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Martyshina AV, Sirotkina AG, Gosteva IV. Temporal multiscale modeling of biochemical regulatory networks: Calcium-regulated hepatocyte lipid and glucose metabolism. Biosystems 2024; 240:105227. [PMID: 38718915 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2024.105227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024]
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Hepatocyte lipid and glucose metabolism is regulated not only by major hormones like insulin and glucagon but also by many other factors, including calcium ions. Recently, mitochondria-associated membrane (MAM) dysfunction combined with incorrect IP3-receptor regulation has been shown to result in abnormal calcium signaling in hepatocytes. This dysfunction could further lead to hepatic metabolism pathology. However, the exact contribution of MAM dysfunction, incorrect IP3-receptor regulation and insulin resistance to the calcium-insulin-glucagon interplay is not understood yet. In this work, we analyze the role of abnormal calcium signaling and insulin dysfunction in hepatocytes by proposing a model of hepatocyte metabolic regulatory network with a detailed focus on the model construction details besides the biological aspect. In this work, we analyze the role of abnormal calcium signaling and insulin dysfunction in hepatocytes by proposing a model of hepatocyte metabolic regulatory network. We focus on the model construction details, model validation, and predictions. We describe the dynamic regulation of signaling processes by sigmoid Hill function. In particular, we study the effect of both the Hill function slope and the distance between Hill function extremes on metabolic processes in hepatocytes as a model of nonspecific insulin dysfunction. We also address the significant time difference between characteristic time of glucose hepatic processing and a typical calcium oscillation period in hepatocytes. Our modeling results show that calcium signaling dysfunction results in an abnormal increase in postprandial glucose levels, an abnormal glucose decrease in fasting, and a decreased amount of stored glycogen. An insulin dysfunction of glucose phosphorylation, glucose dephosphorylation, and glycogen breakdown also cause a noticeable effect. We also get some insight into the so-called hepatic insulin resistance paradox, confirming the hypothesis regarding indirect insulin action on hepatocytes via dysfunctional adipocyte lipolysis.
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- Arina V Martyshina
- Sarov Physics and Technology Institute, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Sarov, Russian Federation
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- Sarov Physics and Technology Institute, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Sarov, Russian Federation
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- Sarov Physics and Technology Institute, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Sarov, Russian Federation.
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Lucia A, Uygun K. Optimal Temperature Protocols for Liver Machine Perfusion Using a Monte Carlo Method. IFAC-PAPERSONLINE 2023; 55:35-40. [PMID: 38410830 PMCID: PMC10895677 DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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Monte Carlo simulation with a novel acceptance procedure is used to find optimal temperature profiles for liver machine perfusion. Numerical results for MC simulation are compared to a greedy approach and to current practice in machine perfusion research. Results show that the proposed Monte Carlo simulation approach finds optimal temperature profiles that agree with current clinical research practice.
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- Angelo Lucia
- University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881-2019 USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 USA
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Lucia A, Ferrarese E, Uygun K. Modeling energy depletion in rat livers using Nash equilibrium metabolic pathway analysis. Sci Rep 2022; 12:3496. [PMID: 35241684 PMCID: PMC8894355 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-06966-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The current gold standard of Static Cold Storage (SCS), which is static cold storage on ice (about + 4 °C) in a specialized media such as the University of Wisconsin solution (UW), limits storage to few hours for vascular and metabolically active tissues such as the liver and the heart. The liver is arguably the pinnacle of metabolism in human body and therefore metabolic pathway analysis immediately becomes very relevant. In this article, a Nash Equilibrium (NE) approach, which is a first principles approach, is used to model and simulate the static cold storage and warm ischemia of a proposed model of liver cells. Simulations of energy depletion in the liver in static cold storage measured by ATP content and energy charge are presented along with comparisons to experimental data. In addition, conversion of Nash Equilibrium iterations to time are described along with an uncertainty analysis for the parameters in the model. Results in this work show that the Nash Equilibrium approach provides a good match to experimental data for energy depletion and that the uncertainty in model parameters is very small with percent variances less than 0.1%.
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- Angelo Lucia
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kington, RI, 02881, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kington, RI, 02881, USA
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- Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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The anabolic role of the Warburg, Cori-cycle and Crabtree effects in health and disease. Clin Nutr 2021; 40:2988-2998. [PMID: 33674148 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Revised: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In evolution, genes survived that could code for metabolic pathways, promoting long term survival during famines or fasting when suffering from trauma, disease or during physiological growth. This requires utilization of substrates, already present in some form in the body. Carbohydrate stores are limited and to survive long, their utilization is restricted to survival pathways, by inhibiting glucose oxidation and glycogen synthesis. This leads to insulin resistance and spares muscle protein, because being the main supplier of carbon for new glucose production. In these survival pathways, part of the glucose is degraded in glycolysis in peripheral (muscle) tissues to pyruvate and lactate (Warburg effect), which are partly reutilized for glucose formation in liver and kidney, completing the Cori-cycle. Another part of the glucose taken up by muscle contributes, together with muscle derived amino acids, to the production of substrates consisting of a complete amino acid mix but extra non-essential amino acids like glutamine, alanine, glycine and proline. These support cell proliferation, matrix deposition and redox regulation in tissues, specifically active in host response and during growth. In these tissues, also glucose is taken up delivering glycolytic intermediates, that branch off and act as building blocks and produce reducing equivalents. Lactate is also produced and released in the circulation, adding to the lactate released by muscle in the Cori-cycle and completing secondary glucose cycles. Increased fluxes through these cycles lead to modest hyperglycemia and hyperlactatemia in states of healthy growth and disease and are often misinterpreted as induced by hypoxia.
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Mert S, Bulutoglu B, Chu C, Dylewski M, Lin FM, Yu YM, Yarmush ML, Sheridan RL, Uygun K. Multiorgan Metabolomics and Lipidomics Provide New Insights Into Fat Infiltration in the Liver, Muscle Wasting, and Liver-Muscle Crosstalk Following Burn Injury. J Burn Care Res 2020; 42:269-287. [PMID: 32877506 DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/iraa145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Burn injury mediated hypermetabolic syndrome leads to increased mortality among severe burn victims, due to liver failure and muscle wasting. Metabolic changes may persist up to 2 years following the injury. Thus, understanding the underlying mechanisms of the pathology is crucially important to develop appropriate therapeutic approaches. We present detailed metabolomic and lipidomic analyses of the liver and muscle tissues in a rat model with a 30% body surface area burn injury located at the dorsal skin. Three hundred and thirty-eight of 1587 detected metabolites and lipids in the liver and 119 of 1504 in the muscle tissue exhibited statistically significant alterations. We observed excessive accumulation of triacylglycerols, decreased levels of S-adenosylmethionine, increased levels of glutamine and xenobiotics in the liver tissue. Additionally, the levels of gluconeogenesis, glycolysis, and tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolites are generally decreased in the liver. On the other hand, burn injury muscle tissue exhibits increased levels of acyl-carnitines, alpha-hydroxyisovalerate, ophthalmate, alpha-hydroxybutyrate, and decreased levels of reduced glutathione. The results of this preliminary study provide compelling observations that liver and muscle tissues undergo distinctly different changes during hypermetabolism, possibly reflecting liver-muscle crosstalk. The liver and muscle tissues might be exacerbating each other's metabolic pathologies, via excessive utilization of certain metabolites produced by each other.
