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Kaur G, Ahuja A, Sen A, Singhal P, Verghese R. An extremely rare case of Rogers syndrome or thiamine responsive megaloblastic anemia. INDIAN J PATHOL MICR 2023:00004270-990000000-00096. [PMID: 38391342 DOI: 10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_287_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
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ABSTRACT Rogers syndrome is an extremely rare autosomal recessive syndrome of which only 100 cases are known worldwide. It is characterized by thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia, diabetes mellitus and sensorineural deafness. It results from the deficiency of a thiamine transporter protein. We herein report a 16-year-old Indian male referred to our centre with complaints of refractory anaemia, deafness, diabetes pulmonary arterial hypertension and tricuspid regurgitation. Based on the clinical features and haematologic picture and dramatic response of anaemia to thiamine therapy the possibility of a TRMA was considered. Sequencing analysis for TRMA revealed a homozygous c.242dup (p.Tyr81Ter) mutation of the SLC19A2 gene.
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- Gurpreet Kaur
- Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medicine, Command Hospital Southern Command, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Veetil VM, Pachat D, Nikitha K, Kutty JM. Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia. THE NATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL OF INDIA 2023; 36:314-315. [PMID: 38759983 DOI: 10.25259/nmji_20_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
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We report a 26-year-old girl who was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in her childhood and was treated with insulin. With a history of visual disturbances during her childhood and anaemia, which was partially evaluated; the possibility of syndromic diabetes was considered. Genetic analysis was done and revealed a mutation in the SLC19A2 gene, confirming the diagnosis of thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia. She was supplemented with thiamine, which dramatically improved her haemoglobin levels and glucose control. However, her vision could not be salvaged as the rod-cone dystrophy is a permanent damage.
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- Aster MIMS, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
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Abu-Zeinah G, DeSancho MT. Understanding Sideroblastic Anemia: An Overview of Genetics, Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Current Therapeutic Options. J Blood Med 2020; 11:305-318. [PMID: 33061728 PMCID: PMC7524202 DOI: 10.2147/jbm.s232644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Sideroblastic anemia (SA) consists of a group of inherited and acquired anemias of ineffective erythropoiesis characterized by the accumulation of ring sideroblasts in the bone marrow due to disrupted heme biosynthesis. Congenital sideroblastic anemia (CSA) is rare and has three modes of inheritance: X-linked (XLSA), autosomal recessive (ARCSA), and maternal. Acquired SA is more common and can be a result of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) or other, generally reversible causes. The diagnostic approach to SA includes a work-up for reversible causes and genetic testing for CSA based on clinical suspicion, family history and genetic pedigree. The treatment of SA depends on the underlying etiology but remains primarily supportive with vitamin B6 supplementation for select cases of XLSA, thiamine for thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia subtype, red blood cell transfusions for symptomatic patients and iron chelation therapy for iron overload. The management of anemia in MDS subtypes with ring sideroblasts remains unique and includes the recently approved erythroid maturation agent, Luspatercept. Although there is currently no curative therapy for CSA, anecdotal reports of hematopoietic stem cell transplant demonstrate remissions in selective, non-syndromic cases. This review summarizes the genetics, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of SA for general practitioners and clinical hematologists.
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- Ghaith Abu-Zeinah
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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Understanding and Eliminating the Detrimental Effect of Thiamine Deficiency on the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Appl Environ Microbiol 2020; 86:AEM.02299-19. [PMID: 31704686 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02299-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Thiamine is a vitamin that functions as a cofactor for key enzymes in carbon and energy metabolism in all living cells. While most plants, fungi, and bacteria can synthesize thiamine de novo, the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica cannot. In this study, we used proteomics together with physiological characterization to elucidate key metabolic processes influenced and regulated by thiamine availability and to identify the genetic basis of thiamine auxotrophy in Y. lipolytica Specifically, we found that thiamine depletion results in decreased protein abundance for the lipid biosynthesis pathway and energy metabolism (i.e., ATP synthase), leading to the negligible growth and poor sugar assimilation observed in our study. Using comparative genomics, we identified the missing 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine phosphate synthase (THI13) gene for the de novo thiamine biosynthesis in Y. lipolytica and discovered an exceptional promoter, P3, that exhibits strong activation and tight repression by low and high thiamine concentrations, respectively. Capitalizing on the strength of our thiamine-regulated promoter (P3) to express the missing gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (scTHI13), we engineered a thiamine-prototrophic Y. lipolytica strain. By comparing this engineered strain to the wild-type strain, we revealed the tight relationship between thiamine availability and lipid biosynthesis and demonstrated enhanced lipid production with thiamine supplementation in the engineered thiamine-prototrophic Y. lipolytica strain.IMPORTANCE Thiamine plays a crucial role as an essential cofactor for enzymes involved in carbon and energy metabolism in all living cells. Thiamine deficiency has detrimental consequences for cellular health. Yarrowia lipolytica, a nonconventional oleaginous yeast with broad biotechnological applications, is a native thiamine auxotroph whose affected cellular metabolism is not well understood. Therefore, Y. lipolytica is an ideal eukaryotic host for the study of thiamine metabolism, especially because mammalian cells are also thiamine auxotrophic and thiamine deficiency is implicated in several human diseases. This study elucidates the fundamental effects of thiamine deficiency on cellular metabolism in Y. lipolytica and identifies genes and novel thiamine-regulated elements that eliminate thiamine auxotrophy in Y. lipolytica Furthermore, the discovery of thiamine-regulated elements enables the development of thiamine biosensors with useful applications in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering.
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Dalwadi P, Joshi AS, Thakur DS, Bhagwat NM. Neonatal diabetes mellitus: remission induced by novel therapy. BMJ Case Rep 2019; 12:12/6/e228806. [PMID: 31243025 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2018-228806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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A female child with deafness was diagnosed to have neonatal diabetes mellitus at the age of 6 months, on routine evaluation prior to cochlear implant surgery. She presented to us at 11 months of age with diabetic ketoacidosis due to an intercurrent febrile illness. Her haematological parameters showed megaloblastic anaemia and thrombocytopenia. Therefore a possibility of Thiamine Responsive Megaloblastic Anaemia (TRMA) syndrome was considered. She was empirically treated with parenteral thiamine hydrochloride (Hcl). Subsequently, due to the unavailability of pharmacological preparation of oral thiamine Hcl in a recommended dose she was treated with benfotiamine. She had a sustained improvement in all her haematological parameters on oral benfotiamine. The insulin requirement progressively reduced and she is currently in remission for last 2 years. The genetic analysis confirmed the diagnosis of TRMA syndrome. Thus benfotiamine can be considered a new treatment option in management of TRMA syndrome.
