.5 fold up-regulation or a 0.5 fold down-regulation in the least selected putative targets as predicted using a combination of PicTar, TargetScan, and miRBase targets.

Results

The used RNA integrity number (RIN) value is a eukaryotic total RNA sample quality index that based on 1 to 10 ranged statistical values of migration, peak pattern, and 28s/18s. The ratio of RNA quality for control and treated cells, ribosomal RNA ratio 28s/18s > 1, OD₂₆₀/OD₂₃₀ > 2.0, OD₂₆₀/OD₂₈₀ > 1.8 > 1, and RIN value was 6.5-7.0.

Among 61 miRNAs, let-7g, miR-16, miR-124a, miR-149, and miR-188-5p showed high expression with more than 30.

According to the microarray analysis with 61 miRNAs in lidocaine treatment, there was no miRNA with decreased expression levels (Fig. 1 and and2).2). The stem cells with treatment of lidocaine showed alteration expression in 4 miRNAs including miR-9a^* (1.53 fold), miR-29a (1.64 fold), miR-296-5p (1.64 fold) and miR-373 (1.94 fold) (Fig. 3).

Fig. 1

The image of adipose stem cells microarray. Control (1), treated with lidocaine (2), and procaine (3). There were no miRNAs with decreased expression levels.

Fig. 2

The expression of miRNAs on adipose stem cells. There were 4 miRNAs in treatment with lidocaine (2, red color) and 32 miRNAs in treatment with procaine (3, green color) showing at least 1.5 fold differences compared with control (1, blue color).

Fig. 3

The expression ratio of miRNAs on adipose stem cells. There are 4 miRNAs showing at least 1.5 fold differences in lidocaine treatment (red color), while 32 miRNAs are significantly up-regulated with range of 1.5 to 2.06 fold in procaine treatment (blue (more ...)

With miRNA expression in procaine treatment, there were no miRNA significantly down-regulated, while 32 miRNAs were significantly up-regulated with range of 1.5 to 2.06 fold (Fig. 3). let-7b, -7i, -135b, -142-3p, -143, -149, -16, -186, -18b, -194, -204, -215, -216a, -22, -222, -27b, 92a of miRNA expression shows 1.5-1.7 fold, and let-7g, -10b, -125a, -127-5p, -135a, -145, -148a, -151, -154, -155, -188-5p, -19a, -200b, -21 of miRNA expression shows 1.71-2.00 fold. The expression of miR-132 was 2.06 fold, which was the highest increase among 32 miRNAs.

Discussion

This study was aimed to investigate the molecular effect of lidocaine and procaine on adipose stem cells by miRNA expression array. Lidocaine and procaine presented different alteration patterns of miRNA expression. Few studies have identified miRNA expression patterns in adipose stem cells associated with local anesthetics.

The lidocaine treatment on adipose stem cells showed only 4 miRNA changes in expression profile, miR-9^*, 29a, 296-5p and 373, of which were associated with stem cell function including lipoapoptosis [13,14]. This means that the clinically available concentration with 30 minutes of treatment provide a little molecular effects associated with miRNA. This result is different from the previous report molecularly that is devastating results on chondrocytes after lidocaine treatment. Exposing the chondrocytes to a 50/50 mixture of culture medium and local anesthetics substantially decreased cytotoxicity but still showed high toxicity when compared with the saline group (90% dead cells for lidocaine 2%, P = 0.047) [15]. In this study, the high-toxicity was not presented, considering a 50/50 mixture of culture medium and 2% lidocaine was used. There is a report that low concentrations of lidocaine as would be seen in plasma after spinal, epidural, or plexus anesthesia did not significantly affect multiplication of fibroblasts and higher concentrations, as would be seen after tissue infiltration, severely inhibit fibroblast multiplication and thus may impair wound healing [10]. In this study, the expression of multiplication-associated miRNAs was not significantly changed. Local anesthetics used in this study contained sodium chloride as preservative, which would affect the results presented and there has been no published result to date about the relationship between miRNA and lidocaine, further future study is needed for verification of this result.

Otherwise, the procaine showed significant upregulation of 32 miRNAs expression. Among these, stem cell differentiation-related miRNAs were let-7s, miR-10b, 19a, 27b, 125a, 135b, 145, 155, and 200b. let-7s showed 1.52-1.75 fold, which are negative regulators of stem cell differentiation and essential for maintenance of an early developmental lineage [16]. Besides, let-7d regulates cocaine-induced plasticity [17]. The miRNA-200b expression negatively regulates epithelial to mesenchymal transition that facilitates tissue remodeling during embryonic development and is viewed as an essential early step in tumor metastasis by targeting ZEB1 and SIP1 [18]. miR-373 significantly up-regulates tumor migration and invasion as metastasis-promoting miRNAs [19].

A usual prediction with any one of the algorithms (PicTar, TargetScan, miRBase Targets) will yield hundreds of predicted targets for each miRNA. A list of selected target genes, which are of particular interest or significance in this study, for the differentially expressed miRNAs from adipose stem cell before and after treatment of anesthetics, are presented in Table 2. Most putative targets predicted in this study are homeo-box genes (HOX family), transcription factors (PPAR, RGS7BP, NR3C2, DFF45, EF2, ESR1, UBE2), growth, and apoptotic genes (RAS, BCL2, APC, p53, PTEN).

The various kinds of differentiation-associated miRNA were up-regulated. They are osteogenic differentiation (miR-135b) [20], monocytic differentiation (miR-155, 222) [21], miRNAs (miR-16, 133a, 145, 149, 186, 204) which cause apoptosis by targeting BCL2 [22], the DNA fragmentation factor-45 (DFF45) [23], and P2X7 [24]. Immunity-related miRNAs were miR-132, -142-3p, -155, -222. miR-155 is a critical regulator of immune cell development [25] and miR-132 potentiates cholinergic anti-inflammatory signaling [26]. Hormonal-related miRNAs were miR-22, 125a, 135a. The miRNA, miR-135a, can participate in the regulation of renin-angiotensinaldosterone system involved in blood pressure regulation by repression of the mineralocorticoid receptor gene NR3C2 [27]. The up-regulation of miR-194, whose potential role in this study cannot be assumed, was reported as an hepatocyte marker [28]. miR-143 (1.66 fold) and -200b (1.86 fold) was expressed highly, which have functioned in accelerating the rate of fat cell formation in preadipocytes [29]. The miRNA, miR-143, is involved in adipocyte differentiation and may act through the target gene ERK5, normally promotes adipocyte differentiation. Interestingly, miR-27b (1.58) which has the function of anti-adipogenesis and muscle differentiation was also expressed simultaneously [30].

Although the miRNA expression is cell or tissue specific and is multifunctional with multitargets [5-7], therefore, the alteration of miRNA expression herein can speculate the cytotoxicity of local anesthetics on adipose stem cells.

In conclusion, these results suggests that local anesthetics affect miRNA expression on adipose stem cells and the effect of procaine is more marked than that of lidocaine, considering alteration of miRNAs' expression. Procaine can down-regulate stem cell differentiation, immunity, and apoptosis up-regulation by expressing miRNAs on stem cells. Especially miRNA-132 might have an important role in procaine activity. As lidocaine has been frequently used in local anesthesia and miRNA affect critical pathway of several biological processes, further study will be needed about the effect of lidocaine on stem cells including function of miR-9^*, 29a, 296-5p and 373.

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