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- Safak Mert
- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Burns Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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Volotovska NV, Hudyma AA. FEATURES OF HEPATORENAL REACTION ON THE BACKGROUND OF EXPERIMENTAL ISCHEMIC-REPERFUSION SYNDROME. BULLETIN OF PROBLEMS BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2020. [DOI: 10.29254/2077-4214-2020-2-156-86-91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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- N. V. Volotovska
- Ternopil National Medical University named after Gorbachevsky (Ternopil)
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- Ternopil National Medical University named after Gorbachevsky (Ternopil)
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Pannala VR, Wall ML, Estes SK, Trenary I, O'Brien TP, Printz RL, Vinnakota KC, Reifman J, Shiota M, Young JD, Wallqvist A. Metabolic network-based predictions of toxicant-induced metabolite changes in the laboratory rat. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11678. [PMID: 30076366 PMCID: PMC6076258 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30149-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
In order to provide timely treatment for organ damage initiated by therapeutic drugs or exposure to environmental toxicants, we first need to identify markers that provide an early diagnosis of potential adverse effects before permanent damage occurs. Specifically, the liver, as a primary organ prone to toxicants-induced injuries, lacks diagnostic markers that are specific and sensitive to the early onset of injury. Here, to identify plasma metabolites as markers of early toxicant-induced injury, we used a constraint-based modeling approach with a genome-scale network reconstruction of rat liver metabolism to incorporate perturbations of gene expression induced by acetaminophen, a known hepatotoxicant. A comparison of the model results against the global metabolic profiling data revealed that our approach satisfactorily predicted altered plasma metabolite levels as early as 5 h after exposure to 2 g/kg of acetaminophen, and that 10 h after treatment the predictions significantly improved when we integrated measured central carbon fluxes. Our approach is solely driven by gene expression and physiological boundary conditions, and does not rely on any toxicant-specific model component. As such, it provides a mechanistic model that serves as a first step in identifying a list of putative plasma metabolites that could change due to toxicant-induced perturbations.
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- Venkat R Pannala
- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA. .,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA.
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702, USA.
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Blais EM, Rawls KD, Dougherty BV, Li ZI, Kolling GL, Ye P, Wallqvist A, Papin JA. Reconciled rat and human metabolic networks for comparative toxicogenomics and biomarker predictions. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14250. [PMID: 28176778 PMCID: PMC5309818 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The laboratory rat has been used as a surrogate to study human biology for more than a century. Here we present the first genome-scale network reconstruction of Rattus norvegicus metabolism, iRno, and a significantly improved reconstruction of human metabolism, iHsa. These curated models comprehensively capture metabolic features known to distinguish rats from humans including vitamin C and bile acid synthesis pathways. After reconciling network differences between iRno and iHsa, we integrate toxicogenomics data from rat and human hepatocytes, to generate biomarker predictions in response to 76 drugs. We validate comparative predictions for xanthine derivatives with new experimental data and literature-based evidence delineating metabolite biomarkers unique to humans. Our results provide mechanistic insights into species-specific metabolism and facilitate the selection of biomarkers consistent with rat and human biology. These models can serve as powerful computational platforms for contextualizing experimental data and making functional predictions for clinical and basic science applications. The rat is a widely-used model for human biology, but we must be aware of metabolic differences. Here, the authors reconstruct the genome-scale metabolic network of the rat, and after reconciling it with an improved human metabolic model, demonstrate the power of the models to integrate toxicogenomics data, providing species-specific biomarker predictions in response to a panel of drugs.
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- Edik M Blais
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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Sims JK, Manteiga S, Lee K. Towards high resolution analysis of metabolic flux in cells and tissues. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2013; 24:933-9. [PMID: 23906926 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2013] [Accepted: 07/05/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Metabolism extracts chemical energy from nutrients, uses this energy to form building blocks for biosynthesis, and interconverts between various small molecules that coordinate the activities of cellular pathways. The metabolic state of a cell is increasingly recognized to determine the phenotype of not only metabolically active cell types such as liver, muscle, and adipose, but also other specialized cell types such as neurons and immune cells. This review focuses on methods to quantify intracellular reaction flux as a measure of cellular metabolic activity, with emphasis on studies involving cells of mammalian tissue. Two key areas are highlighted for future development, single cell metabolomics and noninvasive imaging, which could enable spatiotemporally resolved analysis and thereby overcome issues of heterogeneity, a distinctive feature of tissue metabolism.
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- James K Sims
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, United States
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Effect of fasting on the metabolic response of liver to experimental burn injury. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54825. [PMID: 23393558 PMCID: PMC3564862 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2012] [Accepted: 12/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Liver metabolism is altered after systemic injuries such as burns and trauma. These changes have been elucidated in rat models of experimental burn injury where the liver was isolated and perfused ex vivo. Because these studies were performed in fasted animals to deplete glycogen stores, thus simplifying quantification of gluconeogenesis, these observations reflect the combined impact of fasting and injury on liver metabolism. Herein we asked whether the metabolic response to experimental burn injury is different in fed vs. fasted animals. Rats were subjected to a cutaneous burn covering 20% of the total body surface area, or to similar procedures without administering the burn, hence a sham-burn. Half of the animals in the burn and sham-burn groups were fasted starting on postburn day 3, and the others allowed to continue ad libitum. On postburn day 4, livers were isolated and perfused for 1 hour in physiological medium supplemented with 10% hematocrit red blood cells. The uptake/release rates of major carbon and nitrogen sources, oxygen, and carbon dioxide were measured during the perfusion and the data fed into a mass balance model to estimate intracellular fluxes. The data show that in fed animals, injury increased glucose output mainly from glycogen breakdown and minimally impacted amino acid metabolism. In fasted animals, injury did not increase glucose output but increased urea production and the uptake of several amino acids, namely glutamine, arginine, glycine, and methionine. Furthermore, sham-burn animals responded to fasting by triggering gluconeogenesis from lactate; however, in burned animals the preferred gluconeogenic substrate was amino acids. Taken together, these results suggest that the fed state prevents the burn-induced increase in hepatic amino acid utilization for gluconeogenesis. The role of glycogen stores and means to increase and/or maintain internal sources of glucose to prevent increased hepatic amino acid utilization warrant further studies.
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Bednářová A, Kodrík D, Krishnan N. Unique roles of glucagon and glucagon-like peptides: Parallels in understanding the functions of adipokinetic hormones in stress responses in insects. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2012; 164:91-100. [PMID: 23085293 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2012] [Revised: 10/07/2012] [Accepted: 10/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Glucagon is conventionally regarded as a hormone, counter regulatory in function to insulin and plays a critical anti-hypoglycemic role by maintaining glucose homeostasis in both animals and humans. Glucagon performs this function by increasing hepatic glucose output to the blood by stimulating glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis in response to starvation. Additionally it plays a homeostatic role by decreasing glycogenesis and glycolysis in tandem to try and maintain optimal glucose levels. To perform this action, it also increases energy expenditure which is contrary to what one would expect and has actions which are unique and not entirely in agreement with its role in protection from hypoglycemia. Interestingly, glucagon-like peptides (GLP-1 and GLP-2) from the major fragment of proglucagon (in non-mammalian vertebrates, as well as in mammals) may also modulate response to stress in addition to their other physiological actions. These unique modes of action occur in response to psychological, metabolic and other stress situations and mirror the role of adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) in insects which perform a similar function. The findings on the anti-stress roles of glucagon and glucagon-like peptides in mammalian and non-mammalian vertebrates may throw light on the multiple stress responsive mechanisms which operate in a concerted manner under regulation by AKH in insects thus functioning as a stress responsive hormone while also maintaining organismal homeostasis.
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- Andrea Bednářová
- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Academy of Science, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, 370 05-CZ, Czech Republic
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Orman MA, Berthiaume F, Androulakis IP, Ierapetritou MG. Advanced stoichiometric analysis of metabolic networks of mammalian systems. Crit Rev Biomed Eng 2012; 39:511-34. [PMID: 22196224 DOI: 10.1615/critrevbiomedeng.v39.i6.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Metabolic engineering tools have been widely applied to living organisms to gain a comprehensive understanding about cellular networks and to improve cellular properties. Metabolic flux analysis (MFA), flux balance analysis (FBA), and metabolic pathway analysis (MPA) are among the most popular tools in stoichiometric network analysis. Although application of these tools into well-known microbial systems is extensive in the literature, various barriers prevent them from being utilized in mammalian cells. Limited experimental data, complex regulatory mechanisms, and the requirement of more complex nutrient media are some major obstacles in mammalian cell systems. However, mammalian cells have been used to produce therapeutic proteins, to characterize disease states or related abnormal metabolic conditions, and to analyze the toxicological effects of some medicinally important drugs. Therefore, there is a growing need for extending metabolic engineering principles to mammalian cells in order to understand their underlying metabolic functions. In this review article, advanced metabolic engineering tools developed for stoichiometric analysis including MFA, FBA, and MPA are described. Applications of these tools in mammalian cells are discussed in detail, and the challenges and opportunities are highlighted.