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- Pradip Dalwadi
- Endocrinology, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Endocrinology, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Endocrinology, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Endocrinology, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Ducamp S, Fleming MD. The molecular genetics of sideroblastic anemia. Blood 2019; 133:59-69. [PMID: 30401706 PMCID: PMC6318428 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2018-08-815951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Accepted: 09/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The sideroblastic anemias (SAs) are a group of inherited and acquired bone marrow disorders defined by pathological iron accumulation in the mitochondria of erythroid precursors. Like most hematological diseases, the molecular genetic basis of the SAs has ridden the wave of technology advancement. Within the last 30 years, with the advent of positional cloning, the human genome project, solid-state genotyping technologies, and next-generation sequencing have evolved to the point where more than two-thirds of congenital SA cases, and an even greater proportion of cases of acquired clonal disease, can be attributed to mutations in a specific gene or genes. This review focuses on an analysis of the genetics of these diseases and how understanding these defects may contribute to the design and implementation of rational therapies.
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- Sarah Ducamp
- Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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Lu H, Lu H, Vaucher J, Tran C, Vollenweider P, Castioni J. [Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia or Rogers syndrome: A literature review]. Rev Med Interne 2018; 40:20-27. [PMID: 30031565 DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2018.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia (TRMA), also known as Rogers syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by three main components: megaloblastic anemia, diabetes mellitus and sensorineural deafness. Those features occur in infancy but may arise during adolescence. Diagnosis relies on uncovering genetic variations (alleles) in the SLC19A2 gene, encoding for a high affinity thiamine transporter. This transporter is essentially present in hematopoietic stem cells, pancreatic beta cells and inner ear cells, explaining the clinical manifestations of the disease. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, treatment resides on lifelong thiamine oral supplementation at pharmacological doses, which reverses anemia and may delay development of diabetes. However, thiamine supplementation does not alleviate already existing hearing defects.
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- H Lu
- Service de médecine interne, centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), rue du Bugnon, 46, 1011 Lausanne, Suisse.
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- Service des urgences adultes, centre hospitalier universitaire Antoine-Béclère, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), 157, rue de la Porte de Trivaux, 92140 Clamart, France
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- Service de médecine interne, centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), rue du Bugnon, 46, 1011 Lausanne, Suisse
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- Service de médecine génétique, centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), rue du Bugnon, 46, 1011 Lausanne, Suisse
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- Service de médecine interne, centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), rue du Bugnon, 46, 1011 Lausanne, Suisse
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- Service de médecine interne, centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), rue du Bugnon, 46, 1011 Lausanne, Suisse
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Moulin V, Grandoni F, Castioni J, Lu H. Pancytopenia in an adult patient with thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia. BMJ Case Rep 2018; 2018:bcr-2018-225035. [PMID: 29903777 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2018-225035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia (TRMA) is a syndrome associated with megaloblastic anaemia, diabetes mellitus and sensorineural deafness, due to mutations in the SLC19A2 gene, which codes for a thiamine carrier protein. Oral thiamine supplementation is the main treatment. We report the case of a 25-year-old woman known for TRMA, who presented with pancytopenia (haemoglobin 7.6 g/dL, leucocytes 2.9×109/L, thrombocytes 6×109/L) revealed by dyspnoea. Investigations excluded coagulopathy, a recent viral infection, vitamin and iron deficiencies, and a malignant process. We later found out that thiamine treatment had been discontinued 5 weeks before, due to prescription error. Parenteral thiamine administration resulted in the recovery of haematopoiesis within 3 weeks. Pancytopenia is uncommon in patients with TRMA. Pre-existing medullary impairment caused by the patient's daily antipsychotic medications or the natural course of the syndrome may explain the severity of the laboratory findings in our patient.
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- Virginie Moulin
- Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Hematology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Iron metabolism in erythroid cells and patients with congenital sideroblastic anemia. Int J Hematol 2017; 107:44-54. [PMID: 29139060 DOI: 10.1007/s12185-017-2368-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Sideroblastic anemias are anemic disorders characterized by the presence of ring sideroblasts in a patient's bone marrow. These disorders are typically divided into two types, congenital or acquired sideroblastic anemia. Recently, several genes were reported as responsible for congenital sideroblastic anemia; however, the relationship between the function of the gene products and ring sideroblasts is largely unclear. In this review article, we will focus on the iron metabolism in erythroid cells as well as in patients with congenital sideroblastic anemia.
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Boros LG, D'Agostino DP, Katz HE, Roth JP, Meuillet EJ, Somlyai G. Submolecular regulation of cell transformation by deuterium depleting water exchange reactions in the tricarboxylic acid substrate cycle. Med Hypotheses 2016; 87:69-74. [PMID: 26826644 PMCID: PMC4733494 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2015.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The naturally occurring isotope of hydrogen ((1)H), deuterium ((2)H), could have an important biological role. Deuterium depleted water delays tumor progression in mice, dogs, cats and humans. Hydratase enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle control cell growth and deplete deuterium from redox cofactors, fatty acids and DNA, which undergo hydride ion and hydrogen atom transfer reactions. A model is proposed that emphasizes the terminal complex of mitochondrial electron transport chain reducing molecular oxygen to deuterium depleted water (DDW); this affects gluconeogenesis as well as fatty acid oxidation. In the former, the DDW is thought to diminish the deuteration of sugar-phosphates in the DNA backbone, helping to preserve stability of hydrogen bond networks, possibly protecting against aneuploidy and resisting strand breaks, occurring upon exposure to radiation and certain anticancer chemotherapeutics. DDW is proposed here to link cancer prevention and treatment using natural ketogenic diets, low deuterium drinking water, as well as DDW production as the mitochondrial downstream mechanism of targeted anti-cancer drugs such as Avastin and Glivec. The role of (2)H in biology is a potential missing link to the elusive cancer puzzle seemingly correlated with cancer epidemiology in western populations as a result of excessive (2)H loading from processed carbohydrate intake in place of natural fat consumption.
