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Review

The GSK3-NRF2 Axis in Suicide

Gänsbühlgartenweg 7, CH-4132 Muttenz, Switzerland
Retired Pharmacologist.
Submission received: 15 February 2021 / Revised: 2 March 2021 / Accepted: 19 March 2021 / Published: 21 March 2021

Abstract

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Mutations in the genes coding for tryptophan-hydrolase-2 and the scaffold protein FKBP5 are associated with an increased risk of suicide. The mutation in both cases enhances the enzymatic activity of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3). Conversely, anti-suicidal medications, such as lithium, clozapine, and ketamine, indirectly inhibit the activity of GSK3. When GSK3 is active, it promotes the metabolic removal of the transcription factor NRF2 (nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor-2), which suppresses the transcription of multiple genes that encode anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory proteins. Notably, several suicide-biomarkers bear witness to an ongoing inflammatory process. Moreover, alterations in serum lipid levels measured in suicidal individuals are mirrored by data obtained in mice with genetic deletion of the NRF2 gene. Inflammation is presumably causally related to both dysphoria and anger, two factors relevant for suicide ideation and attempt. Preventing the catabolism of NRF2 could be a strategy to obtain novel suicide-prophylactic medications. Possible candidates are minocycline and nicotinic-α7 agonists. The antibiotic minocycline indirectly activates NRF2-transcriptional activity, whereas the activation of nicotinic-α7 receptors indirectly inhibits GSK3.

1. Introduction

Around the globe, suicide is a major health concern and a prevalent cause of death in young adults (for recent summary see [1]). Predicting suicide is a difficult task [2,3,4]. Compounds with prophylactic activity such as ketamine, lithium or clozapine are fraught with adverse effects and can only be used in the context of major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, respectively [5,6,7]. A better understanding of the underlying pathology, more reliable biomarkers, as well as better-tolerated medications are urgently needed. The current review focusses on the role of the transcription factor NRF2 * in suicide and how it is modulation by the kinase GSK3. A list of acronyms is provided at the end of this article.

2. NRF2 Overview

NRF2 activates transcription of genes that encode proteins involved in antioxidant defense and anti-inflammatory activity (for recent reviews see [8,9,10]). Several genes that encode proteins involved in the regulation of autophagy, mitochondrial function, and clearance of damaged proteins are also NRF2 targets (reviewed by [9,10,11,12]). Examples of NRF2-activated anti-inflammatory genes are, interleukin-10 (IL10), interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1-RA), suppressor of cytokine signaling-3 (SOCS3), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL2), and B-cell lymphoma extra-large (BCLXL) [13,14,15]. Mice with a genetic deletion of NRF2 display increased expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2), inducible nitric-oxide synthase (iNOS), pro-inflammatory cytokines like IL-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα), and produce more reactive oxygen species, but are deficient in BDNF, IL-10, SOCS3, or BCLXL [10,13,16]. Under resting conditions, the biological half-life of NRF2 is just 20 min [8,12]. The stability of NRF2 in the cytosol is determined by two mechanisms. One mechanism involves a destruction-complex consisting of the adaptor molecule KEAP1, and the E3-ligase CUL3/RBX1. KEAP1 is a redox- and electrophile sensor, that upon modification of critical cysteine-residues, loses its ability promote NRF2-ubiquitination by CUL3/RBX1 [10]. The alternative mechanism for degradation of NRF2 involves GSK3-meditated phosphorylation of NRF2. In this process a recognition site for an alternative ligase adaptor β-TrCP is created, which again allows ubiquitination of NRF2, in this case by CUL1/β-TrCP [17,18]. Subsequently, ubiquitinated-NRF2 is degraded by the proteasome [10]. The anti-inflammatory activity of NRF2 is thought to result from at least three distinct mechanism, including modulation of redox mechanisms, competition of NFκB subunit p65 and direct suppression of the transcription of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including IL-6 [12,19,20]. Hypoactivity of NRF2 has been proposed to occur in many neurodegenerative- [11] and mood disorders [16]. Hypoactivity of NRF2 can be prevented by inhibition of KEAP1 or via inhibition of GSK3.