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- Mehmet A Orman
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Orman MA, Mattick J, Androulakis IP, Berthiaume F, Ierapetritou MG. Stoichiometry based steady-state hepatic flux analysis: computational and experimental aspects. Metabolites 2012; 2:268-91. [PMID: 24957379 PMCID: PMC3901202 DOI: 10.3390/metabo2010268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Revised: 03/05/2012] [Accepted: 03/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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: The liver has many complex physiological functions, including lipid, protein and carbohydrate metabolism, as well as bile and urea production. It detoxifies toxic substances and medicinal products. It also plays a key role in the onset and maintenance of abnormal metabolic patterns associated with various disease states, such as burns, infections and major traumas. Liver cells have been commonly used in in vitro experiments to elucidate the toxic effects of drugs and metabolic changes caused by aberrant metabolic conditions, and to improve the functions of existing systems, such as bioartificial liver. More recently, isolated liver perfusion systems have been increasingly used to characterize intrinsic metabolic changes in the liver caused by various perturbations, including systemic injury, hepatotoxin exposure and warm ischemia. Metabolic engineering tools have been widely applied to these systems to identify metabolic flux distributions using metabolic flux analysis or flux balance analysis and to characterize the topology of the networks using metabolic pathway analysis. In this context, hepatic metabolic models, together with experimental methodologies where hepatocytes or perfused livers are mainly investigated, are described in detail in this review. The challenges and opportunities are also discussed extensively.
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- Mehmet A Orman
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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Metabolic flux rearrangement in the amino acid metabolism reduces ammonia stress in the α1-antitrypsin producing human AGE1.HN cell line. Metab Eng 2012; 14:128-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2012.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2011] [Revised: 11/27/2011] [Accepted: 01/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Orman MA, Androulakis IP, Berthiaume F, Ierapetritou MG. Metabolic network analysis of perfused livers under fed and fasted states: incorporating thermodynamic and futile-cycle-associated regulatory constraints. J Theor Biol 2011; 293:101-10. [PMID: 22037644 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2011] [Revised: 07/28/2011] [Accepted: 10/14/2011] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
Abstract
Isolated liver perfusion systems have been extensively used to characterize intrinsic metabolic changes in liver under various conditions, including systemic injury, hepatotoxin exposure, and warm ischemia. Most of these studies were performed utilizing fasted animals prior to perfusion so that a simplified metabolic network could be used in order to determine intracellular fluxes. However, fasting induced metabolic alterations might interfere with disease related changes. Therefore, there is a need to develop a "unified" metabolic flux analysis approach that could be similarly applied to both fed and fasted states. In this study we explored a methodology based on elementary mode analysis in order to determine intracellular fluxes and active pathways simultaneously. In order to decrease the solution space, thermodynamic constraints, and enzymatic regulatory properties for the formation of futile cycles were further considered in the model, resulting in a mixed integer quadratic programming problem. Given the published experimental observations describing the perfused livers under fed and fasted states, the proposed approach successfully determined that gluconeogenesis, glycogenolysis and fatty acid oxidation were active in both states. However, fasting increased the fluxes in gluconeogenic reactions whereas it decreased fluxes associated with glycogenolysis, TCA cycle, fatty acid oxidation and electron transport reactions. This analysis further identified that more pathways were found to be active in fed state while their weight values were relatively lower compared to fasted state. Glucose, lactate, glutamine, glutamate and ketone bodies were also found to be important external metabolites whose extracellular fluxes should be used in the hepatic metabolic network analysis. In conclusion, the mathematical formulation explored in this study is an attractive tool to analyze the metabolic network of perfused livers under various disease conditions. This approach could be simultaneously applied to both fasted and fed data sets.
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- Mehmet A Orman
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Orman MA, Ierapetritou MG, Androulakis IP, Berthiaume F. Metabolic response of perfused livers to various oxygenation conditions. Biotechnol Bioeng 2011; 108:2947-57. [PMID: 21755498 DOI: 10.1002/bit.23261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2011] [Revised: 06/21/2011] [Accepted: 06/24/2011] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Isolated liver perfusion systems have been used to characterize intrinsic metabolic changes in liver as a result of various perturbations, including systemic injury, hepatotoxin exposure, and warm ischemia. Most of these studies were done using hyperoxic conditions (95% O(2)) but without the use of oxygen carriers in the perfusate. Prior literature data do not clearly establish the impact of oxygenation, and in particular that of adding oxygen carriers to the perfusate, on the metabolic functions of the liver. Therefore, herein the effects of oxygen delivery in the perfusion system on liver metabolism were investigated by comparing three modes of oxygenation. Rat livers were perfused via the portal and hepatic veins at a constant flow rate of 3 mL/min/g liver in a recirculating perfusion system. In the first group, the perfusate was equilibrated in a membrane oxygenator with room air (21% O(2)) before entering the liver. In the second group, the perfusate was equilibrated with a 95% O(2)/5% CO(2) gas mixture. In the third group, the perfusate was supplemented with washed bovine red blood cells (RBCs) at 10% hematocrit and also equilibrated with the 95% O(2)/5% CO(2) gas mixture. Oxygen and CO(2) gradients across the liver were measured periodically with a blood gas analyzer. The rate of change in the concentration of major metabolites in the perfusate was measured over time. Net extracellular fluxes were calculated from these measurements and applied to a stoichiometric-based optimization problem to determine the intracellular fluxes and active pathways in the perfused livers. Livers perfused with RBCs consumed oxygen at twice the rate observed using hyperoxic (95% O(2)) perfusate without RBCs, and also produced more urea and ketone bodies. At the flow rate used, the oxygen supply in perfusate without RBCs was just sufficient to meet the average oxygen demand of the liver but would be insufficient if it increased above baseline, as is often the case in response to environmental perturbations. Metabolic pathway analysis suggests that significant anaerobic glycolysis occurred in the absence of RBCs even using hyperoxic perfusate. Conversely, when RBCs were used, glucose production from lactate and glutamate, as well as pathways related to energy metabolism were upregulated. RBCs also reversed an increase in PPP fluxes induced by the use of hyperoxic perfusate alone. In conclusion, the use of oxygen carriers is required to investigate the effect of various perturbations on liver metabolism.
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- Mehmet A Orman
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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Yang H, Roth CM, Ierapetritou MG. Analysis of Amino Acid Supplementation Effects on Hepatocyte Cultures Using Flux Balance Analysis. OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 2011; 15:449-60. [DOI: 10.1089/omi.2010.0070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Hong Yang
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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Sharma NS, Nagrath D, Yarmush ML. Metabolic profiling based quantitative evaluation of hepatocellular metabolism in presence of adipocyte derived extracellular matrix. PLoS One 2011; 6:e20137. [PMID: 21603575 PMCID: PMC3095641 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2011] [Accepted: 04/26/2011] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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The elucidation of the effect of extracellular matrices on hepatocellular metabolism is critical to understand the mechanism of functional upregulation. We have developed a system using natural extracellular matrices [Adipogel] for enhanced albumin synthesis of rat hepatocyte cultures for a period of 10 days as compared to collagen sandwich cultures. Primary rat hepatocytes isolated from livers of female Lewis rats recover within 4 days of culture from isolation induced injury while function is stabilized at 7 days post-isolation. Thus, the culture period can be classified into three distinct stages viz. recovery stage [day 0–4], pre-stable stage [day 5–7] and the stable stage [day 8–10]. A Metabolic Flux Analysis of primary rat hepatocytes cultured in Adipogel was performed to identify the key metabolic pathways modulated as compared to collagen sandwich cultures. In the recovery stage [day 4], the collagen-soluble Adipogel cultures shows an increase in TriCarboxylic Acid [TCA] cycle fluxes; in the pre-stable stage [day 7], there is an increase in PPP and TCA cycle fluxes while in the stable stage [day 10], there is a significant increase in TCA cycle, urea cycle fluxes and amino acid uptake rates concomitant with increased albumin synthesis rate as compared to collagen sandwich cultures throughout the culture period. Metabolic analysis of the collagen-soluble Adipogel condition reveals significantly higher transamination reaction fluxes, amino acid uptake and albumin synthesis rates for the stable vs. recovery stages of culture. The identification of metabolic pathways modulated for hepatocyte cultures in presence of Adipogel will be a useful step to develop an optimization algorithm to further improve hepatocyte function for Bioartificial Liver Devices. The development of this framework for upregulating hepatocyte function in Bioartificial Liver Devices will facilitate the utilization of an integrated experimental and computational approach for broader applications of Adipogel in tissue e engineering and regenerative medicine.