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- László G Boros
- Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA; The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LABiOMED), Torrance, CA, USA; SIDMAP, LLC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine, Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- HYD, LLC for Cancer Research & Drug Development, Budapest, Hungary
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Vaitheesvaran B, Xu J, Yee J, Q-Y L, Go VL, Xiao GG, Lee WN. The Warburg effect: a balance of flux analysis. Metabolomics 2015; 11:787-796. [PMID: 26207106 PMCID: PMC4507278 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-014-0760-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Cancer metabolism is characterized by increased macromolecular syntheses through coordinated increases in energy and substrate metabolism. The observation that cancer cells produce lactate in an environment of oxygen sufficiency (aerobic glycolysis) is a central theme of cancer metabolism known as the Warburg effect. Aerobic glycolysis in cancer metabolism is accompanied by increased pentose cycle and anaplerotic activities producing energy and substrates for macromolecular synthesis. How these processes are coordinated is poorly understood. Recent advances have focused on molecular regulation of cancer metabolism by oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes which regulate numerous enzymatic steps of central glucose metabolism. In the past decade, new insights in cancer metabolism have emerged through the application of stable isotopes particularly from 13C carbon tracing. Such studies have provided new evidence for system-wide changes in cancer metabolism in response to chemotherapy. Interestingly, experiments using metabolic inhibitors on individual biochemical pathways all demonstrate similar system-wide effects on cancer metabolism as in targeted therapies. Since biochemical reactions in the Warburg effect place competing demands on available precursors, high energy phosphates and reducing equivalents, the cancer metabolic system must fulfill the condition of balance of flux (homeostasis). In this review, the functions of the pentose cycle and of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle in cancer metabolism are analyzed from the balance of flux point of view. Anticancer treatments that target molecular signaling pathways or inhibit metabolism alter the invasive or proliferative behavior of the cancer cells by their effects on the balance of flux (homeostasis) of the cancer metabolic phenotype.
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- B Vaitheesvaran
- Department of Medicine, Diabetes Center, Stable Isotope and
Metabolomics Core Facility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Diabetes Center,
Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, Caligornia, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism,
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
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- Functional Genomics/Proteomics Laboratories Creighton University
medical Center, Nebraska, and School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology at
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- LA Biomedical Research Institute, Torrance, CA, USA and Department
of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California,
Los Angeles, California USA
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Mikstiene V, Songailiene J, Byckova J, Rutkauskiene G, Jasinskiene E, Verkauskiene R, Lesinskas E, Utkus A. Thiamine responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome: A novel homozygousSLC19A2gene mutation identified. Am J Med Genet A 2015; 167:1605-9. [DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.37015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Accepted: 01/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Violeta Mikstiene
- Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine; Vilnius University; Vilnius Lithuania
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- Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine; Vilnius University; Vilnius Lithuania
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- Centre of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases; Vilnius University Hospital Santariškių Clinics; Vilnius Lithuania
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- Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Unit; Hospital of Lithuanian university of Health Sciences, Kaunas Clinics; Kaunas Lithuania
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- Department of Endocrinology; Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Science, Kaunas Clinics; Kaunas Lithuania
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- Department of Endocrinology; Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Science, Kaunas Clinics; Kaunas Lithuania
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- Centre of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases; Vilnius University Hospital Santariškių Clinics; Vilnius Lithuania
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- Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine; Vilnius University; Vilnius Lithuania
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Glick GD, Rossignol R, Lyssiotis CA, Wahl D, Lesch C, Sanchez B, Liu X, Hao LY, Taylor C, Hurd A, Ferrara JLM, Tkachev V, Byersdorfer CA, Boros L, Opipari AW. Anaplerotic metabolism of alloreactive T cells provides a metabolic approach to treat graft-versus-host disease. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2014; 351:298-307. [PMID: 25125579 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.114.218099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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T-cell activation requires increased ATP and biosynthesis to support proliferation and effector function. Most models of T-cell activation are based on in vitro culture systems and posit that aerobic glycolysis is employed to meet increased energetic and biosynthetic demands. By contrast, T cells activated in vivo by alloantigens in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) increase mitochondrial oxygen consumption, fatty acid uptake, and oxidation, with small increases of glucose uptake and aerobic glycolysis. Here we show that these differences are not a consequence of alloactivation, because T cells activated in vitro either in a mixed lymphocyte reaction to the same alloantigens used in vivo or with agonistic anti-CD3/anti-CD28 antibodies increased aerobic glycolysis. Using targeted metabolic (13)C tracer fate associations, we elucidated the metabolic pathway(s) employed by alloreactive T cells in vivo that support this phenotype. We find that glutamine (Gln)-dependent tricarboxylic acid cycle anaplerosis is increased in alloreactive T cells and that Gln carbon contributes to ribose biosynthesis. Pharmacological modulation of oxidative phosphorylation rapidly reduces anaplerosis in alloreactive T cells and improves GVHD. On the basis of these data, we propose a model of T-cell metabolism that is relevant to activated lymphocytes in vivo, with implications for the discovery of new drugs for immune disorders.
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- Gary D Glick
- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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- Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (G.D.G., C.L., B.S., X.L., L.-Y.H., C.T., A.H., A.W.O.); Departments of Chemical Biology (G.D.G., D.W.), Chemistry (G.D.G.), Pediatrics and Communicable Disease (J.L.M.F., V.T., C.A.B.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.W.O.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.R.); Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (C.A.L.); and SIDMAP, Los Angeles, California (L.B.)
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Brown G. Defects of thiamine transport and metabolism. J Inherit Metab Dis 2014; 37:577-85. [PMID: 24789339 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-014-9712-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2014] [Revised: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/31/2014] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Thiamine, in the form of thiamine pyrophosphate, is a cofactor for a number of enzymes which play important roles in energy metabolism. Although dietary thiamine deficiency states have long been recognised, it is only relatively recently that inherited defects in thiamine uptake, activation and the attachment of the active cofactor to target enzymes have been described, and the underlying genetic defects identified. Thiamine is transported into cells by two carriers, THTR1 and THTR2, and deficiency of these results in thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia and biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease respectively. Defective synthesis of thiamine pyrophosphate has been found in a small number of patients with episodic ataxia, delayed development and dystonia, while impaired transport of thiamine pyrophosphate into the mitochondrion is associated with Amish lethal microcephaly in most cases. In addition to defects in thiamine uptake and metabolism, patients with pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency and maple syrup urine disease have been described who have a significant clinical and/or biochemical response to thiamine supplementation. In these patients, an intrinsic structural defect in the target enzymes reduces binding of the cofactor and this can be overcome at high concentrations. In most cases, the clinical and biochemical abnormalities in these conditions are relatively non-specific, and the range of recognised presentations is increasing rapidly at present as new patients are identified, often by genome sequencing. These conditions highlight the value of a trial of thiamine supplementation in patients whose clinical presentation falls within the spectrum of documented cases.
