Paediatrics Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2020
Journal
Scientific Reports
Volume
10
Issue
1
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65193-9
Abstract
Recent evidence has emerged that cancer cells can use various metabolites as fuel sources. Restricting cultured cancer cells to sole metabolite fuel sources can promote metabolic changes leading to enhanced glycolysis or mitochondrial OXPHOS. However, the efect of metabolite-restriction on non-transformed cells remains largely unexplored. Here we examined the efect of restricting media fuel sources, including glucose, pyruvate or lactate, on the metabolic state of cultured human dermal fbroblasts. Fibroblasts cultured in lactate-only medium exhibited reduced PDH phosphorylation, indicative of OXPHOS, and a concurrent elevation of ROS. Lactate exposure primed fbroblasts to switch to glycolysis by increasing transcript abundance of genes encoding glycolytic enzymes and, upon exposure to glucose, increasing glycolytic enzyme levels. Furthermore, lactate treatment stabilized HIF-1α, a master regulator of glycolysis, in a manner attenuated by antioxidant exposure. Our fndings indicate that lactate preconditioning primes fbroblasts to switch from OXPHOS to glycolysis metabolism, in part, through ROS-mediated HIF-1α stabilization. Interestingly, we found that lactate preconditioning results in increased transcript abundance of MYC and SNAI1, key facilitators of early somatic cell reprogramming. Defned metabolite treatment may represent a novel approach to increasing somatic cell reprogramming efciency by amplifying a critical metabolic switch that occurs during iPSC generation.
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