scholarly journals Butyrate Alters Pyruvate Flux and Induces Lipid Accumulation in Cultured Colonocytes

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (20) ◽  
pp. 10937
Author(s):  
Anna F. Bekebrede ◽  
Thirza van Deuren ◽  
Walter J. J. Gerrits ◽  
Jaap Keijer ◽  
Vincent C. J. de Boer

Butyrate is considered the primary energy source of colonocytes and has received wide attention due to its unique health benefits. Insight into the mechanistic effects of butyrate on cellular and metabolic function relies mainly on research in in-vitro-cultured cells. However, cells in culture differ from those in vivo in terms of metabolic phenotype and nutrient availability. For translation, it is therefore important to understand the impact of different nutrients on the effects of butyrate. We investigated the metabolic consequences of butyrate exposure under various culturing conditions, with a focus on the interaction between butyrate and glucose. To investigate whether the effects of butyrate were different between cell­­s with high and low mitochondrial capacity, we cultured HT29 cells under either low- (0.5 mM) or high- (25 mM) glucose conditions. Low-glucose culturing increased the mitochondrial capacity of HT29 cells compared to high-glucose (25 mM) cultured HT29 cells. Long-term exposure to butyrate did not alter mitochondrial bioenergetics, but it decreased glycolytic function, regardless of glucose availability. In addition, both high- and low-glucose-grown HT29 cells showed increased lipid droplet accumulation following long-term butyrate exposure. Acute exposure of cultured cells (HT29 and Caco-2) to butyrate increased their oxygen consumption rate (OCR). A simultaneous decrease in extracellular acidification rate (ECAR) was observed. Furthermore, in the absence of glucose, OCR did not increase in response to butyrate. These results lead us to believe that butyrate itself was not responsible for the observed increase in OCR, but, instead, butyrate stimulated pyruvate flux into mitochondria. Indeed, blocking of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier prevented a butyrate-induced increase in oxygen consumption. Taken together, our results indicate that butyrate itself is not oxidized in cultured cells but instead alters pyruvate flux and induces lipid accumulation.

1998 ◽  
Vol 550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Senuma ◽  
S. Franceschin ◽  
J. G. Hilborn ◽  
P. Tissiéres ◽  
P. Frey

AbstractA new approach to the vesico-ureteral reflux could be a local regeneration of the defective vesicoureteral junction by transplanting living cells to the target site. The aim of this work is to provide a long-term effective treatment by producing bioresorbable microspheres which can act as support matrix for those cells, with the goal of an in vivo transfer of the in vitro cultured cells with a minimal surgical procedure. After microsphere degradation, the cells should be integrated into the muscular structure of the junction. Most innovative is that these are cultured muscle and urothelial cells from the bladder of the same patient.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1805-1813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junyi Yang ◽  
Devin J. Rose

A diet high in whole grains, dry beans, and certain vegetables that contributed dietary fiber, plant protein, and B vitamins resulted in high short chain fatty acids, while a diet high in diary and processed meats that provided cholesterol and little fiber resulted in high branched chain fatty acids and ammonia during fecal fermentation of inulin.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shijie He ◽  
Peng Lei ◽  
Wenying Kang ◽  
Priscilla Cheung ◽  
Tao Xu ◽  
...  

SummaryDoes fibrotic gut stiffening caused by inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) direct the fate of intestinal stem cells (ISCs)? To address this question we first developed a novel long-term culture of quasi-3D gut organoids plated on hydrogel matrix of varying stiffness. Stiffening from 0.6kPa to 9.6kPa significantly reduces Lgr5high ISCs and Ki67+ progenitor cells while promoting their differentiation towards goblet cells. These stiffness-driven events are attributable to YAP nuclear translocation. Matrix stiffening also extends the expression of the stemness marker Olfactomedin 4 (Olfm4) into villus-like regions, mediated by cytoplasmic YAP. We next used single-cell RNA sequencing to generate for the first time the stiffness-regulated transcriptional signatures of ISCs and their differentiated counterparts. These signatures confirm the impact of stiffening on ISC fate and additionally suggest a stiffening-induced switch in metabolic phenotype, from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis. Finally, we used colon samples from IBD patients as well as chronic colitis murine models to confirm the in vivo stiffening-induced epithelial deterioration similar to that observed in vitro. Together, these results demonstrate stiffness-dependent ISC reprograming wherein YAP nuclear translocation diminishes ISCs and Ki67+ progenitors and drives their differentiation towards goblet cells, suggesting stiffening as potential target to mitigate gut epithelial deterioration during IBD.