3. Suicide Overview

Suicide seems to be a two-stage process [21,22,23,24]. Suicidal ideation is association with an inflammatory process, whereas the suicidal attempt is associated with symptoms of irritability, hypervigilance and aggression [25]. In agreement with this notion, increased suicide numbers have been reported in individuals with ADHD [22], conduct disorder [25], substance abuse [25,26], PTSD [25,27,28], and bipolar disorder [29]. Moreover, treatment of juveniles with antidepressants can trigger aggressive behavior and akathisia, and this presumably is the reason for the elevated risk of suicide [30]. The inflammatory state is frequently independent of depression [31,32,33,34,35,36,37]. The inflammatory processes that are documented in suicide can be attributed to mechanisms like neurotropic pathogens, life-long stressors, allergies, autoimmunity, or traumatic brain injury (see Table 1). Peripheral levels of CRP and both peripheral and central levels of IL-6 are dose-dependently associated with suicide risk and with the choice of more a violent method (Table 1; [36]). Inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6) are potent inducers of IDO1 and can explain the increase in kynurenine pathway metabolites [34,38]. In particular, CSF levels of IL-6 correlated with CSF levels of the kynurenine-metabolite quinolinic acid (reviewed in [38]). GSK3 inhibitors are effective anti-inflammatory drugs and reduce the production of IL-6, TNFα, and IL-1β by microglia, astrocytes, monocytes, and PBMCs by 70–90% [39].

4. GSK3 Activity in Suicide

Genetic evidence exists that GSK3 activity is involved in suicide. In patients suffering from HIV infection, depression was associated to high levels of FKBP5 (mRNA, protein) in the frontal cortex [71]. SNPs in FKBP5 that increase intracellular protein levels are associated with recurrence of depressive episodes. An over-representation of high-induction alleles has been found in the STAR*D study in MDD [72] and in bipolar disorder [73]. Notably, SNPs in FKBP5 are also associated with attempted and completed suicide [74,75,76,77]. In the brain, FKBP5 acts as scaffold for the interaction of the kinase Akt/PKB and the phosphatase PHLPP1α. Facilitated phosphatase-activity leads to a reduction in Ser472-phosphorylation of Akt/PKB and in Ser567-phosphorylation of PKCα [78,79,80]. The high-induction allele of FKBP5 is therefore expected to reduce phosphorylation of Akt/PKB and PKC. This, in turn, limits kinase activity of Akt/PKB and PKC and results in activation of GKS3. This is consistent with the observation of decreased catalytic activity of Akt/PKB [81,82] and PKC [83] in suicide victims, and the reduced levels of (inhibitory) Serine 9-phosphorylation of GSK3β [82,84].
Mutations in the TPH2 gene that affect transcription, mRNA stability or enzyme activity are associated with suicide [85,86,87,88,89,90,91]. One of the human variants of TPH2 has been expressed in mice. This variant reduced brain 5-HT production by 80% [92]. Importantly, GSK3 activity in these mice was increased, while the animals displayed anxious and depression-like behaviors that were normalized by inhibition of GSK3 [92].