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- Garry Brown
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK,
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Reitman ZJ, Duncan CG, Poteet E, Winters A, Yan LJ, Gooden DM, Spasojevic I, Boros LG, Yang SH, Yan H. Cancer-associated isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) R132H mutation and d-2-hydroxyglutarate stimulate glutamine metabolism under hypoxia. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:23318-28. [PMID: 24986863 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.575183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Mutations in the cytosolic NADP(+)-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH1) occur in several types of cancer, and altered cellular metabolism associated with IDH1 mutations presents unique therapeutic opportunities. By altering IDH1, these mutations target a critical step in reductive glutamine metabolism, the metabolic pathway that converts glutamine ultimately to acetyl-CoA for biosynthetic processes. While IDH1-mutated cells are sensitive to therapies that target glutamine metabolism, the effect of IDH1 mutations on reductive glutamine metabolism remains poorly understood. To explore this issue, we investigated the effect of a knock-in, single-codon IDH1-R132H mutation on the metabolism of the HCT116 colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line. Here we report the R132H-isobolome by using targeted (13)C isotopomer tracer fate analysis to trace the metabolic fate of glucose and glutamine in this system. We show that introduction of the R132H mutation into IDH1 up-regulates the contribution of glutamine to lipogenesis in hypoxia, but not in normoxia. Treatment of cells with a d-2-hydroxyglutarate (d-2HG) ester recapitulated these changes, indicating that the alterations observed in the knocked-in cells were mediated by d-2HG produced by the IDH1 mutant. These studies provide a dynamic mechanistic basis for metabolic alterations observed in IDH1-mutated tumors and uncover potential therapeutic targets in IDH1-mutated cancers.
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- Zachary J Reitman
- From the Department of Pathology, the Department of Medicine, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
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- the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
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- the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
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- Small Molecule Synthesis Facility, Department of Chemistry, and
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- the Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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- SIDMAP, LLC, Los Angeles, California 90064, and Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90502
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- the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas 76107,
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- From the Department of Pathology,
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Sideroblastic anemias (SAs) may be acquired or congenital and share the features of disrupted utilization of iron in the erythroblast, ineffective erythropoiesis, and variable systemic iron overload. Congenital forms can have associated syndromic features or be nonsyndromic, and many of them have mutations in genes encoding proteins involved in heme biosynthesis, iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis, or mitochondrial protein synthesis. The mechanism(s) for the acquired clonal SA is undefined and is under intense study. Precise diagnosis of these disorders rests on careful clinical and laboratory evaluation, including molecular analysis. Supportive treatments usually provide for a favorable prognosis and often for normal survival.
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- Sylvia S Bottomley
- Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, 755 Research Park, Suite 427, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Bader 124.1, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Beshlawi I, Al Zadjali S, Bashir W, Elshinawy M, Alrawas A, Wali Y. Thiamine responsive megaloblastic anemia: the puzzling phenotype. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2014; 61:528-31. [PMID: 24249281 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.24849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 10/15/2013] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Thiamine responsive megaloblastic anemia (TRMA) is characterized by a triad of megaloblastic anemia, non-type 1 diabetes mellitus and sensorineural deafness. Other clinical findings have been described in few cases. The SLC19A2 gene on chromosome 1q 23.3 is implicated in all cases with TRMA. Our aim is to discuss the clinical manifestations of all Omani children diagnosed with TRMA and determine genotype-phenotype relationship. PROCEDURE Clinical and laboratory data of all patients diagnosed in Oman were retrospectively collected. Mutation analysis of affected families was conducted using two Microsatellite markers. Genotyping was performed with fluorescent-labeled PCR primers. To define the deletion breakpoint region, PCR reactions were carried out using different primer pairs located at the introns 3 and 3'-untranslated region with Expand Long Template PCR kit. RESULTS A total of six children have been diagnosed with this syndrome. They were five females and one male. They all presented with sensorineural deafness at birth while the age of anemia presentation ranged between 6 weeks to 19 months. They all belong to same family with complex interfamilial marriages and presented with the typical triad. Of interest is the very rare presentation of one patient with Uhl cardiac anomaly (total absence of right ventricular myocardium with apposition of endocardium and pericardium) that has never been described before in patients with TRMA. All patients have a novel large deletion of 5,224 bp involving exons 4, 5, and 6 of SLC19A2. CONCLUSIONS TRMA is a disease of expanding phenotypic spectrum with poor genotype-phenotype correlation.
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- Ismail Beshlawi
- Department of Child Health, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman
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Srikrupa NN, Meenakshi S, Arokiasamy T, Murali K, Soumittra N. Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis as the Retinal Degenerative Phenotype in Thiamine Responsive Megaloblastic Anemia: A Case Report. Ophthalmic Genet 2013; 35:119-24. [DOI: 10.3109/13816810.2013.793363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Pichler H, Zeitlhofer P, Dworzak MN, Diakos C, Haas OA, Kager L. Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia (TRMA) in an Austrian boy with compound heterozygous SLC19A2 mutations. Eur J Pediatr 2012; 171:1711-5. [PMID: 22576805 DOI: 10.1007/s00431-012-1730-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2012] [Accepted: 03/21/2012] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia (TRMA) is a rare disorder typically characterized by megaloblastic anemia, non-type I diabetes and sensorineural deafness. It is caused by various mutations in the SLC19A2 gene that impair the encoded thiamine transporter. So far, only 70 affected individuals mainly from consanguineous families of Middle and Far Eastern origin with a wide spectrum of signs and symptoms, variable onset of disease, and primarily homozygote mutations in SLC19A2 have been reported. We present the first genuine central European descendent with combined heterozygote mutations in SLC19A2, an Austrian boy suffering from pancytopenia and non-type I diabetes. Both manifestations resolved completely under continuous oral thiamine supplementation. Our observation underlines that despite its rarity, TRMA must be considered as an important differential diagnosis in native central European patients with suggestive signs and symptoms. An early molecular genetic verification of the diagnosis provides a sound basis for a successful and simple treatment that helps to prevent severe sequelae.