2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1399-1409
Author(s):  
Nafisa Ferdous ◽  
Sirisha Kudumala ◽  
Serena Sossi ◽  
Lucia Carvelli

AbstractAmphetamine (AMPH) is a systemic stimulant used to treat a variety of diseases including Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, narcolepsy and obesity. Previous data showed that by binding to catecholamine transporters, AMPH prevents the reuptake of the neurotransmitters dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE). Because AMPH, either used therapeutically at final concentrations of 1–10 µM or abused as recreational drug (50–200 µM), is taken over long periods of time, we investigated the prolonged effects of this drug on the uptake of DA. We found that, in LLC-PK1 cells stably expressing the human DA transporter (hDAT), pretreatments with 1 or 50 µM AMPH caused significant reduction in DA uptake right after the 15-h pretreatment. Remarkably, after 50 but not 1 µM AMPH pretreatment, we observed a significant reduction in DA uptake also after one, two or three cell divisions. To test whether these long-term effects induced by AMPH where conserved in a model comparable to primordial neuronal cells and native neurons, we used the human neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y cells, which were reported to endogenously express both hDAT and the NE transporter. Pretreatments with 50 µM AMPH caused a significant reduction of DA uptake both right after 15 h and 3 cell divisions followed by neuro-differentiation with retinoic acid (RA) for 5 days. Under these same conditions, AMPH did not change the intracellular concentrations of ATP, ROS and cell viability suggesting, therefore, that the reduction in DA uptake was not cause by AMPH-induced toxicity. Interestingly, while 1 µM AMPH did not cause long-term effects in the LLC-PK1 cells, in the SH-SY5Y cells, it decreased the DA uptake after one, two, but not three, cell divisions and 5-day RA differentiation. These data show that besides the well-known acute effects, AMPH can also produce long-term effects in vitro that are maintained during cell division and transmitted to the daughter cells.


Blood ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 641-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga I. Gan ◽  
Barbara Murdoch ◽  
Andre Larochelle ◽  
John E. Dick

Abstract Many experimental and clinical protocols are being developed that involve ex vivo culture of human hematopoietic cells on stroma or in the presence of cytokines. However, the effect of these manipulations on primitive hematopoietic cells is not known. Our severe combined immune-deficient mouse (SCID)-repopulating cell (SRC) assay detects primitive human hematopoietic cells based on their ability to repopulate the bone marrow (BM) of immune-deficient non-obese diabetic/SCID (NOD/SCID) mice. We have examined here the maintenance of SRC, colony-forming cells (CFC), and long-term culture-initiating cells (LTC-IC) during coculture of adult human BM or umbilical cord blood (CB) cells with allogeneic human stroma. Transplantation of cultured cells in equivalent doses as fresh cells resulted in lower levels of human cell engraftment after 1 and 2 weeks of culture for BM and CB, respectively. Similar results were obtained using CD34+-enriched CB cells. By limiting dilution analysis, the frequency of SRC in BM declined sixfold after 1 week of culture. In contrast to the loss of SRC as measured by reduced repopulating capacity, the transplanted inocula of cultured cells frequently contained equal or higher numbers of CFC and LTC-IC compared with the inocula of fresh cells. The differential maintenance of CFC/LTC-IC and SRC suggests that SRC are biologically distinct from the majority of these in vitro progenitors. This report demonstrates the importance of the SRC assay in the development of ex vivo conditions that will allow maintenance of primitive human hematopoietic cells with repopulating capacity.


1978 ◽  
Vol 148 (3) ◽  
pp. 823-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
J W Schrader ◽  
S Schrader

In vitro cultures of mouse bone marrow cells, maintained for periods up to 7 wk, were shown to contain cells able to repopulate irradiated hosts with T and B lymphocytes. The lymphocytes were fully functional and there did not appear to be any gross restriction of their receptor repertoire. The cultured cells reconstituted irradiated semiallogenic hosts without evidence of graft-versus-host disease, suggesting that culture of donor marrow might be a useful preliminary to transplantation when tissue matching is incomplete.


Blood ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 1651-1651
Author(s):  
Aarthi Shenoy ◽  
Loretta Pfannes ◽  
Francois Wilhelm ◽  
Manoj Maniar ◽  
Neal Young ◽  
...  

