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Forbes M, Kempa R, Mastrobuoni G, Rayman L, Pietzke M, Bayram S, Arlt B, Spruessel A, Deubzer HE, Kempa S. L-Glyceraldehyde Inhibits Neuroblastoma Cell Growth via a Multi-Modal Mechanism on Metabolism and Signaling. Cancers (Basel) 2024; 16:1664. [PMID: 38730615 PMCID: PMC11083149 DOI: 10.3390/cancers16091664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2024] [Revised: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
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Glyceraldehyde (GA) is a three-carbon monosaccharide that can be present in cells as a by-product of fructose metabolism. Bruno Mendel and Otto Warburg showed that the application of GA to cancer cells inhibits glycolysis and their growth. However, the molecular mechanism by which this occurred was not clarified. We describe a novel multi-modal mechanism by which the L-isomer of GA (L-GA) inhibits neuroblastoma cell growth. L-GA induces significant changes in the metabolic profile, promotes oxidative stress and hinders nucleotide biosynthesis. GC-MS and 13C-labeling was employed to measure the flow of carbon through glycolytic intermediates under L-GA treatment. It was found that L-GA is a potent inhibitor of glycolysis due to its proposed targeting of NAD(H)-dependent reactions. This results in growth inhibition, apoptosis and a redox crisis in neuroblastoma cells. It was confirmed that the redox mechanisms were modulated via L-GA by proteomic analysis. Analysis of nucleotide pools in L-GA-treated cells depicted a previously unreported observation, in which nucleotide biosynthesis is significantly inhibited. The inhibitory action of L-GA was partially relieved with the co-application of the antioxidant N-acetyl-cysteine. We present novel evidence for a simple sugar that inhibits cancer cell proliferation via dysregulating its fragile homeostatic environment.
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- Martin Forbes
- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Hannoversche Str. 28, 10115 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Hannoversche Str. 28, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Hannoversche Str. 28, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Hannoversche Str. 28, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Hannoversche Str. 28, 10115 Berlin, Germany
- Mass Spectrometry Facility, MaxPlanck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestrasse 63-73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Hannoversche Str. 28, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Hannoversche Str. 28, 10115 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung (BIH), Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Strase 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung (BIH), Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Strase 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung (BIH), Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Strase 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Berlin, Invalidenstr. 80, 10115 Berlin, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Charité and Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Hannoversche Str. 28, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Löffler J, Noom A, Ellinghaus A, Dienelt A, Kempa S, Duda GN. A comprehensive molecular profiling approach reveals metabolic alterations that steer bone tissue regeneration. Commun Biol 2023; 6:327. [PMID: 36973478 PMCID: PMC10042875 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04652-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023] Open
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Bone regeneration after fracture is a complex process with high and dynamic energy demands. The impact of metabolism on bone healing progression and outcome, however, is so far understudied. Our comprehensive molecular profiling reveals that central metabolic pathways, such as glycolysis and the citric acid cycle, are differentially activated between rats with successful or compromised bone regeneration (young versus aged female Sprague-Dawley rats) early in the inflammatory phase of bone healing. We also found that the citric acid cycle intermediate succinate mediates individual cellular responses and plays a central role in successful bone healing. Succinate induces IL-1β in macrophages, enhances vessel formation, increases mesenchymal stromal cell migration, and potentiates osteogenic differentiation and matrix formation in vitro. Taken together, metabolites-here particularly succinate-are shown to play central roles as signaling molecules during the onset of healing and in steering bone tissue regeneration.
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- Julia Löffler
- Julius Wolff Institute (JWI), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany
- BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Julius Wolff Institute (JWI), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany
- BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Julius Wolff Institute (JWI), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany
- BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Julius Wolff Institute (JWI), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany
- BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
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- Julius Wolff Institute (JWI), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany.
- BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany.
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Kinoshita SN, Suzuki T, Kiba T, Sakakibara H, Kinoshita T. Photosynthetic-Product-Dependent Activation of Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase and Nitrate Uptake in Arabidopsis Leaves. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 64:191-203. [PMID: 36705265 PMCID: PMC9977229 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcac157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Plasma membrane (PM) proton-translocating adenosine triphosphatase (H+-ATPase) is a pivotal enzyme for plant growth and development that acts as a primary transporter and is activated by phosphorylation of the penultimate residue, threonine, at the C-terminus. Small Auxin-Up RNA family proteins maintain the phosphorylation level via inhibiting dephosphorylation of the residue by protein phosphatase 2C-D clade. Photosynthetically active radiation activates PM H+-ATPase via phosphorylation in mesophyll cells of Arabidopsis thaliana, and phosphorylation of PM H+-ATPase depends on photosynthesis and photosynthesis-related sugar supplementation, such as sucrose, fructose and glucose. However, the molecular mechanism and physiological role of photosynthesis-dependent PM H+-ATPase activation are still unknown. Analysis using sugar analogs, such as palatinose, turanose and 2-deoxy glucose, revealed that sucrose metabolites and products of glycolysis such as pyruvate induce phosphorylation of PM H+-ATPase. Transcriptome analysis showed that the novel isoform of the Small Auxin-Up RNA genes, SAUR30, is upregulated in a light- and sucrose-dependent manner. Time-course analyses of sucrose supplementation showed that the phosphorylation level of PM H+-ATPase increased within 10 min, but the expression level of SAUR30 increased later than 10 min. The results suggest that two temporal regulations may participate in the regulation of PM H+-ATPase. Interestingly, a 15NO3- uptake assay in leaves showed that light increases 15NO3- uptake and that increment of 15NO3- uptake depends on PM H+-ATPase activity. The results opened the possibility of the physiological role of photosynthesis-dependent PM H+-ATPase activation in the uptake of NO3-. We speculate that PM H+-ATPase may connect photosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism in leaves.
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- Satoru N Kinoshita
- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University, Kasugai, 487-8501 Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan
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Forbes M, Geisberger S, Pietzke M, Mastrobuoni G, Kempa S. Advancements in Pulsed Stable Isotope-Resolved Metabolomics. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2023; 277:165-180. [PMID: 36355219 DOI: 10.1007/164_2022_621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The understanding of biochemical processes of metabolism is gained through the measurement of the concentration of intermediates and the rate of metabolite conversion. However, the measurement of metabolite concentrations does not give a full representation of this dynamic system. To understand the kinetics of metabolism, the system must be described and quantified in terms of metabolite flow as a function of time. In order to measure the metabolite flow, or more precisely the metabolic flux through a biological system, substrates of the cell are labelled with stable isotopes. The usage of these substrates by the cell leads to the incorporation of the isotopes into downstream intermediates.The most important metabolic pathways are encompassed in the central carbon metabolism (CCM). According to the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), the central carbon metabolism "is the most basic aspect of life". It includes all metabolites and enzymatic reactions within: glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, pentose phosphate pathway (PPP), tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), amino acids and nucleotide metabolic pathways. Some molecules are at the crossroad of metabolic pathways, interconnecting diverse metabolic and therefore functional outcomes. Labelling these nodal metabolites and analysing their isotopic composition allows the precise determination of the metabolic flow within the biochemical networks that they are in.Application of stable isotope labelled substrates allows the measurement of metabolic flux through a biochemical pathway. The rapid turnover of metabolites in pathways requires pulse-feeding cells with a labelled substrate. This method allows for the determination of different cell states. For example, the action of a drug from immediate impact until the compensatory response of the metabolic system (cell, organs, organisms). Pulsed labelling is an elegant way to analyse the action of small molecules and drugs and enables the analysis of regulatory metabolic processes in short time scales.
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- Martin Forbes
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany.
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Opialla T, Gollasch B, Kuich PHJL, Klug L, Rahn G, Busjahn A, Spuler S, Boschmann M, Kirwan JA, Luft FC, Kempa S. Exercise blood-drop metabolic profiling links metabolism with perceived exertion. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:1042231. [PMID: 36619172 PMCID: PMC9822726 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1042231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Background: Assessing detailed metabolism in exercising persons minute-to-minute has not been possible. We developed a "drop-of-blood" platform to fulfill that need. Our study aimed not only to demonstrate the utility of our methodology, but also to give insights into unknown mechanisms and new directions. Methods: We developed a platform, based on gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, to assess metabolism from a blood-drop. We first observed a single volunteer who ran 13 km in 60 min. We particularly monitored relative perceived exertion (RPE). We observed that 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate peaked at RPE in this subject. We next expanded these findings to women and men volunteers who performed an RPE-based exercise protocol to RPE at Fi O 2 20.9% or Fi O 2 14.5% in random order. Results: At 6 km, our subject reached his maximum relative perceived exertion (RPE); however, he continued running, felt better, and finished his run. Lactate levels had stably increased by 2 km, ketoacids increased gradually until the run's end, while the hypoxia marker, 2,3 bisphosphoglycerate, peaked at maximum relative perceived exertion. In our normal volunteers, the changes in lactate, pyruvate, ß hydroxybutyrate and a hydroxybutyrate were not identical, but similar to our model proband runner. Conclusion: Glucose availability was not the limiting factor, as glucose availability increased towards exercise end in highly exerted subjects. Instead, the tricarboxylic acid→oxphos pathway, lactate clearance, and thus and the oxidative capacity appeared to be the defining elements in confronting maximal exertion. These ideas must be tested further in more definitive studies. Our preliminary work suggests that our single-drop methodology could be of great utility in studying exercise physiology.
