Increased Ammonium Toxicity in Response to Exogenous Glutamine in Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells

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  • Kiesel, Violet A.
    • Other Affiliation: Purdue University
  • Sheeley, Madeline P.
    • Other Affiliation: Purdue University
  • Donkin, Shawn S.
    • Other Affiliation: Purdue University
  • Wendt, Michael K.
    • Other Affiliation: Purdue University
  • Hursting, Stephen D.
    • Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Nutrition
  • Teegarden, Dorothy
    • Other Affiliation: Purdue University
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  • Several cancers, including breast cancers, show dependence on glutamine metabolism. The purpose of the present study was to determine the mechanistic basis and impact of differential glutamine metabolism in nonmetastatic and metastatic murine mammary cancer cells. Universally labeled 13C5-glutamine metabolic tracing, qRT-PCR, measures of reductive–oxidative balance, and exogenous ammonium chloride treatment were used to assess glutamine reprogramming. Results show that 4 mM media concentration of glutamine, compared with 2 mM, reduced viability only in metastatic cells, and that this decrease in viability was accompanied by increased incorporation of glutamine-derived carbon into the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. While increased glutamine metabolism in metastatic cells occurred in tandem with a decrease in the reduced/oxidized glutathione ratio, treatment with the antioxidant molecule N-acetylcysteine did not rescue cell viability. However, the viability of metastatic cells was more sensitive to ammonium chloride treatment compared with nonmetastatic cells, suggesting a role of metabolic reprogramming in averting nitrogen cytotoxicity in nonmetastatic cells. Overall, these results demonstrate the ability of nonmetastatic cancer cells to reprogram glutamine metabolism and that this ability may be lost in metastatic cells.
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  • Metabolites
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  • 12
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  • 5
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  • 2218-1989

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