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- Nripen S. Sharma
- Center for Engineering in Medicine/Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and The Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Center for Engineering in Medicine/Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and The Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Orman MA, Berthiaume F, Androulakis IP, Ierapetritou MG. Pathway analysis of liver metabolism under stressed condition. J Theor Biol 2010; 272:131-40. [PMID: 21163266 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.11.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2010] [Revised: 11/17/2010] [Accepted: 11/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Pathway analysis is a useful tool which reveals important metabolic network properties. However, the big challenge is to propose an objective function for estimating active pathways, which represent the actual state of network. In order to provide weight values for all possible pathways within the metabolic network, this study presents different approaches, considering the structural and physiological properties of the metabolic network, aiming at a unique decomposition of the flux vector into pathways. These methods were used to analyze the hepatic metabolism considering available data sets obtained from the perfused livers of fasted rats receiving burn injury. Utilizing unique decomposition techniques and different fluxes revealed that higher weights were always attributed to short pathways. Specific pathways, including pyruvate, glutamate and oxaloacetate pools, and urea production from arginine, were found to be important or essential in all methods and experimental conditions. Moreover the pathways, including serine production from glycine and conversion between acetoacetate and B-OH-butyrate, were assigned higher weights. Pathway analysis was also used to identify the main sources for the production of certain products in the hepatic metabolic network to gain a better understanding of the effects of burn injury on liver metabolism.
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- Mehmet A Orman
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Izamis ML, Sharma NS, Uygun B, Bieganski R, Saeidi N, Nahmias Y, Uygun K, Yarmush ML, Berthiaume F. In situ metabolic flux analysis to quantify the liver metabolic response to experimental burn injury. Biotechnol Bioeng 2010; 108:839-52. [PMID: 21404258 DOI: 10.1002/bit.22998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2010] [Revised: 10/09/2010] [Accepted: 10/28/2010] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Trauma such as burns induces a hypermetabolic response associated with altered central carbon and nitrogen metabolism. The liver plays a key role in these metabolic changes; however, studies to date have evaluated the metabolic state of liver using ex vivo perfusions or isotope labeling techniques targeted to specific pathways. Herein, we developed a unique mass balance approach to characterize the metabolic state of the liver in situ, and used it to quantify the metabolic changes to experimental burn injury in rats. Rats received a sham (control uninjured), 20% or 40% total body surface area (TBSA) scald burn, and were allowed to develop a hypermetabolic response. One day prior to evaluation, all animals were fasted to deplete glycogen stores. Four days post-burn, blood flow rates in major vessels of the liver were measured, and blood samples harvested. We combined measurements of metabolite concentrations and flow rates in the major vessels entering and leaving the liver with a steady-state mass balance model to generate a quantitative picture of the metabolic state of liver. The main findings were: (1) Sham-burned animals exhibited a gluconeogenic pattern, consistent with the fasted state; (2) the 20% TBSA burn inhibited gluconeogenesis and exhibited glycolytic-like features with very few other significant changes; (3) the 40% TBSA burn, by contrast, further enhanced gluconeogenesis and also increased amino acid extraction, urea cycle reactions, and several reactions involved in oxidative phosphorylation. These results suggest that increasing the severity of injury does not lead to a simple dose-dependent metabolic response, but rather leads to qualitatively different responses.
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- Maria-Louisa Izamis
- The Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School/Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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Iyer VV, Yang H, Ierapetritou MG, Roth CM. Effects of glucose and insulin on HepG2-C3A cell metabolism. Biotechnol Bioeng 2010; 107:347-56. [PMID: 20506178 DOI: 10.1002/bit.22799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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HepG2, hepatocellular carcinoma cells, are used in drug toxicity studies and have also been explored for bioartificial livers. For these applications, the cells are under variable levels of nutrients and hormones, the effects of which on metabolism are poorly understood. In this study, HepG2-C3A cells were cultured under varying levels of glucose (high, low, and glucose-free) and insulin (without and with physiological levels of insulin) for 5 days. Cell growth was found to be comparable between high and low glucose media and lowest for glucose-free medium. Several features of central metabolism were affected profoundly by the medium glucose levels. Glucose consumption was greater for low glucose medium compared to high glucose medium, consistent with known glucose feedback regulation mechanisms. Urea productivity was highest in glucose-free medium. Further, it was seen that lactate acted as an alternative carbon source in the absence of glucose, whereas it acted as a sink for the high and low glucose media. Using a metabolic network flexibility analysis (MNFA) framework with stoichiometric and thermodynamic constraints, intracellular fluxes under varying levels of glucose and insulin were evaluated. The analysis indicates that urea production in HepG2-C3A cells arises via the arginase II pathway rather than from ammonia detoxification. Further, involvement of the putrescine metabolism with glutamine metabolism caused higher urea production in glucose-free medium consistent with higher glutamine uptake. MNFA indicated that in high and low glucose media, glycolysis, glutaminolysis, and oxidative phosphorylation were the main sources of energy (NADH, NADPH, and ATP). In the glucose-free medium, due to very low glycolytic flux, higher malate to pyruvate glutaminolytic flux and TCA cycle contributed more significantly to energy metabolism. The presence of insulin lowered glycerol uptake and corresponding fluxes involved in lipid metabolism for all glucose levels but otherwise exerted negligible effect on metabolism. HepG2-C3A cells thus show distinct differences from primary hepatocytes in terms of energy metabolism and urea production. This knowledge can be used to design media supplements and metabolically engineer cells to restore necessary hepatic functions to HepG2-C3A cells for a range of applications.
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- Vidya V Iyer
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Effects of amino acid transport limitations on cultured hepatocytes. Biophys Chem 2010; 152:89-98. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2010] [Revised: 08/09/2010] [Accepted: 08/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Relationships between degradability of silk scaffolds and osteogenesis. Biomaterials 2010; 31:6162-72. [PMID: 20546890 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2009] [Accepted: 04/14/2010] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Bone repairs represent a major focus in orthopedic medicine with biomaterials as a critical aspect of the regenerative process. However, only a limited set of biomaterials are utilized today and few studies relate biomaterial scaffold design to degradation rate and new bone formation. Matching biomaterial remodeling rate towards new bone formation is important in terms of the overall rate and quality of bone regeneration outcomes. We report on the osteogenesis and metabolism of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) in 3D silk scaffolds. The scaffolds were prepared with two different degradation rates in order to study relationships between matrix degradation, cell metabolism and bone tissue formation in vitro. SEM, histology, chemical assays, real-time PCR and metabolic analyses were assessed to investigate these relationships. More extensively mineralized ECM formed in the scaffolds designed to degrade more rapidly, based on SEM, von Kossa and type I collagen staining and calcium content. Measures of osteogenic ECM were significantly higher in the more rapidly degrading scaffolds than in the more slowly degrading scaffolds over 56 days of study in vitro. Metabolic analysis, including glucose and lactate levels, confirmed the degradation rate differences with the two types of scaffolds, with the more rapidly degrading scaffolds supporting higher levels of glucose consumption and lactate synthesis by the hMSCs upon osteogenesis, in comparison to the more slowly degrading scaffolds. The results demonstrate that scaffold degradation rates directly impact the metabolism of hMSCs, and in turn the rate of osteogenesis. An understanding of the interplay between cellular metabolism and scaffold degradability should aid in the more rational design of scaffolds for bone regeneration needs both in vitro and in vivo.