5. Therapeutic Effect of GSK3 Inhibition

At therapeutic concentrations, lithium prevents the dephosphorylation (deactivation) of Akt/PKB and therefore indirectly inhibits GSK3 [93,94,95]. Chronic treatment with relevant concentrations of lithium increased nuclear levels of NRF2 in PC12 and N2A cells, and increased NRF2-transcriptional activity [96,97,98]. Knock-down of NRF2 inhibited lithium-increased expression of NRF2 and suppressed the protective effect of lithium against H2O2 [98]. Thus, there is direct evidence that lithium stimulates the transcriptional activity of NRF2. Lithium is one of the very few medications with proven efficacy in the prevention of suicide [6]. A schematic overview of the signaling cascade is provided in Figure 1.
The muscarinic M1 receptor activates PKCβ and PKCγ, which in turn phosphorylate the β-isoform of GSK3 at position Serine-9. This inhibits the enzymatic activity of GSK3β and thus stabilizes NRF2 [99]. The muscarine agonist carbachol in rat hippocampal and cerebellar cultures increased the expression and protein levels of the NRF2-target gene, heme-oxygenase-1 (HO1) [99]. In PC12 cells, M1 activation increased mRNA and protein levels of NRF2 in the nucleus [99]. In SH-SY5Y cells, clozapine increased the levels of Ser9P-GSK3β [100]. Clozapine inhibits suicidal behavior in subjects with schizophrenia [7]. This is significant, since the major metabolite of clozapine, nor-clozapine, functionally acts as selective M1-receptor agonist [101]. It is conceivable that the M1-activity of nor-clozapine stabilizes NRF2 and therefore reduces the risk of suicide.
Ketamine is a further medication with significant anti-suicidal activity [5,23]. There is still discussion about the molecular target of ketamine [102,103], however it is clear that ketamine increases Ser9-phosphorylation of GSK3β in rodents [104,105] and in humans [106]. Consistent with the involvement of the GSK3-NRF2 signaling pathway, ketamine increased the expression of HO1 [107] and inhibited LPS-induced increases in IL-6, TNFα, NFκB-signaling and nitric oxide production in a variety of in vitro and in vivo models (reviewed in [108]).
The nicotinic-α7 receptor agonist PNU282987 has also been shown to activate NRF2-mediated transcription of HO1 [109], an effect that was absent after genetic knock-out of NRF2 or after inhibition of the nicotinic-α7 receptor [109]. In neuroblastoma cells, the activation of nicotinic-α7 receptors prevented apoptosis by activation of a signaling cascade involving JAK2-PKB-GSK3-inhibition, activation of NRF2 and subsequent HO1 transcription [14]. The same pathway increased mitochondrial numbers, mitochondrial function and ATP production in primary cultures of rat microglia [15]. Based on these data, it is quite likely that agonists of the nicotinic-α7 receptor could be active as prophylactic agents for suicide.

6. KEAP1 Modulation by Minocycline

As mentioned above, an alternative way to activate NRF2 signaling is via modulation of the natural NRF2-inhibitor KEAP1 [9,10]. This is, in principle achieved by electrophiles like sulforaphane or dimethyl fumarate [11,110]. It seems that also minocycline belongs to this group [10]. Minocycline has been shown to protect human neuroglioma cells [111] and mouse neuron/astrocyte cultures [112] via an increased activation of NRF2, while its cytoprotective effects in a model of diabetic nephropathy were abolished in mice with a genetic deletion of the NRF2-gene [113]. Moreover, in preclinical studies minocycline protected against a wide array of inflammatory conditions like LPS, stress, hypoxia, ovalbumin or retrovirus [16,114,115]. Against this background, one may propose to test minocycline as prophylactic agent against suicide.