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- Herbert Pichler
- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, St. Anna Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Optimization of 13C isotopic tracers for metabolic flux analysis in mammalian cells. Metab Eng 2011; 14:162-71. [PMID: 22198197 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2011] [Revised: 12/09/2011] [Accepted: 12/12/2011] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Mammalian cells consume and metabolize various substrates from their surroundings for energy generation and biomass synthesis. Glucose and glutamine, in particular, are the primary carbon sources for proliferating cancer cells. While this combination of substrates generates static labeling patterns for use in (13)C metabolic flux analysis (MFA), the inability of single tracers to effectively label all pathways poses an obstacle for comprehensive flux determination within a given experiment. To address this issue we applied a genetic algorithm to optimize mixtures of (13)C-labeled glucose and glutamine for use in MFA. We identified tracer combinations that minimized confidence intervals in an experimentally determined flux network describing central carbon metabolism in tumor cells. Additional simulations were used to determine the robustness of the [1,2-(13)C(2)]glucose/[U-(13)C(5)]glutamine tracer combination with respect to perturbations in the network. Finally, we experimentally validated the improved performance of this tracer set relative to glucose tracers alone in a cancer cell line. This versatile method allows researchers to determine the optimal tracer combination to use for a specific metabolic network, and our findings applied to cancer cells significantly enhance the ability of MFA experiments to precisely quantify fluxes in higher organisms.
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Metallo CM, Gameiro PA, Bell EL, Mattaini KR, Yang J, Hiller K, Jewell CM, Johnson ZR, Irvine DJ, Guarente L, Kelleher JK, Vander Heiden MG, Iliopoulos O, Stephanopoulos G. Reductive glutamine metabolism by IDH1 mediates lipogenesis under hypoxia. Nature 2011; 481:380-4. [PMID: 22101433 PMCID: PMC3710581 DOI: 10.1038/nature10602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1357] [Impact Index Per Article: 104.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2011] [Accepted: 09/28/2011] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Acetyl coenzyme A (AcCoA) is the central biosynthetic precursor for fatty-acid synthesis and protein acetylation. In the conventional view of mammalian cell metabolism, AcCoA is primarily generated from glucose-derived pyruvate through the citrate shuttle and ATP citrate lyase in the cytosol. However, proliferating cells that exhibit aerobic glycolysis and those exposed to hypoxia convert glucose to lactate at near-stoichiometric levels, directing glucose carbon away from the tricarboxylic acid cycle and fatty-acid synthesis. Although glutamine is consumed at levels exceeding that required for nitrogen biosynthesis, the regulation and use of glutamine metabolism in hypoxic cells is not well understood. Here we show that human cells use reductive metabolism of α-ketoglutarate to synthesize AcCoA for lipid synthesis. This isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1)-dependent pathway is active in most cell lines under normal culture conditions, but cells grown under hypoxia rely almost exclusively on the reductive carboxylation of glutamine-derived α-ketoglutarate for de novo lipogenesis. Furthermore, renal cell lines deficient in the von Hippel-Lindau tumour suppressor protein preferentially use reductive glutamine metabolism for lipid biosynthesis even at normal oxygen levels. These results identify a critical role for oxygen in regulating carbon use to produce AcCoA and support lipid synthesis in mammalian cells.
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- Christian M. Metallo
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA and the Center for Cancer Research, Charlestown, MA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Koch Institute for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA and the Center for Cancer Research, Charlestown, MA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Koch Institute for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- Koch Institute for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- Koch Institute for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 20815, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Koch Institute for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA and the Center for Cancer Research, Charlestown, MA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Thiamine (vitamin B 1) was the first B vitamin to have been identified. It serves as a cofactor for several enzymes involved in energy metabolism. The thiamine-dependent enzymes are important for the biosynthesis of neurotransmitters and for the production of reducing substances used in oxidant stress defenses, as well as for the synthesis of pentoses used as nucleic acid precursors. Thiamine plays a central role in cerebral metabolism. Its deficiency results in dry beriberi, a peripheral neuropathy, wet beriberi, a cardiomyopathy with edema and lactic acidosis, and Wernicke—Korsakoff syndrome, whose manifestations consist of nystagmus, ophthalmoplegia, and ataxia evolving into confusion, retrograde amnesia, cognitive impairment, and confabulation. Patients on a strict thiamine-deficient diet display a state of severe depletion within 18 days. The most common cause of thiamine deficiency in affluent countries is either alcoholism or malnutrition in nonalcoholic patients. Treatment by thiamine supplementation is beneficial for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
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Crouzet-Ozenda Luci L, De Smet S, Monpoux F, Ferrero-Vacher C, Giuliano F, Sirvent N. Galactosémie congénitale associée à un syndrome de Rogers chez une petite fille de 10 mois. Arch Pediatr 2011; 18:54-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.arcped.2010.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2010] [Revised: 03/30/2010] [Accepted: 10/08/2010] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Fleming MD. Congenital sideroblastic anemias: iron and heme lost in mitochondrial translation. HEMATOLOGY. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY. EDUCATION PROGRAM 2011; 2011:525-531. [PMID: 22160084 DOI: 10.1182/asheducation-2011.1.525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The congenital sideroblastic anemias (CSAs) are an uncommon, diverse class of inherited hematopoietic disorders characterized by pathological deposition of iron in the mitochondria of erythroid precursors. In recent years, the genetic causes of several clinically distinctive forms of CSA have been elucidated, which has revealed common themes in their pathogenesis. In particular, most, if not all, can be attributed to disordered mitochondrial heme synthesis, iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis, or pathways related to mitochondrial protein synthesis. This review summarizes the clinical features, molecular genetics, and pathophysiology of each of the CSAs in the context of these pathways.
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- Mark D Fleming
- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Paul Lee WN, Wahjudi PN, Xu J, Go VL. Tracer-based metabolomics: concepts and practices. Clin Biochem 2010; 43:1269-77. [PMID: 20713038 PMCID: PMC2952699 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2010.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2010] [Revised: 07/23/2010] [Accepted: 07/31/2010] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Tracer-based metabolomics is a systems biology tool that combines advances in tracer methodology for physiological studies, high throughput "-omics" technologies and constraint based modeling of metabolic networks. It is different from the commonly known metabolomics or metabonomics in that it is a targeted approach based on a metabolic network model in cells. Because of its complexity, it is the least understood among the various "-omics." In this review, the development of concepts and practices of tracer-based metabolomics is traced from the early application of radioactive isotopes in metabolic studies to the recent application of stable isotopes and isotopomer analysis using mass spectrometry; and from the modeling of biochemical reactions using flux analysis to the recent theoretical formulation of the constraint based modeling. How these newer experimental methods and concepts of constraint-based modeling approaches can be applied to metabolic studies is illustrated by examples of studies in determining metabolic responses of cells to pharmacological agents and nutrient environment changes.
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- W-N Paul Lee
- UCLA Center of Excellence for Pancreatic Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, 1124 West Carson Torrance, CA 90502, USA.