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- Tobias Opialla
- Department of Proteomics and Metabolomics Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Muscle Research Unit, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, A Joint Collaboration Between Max-Delbr ück-Center and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Unit, Joint collaboration between Max-Delbr ück-Center and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Proteomics and Metabolomics Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Unit, Joint collaboration between Max-Delbr ück-Center and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Unit, Joint collaboration between Max-Delbr ück-Center and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Unit, Joint collaboration between Max-Delbr ück-Center and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- HealthTwiSt GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Muscle Research Unit, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, A Joint Collaboration Between Max-Delbr ück-Center and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Unit, Joint collaboration between Max-Delbr ück-Center and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Unit, Joint collaboration between Max-Delbr ück-Center and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- *Correspondence: Stefan Kempa, ; Friedrich C. Luft,
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- Department of Proteomics and Metabolomics Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- *Correspondence: Stefan Kempa, ; Friedrich C. Luft,
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Optimized Workflow for On-Line Derivatization for Targeted Metabolomics Approach by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. Metabolites 2021; 11:metabo11120888. [PMID: 34940646 PMCID: PMC8703763 DOI: 10.3390/metabo11120888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Using manual derivatization in gas chromatography-mass spectrometry samples have varying equilibration times before analysis which increases technical variability and limits the number of potential samples analyzed. By contrast, automated derivatization methods can derivatize and inject each sample in an identical manner. We present a fully automated (on-line) derivatization method used for targeted analysis of different matrices. We describe method optimization and compare results from using off-line and on-line derivatization protocols, including the robustness and reproducibility of the methods. Our final parameters for the derivatization process were 20 µL of methoxyamine (MeOx) in pyridine for 60 min at 30 °C followed by 80 µL N-Methyl-N-trimethylsilyltrifluoracetamide (MSTFA) for 30 min at 30 °C combined with 4 h of equilibration time. The repeatability test in plasma and liver revealed a median relative standard deviation (RSD) of 16% and 10%, respectively. Serum samples showed a consistent intra-batch median RSD of 20% with an inter-batch variability of 27% across three batches. The direct comparison of on-line versus off-line demonstrated that on-line was fit for purpose and improves repeatability with a measured median RSD of 11% compared to 17% using the same method off-line. In summary, we recommend that optimized on-line methods may improve results for metabolomics and should be used where available.
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Metabolic profiling of attached and detached metformin and 2-deoxy-D-glucose treated breast cancer cells reveals adaptive changes in metabolome of detached cells. Sci Rep 2021; 11:21354. [PMID: 34725457 PMCID: PMC8560930 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98642-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Anchorage-independent growth of cancer cells in vitro is correlated to metastasis formation in vivo. Metformin use is associated with decreased breast cancer incidence and currently evaluated in cancer clinical trials. The combined treatment with metformin and 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DG) in vitro induces detachment of viable MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells that retain their proliferation capacity. This might be important for cell detachment from primary tumors, but the metabolic changes involved are unknown. We performed LC/MS metabolic profiling on separated attached and detached MDA-MB-231 cells treated with metformin and/or 2DG. High 2DG and metformin plus 2DG altered the metabolic profile similarly to metformin, inferring that metabolic changes are necessary but not sufficient while the specific effects of 2DG are crucial for detachment. Detached cells had higher NADPH levels and lower fatty acids and glutamine levels compared to attached cells, supporting the role of AMPK activation and reductive carboxylation in supporting anchorage-independent survival. Surprisingly, the metabolic profile of detached cells was closer to untreated control cells than attached treated cells, suggesting detachment might help cells adapt to energy stress. Metformin treated cells had higher fatty and amino acid levels with lower purine nucleotide levels, which is relevant for understanding the anticancer mechanisms of metformin.
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van der Stel W, Yang H, Vrijenhoek NG, Schimming JP, Callegaro G, Carta G, Darici S, Delp J, Forsby A, White A, le Dévédec S, Leist M, Jennings P, Beltman JB, van de Water B, Danen EHJ. Mapping the cellular response to electron transport chain inhibitors reveals selective signaling networks triggered by mitochondrial perturbation. Arch Toxicol 2021; 96:259-285. [PMID: 34642769 PMCID: PMC8748354 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-021-03160-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Mitochondrial perturbation is a key event in chemical-induced organ toxicities that is incompletely understood. Here, we studied how electron transport chain (ETC) complex I, II, or III (CI, CII and CIII) inhibitors affect mitochondrial functionality, stress response activation, and cell viability using a combination of high-content imaging and TempO-Seq in HepG2 hepatocyte cells. CI and CIII inhibitors perturbed mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and mitochondrial and cellular ATP levels in a concentration- and time-dependent fashion and, under conditions preventing a switch to glycolysis attenuated cell viability, whereas CII inhibitors had no effect. TempO-Seq analysis of changes in mRNA expression pointed to a shared cellular response to CI and CIII inhibition. First, to define specific ETC inhibition responses, a gene set responsive toward ETC inhibition (and not to genotoxic, oxidative, or endoplasmic reticulum stress) was identified using targeted TempO-Seq in HepG2. Silencing of one of these genes, NOS3, exacerbated the impact of CI and CIII inhibitors on cell viability, indicating its functional implication in cellular responses to mitochondrial stress. Then by monitoring dynamic responses to ETC inhibition using a HepG2 GFP reporter panel for different classes of stress response pathways and applying pathway and gene network analysis to TempO-Seq data, we looked for downstream cellular events of ETC inhibition and identified the amino acid response (AAR) as being triggered in HepG2 by ETC inhibition. Through in silico approaches we provide evidence indicating that a similar AAR is associated with exposure to mitochondrial toxicants in primary human hepatocytes. Altogether, we (i) unravel quantitative, time- and concentration-resolved cellular responses to mitochondrial perturbation, (ii) identify a gene set associated with adaptation to exposure to active ETC inhibitors, and (iii) show that ER stress and an AAR accompany ETC inhibition in HepG2 and primary hepatocytes.
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- Wanda van der Stel
- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division Molecular and Computational Toxicology, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Chair for In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Department Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Chair for In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Department Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Division Molecular and Computational Toxicology, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre of Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Arlt B, Mastrobuoni G, Wuenschel J, Astrahantseff K, Eggert A, Kempa S, Deubzer HE. Inhibiting PHGDH with NCT-503 reroutes glucose-derived carbons into the TCA cycle, independently of its on-target effect. J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem 2021; 36:1282-1289. [PMID: 34192988 PMCID: PMC8253182 DOI: 10.1080/14756366.2021.1935917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
Abstract
The small-molecule inhibitor of phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, NCT-503, reduces incorporation of glucose-derived carbons into serine in vitro. Here we describe an off-target effect of NCT-503 in neuroblastoma cell lines expressing divergent phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH) levels and single-cell clones with CRISPR-Cas9-directed PHGDH knockout or their respective wildtype controls. NCT-503 treatment strongly reduced synthesis of glucose-derived citrate in all cell models investigated compared to the inactive drug control and independent of PHGDH expression level. Incorporation of glucose-derived carbons entering the TCA cycle via pyruvate carboxylase was enhanced by NCT-503 treatment. The activity of citrate synthase was not altered by NCT-503 treatment. We also detected no change in the thermal stabilisation of citrate synthase in cellular thermal shift assays from NCT-503-treated cells. Thus, the direct cause of the observed off-target effect remains enigmatic. Our findings highlight off-target potential within a metabolic assessment of carbon usage in cells treated with the small-molecule inhibitor, NCT-503.
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- Birte Arlt
- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Neuroblastoma Research Group, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of the Charité and the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.,Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology at the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology at the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Neuroblastoma Research Group, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of the Charité and the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Neuroblastoma Research Group, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of the Charité and the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany.,German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Berlin, Germany.,German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.,Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology at the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany.,German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Neuroblastoma Research Group, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of the Charité and the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.,German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Berlin, Germany.,German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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Geisberger S, Bartolomaeus H, Neubert P, Willebrand R, Zasada C, Bartolomaeus T, McParland V, Swinnen D, Geuzens A, Maifeld A, Krampert L, Vogl M, Mähler A, Wilck N, Markó L, Tilic E, Forslund SK, Binger KJ, Stegbauer J, Dechend R, Kleinewietfeld M, Jantsch J, Kempa S, Müller DN. Salt Transiently Inhibits Mitochondrial Energetics in Mononuclear Phagocytes. Circulation 2021; 144:144-158. [PMID: 33906377 PMCID: PMC8270232 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.120.052788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background: Dietary high salt (HS) is a leading risk factor for mortality and morbidity. Serum sodium transiently increases postprandially but can also accumulate at sites of inflammation affecting differentiation and function of innate and adaptive immune cells. Here, we focus on how changes in extracellular sodium, mimicking alterations in the circulation and tissues, affect the early metabolic, transcriptional, and functional adaption of human and murine mononuclear phagocytes. Methods: Using Seahorse technology, pulsed stable isotope-resolved metabolomics, and enzyme activity assays, we characterize the central carbon metabolism and mitochondrial function of human and murine mononuclear phagocytes under HS in vitro. HS as well as pharmacological uncoupling of the electron transport chain under normal salt is used to analyze mitochondrial function on immune cell activation and function (as determined by Escherichiacoli killing and CD4+ T cell migration capacity). In 2 independent clinical studies, we analyze the effect of a HS diet during 2 weeks (URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT02509962) and short-term salt challenge by a single meal (URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT04175249) on mitochondrial function of human monocytes in vivo. Results: Extracellular sodium was taken up into the intracellular compartment, followed by the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration in murine and human macrophages. Mechanistically, HS reduces mitochondrial membrane potential, electron transport chain complex II activity, oxygen consumption, and ATP production independently of the polarization status of macrophages. Subsequently, cell activation is altered with improved bactericidal function in HS-treated M1-like macrophages and diminished CD4+ T cell migration in HS-treated M2-like macrophages. Pharmacological uncoupling of the electron transport chain under normal salt phenocopies HS-induced transcriptional changes and bactericidal function of human and murine mononuclear phagocytes. Clinically, also in vivo, rise in plasma sodium concentration within the physiological range reversibly reduces mitochondrial function in human monocytes. In both a 14-day and single meal HS challenge, healthy volunteers displayed a plasma sodium increase of and respectively, that correlated with decreased monocytic mitochondrial oxygen consumption. Conclusions: Our data identify the disturbance of mitochondrial respiration as the initial step by which HS mechanistically influences immune cell function. Although these functional changes might help to resolve bacterial infections, a shift toward proinflammation could accelerate inflammatory cardiovascular disease.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sabrina Geisberger
- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Germany (S.G., C.Z., S.K.).,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin (S.G., H.B., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin (S.G., H.B., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Regensburg, University of Regensburg, Germany (P.N., L.K., M.V., J.J.)
