Non-stationary 13C metabolic flux analysis of Chinese hamster ovary cells in batch culture using extracellular labeling highlights metabolic reversibility and compartmentation

BMC Systems Biology

Elmar Heinzle²  An-Ping Zeng¹  Janina Bahnemann¹  Judith Wahrheit²  Averina Nicolae² 

[1] Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Denickestr. 15, Hamburg D - 21073, Germany;Universität des Saarlandes Technische Biochemie, Campus A 1.5, Saarbrücken D-66123, Germany

关键词: Reversibility;    Metabolic transport;    Mammalian cell culture;    CHO;    Mammalian metabolism;    Compartmentation;    Mitochondria;    Metabolic flux analysis;    Chinese hamster ovary cells;   

Others  :  866447
DOI  :  10.1186/1752-0509-8-50

 received in 2013-12-15, accepted in 2014-04-07,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Mapping the intracellular fluxes for established mammalian cell lines becomes increasingly important for scientific and economic reasons. However, this is being hampered by the high complexity of metabolic networks, particularly concerning compartmentation.

Results

Intracellular fluxes of the CHO-K1 cell line central carbon metabolism were successfully determined for a complex network using non-stationary ¹³C metabolic flux analysis. Mass isotopomers of extracellular metabolites were determined using [U-¹³C₆] glucose as labeled substrate. Metabolic compartmentation and extracellular transport reversibility proved essential to successfully reproduce the dynamics of the labeling patterns. Alanine and pyruvate reversibility changed dynamically even if their net production fluxes remained constant. Cataplerotic fluxes of cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and mitochondrial malic enzyme and pyruvate carboxylase were successfully determined. Glycolytic pyruvate channeling to lactate was modeled by including a separate pyruvate pool. In the exponential growth phase, alanine, glycine and glutamate were excreted, and glutamine, aspartate, asparagine and serine were taken up; however, all these amino acids except asparagine were exchanged reversibly with the media. High fluxes were determined in the pentose phosphate pathway and the TCA cycle. The latter was fueled mainly by glucose but also by amino acid catabolism.

Conclusions

The CHO-K1 central metabolism in controlled batch culture proves to be robust. It has the main purpose to ensure fast growth on a mixture of substrates and also to mitigate oxidative stress. It achieves this by using compartmentation to control NADPH and NADH availability and by simultaneous synthesis and catabolism of amino acids.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Nicolae et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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