Glutamine/glutamate metabolism rewiring in reprogrammed human hepatocyte-like cells.

Autor: Ballester M; Unidad de Hepatología Experimental, CIBERehd, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Sentandreu E; Unidad de Hepatología Experimental, CIBERehd, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Luongo G; Unidad de Hepatología Experimental, CIBERehd, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Santamaria R; Unidad de Hepatología Experimental, CIBERehd, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Bolonio M; Unidad de Hepatología Experimental, CIBERehd, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Alcoriza-Balaguer MI; Unidad de Biomarcadores y Medicina de Precisión and Unidad Analítica, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Palomino-Schätzlein M; Unidad de Descubrimiento de Fármacos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Pineda-Lucena A; Unidad de Descubrimiento de Fármacos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Castell J; Unidad de Hepatología Experimental, CIBERehd, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Lahoz A; Unidad de Biomarcadores y Medicina de Precisión and Unidad Analítica, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain., Bort R; Unidad de Hepatología Experimental, CIBERehd, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 46026, Valencia, Spain. bort_ber@gva.es.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2019 Nov 29; Vol. 9 (1), pp. 17978. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Nov 29.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54357-x
Abstrakt: Human dermal fibroblasts can be reprogrammed into hepatocyte-like (HEP-L) cells by the expression of a set of transcription factors. Yet, the metabolic rewiring suffered by reprogrammed fibroblasts remains largely unknown. Here we report, using stable isotope-resolved metabolic analysis in combination with metabolomic-lipidomic approaches that HEP-L cells mirrors glutamine/glutamate metabolism in primary cultured human hepatocytes that is very different from parental human fibroblasts. HEP-L cells diverge glutamine from multiple metabolic pathways into deamidation and glutamate secretion, just like periportal hepatocytes do. Exceptionally, glutamine contribution to lipogenic acetyl-CoA through reductive carboxylation is increased in HEP-L cells, recapitulating that of primary cultured human hepatocytes. These changes can be explained by transcriptomic rearrangements of genes involved in glutamine/glutamate metabolism. Although metabolic changes in HEP-L cells are in line with reprogramming towards the hepatocyte lineage, our conclusions are limited by the fact that HEP-L cells generated do not display a complete mature phenotype. Nevertheless, our findings are the first to characterize metabolic adaptation in HEP-L cells that could ultimately be targeted to improve fibroblasts direct reprogramming to HEP-L cells.
Databáze: MEDLINE