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- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, UHasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, Belgium (R.W., D.S., A.G., M.K.)
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Germany (S.G., C.Z., S.K.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, UHasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, Belgium (R.W., D.S., A.G., M.K.)
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- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, UHasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, Belgium (R.W., D.S., A.G., M.K.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Regensburg, University of Regensburg, Germany (P.N., L.K., M.V., J.J.)
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Regensburg, University of Regensburg, Germany (P.N., L.K., M.V., J.J.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin (S.G., H.B., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin (S.G., H.B., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (N.W.).,Department of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine (N.W.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin (S.G., H.B., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Bonn, Germany (T.B., E.T.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin (S.G., H.B., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia (K.J.B.)
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- Department of Nephrology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany (J.S.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin (S.G., H.B., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, HELIOS-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany (R.D.)
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- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, UHasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, Belgium (R.W., D.S., A.G., M.K.)
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Regensburg, University of Regensburg, Germany (P.N., L.K., M.V., J.J.)
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Germany (S.G., C.Z., S.K.)
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin (S.G., H.B., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.).,Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany (S.G., H.B., V.M., A. Maifeld, A. Mähler, N.W., L.M., S.K.F., R.D., D.N.M.)
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Opialla T, Kempa S, Pietzke M. Towards a More Reliable Identification of Isomeric Metabolites Using Pattern Guided Retention Validation. Metabolites 2020; 10:metabo10110457. [PMID: 33198249 PMCID: PMC7696895 DOI: 10.3390/metabo10110457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Reliable analyte identification is critical in metabolomics experiments to ensure proper interpretation of data. Due to chemical similarity of metabolites (as isobars and isomers) identification by mass spectrometry or chromatography alone can be difficult. Here we show that isomeric compounds are quite common in the metabolic space as given in common metabolite databases. Further, we show that retention information can shift dramatically between different experiments decreasing the value of external or even in-house compound databases. As a consequence the retention information in compound databases should be updated regularly, to allow a reliable identification. To do so we present a feasible and budget conscious method to guarantee updates of retention information on a regular basis using well designed compound mixtures. For this we combine compounds in "Ident-Mixes", showing a way to distinctly identify chemically similar compounds through combinatorics and principle of exclusion. We illustrate the feasibility of this approach by comparing Gas chromatography (GC)-columns with identical properties from three different vendors and by creating a compound database from measuring these mixtures by Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The results show the high influence of used materials on retention behavior and the ability of our approach to generate high quality identifications in a short time.
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Zhu Z, Umehara T, Tsujita N, Kawai T, Goto M, Cheng B, Zeng W, Shimada M. Itaconate regulates the glycolysis/pentose phosphate pathway transition to maintain boar sperm linear motility by regulating redox homeostasis. Free Radic Biol Med 2020; 159:44-53. [PMID: 32745767 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2020.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Mammalian cells improve redox homeostasis under reactive oxygen species (ROS) stress conditions via the enhancement of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). However, it is not clear how the cell reprograms glucose metabolism from glycolysis to the PPP. Hence, in the present study, we used boar sperm as a model to elucidate the mechanism by which the glycolysis/PPP transition occurs under ROS stress. The boar sperm treated with moderate glucose levels for 3 h exhibited increased sperm linear motility patterns, ATP levels and GSH/GSSG ratios and decreased ROS levels compared to the boar sperm treated without glucose. In addition, the hexokinase activity, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity, NADPH level, NADPH/NADP+ ratio and mitochondrial activity were higher in the sperm treated with moderate glucose than in those not treated with glucose. Interestingly, the enzyme activity of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (ALDOA) was not significantly changed during the incubation. The sperm linear motility patterns were decreased by treatment with the G6PD inhibitor 6-aminonicotinamide. Moreover, moderate glucose treatment significantly increased the itaconate levels in sperm. Both endogenous and exogenous itaconate increased the total itaconate modifications and the itaconate-modified ALDOA levels in sperm, suggesting that under moderate-glucose conditions, glycolysis in the sperm was suppressed by an increase in the itaconate levels. Furthermore, the addition of itaconate improved the sperm linear motility patterns by suppressing glycolysis and enhancing oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Therefore, the itaconate generated from OXPHOS regulates the glycolysis/PPP transition to maintain redox homeostasis. In sperm, this itaconate-dependent mechanism plays an important role in maintaining their high linear motility.
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- Zhendong Zhu
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi, China; Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan; Livestock Research Institute, Oita Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Center, Oita, Japan
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi, China.
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- Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
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Balcerczyk A, Damblon C, Elena-Herrmann B, Panthu B, Rautureau GJP. Metabolomic Approaches to Study Chemical Exposure-Related Metabolism Alterations in Mammalian Cell Cultures. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E6843. [PMID: 32961865 PMCID: PMC7554780 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21186843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Biological organisms are constantly exposed to an immense repertoire of molecules that cover environmental or food-derived molecules and drugs, triggering a continuous flow of stimuli-dependent adaptations. The diversity of these chemicals as well as their concentrations contribute to the multiplicity of induced effects, including activation, stimulation, or inhibition of physiological processes and toxicity. Metabolism, as the foremost phenotype and manifestation of life, has proven to be immensely sensitive and highly adaptive to chemical stimuli. Therefore, studying the effect of endo- or xenobiotics over cellular metabolism delivers valuable knowledge to apprehend potential cellular activity of individual molecules and evaluate their acute or chronic benefits and toxicity. The development of modern metabolomics technologies such as mass spectrometry or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy now offers unprecedented solutions for the rapid and efficient determination of metabolic profiles of cells and more complex biological systems. Combined with the availability of well-established cell culture techniques, these analytical methods appear perfectly suited to determine the biological activity and estimate the positive and negative effects of chemicals in a variety of cell types and models, even at hardly detectable concentrations. Metabolic phenotypes can be estimated from studying intracellular metabolites at homeostasis in vivo, while in vitro cell cultures provide additional access to metabolites exchanged with growth media. This article discusses analytical solutions available for metabolic phenotyping of cell culture metabolism as well as the general metabolomics workflow suitable for testing the biological activity of molecular compounds. We emphasize how metabolic profiling of cell supernatants and intracellular extracts can deliver valuable and complementary insights for evaluating the effects of xenobiotics on cellular metabolism. We note that the concepts and methods discussed primarily for xenobiotics exposure are widely applicable to drug testing in general, including endobiotics that cover active metabolites, nutrients, peptides and proteins, cytokines, hormones, vitamins, etc.
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- Aneta Balcerczyk
- Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Pomorska 141/143, 90-236 Lodz, Poland;
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- Unité de Recherche MolSys, Faculté des sciences, Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- CarMeN Laboratory, INSERM, INRA, INSA Lyon, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69921 Oullins CEDEX, France;
- Hospices Civils de Lyon, Faculté de Médecine, Hôpital Lyon Sud, 69921 Oullins CEDEX, France
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (CRMN FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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Laussel C, Léon S. Cellular toxicity of the metabolic inhibitor 2-deoxyglucose and associated resistance mechanisms. Biochem Pharmacol 2020; 182:114213. [PMID: 32890467 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.114213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Most malignant cells display increased glucose absorption and metabolism compared to surrounding tissues. This well-described phenomenon results from a metabolic reprogramming occurring during transformation, that provides the building blocks and supports the high energetic cost of proliferation by increasing glycolysis. These features led to the idea that drugs targeting glycolysis might prove efficient in the context of cancer treatment. One of these drugs, 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG), is a synthetic glucose analog that can be imported into cells and interfere with glycolysis and ATP generation. Its preferential targeting to sites of cell proliferation is supported by the observation that a derived molecule, 2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) accumulates in tumors and is used for cancer imaging. Here, we review the toxicity mechanisms of this drug, from the early-described effects on glycolysis to its other cellular consequences, including inhibition of protein glycosylation and endoplasmic reticulum stress, and its interference with signaling pathways. Then, we summarize the current data on the use of 2-DG as an anti-cancer agent, especially in the context of combination therapies, as novel 2-DG-derived drugs are being developed. We also show how the use of 2-DG helped to decipher glucose-signaling pathways in yeast and favored their engineering for biotechnologies. Finally, we discuss the resistance strategies to this inhibitor that have been identified in the course of these studies and which may have important implications regarding a medical use of this drug.