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Wahl DR, Petersen B, Warner R, Richardson BC, Glick GD, Opipari AW. Characterization of the metabolic phenotype of chronically activated lymphocytes. Lupus 2010; 19:1492-501. [PMID: 20647250 DOI: 10.1177/0961203310373109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Activated lymphocytes proliferate, secrete cytokines, and can make antibodies. Normally activated B and T cells meet the bioenergetic demand for these processes by up-regulating aerobic glycolysis. In contrast, several lines of evidence suggest that pathogenic lymphocytes in autoimmune diseases like lupus meet ATP demands through oxidative phosphorylation. Using (13)C-glucose as a stable tracer, we found that splenocytes from mice with lupus derive the same fraction of lactate from glucose as control animals, suggesting comparable levels of glycolysis and non-oxidative ATP production. However, lupus splenocytes increase glucose oxidation by 40% over healthy control animals. The ratio between pentose phosphate cycle (PPC) activity and glycolysis is the same for each group, indicating that increased glucose oxidation is due to increased activity of the TCA cycle in lupus splenocytes. Repetitive stimulation of cultured human T cells was used to model chronic lymphocyte activation, a phenotype associated with lupus. Chronically activated T cells rely primarily on oxidative metabolism for ATP synthesis suggesting that chronic antigen stimulation may be the basis for the metabolic findings observed in lupus mice. Identification of disease-related bioenergetic phenotypes should contribute to new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for immune diseases.
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- D R Wahl
- Chemical Biology Doctoral Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Sinha-Hikim I, Shen R, Paul Lee WNN, Crum A, Vaziri ND, Norris KC. Effects of a novel cystine-based glutathione precursor on oxidative stress in vascular smooth muscle cells. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2010; 299:C638-42. [PMID: 20592243 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00434.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with accelerated atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, which is largely mediated by oxidative stress. We investigated the effect of three glutathione (GSH) precursors: N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), cystine as the physiological carrier of cysteine in GSH with added selenomethionine (F1), and NAC fortified with selenomethionine (F2) on oxidative stress induced by spermine (a uremic toxin) in cultured human aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). VSMC were exposed to spermine (15 microM) with or without the given antioxidants (dose 50, 100, 200, and 500 microg/ml) or vehicle (control) and assessed for intracellular GSH levels, 4-hydroxy-trans-2-nonenal (4-HNE), and incorporation of 13C from glucose into alanine and protein. Spermine exposure reduced intracellular GSH levels, increased 4-HNE, and impaired glucose metabolism through reduction in pyruvate generation and/or transamination. Treatment with NAC had no effect on intracellular glutathione level. In contrast, F1 maintained intracellular GSH at control levels at all four doses. Subsequent studies performed with 200 microg/ml of F1, F2, or NAC (optimal dose) revealed normalization of 4-HNE, whereas restoration of 13C from glucose to alanine or protein to control values was only noted in the F1 group. Spermine-induced alterations in VSMC ultrastructure were prevented in approximately 90% of cells treated with F1 but only approximately 50% of cells treated with either NAC or F2. In conclusion, F1 was more effective than NAC or F2 in ameliorating spermine-induced reduction in intracellular GSH levels and cellular alterations in VSMC. The cystine-based GSH precursor (F1) is a promising antioxidant, and further studies are needed to examine the effect of this compound in preventing CKD-associated vascular disease.
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- Indrani Sinha-Hikim
- Dept. of Medicine, Charles Drew Univ., 1731 E. 120th St., Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA.
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Neuwirth AK, Sahai I, Falcone JF, Fleming J, Bagg A, Borgna-Pignatti C, Casey R, Fabris L, Hexner E, Mathews L, Ribeiro ML, Wierenga KJ, Neufeld EJ. Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia: identification of novel compound heterozygotes and mutation update. J Pediatr 2009; 155:888-892.e1. [PMID: 19643445 PMCID: PMC2858590 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2009] [Revised: 03/25/2009] [Accepted: 06/08/2009] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine causative mutations and clinical status of 7 previously unreported kindreds with TRMA syndrome, (thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia, online Mendelian inheritance in man, no. 249270), a recessive disorder of thiamine transporter Slc19A2. STUDY DESIGN Genomic DNA was purified from blood, and SLC19A2 mutations were characterized by sequencing polymerase chain reaction-amplified coding regions and intron-exon boundaries of all probands. Compound heterozygotes were further analyzed by sequencing parents, or cloning patient genomic DNA, to ascertain that mutations were in trans. RESULTS We detected 9 novel SLC19A2 mutations. Of these, 5 were missense, 3 were nonsense, and 1 was insertion. Five patients from 4 kindreds were compound heterozygotes, a finding not reported previously for this disorder, which has mostly been found in consanguineous kindreds. CONCLUSION SLC19A2 mutation sites in TRMA are heterogeneous; with no regional "hot spots." TRMA can be caused by heterozygous compound mutations; in these cases, the disorder is found in outbred populations. To the extent that heterozygous patients were ascertained at older ages, a plausible explanation is that if one or more allele(s) is not null, partial function might be preserved. Phenotypic variability may lead to underdiagnosis or diagnostic delay, as the average time between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis was 8 years in this cohort.
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- Anke K. Neuwirth
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Translational Research Program, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children’s Hospital & University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Surgical and Gastroenterological Sciences University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Medical College Calicut, Kerala, India
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Florida
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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Defoiche J, Zhang Y, Lagneaux L, Pettengell R, Hegedus A, Willems L, Macallan DC. Measurement of ribosomal RNA turnover in vivo by use of deuterium-labeled glucose. Clin Chem 2009; 55:1824-33. [PMID: 19696118 DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2008.119446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Most methods for estimation of rates of RNA production are not applicable in human in vivo clinical studies. We describe here an approach for measuring ribosomal RNA turnover in vivo using [6,6-(2)H(2)]-glucose as a precursor for de novo RNA synthesis. Because this method involves neither radioactivity nor toxic metabolites, it is suitable for human studies. METHODS For method development in vitro, a lymphocyte cell line (PM1) was cultured in the presence of [6,6-(2)H(2)]-glucose. RNA was extracted, hydrolyzed enzymatically to ribonucleosides, and derivatized to either the aldonitrile tetra-acetate or the pentafluoro triacetate derivative of the pentose before GC-MS. We identified optimum derivatization and analysis conditions and demonstrated quantitative incorporation of deuterium from glucose into RNA of dividing cells. RESULTS Pilot clinical studies demonstrated the applicability of this approach to blood leukocytes and solid tissues. A patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia received [6,6-(2)H(2)]-glucose (1 g/kg) orally in aliquots administered every 30 min for a period of 10 h. When we analyzed CD3(-) B cells that had been purified by gradient centrifugation and magnetic-bead adhesion, we observed deuterium enrichment, a finding consistent with a ribosomal RNA production rate of about 7%/day, despite the slow division rates observed in concurrent DNA-labeling analysis. Similarly, in 2 patients with malignant infiltration of lymph nodes, administration of [6,6-(2)H(2)]-glucose (by intravenous infusion for 24 h) before excision biopsy allowed estimation of DNA and RNA turnover in lymph node samples. CONCLUSIONS Our study results demonstrate the proof-of-principle that deuterium-labeled glucose may be used to analyze RNA turnover, in addition to DNA production/cell proliferation, in clinical samples.