Abstract CD34 positive cells from patients with trisomy 8 myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) have pronounced expression of early apoptotic markers compared to normal hematopoietic cells. However, trisomy 8 clones persist in patients with bone marrow failure and expand following immunosuppression (Sloand EM et al; Blood2005; 106(3):841). We have demonstrated up-regulation of c-myc, survivin, and CD1 in CD34 cells of patients with trisomy 8 (Sloand et al; Blood2007; 109(6):2399). Employing siRNA mediated knockdown of the anti-apoptotic protein survivin, we demonstrated a decrease in trisomy 8 cell growth and postulated that increased Cyclin D1 caused the upregulation of survivin resulting in resistance of these cells to apoptosis. Using fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) we showed that the novel styryl sulfone, ON 01910.Na (Vedula MS et al; European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry2003;38:811), inhibits cyclin D1 accumulation and is selectively toxic to trisomy 8 cells while promoting maturation of diploid cells. Flow cytometry of cultured cells demonstrated increased proportions of mature CD15 positive myeloid cells and decreased number of immature CD33+ cells or CD34+ blasts (Sloand EM et al; Blood2007;110:822). These encouraging in vitro data led to a phase I/II trial of ON 01910.Na in MDS patients with refractory anemia with excess blasts who had IPSS =/> int-2. This study was designed to assess the safety, and activity of escalating doses of ON 01910.Na (800 mg/m2/day × 3 days, 800 mg/m2/day × 5 days, 1500 mg/m2/day × 5 days, 1800 mg/m2/day × 5 days every 2 weeks) in MDS patients. To date five MDS patients have been treated with ON 01910.Na for 4 to 16 weeks in the first two dose cohorts. Two patients had isolated trisomy 8, two had complex cytogenetic abnormalities including trisomy 8 in all aneuploid cells, and one had monosomy 7. Three and five day infusions were well tolerated. Pharmakokinetic analysis showed that the half life of the drug is 1.3 ± 0.5 hours without signs of drug accumulation. Four of five patients demonstrated a rapid and significant decrease in the number of peripheral blasts and aneuploid cells after 4 weeks of therapy (see below), concomitantly with increases in neutrophil and/or platelet counts in four patients. All four patients exhibiting a biological effect of drug treatment had trisomy 8 in their aneuploid clone prior to therapy. One monosomy 7 patient, previously refractory to EPO became responsive to Darbopoietin and another trisomy 8 patient became platelet-transfusion independent. In this early safety trial, ON 01910.Na demonstrates efficacy at early timepoints with respect to improved cytopenias and decreased blast counts. Continued enrollment and long term follow-up will further detail clinical efficacy and impact on the long term prognosis of high risk MDS patients treat with this drug. Figure Figure


1982 ◽  
Vol 155 (4) ◽  
pp. 968-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
M A Cheever ◽  
P D Greenberg ◽  
A Fefer ◽  
S Gillis

Spleen cells from C57BL/6 mice immunized in vivo with a syngeneic Friend virus-induced leukemia, FBL-3, were specifically activated by culture for 7 d with FBL-3, then nonspecifically induced to proliferate in vitro for 12 d by addition of supernatants from concanavalin A-stimulated lymphocytes containing interleukin 2 (IL-2). Such long-term cultured T lymphocytes have previously been shown to specifically lyse FBL-3 and to mediate specific adoptive therapy of advanced disseminated FBL-3 when used as an adjunct to cyclophosphamide (CY) in adoptive chemoimmunotherapy. Because the cultured cells are dependent upon IL-2 for proliferation and survival in vitro, their efficacy in vivo is potentially limited by the availability of endogenous IL-2. Thus, the aim of the current study was to determine whether exogenously administered purified IL-2 could augment the in vivo efficacy of long-term cultured T lymphocytes. Purified IL-2 alone or as an adjunct to CY as ineffective in tumor therapy. However, IL-2 was extremely effective in augmenting the efficacy of IL-2-dependent long-term cultured T lymphocytes in adoptive chemoimmunotherapy. The mechanism by which IL-2 functions in vivo is presumably by promoting in vivo growth and/or survival of adoptively transferred cells. This assumption was supported by the findings that IL-2 did not enhance the modest therapeutic efficacy of irradiated long-term cultured cells that were incapable of proliferating in the host and was ineffective in augmenting the in vivo efficacy of noncultured immune cells that are not immediately dependent upon exogenous IL-2 for survival.


Reproduction ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 139 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Cowan ◽  
Andrew J Childs ◽  
Richard A Anderson ◽  
Philippa T K Saunders

The somatic (Sertoli cell (SC), Leydig cell (LC), and peritubular myoid (PTM) cell) cells play key roles in development of the fetal testis. We established monolayer cultures from second trimester human testes and investigated the pattern of expression of cell-lineage characteristic mRNAs. Expression of some SC-associated genes (SRY, SOX9, WT1, GATA4, and SF1) was detectable up to and including passage 3 (P3), while others (anti-Müllerian hormone; desert hedgehog) present prior to dissociation were not expressed in the cultured cells. Transcripts encoding the androgen receptor were expressed but addition of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) had no impact on expression of mRNAs expressed in SC or LC. Total concentrations of mRNAs encoding smooth muscle actin (ACTA2) and desmin increased from P1 to P3; an increasing proportion of the cells in the cultures were immunopositive for ACTA2 consistent with proliferation/differentiation of PTM cells. In conclusion, somatic cell monolayer cultures were established from human fetal testes; these cultures could form the basis for future studies based on isolation of purified populations of somatic cells and manipulation of gene expression that is difficult to achieve with organ culture systems. Our results suggest that fetal SC do not maintain a fully differentiated phenotype in vitro, yet PTM (ACTA2 positive) cells readily adapt to monolayer culture conditions in the presence of DHT. This culture system provides an opportunity to study the impact of regulatory factors on gene expression in PTM cells, a population thought to play a key role in mediating androgen action within the developing testis.


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