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- Clotilde Laussel
- Université de Paris, CNRS, Institut Jacques Monod, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, CNRS, Institut Jacques Monod, F-75006 Paris, France.
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Fritsche-Guenther R, Gloaguen Y, Kirchner M, Mertins P, Tunn PU, Kirwan JA. Progression-Dependent Altered Metabolism in Osteosarcoma Resulting in Different Nutrient Source Dependencies. Cancers (Basel) 2020; 12:cancers12061371. [PMID: 32471029 PMCID: PMC7352851 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12061371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Revised: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Osteosarcoma (OS) is a primary malignant bone tumor and OS metastases are mostly found in the lung. The limited understanding of the biology of metastatic processes in OS limits the ability for effective treatment. Alterations to the metabolome and its transformation during metastasis aids the understanding of the mechanism and provides information on treatment and prognosis. The current study intended to identify metabolic alterations during OS progression by using a targeted gas chromatography mass spectrometry approach. Using a female OS cell line model, malignant and metastatic cells increased their energy metabolism compared to benign OS cells. The metastatic cell line showed a faster metabolic flux compared to the malignant cell line, leading to reduced metabolite pools. However, inhibiting both glycolysis and glutaminolysis resulted in a reduced proliferation. In contrast, malignant but non-metastatic OS cells showed a resistance to glycolytic inhibition but a strong dependency on glutamine as an energy source. Our in vivo metabolic approach hinted at a potential sex-dependent metabolic alteration in OS patients with lung metastases (LM), although this will require validation with larger sample sizes. In line with the in vitro results, we found that female LM patients showed a decreased central carbon metabolism compared to metastases from male patients.
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- Raphaela Fritsche-Guenther
- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), 13125 Berlin, Germany; (Y.G.); (J.A.K.)
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany; (M.K.); (P.M.)
- Correspondence:
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- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), 13125 Berlin, Germany; (Y.G.); (J.A.K.)
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany; (M.K.); (P.M.)
- Core Unit Bioinformatics, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany; (M.K.); (P.M.)
- Proteomics Platform Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany; (M.K.); (P.M.)
- Proteomics Platform Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Orthopedic Oncology, Helios Clinic Berlin-Buch, 13125 Berlin, Germany;
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- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), 13125 Berlin, Germany; (Y.G.); (J.A.K.)
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany; (M.K.); (P.M.)
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Bayram S, Fürst S, Forbes M, Kempa S. Analysing central metabolism in ultra-high resolution: At the crossroads of carbon and nitrogen. Mol Metab 2020; 33:38-47. [PMID: 31928927 PMCID: PMC7056925 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2019.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2019] [Revised: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cancer cell metabolism can be characterised by adaptive metabolic alterations, which support abnormal proliferative cell growth with high energetic demand. De novo nucleotide biosynthesis is essential for providing nucleotides for RNA and DNA synthesis, and drugs targeting this biosynthetic pathway have proven to be effective anticancer therapeutics. Nevertheless, cancers are often able to circumvent chemotherapeutic interventions and become therapy resistant. Our understanding of the changing metabolic profile of the cancer cell and the mode of action of therapeutics is dependent on technological advances in biochemical analysis. SCOPE OF REVIEW This review begins with information about carbon- and nitrogen-donating pathways to build purine and pyrimidine moieties in the course of nucleotide biosynthesis. We discuss the application of stable isotope resolved metabolomics to investigate the dynamics of cancer cell metabolism and outline the benefits of high-resolution accurate mass spectrometry, which enables multiple tracer studies. CONCLUSION With the technological advances in mass spectrometry that allow for the analysis of the metabolome in high resolution, the application of stable isotope resolved metabolomics has become an important technique in the investigation of biological processes. The literature in the area of isotope labelling is dominated by 13C tracer studies. Metabolic pathways have to be considered as complex interconnected networks and should be investigated as such. Moving forward to simultaneous tracing of different stable isotopes will help elucidate the interplay between carbon and nitrogen flow and the dynamics of de novo nucleotide biosynthesis within the cell.
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- Safak Bayram
- Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Berlin, Germany; German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Germany
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- Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Berlin, Germany.
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Nerve damage induced skeletal muscle atrophy is associated with increased accumulation of intramuscular glucose and polyol pathway intermediates. Sci Rep 2020; 10:1908. [PMID: 32024865 PMCID: PMC7002415 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58213-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Perturbations in skeletal muscle metabolism have been reported for a variety of neuromuscular diseases. However, the role of metabolism after constriction injury to a nerve and the associated muscle atrophy is unclear. We have analyzed rat tibialis anterior (TA) four weeks after unilateral constriction injury to the sciatic nerve (DMG) and in the contralateral control leg (CTRL) (n = 7) to investigate changes of the metabolome, immunohistochemistry and protein levels. Untargeted metabolomics identified 79 polar metabolites, 27 of which were significantly altered in DMG compared to CTRL. Glucose concentrations were increased 2.6-fold in DMG, while glucose 6-phosphate (G6-P) was unchanged. Intermediates of the polyol pathway were increased in DMG, particularly fructose (1.7-fold). GLUT4 localization was scattered as opposed to clearly at the sarcolemma. Despite the altered localization, we found GLUT4 protein levels to be increased 7.8-fold while GLUT1 was decreased 1.7-fold in nerve damaged TA. PFK1 and GS levels were both decreased 2.1-fold, indicating an inability of glycolysis and glycogen synthesis to process glucose at sufficient rates. In conclusion, chronic nerve constriction causes increased GLUT4 levels in conjunction with decreased glycolytic activity and glycogen storage in skeletal muscle, resulting in accumulation of intramuscular glucose and polyol pathway intermediates.
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Mugahid DA, Sengul TG, You X, Wang Y, Steil L, Bergmann N, Radke MH, Ofenbauer A, Gesell-Salazar M, Balogh A, Kempa S, Tursun B, Robbins CT, Völker U, Chen W, Nelson L, Gotthardt M. Proteomic and Transcriptomic Changes in Hibernating Grizzly Bears Reveal Metabolic and Signaling Pathways that Protect against Muscle Atrophy. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19976. [PMID: 31882638 PMCID: PMC6934745 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56007-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Muscle atrophy is a physiological response to disuse and malnutrition, but hibernating bears are largely resistant to this phenomenon. Unlike other mammals, they efficiently reabsorb amino acids from urine, periodically activate muscle contraction, and their adipocytes differentially responds to insulin. The contribution of myocytes to the reduced atrophy remains largely unknown. Here we show how metabolism and atrophy signaling are regulated in skeletal muscle of hibernating grizzly bear. Metabolic modeling of proteomic changes suggests an autonomous increase of non-essential amino acids (NEAA) in muscle and treatment of differentiated myoblasts with NEAA is sufficient to induce hypertrophy. Our comparison of gene expression in hibernation versus muscle atrophy identified several genes differentially regulated during hibernation, including Pdk4 and Serpinf1. Their trophic effects extend to myoblasts from non-hibernating species (including C. elegans), as documented by a knockdown approach. Together, these changes reflect evolutionary favored adaptations that, once translated to the clinics, could help improve atrophy treatment.
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- D A Mugahid
- Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Cell Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Cell Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Cell Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Cell Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité & Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- School of the Environment and School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- College of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Veterinary Clinical Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
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- Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Cell Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany. .,Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. .,DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Modified Protocol of Harvesting, Extraction, and Normalization Approaches for Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics Analysis of Adherent Cells Grown Under High Fetal Calf Serum Conditions. Metabolites 2019; 10:metabo10010002. [PMID: 31861324 PMCID: PMC7023238 DOI: 10.3390/metabo10010002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 12/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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A gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) metabolomics protocol was modified for quenching, harvesting, and extraction of metabolites from adherent cells grown under high (20%) fetal calf serum conditions. The reproducibility of using either 50% or 80% methanol for quenching of cells was compared for sample harvest. To investigate the efficiency and reproducibility of intracellular metabolite extraction, different volumes and ratios of chloroform were tested. Additionally, we compared the use of total protein amount versus cell mass as normalization parameters. We demonstrate that the method involving 50% methanol as quenching buffer followed by an extraction step using an equal ratio of methanol:chloroform:water (1:1:1, v/v/v) followed by the collection of 6 mL polar phase for GC-MS measurement was superior to the other methods tested. Especially for large sample sets, its comparative ease of measurement leads us to recommend normalization to protein amount for the investigation of intracellular metabolites of adherent human cells grown under high (or standard) fetal calf serum conditions. To avoid bias, care should be taken beforehand to ensure that the ratio of total protein to cell number are consistent among the groups tested. For this reason, it may not be suitable where culture conditions or cell types have very different protein outputs (e.g., hypoxia vs. normoxia). The full modified protocol is available in the Supplementary Materials.