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Orman MA, Arai K, Yarmush ML, Androulakis IP, Berthiaume F, Ierapetritou MG. Metabolic flux determination in perfused livers by mass balance analysis: Effect of fasting. Biotechnol Bioeng 2010; 107:825-35. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.22878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Maier K, Hofmann U, Reuss M, Mauch K. Dynamics and control of the central carbon metabolism in hepatoma cells. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2010; 4:54. [PMID: 20426867 PMCID: PMC2874527 DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-4-54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2009] [Accepted: 04/28/2010] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND The liver plays a major role in metabolism and performs a number of vital functions in the body. Therefore, the determination of hepatic metabolite dynamics and the analysis of the control of the respective biochemical pathways are of great pharmacological and medical importance. Extra- and intracellular time-series data from stimulus-response experiments are gaining in importance in the identification of in vivo metabolite dynamics, while dynamic network models are excellent tools for analyzing complex metabolic control patterns. This is the first study that has been undertaken on the data-driven identification of a dynamic liver central carbon metabolism model and its application in the analysis of the distribution of metabolic control in hepatoma cells. RESULTS Dynamic metabolite data were collected from HepG2 cells after they had been deprived of extracellular glucose. The concentration of 25 extra- and intracellular intermediates was quantified using HPLC, LC-MS-MS, and GC-MS. The in silico metabolite dynamics were in accordance with the experimental data. The central carbon metabolism of hepatomas was further analyzed with a particular focus on the control of metabolite concentrations and metabolic fluxes. It was observed that the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase exerted substantial negative control over the glycolytic flux, whereas oxidative phosphorylation had a significant positive control. The control over the rate of NADPH consumption was found to be shared between the NADPH-demand itself (0.65) and the NADPH supply (0.38). CONCLUSIONS Based on time-series data, a dynamic central carbon metabolism model was developed for the investigation of new and complex metabolic control patterns in hepatoma cells. The control patterns found support the hypotheses that the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and the Warburg effect are promising targets for tumor treatment. The systems-oriented identification of metabolite dynamics is a first step towards the genome-based assessment of potential risks posed by nutrients and drugs.
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- Klaus Maier
- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart and University of Tuebingen, Auerbachstrasse 112, 70376 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Insilico Biotechnology AG, Nobelstrasse 15, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Sharma NS, Nagrath D, Yarmush ML. Adipocyte-derived basement membrane extract with biological activity: applications in hepatocyte functional augmentation in vitro. FASEB J 2010; 24:2364-74. [PMID: 20233948 DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-135095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Natural and synthetic biomaterials utilized in tissue engineering applications require a dynamic interplay of complex macromolecular compositions of hydrated extracellular matrices (ECMs) and soluble growth factors. The challenges in utilizing synthetic ECMs is the effective control of temporal and spatial complexity of multiple signal presentation, as compared to natural ECMs that possess the inherent properties of biological recognition, including presentation of receptor-binding ligands, susceptibility to cell-triggered proteolytic degradation, and remodeling. We have developed a murine preadipocyte differentiation system for generating a natural basement membrane extract (Adipogel) comprising ECM proteins (collagen IV, laminin, hyaluronan, and fibronectin) and including relevant growth factors (hepatocyte growth factor, vascular endothelial growth factor, and leukemia inhibitory factor). We have shown the effective utilization of the growth factor-enriched extracellular matrix for enhanced albumin synthesis rate of primary hepatocyte cultures for a period of 10 d as compared to collagen sandwich cultures and comparable or higher function as compared to Matrigel cultures. We have also demonstrated comparable cytochrome P450 1A1 activity for the collagen-Adipogel condition to the collagen double-gel and Matrigel culture conditions. A metabolic analysis revealed that utilization of Adipogel in primary hepatocyte cultures increased serine, glycine, threonine, alanine, tyrosine, valine, methionine, lysine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, taurine, cysteine, and glucose uptake rates to enhance hepatocyte protein synthesis as compared to collagen double-gel cultures. The demonstrated synthesis, isolation, characterization, and application of Adipogel provide immense potential for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications.
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- Nripen S Sharma
- Center for Engineering in Medicine/Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Severely burned patients typically experience a systemic response expressed as increased metabolism, inflammation, alteration of cardiac and immune function, and associated hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia has been associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Until recently and for many years, hyperglycemia has been expectantly managed and considered a normal and desired response of an organism to stress. However, findings reported from recent studies now suggest beneficial effects of intensive insulin treatment of critically ill patients. The literature on the management of hyperglycemia in severely burned patients is sparse, with most of the available studies involving only small numbers of burned patients. The purpose of this article is to describe the pathophysiology of hyperglycemia after severe burns and to review the available literature on the outcome of intensive insulin treatment and other anti-hyperglycemic modalities in burned patients in an evidence-based medical approach.
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The basic metrics of hypermetabolism have not been thoroughly characterized in rat burn injury models. We examined three models expected to differ in sensitivity to burn injury to identify that which group(s) exhibited the most clinically relevant metabolic response. Six and 12 weeks old male CD (6 week mCD and 12 week mCD) rats, and 12 weeks old female Fischer (12 week fFI) rats received a 20% total body surface area burn, followed by saline resuscitation. Activity, core body temperature, heart rate (via implanted telemetry devices), body weight, food and water intake, and fecal output were measured daily for 1 week before and after burn. Rats lost weight initially postburn but resumed weight gain by 1 week, except for 12 week mCD rats. Core body temperature increased above normal 2 days postburn and returned to baseline by 1 week. Food intake, normalized to body weight, remained unchanged postburn for 12 week mCD rats, but decreased in 6 week mCD rats and increased in 12 week fFI rats. Heart rate in the 12 week mCD and 12 week fFI rats remained at 10 to 15% above baseline, whereas, in 6 week mCD, heart rates returned to baseline after 4 days. Activity levels were unchanged for 12 week fFI and 6 week mCD rats postburn, but decreased for 12 week mCD rats. Postburn hypermetabolism was most significant and sustained in 12 week mCD rats, of least consequence and brief in 6 week mCD rats, and intermediate in 12 week fFI rats. The disparate responses indicate that the choice of animal model should be carefully considered in hypermetabolism studies.
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Wu Q, Gong D, Tian N, Zhu L, Guan L, Yang M, Yuan B, Qiu Q, Lv H, Zou Y. Protection of regenerating liver after partial hepatectomy from carbon tetrachloride hepatotoxicity in rats: roles of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 and ATP stores. Dig Dis Sci 2009; 54:1918-25. [PMID: 19104935 DOI: 10.1007/s10620-008-0650-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2008] [Accepted: 11/21/2008] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP(2)), an inner mitochondrial membrane protein, can limit the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and protect cells from injuries mediated by oxidative stress. We investigated the effect of upregulation of UCP(2) in the regenerating liver 96 h after 68% partial hepatectomy (PH) on the self-protection of regenerating liver against carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)) poisoning. Hepatotoxicity was induced in vivo by administering CCl(4) to rats that had undergone PH. After CCl(4) poisoning, the regenerating liver appeared to have less histological damage and lower serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels. Lower malondialdehyde production and higher glutathione contents were also observed in the regenerating liver compared with the sham-operated liver after CCl(4) poisoning. UCP(2) expression was markedly elevated in the regenerating liver, and further increased after CCl(4) intoxication. Mitochondrial membrane potential and adenosine triphosphate stores maintained higher levels in the regenerating liver than in sham-operated liver after CCl(4) intoxication. The results showed that the regenerating liver exhibited a potent ability to resist CCl(4) intoxication, and the autoprotection of regenerating liver might result from reduction of ROS by UCP(2) and maintenance of higher ATP stores.