7. Discussion

In this review, we have seen that suicide is associated with numerous inflammatory conditions. Mutations in genes that promote the activation of the pro-inflammatory kinase GSK3 are associated with an increased risk of suicide. Active GSK3 inhibits the function of the transcription factor NRF2, and thereby suppresses transcription of genes coding for proteins with anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory functions. A reduction in the activity of NRF2 is a “hallmark” of aging [116], whereas aging increases the risk for suicide [117,118]. Moreover, a large meta-analysis of serum lipid levels in suicidal individuals noted that, in comparison to healthy controls, the suicidal patients had significantly lower total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol levels [68], while almost identical results were published for mice with a genetic deletion of NRF2 [119]. Medications known to reduce the risk of suicide, like lithium, ketamine, or clozapine, indirectly inhibit GSK3. Whilst such data provide direct evidence for a role of GSK3 in suicide, the evidence for an involvement of NRF2 remains circumstantial.
Since GSK3 inhibition seems to provide protection against suicide, one may therefore predict that nicotinic-α7 agonists could be useful therapeutics for suicide prevention. Unfortunately, selective nicotinic-α7 agonists have not yet reached the market. The 5HT3 receptor antagonist tropisetron, which improved negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients, at relevant concentrations also stimulates nicotinic-α7 receptors [120]. Whether tropisetron has anti-suicidal effects in schizophrenia patients has not been studied.
Due to an interaction with the NRF2-inhibitor KEAP1, minocycline activates NRF2 transcriptional activity. It could therefore possess anti-suicidal activity. This prediction is, however, uncertain, because the evidence for a role of NRF2 in suicide is indirect. Nevertheless, there are reasons to assume that minocycline will also indirectly inhibit GSK3. This is based on the following reasoning. The enzyme phosphatidyl inositol-3 kinase (PI3K) phosphorylates and thereby activates Akt/PKB, and thus inhibits GSK3 [9,10]. The activity of PI3K is suppressed by the phosphatase PTEN [121]. Similar to KEAP1, PTEN contains cysteine residues that are susceptible to electrophilic compounds. For instance, the electrophile dimethyl-fumarate inhibits PTEN, and therefore activates the PI3K-PKB pathway [10]. The same effect would be predicted for minocycline, although this remains to be tested. Based on these considerations, and given the safety profile of minocycline, it could be worthwhile to test if minocycline would reduce suicide risk. It should be possible to produce derivatives of minocycline that are devoid of bacteriostatic activity, and thus would possess a reduced propensity to disturb the bacterial flora in the intestinal tract. Apparently, a considerable number of electrophilic anti-inflammatory compounds are currently in pharmaceutical development [10,11,12,16]. Since the exact mechanism of ketamine is still a matter of debate, it might also be fruitful to investigate if ketamine (or one of its metabolites) interferes with NRF2 function via an effect on KEAP1.
Whereas depression is in many cases a low-grade inflammatory disease [122], this does not imply that each inflammatory condition causes depression symptoms. As mentioned above, suicide has been noted in inflammatory conditions that are unrelated to the severity of depression [31,32,33,34,35,36,37]. This means that depression symptoms, although important, are not sufficient to predict suicide. For this reason, levels of CRP or IL-6, which are general signals of inflammation, are likely more comprehensive biomarkers for suicide risk than depression scores. The inflammatory process not only relates to suicide ideation, but may also increase the chance of a suicide act. One causal link between inflammation and suicide act is presumably via IL-6-induced IDO activation, which redirects tryptophan metabolism away from serotonin and melatonin synthesis towards the kynurenine-quinolinic acid metabolic pathway [34,123]. As mentioned before, the actual suicide act seems to be associated with irritability, hypervigilance and aggression [21,25]. The depletion of tryptophan caused a marked increase in aggression in males with a high aggression-trait [124]. Low CSF 5-HIAA levels, which are causally related to low tryptophan levels, were also found to associate with aggression and high-lethality suicide [21,125]. Sleep deprivation, possibly due to an abnormal functioning of the circadian system [126], increases anger, short-temperedness, outward-expressed aggressive impulses and delinquency [127,128]. Inflammation affects the function of clock genes [129] and melatonin synthesis. Indeed, low melatonin levels were associated with an increase in the risk of suicide [130,131]. Moreover, Levey et al. [132] who applied a “convergent functional genomics” approach to prioritize candidate biomarkers for suicide noticed an overrepresentation of clock genes among their top candidates. In conclusion, this short summary indicates that inflammatory processes not only increase suicidal ideation, but also promote behaviors that may lead to the actual suicide attempt.
This point reinforces the importance of reducing inflammation by NRF2 stimulation. Transcription of NRF2 target genes like HO1 or NQO1 could function as biomarker and would be readily assayable in, for instance, blood cells [10,133]. These biomarkers could also be used to optimize the dose of potential medications.

8. Conclusions

Nicotinic-α7 agonists and selective NRF2-activating compounds are currently under pharmaceutical development for a number of indications, but not for the prevention of suicide. As argued in the current article, such compounds may reduce the number of suicides. Minocycline is a further option and could be evaluated in the clinic almost immediately. However, as a first step, the psychiatric and pharmaceutical communities should become aware of the relevance of the GSK3-NRF2 axis in the pathophysiology of suicide. It is hoped that the current article will make at least a small contribution towards this goal.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

All data are available in the quoted papers.