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Müthel S, Uyar B, He M, Krause A, Vitrinel B, Bulut S, Vasiljevic D, Marchal I, Kempa S, Akalin A, Tursun B. The conserved histone chaperone LIN-53 is required for normal lifespan and maintenance of muscle integrity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Aging Cell 2019; 18:e13012. [PMID: 31397537 PMCID: PMC6826145 DOI: 10.1111/acel.13012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Whether extension of lifespan provides an extended time without health deteriorations is an important issue for human aging. However, to which degree lifespan and aspects of healthspan regulation might be linked is not well understood. Chromatin factors could be involved in linking both aging aspects, as epigenetic mechanisms bridge regulation of different biological processes. The epigenetic factor LIN‐53 (RBBP4/7) associates with different chromatin‐regulating complexes to safeguard cell identities in Caenorhabditis elegans as well as mammals, and has a role in preventing memory loss and premature aging in humans. We show that LIN‐53 interacts with the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex in C. elegans muscles to ensure functional muscles during postembryonic development and in adults. While mutants for other NuRD members show a normal lifespan, animals lacking LIN‐53 die early because LIN‐53 depletion affects also the histone deacetylase complex Sin3, which is required for a normal lifespan. To determine why lin‐53 and sin‐3 mutants die early, we performed transcriptome and metabolomic analysis revealing that levels of the disaccharide trehalose are significantly decreased in both mutants. As trehalose is required for normal lifespan in C. elegans, lin‐53 and sin‐3 mutants could be rescued by either feeding with trehalose or increasing trehalose levels via the insulin/IGF1 signaling pathway. Overall, our findings suggest that LIN‐53 is required for maintaining lifespan and muscle integrity through discrete chromatin regulatory mechanisms. Since both LIN‐53 and its mammalian homologs safeguard cell identities, it is conceivable that its implication in lifespan regulation is also evolutionarily conserved.
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- Stefanie Müthel
- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology Berlin Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Berlin Germany
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Defenouillère Q, Verraes A, Laussel C, Friedrich A, Schacherer J, Léon S. The induction of HAD-like phosphatases by multiple signaling pathways confers resistance to the metabolic inhibitor 2-deoxyglucose. Sci Signal 2019; 12:12/597/eaaw8000. [PMID: 31481524 DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.aaw8000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Anti-cancer strategies that target the glycolytic metabolism of tumors have been proposed. The glucose analog 2-deoxyglucose (2DG) is imported into cells and, after phosphorylation, becomes 2DG-6-phosphate, a toxic by-product that inhibits glycolysis. Using yeast as a model, we performed an unbiased mass spectrometry-based approach to probe the cellular effects of 2DG on the proteome and study resistance mechanisms to 2DG. We found that two phosphatases that target 2DG-6-phosphate were induced upon exposure to 2DG and participated in 2DG detoxification. Dog1 and Dog2 are HAD (haloacid dehalogenase)-like phosphatases, which are evolutionarily conserved. 2DG induced Dog2 by activating several signaling pathways, such as the stress response pathway mediated by the p38 MAPK ortholog Hog1, the unfolded protein response (UPR) triggered by 2DG-induced ER stress, and the cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway mediated by the MAPK Slt2. Loss of the UPR or CWI pathways led to 2DG hypersensitivity. In contrast, mutants impaired in the glucose-mediated repression of genes were 2DG resistant because glucose availability transcriptionally repressed DOG2 by inhibiting signaling mediated by the AMPK ortholog Snf1. The characterization and genome resequencing of spontaneous 2DG-resistant mutants revealed that DOG2 overexpression was a common strategy underlying 2DG resistance. The human Dog2 homolog HDHD1 displayed phosphatase activity toward 2DG-6-phosphate in vitro and its overexpression conferred 2DG resistance in HeLa cells, suggesting that this 2DG phosphatase could interfere with 2DG-based chemotherapies. These results show that HAD-like phosphatases are evolutionarily conserved regulators of 2DG resistance.
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- Quentin Defenouillère
- Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 7592 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75205, Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 7592 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75205, Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 7592 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75205, Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 7592 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75205, Paris Cedex 13, France.
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Borgsmüller N, Gloaguen Y, Opialla T, Blanc E, Sicard E, Royer AL, Le Bizec B, Durand S, Migné C, Pétéra M, Pujos-Guillot E, Giacomoni F, Guitton Y, Beule D, Kirwan J. WiPP: Workflow for Improved Peak Picking for Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Data. Metabolites 2019; 9:metabo9090171. [PMID: 31438611 PMCID: PMC6780109 DOI: 10.3390/metabo9090171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Revised: 08/18/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Lack of reliable peak detection impedes automated analysis of large-scale gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) metabolomics datasets. Performance and outcome of individual peak-picking algorithms can differ widely depending on both algorithmic approach and parameters, as well as data acquisition method. Therefore, comparing and contrasting between algorithms is difficult. Here we present a workflow for improved peak picking (WiPP), a parameter optimising, multi-algorithm peak detection for GC-MS metabolomics. WiPP evaluates the quality of detected peaks using a machine learning-based classification scheme based on seven peak classes. The quality information returned by the classifier for each individual peak is merged with results from different peak detection algorithms to create one final high-quality peak set for immediate down-stream analysis. Medium- and low-quality peaks are kept for further inspection. By applying WiPP to standard compound mixes and a complex biological dataset, we demonstrate that peak detection is improved through the novel way to assign peak quality, an automated parameter optimisation, and results in integration across different embedded peak picking algorithms. Furthermore, our approach can provide an impartial performance comparison of different peak picking algorithms. WiPP is freely available on GitHub (https://github.com/bihealth/WiPP) under MIT licence.
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- Nico Borgsmüller
- Core Unit Bioinformatics, Berlin Institute of Health, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Core Unit Bioinformatics, Berlin Institute of Health, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Core Unit Bioinformatics, Berlin Institute of Health, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRA, UNH, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, MetaboHUB Clermont, 63000 Clermont - Ferrand, France
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- LABERCA, Oniris, INRA, Université Bretagne - Loire, 44307 Nantes, France
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- LABERCA, Oniris, INRA, Université Bretagne - Loire, 44307 Nantes, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRA, UNH, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, MetaboHUB Clermont, 63000 Clermont - Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRA, UNH, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, MetaboHUB Clermont, 63000 Clermont - Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRA, UNH, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, MetaboHUB Clermont, 63000 Clermont - Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRA, UNH, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, MetaboHUB Clermont, 63000 Clermont - Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRA, UNH, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, MetaboHUB Clermont, 63000 Clermont - Ferrand, France
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- LABERCA, Oniris, INRA, Université Bretagne - Loire, 44307 Nantes, France
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- Core Unit Bioinformatics, Berlin Institute of Health, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics Platform, 10178 Berlin, Germany.
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
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Delp J, Funke M, Rudolf F, Cediel A, Bennekou SH, van der Stel W, Carta G, Jennings P, Toma C, Gardner I, van de Water B, Forsby A, Leist M. Development of a neurotoxicity assay that is tuned to detect mitochondrial toxicants. Arch Toxicol 2019; 93:1585-1608. [PMID: 31190196 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-019-02473-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Many neurotoxicants affect energy metabolism in man, but currently available test methods may still fail to predict mito- and neurotoxicity. We addressed this issue using LUHMES cells, i.e., human neuronal precursors that easily differentiate into mature neurons. Within the NeuriTox assay, they have been used to screen for neurotoxicants. Our new approach is based on culturing the cells in either glucose or galactose (Glc-Gal-NeuriTox) as the main carbohydrate source during toxicity testing. Using this Glc-Gal-NeuriTox assay, 52 mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial toxicants were tested. The panel of chemicals comprised 11 inhibitors of mitochondrial respiratory chain complex I (cI), 4 inhibitors of cII, 8 of cIII, and 2 of cIV; 8 toxicants were included as they are assumed to be mitochondrial uncouplers. In galactose, cells became more dependent on mitochondrial function, which made them 2-3 orders of magnitude more sensitive to various mitotoxicants. Moreover, galactose enhanced the specific neurotoxicity (destruction of neurites) compared to a general cytotoxicity (plasma membrane lysis) of the toxicants. The Glc-Gal-NeuriTox assay worked particularly well for inhibitors of cI and cIII, while the toxicity of uncouplers and non-mitochondrial toxicants did not differ significantly upon glucose ↔ galactose exchange. As a secondary assay, we developed a method to quantify the inhibition of all mitochondrial respiratory chain functions/complexes in LUHMES cells. The combination of the Glc-Gal-NeuriTox neurotoxicity screening assay with the mechanistic follow up of target site identification allowed both, a more sensitive detection of neurotoxicants and a sharper definition of the mode of action of mitochondrial toxicants.
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- Johannes Delp
- Chair for In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Department of Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, Universitaetsstr. 10, 78457, Constance, Germany
- Cooperative Doctorate College InViTe, University of Konstanz, Constance, Germany
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- Chair for In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Department of Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, Universitaetsstr. 10, 78457, Constance, Germany
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- Chair for In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Department of Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, Universitaetsstr. 10, 78457, Constance, Germany
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- Swetox Unit for Toxicological Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of Molecular and Computational Toxicology, Amsterdam Institute for Molecules, Medicines and Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Molecular and Computational Toxicology, Amsterdam Institute for Molecules, Medicines and Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via la Masa 19, 20156, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Swetox Unit for Toxicological Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Chair for In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Department of Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, Universitaetsstr. 10, 78457, Constance, Germany.
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Lucantoni F, Dussmann H, Prehn JHM. Metabolic Targeting of Breast Cancer Cells With the 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose and the Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Inhibitor MDIVI-1. Front Cell Dev Biol 2018; 6:113. [PMID: 30255019 PMCID: PMC6141706 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2018.00113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Breast cancer cells have different requirements on metabolic pathways in order to sustain their growth. Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive breast cancer subtype relies mainly on glycolysis, while estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer cells possess higher mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) levels. However, breast cancer cells generally employ both pathways to sustain their metabolic needs and to compete with the surrounding environment. In this study, we demonstrate that the mitochondrial fission inhibitor MDIVI-1 alters mitochondrial bioenergetics, at concentrations that do not affect mitochondrial morphology. We show that this effect is accompanied by an increase in glycolysis consumption. Dual targeting of glycolysis with 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DG) and mitochondrial bioenergetics with MDIVI-1 reduced cellular bioenergetics, increased cell death and decreased clonogenic activity of MCF7 and HDQ-P1 breast cancer cells. In conclusion, we have explored a novel and effective combinatorial regimen for the treatment of breast cancer.