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- Qiong Wu
- Department of Physiology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning Province 116044, China
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Yang H, Roth CM, Ierapetritou MG. A rational design approach for amino acid supplementation in hepatocyte culture. Biotechnol Bioeng 2009; 103:1176-91. [PMID: 19422042 DOI: 10.1002/bit.22342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Improvement of culture media for mammalian cells is conducted via empirical adjustments, sometimes aided by statistical design methodologies. Here, we demonstrate a proof of principle for the use of constraints-based modeling to achieve enhanced performance of liver-specific functions of cultured hepatocytes during plasma exposure by adjusting amino acid supplementation and hormone levels in the medium. Flux balance analysis (FBA) is used to determine an amino acid flux profile consistent with a desired output; this is used to design an amino acid supplementation. Under conditions of no supplementation, empirical supplementation, and designed supplementation, hepatocytes were exposed to plasma and their morphology, specific cell functions (urea, albumin production) and lipid metabolism were measured. Urea production under the designed amino acid supplementation was found to be increased compared with previously reported (empirical) amino acid supplementation. Not surprisingly, the urea production attained was less than the theoretical value, indicating the existence of pathways or constraints not present in the current model. Although not an explicit design objective, albumin production was also increased by designed amino acid supplementation, suggesting a functional linkage between these outputs. In conjunction with traditional approaches to improving culture conditions, the rational design approach described herein provides a novel means to tune the metabolic outputs of cultured hepatocytes.
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- Hong Yang
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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Yang E, Maguire T, Yarmush M, Androulakis I. Informative gene selection and design of regulatory networks using integer optimization. Comput Chem Eng 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Meyburg J, Hoffmann GF. Liver cell transplantation for the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism. J Inherit Metab Dis 2008; 31:164-72. [PMID: 18392744 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-008-0829-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2007] [Revised: 02/01/2008] [Accepted: 02/05/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Over the last 15 years, liver cell transplantation (LCT) has developed from an experimental laboratory technique to a potentially life-saving therapeutic option. Because of its minimally invasive nature, the method is especially attractive for (small) children. In children with liver-based inborn errors of metabolism, this transfer of enzyme activity can be regarded as a gene therapy, which can be installed independently and additionally to conservative treatment concepts. To date 14 children with inherited metabolic diseases have undergone LCT in various centres. Although individual results are encouraging, different treatment protocols, difficulties in the objective assessment of function of the transplant, and finally the lack of a controlled study make it difficult to judge the overall significance of LCT in the treatment of metabolic diseases and call for collaborative clinical research.
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- J Meyburg
- Department of General Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Srivastava S, Chan C. Application of metabolic flux analysis to identify the mechanisms of free fatty acid toxicity to human hepatoma cell line. Biotechnol Bioeng 2008; 99:399-410. [PMID: 17615559 PMCID: PMC4059351 DOI: 10.1002/bit.21568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Chronic exposure to elevated levels of free fatty acids (FFAs) has been shown to cause cell death (lipotoxicity), but the underlying mechanisms of lipotoxicity in hepatocytes remain unclear. We have previously shown that the saturated FFAs cause much greater toxicity to human hepatoma cells (HepG2) than the unsaturated ones (Srivastava and Chan, 2007). In this study, metabolic flux analysis (MFA) was applied to identify the metabolic changes associated with the cytotoxicity of saturated FFA. Measurements of the fluxes revealed that the saturated FFA, palmitate, was oxidized to a greater extent than the non-toxic oleate and had comparatively less triglyceride synthesis and reduced cystine uptake. Although fatty acid oxidation had a high positive correlation to the cytotoxicity, inhibitor experiments indicated that the cytotoxicity was not due to the higher fatty acid oxidation. Application of MFA revealed that cells exposed to palmitate also had a consistently reduced flux of glutathione (GSH) synthesis but greater de novo ceramide synthesis. These predictions were experimentally confirmed. In silico sensitivity analyses identified that the GSH synthesis was limited by the uptake of cysteine. Western blot analyses revealed that the levels of the cystine transporter xCT, but not that of the GSH-synthesis enzyme glutamyl-cysteine synthase (GCS), were reduced in the palmitate cultures, suggesting the limitation of cysteine import as the cause of the reduced GSH synthesis. Finally, supplementing with N-acetyl L-cysteine (NAC), a cysteine-provider whose uptake does not depend on xCT levels, reduced the FFA-toxicity significantly. Thus, the metabolic alterations that contributed to the toxicity and suggested treatments to reduce the toxicity were identified, which were experimentally validated.
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- Shireesh Srivastava
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824; telephone: 517-432-4530; fax: 517-432-1105
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824; telephone: 517-432-4530; fax: 517-432-1105
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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Yang E, Maguire T, Yarmush M, Berthiaume F, Androulakis I. Identification of regulatory mechanisms of the hepatic response to thermal injury. Comput Chem Eng 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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de Graaf AA, Venema K. Gaining insight into microbial physiology in the large intestine: a special role for stable isotopes. Adv Microb Physiol 2007; 53:73-168. [PMID: 17707144 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2911(07)53002-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The importance of the human large intestine for nutrition, health, and disease, is becoming increasingly realized. There are numerous indications of a distinct role for the gut in such important issues as immune disorders and obesity-linked diseases. Research on this long-neglected organ, which is colonized by a myriad of bacteria, is a rapidly growing field that is currently providing fascinating new insights into the processes going on in the colon, and their relevance for the human host. This review aims to give an overview of studies dealing with the physiology of the intestinal microbiota as it functions within and in interaction with the host, with a special focus on approaches involving stable isotopes. We have included general aspects of gut microbial life as well as aspects specifically relating to genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic studies. A special emphasis is further laid on reviewing relevant methods and applications of stable isotope-aided metabolic flux analysis (MFA). We argue that linking MFA with the '-omics' technologies using innovative modeling approaches is the way to go to establish a truly integrative and interdisciplinary approach. Systems biology thus actualized will provide key insights into the metabolic regulations involved in microbe-host mutualism and their relevance for health and disease.
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- Albert A de Graaf
- Wageningen Center for Food Sciences, PO Box 557, 6700 AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Nahmias Y, Odde DJ. Micropatterning of living cells by laser-guided direct writing: application to fabrication of hepatic-endothelial sinusoid-like structures. Nat Protoc 2007; 1:2288-96. [PMID: 17406470 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Here, we describe a simple protocol for the design and construction of a laser-guided direct writing (LGDW) system able to micropattern the self-assembly of liver sinusoid-like structures with micrometer resolution in vitro. To the best of our knowledge, LGDW is the only technique able to pattern cells "on the fly" with micrometer precision on arbitrary matrices, including soft gels such as Matrigel. By micropatterning endothelial cells on Matrigel, one can control the self-assembly of vascular structures and associated liver tissue. LGDW is therefore uniquely suited for studying the role of tissue architecture and mechanical properties at the single-cell resolution, and for studying the effects of heterotypic cell-cell interactions underlying processes such as liver morphogenesis, differentiation and angiogenesis. The total time required to carry out this protocol is typically 7 h.
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- Yaakov Nahmias
- Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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Uygun K, Matthew HWT, Huang Y. Investigation of metabolic objectives in cultured hepatocytes. Biotechnol Bioeng 2007; 97:622-37. [PMID: 17058287 DOI: 10.1002/bit.21237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Using optimization based methods to predict fluxes in metabolic flux balance models has been a successful approach for some microorganisms, enabling construction of in silico models and even inference of some regulatory motifs. However, this success has not been translated to mammalian cells. The lack of knowledge about metabolic objectives in mammalian cells is a major obstacle that prevents utilization of various metabolic engineering tools and methods for tissue engineering and biomedical purposes. In this work, we investigate and identify possible metabolic objectives for hepatocytes cultured in vitro. To achieve this goal, we present a special data-mining procedure for identifying metabolic objective functions in mammalian cells. This multi-level optimization based algorithm enables identifying the major fluxes in the metabolic objective from MFA data in the absence of information about critical active constraints of the system. Further, once the objective is determined, active flux constraints can also be identified and analyzed. This information can be potentially used in a predictive manner to improve cell culture results or clinical metabolic outcomes. As a result of the application of this method, it was found that in vitro cultured hepatocytes maximize oxygen uptake, coupling of urea and TCA cycles, and synthesis of serine and urea. Selection of these fluxes as the metabolic objective enables accurate prediction of the flux distribution in the system given a limited amount of flux data; thus presenting a workable in silico model for cultured hepatocytes. It is observed that an overall homeostasis picture is also emergent in the findings.