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- Julien Defoiche
- Centre for Infection, St George's, University of London, London, UK
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Metallo CM, Walther JL, Stephanopoulos G. Evaluation of 13C isotopic tracers for metabolic flux analysis in mammalian cells. J Biotechnol 2009; 144:167-74. [PMID: 19622376 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2009.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2009] [Revised: 06/26/2009] [Accepted: 07/08/2009] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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(13)C metabolic flux analysis (MFA) is the most comprehensive means of characterizing cellular metabolic states. Uniquely labeled isotopic tracers enable more focused analyses to probe specific reactions within the network. As a result, the choice of tracer largely determines the precision with which one can estimate metabolic fluxes, especially in complex mammalian systems that require multiple substrates. Here we have experimentally determined metabolic fluxes in a tumor cell line, successfully recapitulating the hallmarks of cancer cell metabolism. Using these data, we computationally evaluated specifically labeled (13)C glucose and glutamine tracers for their ability to precisely and accurately estimate fluxes in central carbon metabolism. These methods enabled us to identify the optimal tracer for analyzing individual fluxes, specific pathways, and central carbon metabolism as a whole. [1,2-(13)C(2)]glucose provided the most precise estimates for glycolysis, the pentose phosphate pathway, and the overall network. Tracers such as [2-(13)C]glucose and [3-(13)C]glucose also outperformed the more commonly used [1-(13)C]glucose. [U-(13)C(5)]glutamine emerged as the preferred isotopic tracer for the analysis of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. These results provide valuable, quantitative information on the performance of (13)C-labeled substrates and can aid in the design of more informative MFA experiments in mammalian cell culture.
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- Christian M Metallo
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building 56 Room 469C, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
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Griffin JL, Des Rosiers C. Applications of metabolomics and proteomics to the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: lessons from downstream of the transcriptome. Genome Med 2009; 1:32. [PMID: 19341503 PMCID: PMC2664943 DOI: 10.1186/gm32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Functional genomic studies are dominated by transcriptomic approaches, in part reflecting the vast amount of information that can be obtained, the ability to amplify mRNA and the availability of commercially standardized functional genomic DNA microarrays and related techniques. This can be contrasted with proteomics, metabolomics and metabolic flux analysis (fluxomics), which have all been much slower in development, despite these techniques each providing a unique viewpoint of what is happening in the overall biological system. Here, we give an overview of developments in these fields 'downstream' of the transcriptome by considering the characterization of one particular, but widely used, mouse model of human disease. The mdx mouse is a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and has been widely used to understand the progressive skeletal muscle wasting that accompanies DMD, and more recently the associated cardiomyopathy, as well as to unravel the roles of the other isoforms of dystrophin, such as those found in the brain. Studies using proteomics, metabolomics and fluxomics have characterized perturbations in calcium homeostasis in dystrophic skeletal muscle, provided an understanding of the role of dystrophin in skeletal muscle regeneration, and defined the changes in substrate energy metabolism in the working heart. More importantly, they all point to perturbations in proteins, metabolites and metabolic fluxes reflecting mitochondrial energetic alterations, even in the early stage of the dystrophic pathology. Philosophically, these studies also illustrate an important lesson relevant to both functional genomics and the mouse phenotyping in that the knowledge generated has advanced our understanding of cell biology and physiological organization as much as it has advanced our understanding of the disease.
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- Julian L Griffin
- Department of Biochemistry, Tennis Court Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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Alves R, Vilaprinyo E, Hernández-Bermejo B, Sorribas A. Mathematical formalisms based on approximated kinetic representations for modeling genetic and metabolic pathways. Biotechnol Genet Eng Rev 2008; 25:1-40. [DOI: 10.5661/bger-25-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Fatty liver is a common feature of both obesity and lipodystrophy, reflecting compromised adipose tissue function. The lipin-deficient fatty liver dystrophy (fld) mouse is an exception, as there is lipodystrophy without a fatty liver. Using a combination of indirect calorimetry and stable-isotope flux phenotyping, we determined that fld mice exhibit abnormal fuel utilization throughout the diurnal cycle, with increased glucose oxidation near the end of the fasting period and increased fatty acid oxidation during the feeding period. The mechanisms underlying these alterations include a twofold increase compared with wild-type mice in tissue glycogen storage during the fed state, a 40% reduction in hepatic glucose production in the fasted state, and a 27-fold increase in de novo fatty acid synthesis in liver during the fed state. Thus, the inability to store energy in adipose tissue in the fld mouse leads to a compensatory increase in glycogen storage for use during the fasting period and reliance upon hepatic fatty acid synthesis to provide fuel for peripheral tissues during the fed state. The increase in hepatic fatty acid synthesis and peripheral utilization provides a potential mechanism to ameliorate fatty liver in the fld that would otherwise occur as a consequence of adipose tissue dysfunction.
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- Jun Xu
- State University of New York at Stony Brook, HSC T-15 Room 060, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8154, 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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Understanding nutrient-gene interaction requires tools for both the study of nutrigenomics and the characterization of phenotype. Metabolomics or metabolite profiling is a powerful tool for characterizing metabolic phenotype, and tracer-based metabolomics is a subset of metabolomics that focuses on metabolite distribution and flux determination using tracers. In this review, the characterizations of metabolic phenotype by metabolite profiling and by metabolic flux measurements are compared. The rationale and methodologies of tracer-based metabolomics are explained. Tracer-based metabolomics provides a relational database of metabolites linked by the relationship of shared metabolic pathways, common substrates, and cofactors. Such a collection of flux measurements provides precise and accurate information on the operation of the cellular metabolic network and its response to genetic and nutrient environment changes. Nutrient-gene interaction can be studied using the concept of constraint-based modeling, which states that the observed metabolic phenotype is a consequence of constraints from genetic factors and the nutrient environment. Thus, genetic inheritance (genomic constraints) confers a wide range of possible phenotypes whereas selection by metabolic (structural and pathway relationship) and environmental (physical environment and nutrient availability) constraints determines the final observed phenotype. The study of the contribution from nutrient and genetic factors to the survival advantage of cancer cells using flux measurements is a critical first step in our understanding of the relationship between nutrient intake and cancer risk.