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- Federico Lucantoni
- Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.,Centre for Systems Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.,Centre for Systems Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.,Centre for Systems Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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Fritsche-Guenther R, Zasada C, Mastrobuoni G, Royla N, Rainer R, Roßner F, Pietzke M, Klipp E, Sers C, Kempa S. Alterations of mTOR signaling impact metabolic stress resistance in colorectal carcinomas with BRAF and KRAS mutations. Sci Rep 2018; 8:9204. [PMID: 29907857 PMCID: PMC6003911 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27394-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Metabolic reprogramming is as a hallmark of cancer, and several studies have reported that BRAF and KRAS tumors may be accompanied by a deregulation of cellular metabolism. We investigated how BRAFV600E and KRASG12V affect cell metabolism, stress resistance and signaling in colorectal carcinoma cells driven by these mutations. KRASG12V expressing cells are characterized by the induction of glycolysis, accumulation of lactic acid and sensitivity to glycolytic inhibition. Notably mathematical modelling confirmed the critical role of MCT1 designating the survival of KRASG12V cells. Carcinoma cells harboring BRAFV600E remain resistant towards alterations of glucose supply or application of signaling or metabolic inhibitors. Altogether these data demonstrate that an oncogene-specific decoupling of mTOR from AMPK or AKT signaling accounts for alterations of resistance mechanisms and metabolic phenotypes. Indeed the inhibition of mTOR in BRAFV600E cells counteracts the metabolic predisposition and demonstrates mTOR as a potential target in BRAFV600E-driven colorectal carcinomas.
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- Raphaela Fritsche-Guenther
- Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Humboldt University Berlin, Theoretical Biophysics, Invalidenstraße 42, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité Universitätsmedizin, Institute of Pathology, Chariteplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Beatson Institute, Switchback Road, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 1BD, United Kingdom
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- Charité Universitätsmedizin, Institute of Pathology, Chariteplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité Universitätsmedizin, Institute of Pathology, Chariteplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany. .,Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany.
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Rother M, Gonzalez E, Teixeira da Costa AR, Wask L, Gravenstein I, Pardo M, Pietzke M, Gurumurthy RK, Angermann J, Laudeley R, Glage S, Meyer M, Chumduri C, Kempa S, Dinkel K, Unger A, Klebl B, Klos A, Meyer TF. Combined Human Genome-wide RNAi and Metabolite Analyses Identify IMPDH as a Host-Directed Target against Chlamydia Infection. Cell Host Microbe 2018; 23:661-671.e8. [PMID: 29706504 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Revised: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Chlamydia trachomatis (Ctr) accounts for >130 million human infections annually. Since chronic Ctr infections are extremely difficult to treat, there is an urgent need for more effective therapeutics. As an obligate intracellular bacterium, Ctr strictly depends on the functional contribution of the host cell. Here, we combined a human genome-wide RNA interference screen with metabolic profiling to obtain detailed understanding of changes in the infected cell and identify druggable pathways essential for Ctr growth. We demonstrate that Ctr shifts the host metabolism toward aerobic glycolysis, consistent with increased biomass requirement. We identify key regulator complexes of glucose and nucleotide metabolism that govern Ctr infection processes. Pharmacological targeting of inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH), the rate-limiting enzyme in guanine nucleotide biosynthesis, efficiently inhibits Ctr growth both in vitro and in vivo. These results highlight the potency of genome-scale functional screening for the discovery of drug targets against bacterial infections.
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- Marion Rother
- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Center for Systems Biomedicine, Steinbeis Innovation, 14612 Falkensee, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Italian National Research Council, 16149 Genova, Italy
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- Integrative Metabolomics and Proteomics, Institute of Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Center for Systems Biomedicine, Steinbeis Innovation, 14612 Falkensee, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Metabolomics and Proteomics, Institute of Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Lead Discovery Center GmbH, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Lead Discovery Center GmbH, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Lead Discovery Center GmbH, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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Putker M, Crosby P, Feeney KA, Hoyle NP, Costa ASH, Gaude E, Frezza C, O'Neill JS. Mammalian Circadian Period, But Not Phase and Amplitude, Is Robust Against Redox and Metabolic Perturbations. Antioxid Redox Signal 2018; 28:507-520. [PMID: 28506121 PMCID: PMC5806070 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2016.6911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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AIMS Circadian rhythms permeate all levels of biology to temporally regulate cell and whole-body physiology, although the cell-autonomous mechanism that confers ∼24-h periodicity is incompletely understood. Reports describing circadian oscillations of over-oxidized peroxiredoxin abundance have suggested that redox signaling plays an important role in the timekeeping mechanism. Here, we tested the functional contribution that redox state and primary metabolism make to mammalian cellular timekeeping. RESULTS We found a circadian rhythm in flux through primary glucose metabolic pathways, indicating rhythmic NAD(P)H production. Using pharmacological and genetic perturbations, however, we found that timekeeping was insensitive to changes in glycolytic flux, whereas oxidative pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) inhibition and other chronic redox stressors primarily affected circadian gene expression amplitude, not periodicity. Finally, acute changes in redox state decreased PER2 protein stability, phase dependently, to alter the subsequent phase of oscillation. INNOVATION Circadian rhythms in primary cellular metabolism and redox state have been proposed to play a role in the cellular timekeeping mechanism. We present experimental data testing that hypothesis. CONCLUSION Circadian flux through primary metabolism is cell autonomous, driving rhythmic NAD(P)+ redox cofactor turnover and maintaining a redox balance that is permissive for circadian gene expression cycles. Redox homeostasis and PPP flux, but not glycolysis, are necessary to maintain clock amplitude, but neither redox nor glucose metabolism determines circadian period. Furthermore, cellular rhythms are sensitive to acute changes in redox balance, at least partly through regulation of PER protein. Redox and metabolic state are, thus, both inputs and outputs, but not state variables, of cellular circadian timekeeping. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 28, 507-520.
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- Marrit Putker
- 1 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 2 MRC Cancer Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 2 MRC Cancer Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 2 MRC Cancer Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Delp J, Gutbier S, Cerff M, Zasada C, Niedenführ S, Zhao L, Smirnova L, Hartung T, Borlinghaus H, Schreiber F, Bergemann J, Gätgens J, Beyss M, Azzouzi S, Waldmann T, Kempa S, Nöh K, Leist M. Stage-specific metabolic features of differentiating neurons: Implications for toxicant sensitivity. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2017; 354:64-80. [PMID: 29278688 DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2017.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2017] [Revised: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 12/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) may be induced when chemicals disturb a key neurodevelopmental process, and many tests focus on this type of toxicity. Alternatively, DNT may occur when chemicals are cytotoxic only during a specific neurodevelopmental stage. The toxicant sensitivity is affected by the expression of toxicant targets and by resilience factors. Although cellular metabolism plays an important role, little is known how it changes during human neurogenesis, and how potential alterations affect toxicant sensitivity of mature vs. immature neurons. We used immature (d0) and mature (d6) LUHMES cells (dopaminergic human neurons) to provide initial answers to these questions. Transcriptome profiling and characterization of energy metabolism suggested a switch from predominantly glycolytic energy generation to a more pronounced contribution of the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) during neuronal maturation. Therefore, we used pulsed stable isotope-resolved metabolomics (pSIRM) to determine intracellular metabolite pool sizes (concentrations), and isotopically non-stationary 13C-metabolic flux analysis (INST 13C-MFA) to calculate metabolic fluxes. We found that d0 cells mainly use glutamine to fuel the TCA. Furthermore, they rely on extracellular pyruvate to allow continuous growth. This metabolic situation does not allow for mitochondrial or glycolytic spare capacity, i.e. the ability to adapt energy generation to altered needs. Accordingly, neuronal precursor cells displayed a higher sensitivity to several mitochondrial toxicants than mature neurons differentiated from them. In summary, this study shows that precursor cells lose their glutamine dependency during differentiation while they gain flexibility of energy generation and thereby increase their resistance to low concentrations of mitochondrial toxicants.
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- Johannes Delp
- In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Dept Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Dept Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück-Center of Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Life Sciences, Albstadt-Sigmaringen University of Applied Sciences, Sigmaringen, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Dept Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück-Center of Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- In Vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine, Dept Inaugurated by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany; CAAT-Europe, University of Konstanz, Konstanz 78457, Germany.
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Wilck N, Matus MG, Kearney SM, Olesen SW, Forslund K, Bartolomaeus H, Haase S, Mähler A, Balogh A, Markó L, Vvedenskaya O, Kleiner FH, Tsvetkov D, Klug L, Costea PI, Sunagawa S, Maier L, Rakova N, Schatz V, Neubert P, Frätzer C, Krannich A, Gollasch M, Grohme DA, Côrte-Real BF, Gerlach RG, Basic M, Typas A, Wu C, Titze JM, Jantsch J, Boschmann M, Dechend R, Kleinewietfeld M, Kempa S, Bork P, Linker RA, Alm EJ, Müller DN. Salt-responsive gut commensal modulates T H17 axis and disease. Nature 2017; 551:585-589. [PMID: 29143823 PMCID: PMC6070150 DOI: 10.1038/nature24628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 751] [Impact Index Per Article: 107.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
A Western lifestyle with high salt consumption can lead to hypertension and cardiovascular disease. High salt may additionally drive autoimmunity by inducing T helper 17 (TH17) cells, which can also contribute to hypertension. Induction of TH17 cells depends on gut microbiota; however, the effect of salt on the gut microbiome is unknown. Here we show that high salt intake affects the gut microbiome in mice, particularly by depleting Lactobacillus murinus. Consequently, treatment of mice with L. murinus prevented salt-induced aggravation of actively induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and salt-sensitive hypertension by modulating TH17 cells. In line with these findings, a moderate high-salt challenge in a pilot study in humans reduced intestinal survival of Lactobacillus spp., increased TH17 cells and increased blood pressure. Our results connect high salt intake to the gut-immune axis and highlight the gut microbiome as a potential therapeutic target to counteract salt-sensitive conditions.