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- Korkut Uygun
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
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Yoon J, Si Y, Nolan R, Lee K. Modular decomposition of metabolic reaction networks based on flux analysis and pathway projection. Bioinformatics 2007; 23:2433-40. [PMID: 17660208 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION The rational decomposition of biochemical networks into sub-structures has emerged as a useful approach to study the design of these complex systems. A biochemical network is characterized by an inhomogeneous connectivity distribution, which gives rise to several organizational features, including modularity. To what extent the connectivity-based modules reflect the functional organization of the network remains to be further explored. In this work, we examine the influence of physiological perturbations on the modular organization of cellular metabolism. RESULTS Modules were characterized for two model systems, liver and adipocyte primary metabolism, by applying an algorithm for top-down partition of directed graphs with non-uniform edge weights. The weights were set by the engagement of the corresponding reactions as expressed by the flux distribution. For the base case of the fasted rat liver, three modules were found, carrying out the following biochemical transformations: ketone body production, glucose synthesis and transamination. This basic organization was further modified when different flux distributions were applied that describe the liver's metabolic response to whole body inflammation. For the fully mature adipocyte, only a single module was observed, integrating all of the major pathways needed for lipid storage. Weaker levels of integration between the pathways were found for the early stages of adipocyte differentiation. Our results underscore the inhomogeneous distribution of both connectivity and connection strengths, and suggest that global activity data such as the flux distribution can be used to study the organizational flexibility of cellular metabolism. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Jeongah Yoon
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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Banta S, Vemula M, Yokoyama T, Jayaraman A, Berthiaume F, Yarmush ML. Contribution of gene expression to metabolic fluxes in hypermetabolic livers induced through burn injury and cecal ligation and puncture in rats. Biotechnol Bioeng 2007; 97:118-37. [PMID: 17009336 PMCID: PMC3199956 DOI: 10.1002/bit.21200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Severe injury activates many stress-related and inflammatory pathways that can lead to a systemic hypermetabolic state. Prior studies using perfused hypermetabolic rat livers have identified intrinsic metabolic flux changes that were not dependent upon the continual presence of elevated stress hormones and substrate loads. We investigated the hypothesis that such changes may be due to persistent alterations in gene expression. A systemic hypermetabolic response was induced in rats by applying a moderate burn injury followed 2 days later by cecum ligation and puncture (CLP) to produce sepsis. Control animals received a sham-burn followed by CLP, or a sham-burn followed by sham-CLP. Two days after CLP, livers were analyzed for gene expression changes using DNA microarrays and for metabolism alterations by ex vivo perfusion coupled with Metabolic Flux Analysis. Burn injury prior to CLP increased fluxes while decreases in gene expression levels were observed. Conversely, CLP alone significantly increased metabolic gene expression, but decreased many of the corresponding metabolic fluxes. Burn injury combined with CLP led to the most dramatic changes, where concurrent changes in fluxes and gene expression levels occurred in about 1/3 of the reactions. The data are consistent with the notion that in this model, burn injury prior to CLP increased fluxes through post-translational mechanisms with little contribution of gene expression, while CLP treatment up-regulated the metabolic machinery by transcriptional mechanisms. Overall, these data show that mRNA changes measured at a single time point by DNA microarray analysis do not reliably predict metabolic flux changes in perfused livers.
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- Scott Banta
- Center for Engineering in Medicine, Shriners Hospital for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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Nagrath D, Avila-Elchiver M, Berthiaume F, Tilles AW, Messac A, Yarmush ML. Integrated energy and flux balance based multiobjective framework for large-scale metabolic networks. Ann Biomed Eng 2007; 35:863-85. [PMID: 17393337 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-007-9283-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2006] [Accepted: 02/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Flux balance analysis (FBA) provides a framework for the estimation of intracellular fluxes and energy balance analysis (EBA) ensures the thermodynamic feasibility of the computed optimal fluxes. Previously, these techniques have been used to obtain optimal fluxes that maximize a single objective. Because mammalian systems perform various functions, a multi-objective approach is needed when seeking optimal flux distributions in such systems. For example, hepatocytes perform several metabolic functions at various levels depending on environmental conditions; furthermore, there is a potential benefit to enhance some of these functions for applications such as bioartificial liver (BAL) support devices. Herein we developed a multi-objective optimization approach that couples the normalized Normal Constraint (NC) with both FBA and EBA to obtain multi-objective Pareto-optimal solutions. We investigated the Pareto frontiers in gluconeogenic and glycolytic hepatocytes for various combinations of liver-specific objectives (albumin synthesis, glutathione synthesis, NADPH synthesis, ATP generation, and urea secretion). Next, we evaluated the impact of experimental flux measurements on the Pareto frontiers. We found that measurements induce dramatic changes in Pareto frontiers and further constrain the network fluxes. This multi-objective optimality analysis may help explain certain features of the metabolic control of hepatocytes, which is relevant to the response to hepatocytes and liver to various physiological stimuli and disease states.
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- Deepak Nagrath
- Center for Engineering in Medicine/Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Bioinformatics analysis of the early inflammatory response in a rat thermal injury model. BMC Bioinformatics 2007; 8:10. [PMID: 17214898 PMCID: PMC1797813 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2006] [Accepted: 01/10/2007] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Background Thermal injury is among the most severe forms of trauma and its effects are both local and systemic. Response to thermal injury includes cellular protection mechanisms, inflammation, hypermetabolism, prolonged catabolism, organ dysfunction and immuno-suppression. It has been hypothesized that gene expression patterns in the liver will change with severe burns, thus reflecting the role the liver plays in the response to burn injury. Characterizing the molecular fingerprint (i.e., expression profile) of the inflammatory response resulting from burns may help elucidate the activated mechanisms and suggest new therapeutic intervention. In this paper we propose a novel integrated framework for analyzing time-series transcriptional data, with emphasis on the burn-induced response within the context of the rat animal model. Our analysis robustly identifies critical expression motifs, indicative of the dynamic evolution of the inflammatory response and we further propose a putative reconstruction of the associated transcription factor activities. Results Implementation of our algorithm on data obtained from an animal (rat) burn injury study identified 281 genes corresponding to 4 unique profiles. Enrichment evaluation upon both gene ontologies and transcription factors, verifies the inflammation-specific character of the selections and the rationalization of the burn-induced inflammatory response. Conducting the transcription network reconstruction and analysis, we have identified transcription factors, including AHR, Octamer Binding Proteins, Kruppel-like Factors, and cell cycle regulators as being highly important to an organism's response to burn response. These transcription factors are notable due to their roles in pathways that play a part in the gross physiological response to burn such as changes in the immune response and inflammation. Conclusion Our results indicate that our novel selection/classification algorithm has been successful in selecting out genes with play an important role in thermal injury. Additionally, we have demonstrated the value of an integrative approach in identifying possible points of intervention, namely the activation of certain transcription factors that govern the organism's response.
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Yoon J, Blumer A, Lee K. An algorithm for modularity analysis of directed and weighted biological networks based on edge-betweenness centrality. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 22:3106-8. [PMID: 17060356 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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MOTIVATION Modularity analysis is a powerful tool for studying the design of biological networks, offering potential clues for relating the biochemical function(s) of a network with the 'wiring' of its components. Relatively little work has been done to examine whether the modularity of a network depends on the physiological perturbations that influence its biochemical state. Here, we present a novel modularity analysis algorithm based on edge-betweenness centrality, which facilitates the use of directional information and measurable biochemical data.
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- Jeongah Yoon
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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Nahmias Y, Berthiaume F, Yarmush ML. Integration of technologies for hepatic tissue engineering. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2006; 103:309-29. [PMID: 17195468 DOI: 10.1007/10_029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The liver is the largest internal organ in the body, responsible for over 500 metabolic, regulatory, and immune functions. Loss of liver function leads to liver failure which causes over 25,000 deaths/year in the United States. Efforts in the field of hepatic tissue engineering include the design of bioartificial liver systems to prolong patient's lives during liver failure, for drug toxicity screening and for the study of liver regeneration, ischemia/reperfusion injury, fibrosis, viral infection, and inflammation. This chapter will overview the current state-of-the-art in hepatology including isolated perfused liver, culture of liver slices and tissue explants, hepatocyte culture on collagen "sandwich" and spheroids, coculture of hepatocytes with non-parenchymal cells, and the integration of these culture techniques with microfluidics and reactor design. This work will discuss the role of oxygen and medium composition in hepatocyte culture and present promising new technologies for hepatocyte proliferation and function. We will also discuss liver development, architecture, and function as they relate to these culture techniques. Finally, we will review current opportunities and major challenges in integrating cell culture, bioreactor design, and microtechnology to develop new systems for novel applications.