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- Wai-Nang P Lee
- LABiomed Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Porter JR, Barrett TG. Monogenic syndromes of abnormal glucose homeostasis: clinical review and relevance to the understanding of the pathology of insulin resistance and beta cell failure. J Med Genet 2005; 42:893-902. [PMID: 15772126 PMCID: PMC1735963 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2005.030791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus is caused by a combination of insulin resistance and beta cell failure. The polygenic nature of type 2 diabetes has made it difficult to study. Although many candidate genes for this condition have been suggested, in most cases association studies have been equivocal. Monogenic forms of diabetes have now been studied extensively, and the genetic basis of many of these syndromes has been elucidated, leading to greater understanding of the functions of the genes involved. Common variations in the genes causing monogenic disorders have been associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in several populations and explain some of the linkage seen in genome-wide scans. Monogenic disorders are also helpful in understanding both normal and disordered glucose and insulin metabolism. Three main areas of defect contribute to diabetes: defects in insulin signalling leading to insulin resistance; defects of insulin secretion leading to hypoinsulinaemia; and apoptosis leading to decreased beta cell mass. These three pathological pathways are reviewed, focusing on rare genetic syndromes which have diabetes as a prominent feature. Apoptosis seems to be a final common pathway in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Study of rare forms of diabetes may help ion determining new therapeutic targets to preserve or increase beta cell mass and function.
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- J R Porter
- Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK.
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Lee WNP, Guo P, Lim S, Bassilian S, Lee ST, Boren J, Cascante M, Go VLW, Boros LG. Metabolic sensitivity of pancreatic tumour cell apoptosis to glycogen phosphorylase inhibitor treatment. Br J Cancer 2005; 91:2094-100. [PMID: 15599384 PMCID: PMC2409791 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Inhibitors of glycogen breakdown regulate glucose homeostasis by limiting glucose production in diabetes. Here we demonstrate that restrained glycogen breakdown also inhibits cancer cell proliferation and induces apoptosis through limiting glucose oxidation, as well as nucleic acid and de novo fatty acid synthesis. Increasing doses (50-100 microM) of the glycogen phosphorylase inhibitor CP-320626 inhibited [1,2-(13)C(2)]glucose stable isotope substrate re-distribution among glycolysis, pentose and de novo fatty acid synthesis in MIA pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells. Limited oxidative pentose-phosphate synthesis, glucose contribution to acetyl CoA and de novo fatty acid synthesis closely correlated with decreased cell proliferation. The stable isotope-based dynamic metabolic profile of MIA cells indicated a significant dose-dependent decrease in macromolecule synthesis, which was detected at lower drug doses and before the appearance of apoptosis markers. Normal fibroblasts (CRL-1501) did not show morphological or metabolic signs of apoptosis likely due to their slow rate of growth and metabolic activity. This indicates that limiting carbon re-cycling and rapid substrate mobilisation from glycogen may be an effective and selective target site for new drug development in rapidly dividing cancer cells. In conclusion, pancreatic cancer cell growth arrest and death are closely associated with a characteristic decrease in glycogen breakdown and glucose carbon re-distribution towards RNA/DNA and fatty acids during CP-320626 treatment.
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- W-N P Lee
- Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, RB1, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
- SIDMAP, LLC, 10021 Cheviot Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, RB1, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, RB1, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, RB1, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, RB1, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, C/Marti I Franques 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, C/Marti I Franques 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, 900 Veteran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, RB1, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
- SIDMAP, LLC, 10021 Cheviot Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA
- SIDMAP, LLC, 10021 Cheviot Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA. E-mail:
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Boros LG, Serkova NJ, Cascante MS, Lee WNP. Use of metabolic pathway flux information in targeted cancer drug design. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ddstr.2004.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Marin S, Lee WN, Bassilian S, Lim S, Boros L, Centelles J, FERNáNDEZ-NOVELL J, Guinovart J, Cascante M. Dynamic profiling of the glucose metabolic network in fasted rat hepatocytes using [1,2-13C2]glucose. Biochem J 2004; 381:287-94. [PMID: 15032751 PMCID: PMC1133787 DOI: 10.1042/bj20031737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2003] [Revised: 03/15/2004] [Accepted: 03/22/2004] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Recent studies in metabolic profiling have underscored the importance of the concept of a metabolic network of pathways with special functional characteristics that differ from those of simple reaction sequences. The characterization of metabolic functions requires the simultaneous measurement of substrate fluxes of interconnecting pathways. Here we present a novel stable isotope method by which the forward and reverse fluxes of the futile cycles of the hepatic glucose metabolic network are simultaneously determined. Unlike previous radio-isotope methods, a single tracer [1,2-13C2]D-glucose and mass isotopomer analysis is used. Changes in fluxes of substrate cycles, in response to several gluconeogenic substrates, in isolated fasted hepatocytes from male Wistar rats were measured simultaneously. Incubation with these substrates resulted in a change in glucose-6-phosphatase/glucokinase and glycolytic/gluconeogenic flux ratios. Different net redistributions of intermediates in the glucose network were observed, resulting in distinct metabolic phenotypes of the fasted hepatocytes in response to each substrate condition. Our experimental observations show that the constraints of concentrations of shared intermediates, and enzyme kinetics of intersecting pathways of the metabolic network determine substrate redistribution throughout the network when it is perturbed. These results support the systems-biology notion that network analysis provides an integrated view of the physiological state. Interaction between metabolic intermediates and glycolytic/gluconeogenic pathways is a basic element of cross-talk in hepatocytes, and may explain some of the difficulties in genotype and phenotype correlation.
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- Silvia Marin
- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain
- †Centre de Recerca en Química Teòrica (CeRQT), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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- ‡Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, 1124 West Carson St. RB 1, Torrance, CA 90502, U.S.A
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- ‡Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, 1124 West Carson St. RB 1, Torrance, CA 90502, U.S.A
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- ‡Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, 1124 West Carson St. RB 1, Torrance, CA 90502, U.S.A
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- ‡Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, 1124 West Carson St. RB 1, Torrance, CA 90502, U.S.A
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- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain
- †Centre de Recerca en Química Teòrica (CeRQT), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain
- §Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona (IRBB), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain
- †Centre de Recerca en Química Teòrica (CeRQT), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (e-mail )
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