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- Nicola Wilck
- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, and Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, and Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, and Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics Platform, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology BIMSB, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Integrative Oncology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Regensburg, University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Regensburg, University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Translational Immunology, Department of Clinical Pathobiochemistry, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University of Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research (IRC), Hasselt University, Campus Diepenbeek, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Project Group 5, Robert Koch Institute, 38855 Wernigerode, Germany
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- Hannover Medical School, Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Central Animal Facility, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Regensburg, University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Translational Immunology, Department of Clinical Pathobiochemistry, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University of Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research (IRC), Hasselt University, Campus Diepenbeek, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics Platform, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology BIMSB, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, University of Heidelberg and European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, and Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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Retinol saturase coordinates liver metabolism by regulating ChREBP activity. Nat Commun 2017; 8:384. [PMID: 28855500 PMCID: PMC5577314 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00430-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
The liver integrates multiple metabolic pathways to warrant systemic energy homeostasis. An excessive lipogenic flux due to chronic dietary stimulation contributes to the development of hepatic steatosis, dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia. Here we show that the oxidoreductase retinol saturase (RetSat) is involved in the development of fatty liver. Hepatic RetSat expression correlates with steatosis and serum triglycerides (TGs) in humans. Liver-specific depletion of RetSat in dietary obese mice lowers hepatic and circulating TGs and normalizes hyperglycemia. Mechanistically, RetSat depletion reduces the activity of carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP), a cellular hexose-phosphate sensor and inducer of lipogenesis. Defects upon RetSat depletion are rescued by ectopic expression of ChREBP but not by its putative enzymatic product 13,14-dihydroretinol, suggesting that RetSat affects hepatic glucose sensing independent of retinol conversion. Thus, RetSat is a critical regulator of liver metabolism functioning upstream of ChREBP. Pharmacological inhibition of liver RetSat may represent a therapeutic approach for steatosis.Fatty liver is one of the major features of metabolic syndrome and its development is associated with deregulation of systemic lipid and glucose homeostasis. Here Heidenreich et al. show that retinol saturase is implicated in hepatic lipid metabolism by regulating the activity of the transcription factor ChREBP.
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Varano G, Raffel S, Sormani M, Zanardi F, Lonardi S, Zasada C, Perucho L, Petrocelli V, Haake A, Lee AK, Bugatti M, Paul U, Van Anken E, Pasqualucci L, Rabadan R, Siebert R, Kempa S, Ponzoni M, Facchetti F, Rajewsky K, Casola S. The B-cell receptor controls fitness of MYC-driven lymphoma cells via GSK3β inhibition. Nature 2017; 546:302-306. [PMID: 28562582 DOI: 10.1038/nature22353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Similar to resting mature B cells, where the B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) controls cellular survival, surface BCR expression is conserved in most mature B-cell lymphomas. The identification of activating BCR mutations and the growth disadvantage upon BCR knockdown of cells of certain lymphoma entities has led to the view that BCR signalling is required for tumour cell survival. Consequently, the BCR signalling machinery has become an established target in the therapy of B-cell malignancies. Here we study the effects of BCR ablation on MYC-driven mouse B-cell lymphomas and compare them with observations in human Burkitt lymphoma. Whereas BCR ablation does not, per se, significantly affect lymphoma growth, BCR-negative (BCR-) tumour cells rapidly disappear in the presence of their BCR-expressing (BCR+) counterparts in vitro and in vivo. This requires neither cellular contact nor factors released by BCR+ tumour cells. Instead, BCR loss induces the rewiring of central carbon metabolism, increasing the sensitivity of receptor-less lymphoma cells to nutrient restriction. The BCR attenuates glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK3β) activity to support MYC-controlled gene expression. BCR- tumour cells exhibit increased GSK3β activity and are rescued from their competitive growth disadvantage by GSK3β inhibition. BCR- lymphoma variants that restore competitive fitness normalize GSK3β activity after constitutive activation of the MAPK pathway, commonly through Ras mutations. Similarly, in Burkitt lymphoma, activating RAS mutations may propagate immunoglobulin-crippled tumour cells, which usually represent a minority of the tumour bulk. Thus, while BCR expression enhances lymphoma cell fitness, BCR-targeted therapies may profit from combinations with drugs targeting BCR- tumour cells.
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- Gabriele Varano
- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Section of Pathology, University of Brescia, Spedali Civili, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- Max-Delbrück-Center of Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Systems Biology and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Section of Pathology, University of Brescia, Spedali Civili, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics and the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück-Center of Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Ateneo Vita Salute and San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Pathology and Lymphoid Malignancies Units, 20132 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Section of Pathology, University of Brescia, Spedali Civili, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- Max-Delbrück-Center of Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, 20139 Milan, Italy
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Park TJ, Reznick J, Peterson BL, Blass G, Omerbašić D, Bennett NC, Kuich PHJL, Zasada C, Browe BM, Hamann W, Applegate DT, Radke MH, Kosten T, Lutermann H, Gavaghan V, Eigenbrod O, Bégay V, Amoroso VG, Govind V, Minshall RD, Smith ESJ, Larson J, Gotthardt M, Kempa S, Lewin GR. Fructose-driven glycolysis supports anoxia resistance in the naked mole-rat. Science 2017; 356:307-311. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 404] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Rohwer N, Bindel F, Grimm C, Lin SJ, Wappler J, Klinger B, Blüthgen N, Du Bois I, Schmeck B, Lehrach H, de Graauw M, Goncalves E, Saez-Rodriguez J, Tan P, Grabsch HI, Prigione A, Kempa S, Cramer T. Annexin A1 sustains tumor metabolism and cellular proliferation upon stable loss of HIF1A. Oncotarget 2017; 7:6693-710. [PMID: 26760764 PMCID: PMC4872743 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Despite the approval of numerous molecular targeted drugs, long-term antiproliferative efficacy is rarely achieved and therapy resistance remains a central obstacle of cancer care. Combined inhibition of multiple cancer-driving pathways promises to improve antiproliferative efficacy. HIF-1 is a driver of gastric cancer and considered to be an attractive target for therapy. We noted that gastric cancer cells are able to functionally compensate the stable loss of HIF-1α. Via transcriptomics we identified a group of upregulated genes in HIF-1α-deficient cells and hypothesized that these genes confer survival upon HIF-1α loss. Strikingly, simultaneous knock-down of HIF-1α and Annexin A1 (ANXA1), one of the identified genes, resulted in complete cessation of proliferation. Using stable isotope-resolved metabolomics, oxidative and reductive glutamine metabolism was found to be significantly impaired in HIF-1α/ANXA1-deficient cells, potentially explaining the proliferation defect. In summary, we present a conceptually novel application of stable gene inactivation enabling in-depth deconstruction of resistance mechanisms. In theory, this experimental approach is applicable to any cancer-driving gene or pathway and promises to identify various new targets for combination therapies.