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- Yaakov Nahmias
- Center for Engineering in Medicine, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shriners Burns Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 51 Blossom St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Forbes NS, Meadows AL, Clark DS, Blanch HW. Estradiol stimulates the biosynthetic pathways of breast cancer cells: detection by metabolic flux analysis. Metab Eng 2006; 8:639-52. [PMID: 16904360 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2006.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2005] [Revised: 06/19/2006] [Accepted: 06/26/2006] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Selective estrogen receptor (ER) modulators are highly successful breast cancer therapies, but they are not effective in patients with ER negative and selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM)-resistant tumors. Understanding the mechanisms of estrogen-stimulated proliferation may provide a route to design estrogen-independent therapies that would be effective in these patients. In this study, metabolic flux analysis was used to determine the intracellular fluxes that are significantly affected by estradiol stimulation in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Intracellular fluxes were calculated from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-generated isotope enrichment data and extracellular metabolite fluxes, using a specific flux analysis algorithm. The metabolic pathway model used by the algorithm includes glycolysis, the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle), the pentose phosphate pathway, glutamine catabolism, pyruvate carboxylase, and malic enzyme. The pathway model also incorporates mitochondrial compartmentalization and reversible trans-mitochondrial membrane reactions to more accurately describe the role of mitochondria in cancer cell proliferation. Flux results indicate that estradiol significantly increases carbon flow through the pentose phosphate pathway and increases glutamine consumption. In addition, intra-mitochondrial malic enzyme was found to be inactive and the malate-aspartate shuttle (MAS) was only minimally active. The inactivity of these enzymes indicates that glutamine is not oxidized within mitochondria, but is consumed primarily to provide biosynthetic precursors. The excretion of glutamine carbons from the mitochondria has the secondary effect of limiting nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) recycle, resulting in NADH buildup in the cytosol and the excretion of lactate. The observed dependence of breast cancer cells on pentose phosphate pathway activity and glutamine consumption for estradiol-stimulated biosynthesis suggests that these pathways may be targets for estrogen-independent breast cancer therapies.
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- Neil S Forbes
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Uygun K, Matthew HWT, Huang Y. DFBA-LQR: An Optimal Control Approach to Flux Balance Analysis. Ind Eng Chem Res 2006. [DOI: 10.1021/ie060218f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Korkut Uygun
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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Nolan RP, Fenley AP, Lee K. Identification of distributed metabolic objectives in the hypermetabolic liver by flux and energy balance analysis. Metab Eng 2005; 8:30-45. [PMID: 16289779 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2005.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2005] [Revised: 08/04/2005] [Accepted: 08/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A methodology for inferring distributed metabolic objectives from time series flux data is developed by combining metabolic flux analysis, pathway identification, free energy balances, and nested optimization. This methodology is used to investigate the metabolic response of the rat liver to burn injury-induced whole body inflammation. Gibbs free energy changes were computed for stoichiometrically balanced sequences of reactions, or pathways, rather than individual reactions, to account for energetic coupling between reactions. Systematic enumeration of pathways proceeded by elementary flux mode (EFM) analysis. Together with stoichiometric balances and external metabolite flux measurements, the DeltaG(PATH)(o) criterion provided sufficient constraints to solve a series of nested optimization problems on the metabolic goal functions and associated flux distributions of fasted livers during the first-week time course of burn injury. The optimization results suggest that there is a consistent metabolic goal function for the liver that is insensitive to the changing metabolic burdens experienced by the liver during the first-week time course. As defined by the goal function coefficients, the global metabolic objective was to distribute the metabolic resources between amino acid metabolism and ketone body synthesis. These findings point to a role for the time-invariant structure of the metabolic reaction network, expressed as stoichiometric and thermodynamic constraints, in shaping the cellular metabolic objective.
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- Ryan P Nolan
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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Banta S, Yokoyama T, Berthiaume F, Yarmush ML. Effects of dehydroepiandrosterone administration on rat hepatic metabolism following thermal injury. J Surg Res 2005; 127:93-105. [PMID: 15882877 DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2004] [Revised: 11/22/2004] [Accepted: 01/03/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Severe burns cause dramatic alterations in liver and whole-body metabolism. Recently, there has been interest in using dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) as a treatment for trauma patients, and enhanced survival and immune function have been reported using DHEA in animal trauma models. The specific effects of DHEA on hepatic metabolism following burn injury have not been explored. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male rats received either (1) a burn covering approximately 20% of the total body surface area or a sham burn or (2) burn injury followed by two intraperitoneal injections of DHEA or vehicle. After 4 days, the livers were isolated and perfused in vitro, and 28 metabolite fluxes were measured. Metabolic flux analysis was used to obtain the intracellular metabolic flux distribution and provide an overview of the metabolic state of the livers in each experimental group. RESULTS Burn injury decreased the uptake of lactate and the production of beta-hydroxybutyrate and increased the deamination of glutamine to glutamate and asparagine to aspartate. DHEA, compared to vehicle treatment, decreased pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) fluxes and the uptake of several amino acids in burned rats. Furthermore, DHEA treatment restored liver metabolism in burned rats to a state that was very similar to that of the sham control group. CONCLUSIONS DHEA administration appears to normalize hepatocellular metabolism in burned rats but also decreases the PPP flux, which may impair the liver's ability to recycle endogenous antioxidants. DHEA treatment combined with exogenous antioxidants should receive further consideration in the management of burn and trauma patients.
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- Scott Banta
- Center for Engineering in Medicine/Surgical Services, Shriners Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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Many technologies have been developed to help explain the phenotypic consequences of genetic and/or environmental modifications in areas like functional genomics, pharmaceutical research and metabolic engineering. The missing link in contemporary functional analyses that focus on the analysis of cellular components is the capacity to directly observe functional units. By linking genes and proteins to higher level biological functions, the molecular fluxes through metabolic networks (the fluxome) determine the cellular phenotype. Quantitative monitoring of such whole network operations by methods of metabolic flux analysis, thus bridges the gap by providing a global perspective of the integrated regulation at the transcriptional, translational and metabolic level. This review highlights recent developments towards high-throughput flux analysis.
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- Uwe Sauer
- Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Lee K, Berthiaume F, Stephanopoulos GN, Yarmush ML. Induction of a hypermetabolic state in cultured hepatocytes by glucagon and H2O2. Metab Eng 2004; 5:221-9. [PMID: 14642350 DOI: 10.1016/s1096-7176(03)00042-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Stress hormones and pro-inflammatory cytokines are putative signals triggering increased energy expenditure or "hypermetabolism" commonly observed in inflammatory states. Cytokines also cause the release of reactive oxidants by immune cells resident in tissues in vivo. Therefore, we hypothesized that oxidative stress plays a role in the induction of hypermetabolism. We examined the effect of glucagon (1.0 nM), a catabolic stress hormone, and the oxidant H(2)O(2) (1.0 mM) on the metabolism of stable hepatocyte cultures for 4 days. Combined H(2)O(2) and glucagon treatment, but not H(2)O(2) or glucagon used alone, increased the hepatocyte oxygen uptake rate 25% above control untreated cells after a lag-time of 72 h. The same treatment also increased the expression of mitochondrial uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2). These effects were significantly inhibited by the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (5mM) and the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) inhibitor dehydroepianderosterone (200 microM). Glucagon alone induced urea synthesis and H(2)O(2) alone induced the PPP. These findings show, for the first time, that oxidative stress, in combination with glucagon, increases metabolic energy expenditure in cultured cells, and that this effect may be mediated by UCP-2. Furthermore, the results implicate the PPP in the induction of the hypermetabolic response.
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- Kyongbum Lee
- Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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