Conflicts of Interest

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Abbreviations

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), BCL2 (B-cell lymphoma-2) and BCLXL (B-cell lymphoma extra-large), BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), β-TrCP (β-transducin repeat containing protein), COX2 (cyclooxygenase-2), CRP (C-reactive protein), CSF (cerebrospinal fluid), CUL3/RBX1 (cullin-3/RING box protein-1), FKBP5 (FK506 binding protein-5; also known as FKBP51), GSK3 (glycogen synthase kinase-3), HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), HO1 (heme oxygenase-1), 5-HIAA (5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid), IBA1 (ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule-1), IDO1 (Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-1), IL-# (interleukin-#), IL1-RA (interleukin-1 receptor antagonist), iNOS (inducible nitric-oxide), KEAP1 (Kelch-like erythroid cell-derived protein with CNC homology (ECH)-associated protein-1), LPS (lipopolysaccharide), MDD (major depressive disorder), MS (multiple sclerosis), NFκB (nuclear factor-κB), NQO1 (NADPH:quinone oxidoreductase-1), NRF2 (nuclear factor erythroid-2 related factor-2), PBMC (peripheral blood mononuclear cell), PHLPP (PH-domain leucine-rich repeat protein-phosphatase), PI3K (phosphatidyl inositol-3 kinase), PKB (protein kinase B, also known as ‘Akt’), PKC (protein kinase C), PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog), PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), SAT1 (spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase-1), SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism), SOCS3 (suppressor of cytokine signaling-3), TNFα (tumor necrosis factor-α), TPH2 (tryptophan hydroxylase-2).

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Figure 1. Schematic representation of the GSK3-NRF2 signaling pathway and its upstream modifiers. Ketamine, lithium and nicotinic-α7 agonists indirectly activate protein-kinase B (Akt/PKB), whereas the N-desmethyl metabolite of clozapine (nor-clozapine) stimulates muscarinic M1 receptors and thereby activates protein-kinase C (PKC). These kinases phosphorylate GSK3, which is inhibitory to GSK3′s kinase activity. Active GSK3 promotes the metabolic breakdown of NRF2. An alternative way to activate NRF2 is via inhibition of the natural suppressor KEAP1. Active NRF2 is crucial for anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory activity, which presumably results in a reduction in suicidal ideation and attempts. Minocycline could influence suicide by inhibition of KEAP1 and possibly also via the PI3K-phosphatase PTEN.
Figure 1. Schematic representation of the GSK3-NRF2 signaling pathway and its upstream modifiers. Ketamine, lithium and nicotinic-α7 agonists indirectly activate protein-kinase B (Akt/PKB), whereas the N-desmethyl metabolite of clozapine (nor-clozapine) stimulates muscarinic M1 receptors and thereby activates protein-kinase C (PKC). These kinases phosphorylate GSK3, which is inhibitory to GSK3′s kinase activity. Active GSK3 promotes the metabolic breakdown of NRF2. An alternative way to activate NRF2 is via inhibition of the natural suppressor KEAP1. Active NRF2 is crucial for anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory activity, which presumably results in a reduction in suicidal ideation and attempts. Minocycline could influence suicide by inhibition of KEAP1 and possibly also via the PI3K-phosphatase PTEN.
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Table 1. List of inflammatory disorders and biomarkers associated with suicide.
Table 1. List of inflammatory disorders and biomarkers associated with suicide.
Inflammatory ProcessCitation for Role in Suicide
Hospitalization for infection (HIV, hepatitis, respiratory tract, sepsis)[40]
Seropositivity to Toxoplasma gondii [41,42,43]
Physical and sexual abuse[22]
Life time headache[44]
Allergy to tree- and grass pollen[45,46]
Asthma[47]
Brain IL-4 and IL-13 mRNA[48]
Lung disease, cancer, chronic pain[33,49]
Coronary artery disease, osteoporosis[33]
Somatic disorders[50]
Extreme obesity[51]
Stroke[52]
Concussion[53]
Rheumatoid arthritis[54]
IFNβ treatment in multiple sclerosis[55]
IL-6 in CSF and serum (dose-dependent)[35,56,57,58]
Elevated Kynurenine and Quinolinic acid in plasma and CSF[34,59,60,61]
CRP levels in MDD (dose-dependent)[62,63]
High SAT1 mRNA in brain and PBMCs[64,65]
Juxtavascular microglia activation (IBA1)[31,66]
High serum S100β [32]
High white blood cell count[67]
Lipid abnormalities (low total-cholesterol, low LDL, low HDL)[68,69,70]
CRP: C-reactive protein; CSF: cerebrospinal fluid; IBA1: ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule-1; HDL: high-density lipoprotein; IFNβ: interferon-β; LDL: low-density lipoprotein; MDD: major depressive disorder; PBMC: peripheral blood mononuclear cells; SAT1: spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase-1.
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