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- Nadine Rohwer
- Hepatologie und Gastroenterologie, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité, Berlin, Germany.,German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany.,German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- GROW School of Oncology and Developmental Biology and Department of Pathology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Pathology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Integrative Research Institute (IRI) for The Life Sciences and Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Integrative Research Institute (IRI) for The Life Sciences and Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Lung Research, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute for Lung Research, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Toxicology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Joint Research Centre for Computational Biomedicine (JRC-COMBINE), RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Medicine, Aachen, Germany
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- GROW School of Oncology and Developmental Biology and Department of Pathology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Molecular Tumor Biology, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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Sanman LE, Qian Y, Eisele NA, Ng TM, van der Linden WA, Monack DM, Weerapana E, Bogyo M. Disruption of glycolytic flux is a signal for inflammasome signaling and pyroptotic cell death. eLife 2016; 5:e13663. [PMID: 27011353 PMCID: PMC4846378 DOI: 10.7554/elife.13663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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When innate immune cells such as macrophages are challenged with environmental stresses or infection by pathogens, they trigger the rapid assembly of multi-protein complexes called inflammasomes that are responsible for initiating pro-inflammatory responses and a form of cell death termed pyroptosis. We describe here the identification of an intracellular trigger of NLRP3-mediated inflammatory signaling, IL-1β production and pyroptosis in primed murine bone marrow-derived macrophages that is mediated by the disruption of glycolytic flux. This signal results from a drop of NADH levels and induction of mitochondrial ROS production and can be rescued by addition of products that restore NADH production. This signal is also important for host-cell response to the intracellular pathogen Salmonella typhimurium, which can disrupt metabolism by uptake of host-cell glucose. These results reveal an important inflammatory signaling network used by immune cells to sense metabolic dysfunction or infection by intracellular pathogens. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13663.001 Cells of the innate immune system, such as macrophages, are the body’s first line of defense against infection. Macrophages can sense a wide variety of danger signals associated with the presence of infectious microbes, and some of these signals cause macrophages to form protein complexes called inflammasomes inside the cell. Inflammasomes produce molecules that stimulate inflammation and trigger the death of the macrophage. This attracts other immune cells to the infection site to help combat the source of danger. Inflammasome complexes form around an activated receptor molecule called NLRP3. NLRP3 is activated by a range of danger signals, including those produced by Salmonella bacteria. However, the sequence of events that leads to NLRP3 activation is still not well understood. Sanman et al. have now identified a small molecule that unexpectedly causes the formation of inflammasomes via NLRP3 and so triggers the death of macrophages. Further investigation revealed that this molecule disrupts glycolysis, a process macrophages use to produce energy. The energy imbalance caused by disrupting glycolysis triggers a stress response in macrophages, which ultimately activates the NLRP3 receptor and hence the inflammasome. Sanman et al. then found that Salmonella bacteria also activate the inflammasome by disrupting glycolysis when they invade macrophages. This occurs because the bacteria use up the macrophage’s supply of glycolysis precursor molecules. Replenishing the macrophage with products of glycolysis restored partial energy production and prevented the inflammasome from being activated. Overall, Sanman et al. have identified a previously unknown trigger of inflammation and cell death in macrophages whereby cells can respond to infectious bacteria by sensing a change in energy levels. A next step will be to define the signaling molecules that activate NLRP3 to trigger the construction of the inflammasome. Sanman et al. also hope to uncover other infections and diseases where changes in energy balance might trigger inflammation and cell death. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13663.002
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- Laura E Sanman
- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States.,Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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Naujoks J, Tabeling C, Dill BD, Hoffmann C, Brown AS, Kunze M, Kempa S, Peter A, Mollenkopf HJ, Dorhoi A, Kershaw O, Gruber AD, Sander LE, Witzenrath M, Herold S, Nerlich A, Hocke AC, van Driel I, Suttorp N, Bedoui S, Hilbi H, Trost M, Opitz B. IFNs Modify the Proteome of Legionella-Containing Vacuoles and Restrict Infection Via IRG1-Derived Itaconic Acid. PLoS Pathog 2016; 12:e1005408. [PMID: 26829557 PMCID: PMC4734697 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2015] [Accepted: 12/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Macrophages can be niches for bacterial pathogens or antibacterial effector cells depending on the pathogen and signals from the immune system. Here we show that type I and II IFNs are master regulators of gene expression during Legionella pneumophila infection, and activators of an alveolar macrophage-intrinsic immune response that restricts bacterial growth during pneumonia. Quantitative mass spectrometry revealed that both IFNs substantially modify Legionella-containing vacuoles, and comparative analyses reveal distinct subsets of transcriptionally and spatially IFN-regulated proteins. Immune-responsive gene (IRG)1 is induced by IFNs in mitochondria that closely associate with Legionella-containing vacuoles, and mediates production of itaconic acid. This metabolite is bactericidal against intravacuolar L. pneumophila as well as extracellular multidrug-resistant Gram-positive and -negative bacteria. Our study explores the overall role IFNs play in inducing substantial remodeling of bacterial vacuoles and in stimulating production of IRG1-derived itaconic acid which targets intravacuolar pathogens. IRG1 or its product itaconic acid might be therapeutically targetable to fight intracellular and drug-resistant bacteria. Numerous intracellular bacterial pathogens replicate in specialized vacuoles within macrophages. We systematically study the molecular mechanism and the impact of macrophage-intrinsic antibacterial defense. Using L. pneumophila, an important cause of pneumonia and model organism for intracellular bacteria, we found that type I and II interferons critically modify the proteome of bacterial vacuoles to restrict infection. We identify IRG1 and demonstrate a bactericidal activity of its metabolite itaconic acid on bacteria in their vacuole. Moreover, our study provides evidence for the impact of this cell-autonomous defense pathway in alveolar macrophages to restrict lung infection. We speculate that vacuolar IRG1 or its product itaconic acid could serve as future therapeutic targets to fight intracellular and drug-resistant bacteria.
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- Jan Naujoks
- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Max-von-Pettenkofer Institute, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Metabolomics and Proteomics, Institute of Medical Systems Biology/Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Veterinary Pathology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Veterinary Pathology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Medizinische Klinik II, University Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- The Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Max-von-Pettenkofer Institute, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Zasada C, Kempa S. Quantitative Analysis of Cancer Metabolism: From pSIRM to MFA. Recent Results Cancer Res 2016; 207:207-20. [PMID: 27557540 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42118-6_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Metabolic reprogramming is a required step during oncogenesis and essential for cellular proliferation. It is triggered by activation of oncogenes and loss of tumor suppressor genes. Beside the combinatorial events leading to cancer, common changes within the central metabolism are reported. Increase of glycolysis and subsequent lactic acid formation has been a focus of cancer metabolism research for almost a century. With the improvements of bioanalytical techniques within the last decades, a more detailed analysis of metabolism is possible and recent studies demonstrate a wide range of metabolic rearrangements in various cancer types. However, a systematic and mechanistic understanding is missing thus far. Therefore, analytical and computational tools have to be developed allowing for a dynamic and quantitative analysis of cancer metabolism. In this chapter, we outline the application of pulsed stable isotope resolved metabolomics (pSIRM) and describe the interface toward computational analysis of metabolism.
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- Christin Zasada
- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Max-Delbrueck-Center of Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Max-Delbrueck-Center of Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany.
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Rodrigues AS, Pereira SL, Correia M, Gomes A, Perestrelo T, Ramalho-Santos J. Differentiate or Die: 3-Bromopyruvate and Pluripotency in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135617. [PMID: 26266544 PMCID: PMC4534445 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 07/24/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Pluripotent embryonic stem cells grown under standard conditions (ESC) have a markedly glycolytic profile, which is shared with many different types of cancer cells. Thus, some therapeutic strategies suggest that pharmacologically shifting cancer cells towards an oxidative phenotype, using glycolysis inhibitors, may reduce cancer aggressiveness. Given the metabolic parallels between cancer and stemness would chemotherapeutical agents have an effect on pluripotency, and could a strategy involving these agents be envisioned to modulate stem cell fate in an accessible manner? In this manuscript we attempted to determine the effects of 3-bromopyruvate (3BrP) in pluripotency. Although it has other intracellular targets, this compound is a potent inhibitor of glycolysis enzymes thought to be important to maintain a glycolytic profile. The goal was also to determine if we could contribute towards a pharmacologically accessible metabolic strategy to influence cell differentiation. Methodology/Principal Findings Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESC) grown under standard pluripotency conditions (in the presence of Leukemia Inducing Factor- LIF) were treated with 3BrP. As a positive control for differentiation other mESCs were grown without LIF. Overall our results demonstrate that 3BrP negatively affects pluripotency, forcing cells to become less glycolytic and with more active mitochondria. These changes in metabolism are correlated with increased differentiation, even under pluripotency conditions (i.e. in the presence of LIF). However, 3BrP also significantly impaired cell function, and may have other roles besides affecting the metabolic profile of mESCs. Conclusions/Findings Treatment of mESCs with 3BrP triggered a metabolic switch and loss of pluripotency, even in the presence of LIF. Interestingly, the positive control for differentiation allowed for a distinction between 3BrP effects and changes associated with spontaneous differentiation/loss of pluripotency in the absence of LIF. Additionally, there was a slight differentiation bias towards mesoderm in the presence of 3BrP. However, the side effects on cellular function suggest that the use of this drug is probably not adequate to efficiently push cells towards specific differentiation fates.
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- Ana Sofia Rodrigues
- PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine, CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine, CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (IIIUC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine, CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (IIIUC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Biocant—Center of Innovation in Biotechnology, Cantanhede, Portugal
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- PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine, CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (IIIUC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- CNC—Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Kuich PHJL, Hoffmann N, Kempa S. Maui-VIA: A User-Friendly Software for Visual Identification, Alignment, Correction, and Quantification of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Data. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2015; 2:84. [PMID: 25654076 PMCID: PMC4301187 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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A current bottleneck in GC–MS metabolomics is the processing of raw machine data into a final datamatrix that contains the quantities of identified metabolites in each sample. While there are many bioinformatics tools available to aid the initial steps of the process, their use requires both significant technical expertise and a subsequent manual validation of identifications and alignments if high data quality is desired. The manual validation is tedious and time consuming, becoming prohibitively so as sample numbers increase. We have, therefore, developed Maui-VIA, a solution based on a visual interface that allows experts and non-experts to simultaneously and quickly process, inspect, and correct large numbers of GC–MS samples. It allows for the visual inspection of identifications and alignments, facilitating a unique and, due to its visualization and keyboard shortcuts, very fast interaction with the data. Therefore, Maui-Via fills an important niche by (1) providing functionality that optimizes the component of data processing that is currently most labor intensive to save time and (2) lowering the threshold of expertise required to process GC–MS data. Maui-VIA projects are initiated with baseline-corrected raw data, peaklists, and a database of metabolite spectra and retention indices used for identification. It provides functionality for retention index calculation, a targeted library search, the visual annotation, alignment, correction interface, and metabolite quantification, as well as the export of the final datamatrix. The high quality of data produced by Maui-VIA is illustrated by its comparison to data attained manually by an expert using vendor software on a previously published dataset concerning the response of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to salt stress. In conclusion, Maui-VIA provides the opportunity for fast, confident, and high-quality data processing validation of large numbers of GC–MS samples by non-experts.
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- P Henning J L Kuich
- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute of Health , Berlin , Germany
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- Genome Informatics, Faculty of Technology, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University , Bielefeld , Germany
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- Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute of Health , Berlin , Germany ; Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology/Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , Berlin , Germany
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