Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
Mississippi Center for Obesity Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2024 Sep 1;327(3):C571-C586. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00272.2024. Epub 2024 Jul 9.
Glutamine is a critical amino acid that serves as an energy source, building block, and signaling molecule for the heart tissue and the immune system. However, the role of glutamine metabolism in regulating cardiac remodeling following myocardial infarction (MI) is unknown. In this study, we show in adult male mice that glutamine metabolism is altered both in the remote (contractile) area and in infiltrating macrophages in the infarct area after permanent left anterior descending artery occlusion. We found that metabolites related to glutamine metabolism were differentially altered in macrophages at , , and after MI using untargeted metabolomics. Glutamine metabolism in live cells was increased after MI relative to no MI controls. Gene expression in the remote area of the heart indicated a loss of glutamine metabolism. Glutamine administration improved left ventricle (LV) function at , , and after MI, which was associated with improved contractile and metabolic gene expression. Conversely, administration of BPTES, a pharmacological inhibitor of glutaminase-1, worsened LV function after MI. Neither glutamine nor BPTES administration impacted gene expression or bioenergetics of macrophages isolated from the infarct area. Our results indicate that glutamine metabolism plays a critical role in maintaining LV contractile function following MI and that glutamine administration improves LV function. Glutamine metabolism may also play a role in regulating macrophage function, but macrophages are not responsive to exogenous pharmacological manipulation of glutamine metabolism. Glutamine metabolism is altered in both infarct macrophages and the remote left ventricle (LV) following myocardial infarction (MI). Supplemental glutamine improves LV function following MI while inhibiting glutamine metabolism with BPTES worsens LV function. Supplemental glutamine or BPTES does not impact macrophage immunometabolic phenotypes after MI.
谷氨酰胺是一种关键的氨基酸,可为心脏组织和免疫系统提供能量来源、构建模块和信号分子。然而,谷氨酰胺代谢在调节心肌梗死后心脏重构中的作用尚不清楚。在这项研究中,我们在成年雄性小鼠中表明,在永久性左前降支闭塞后,在远程(收缩)区域和梗塞区域浸润的巨噬细胞中,谷氨酰胺代谢均发生改变。我们发现,使用非靶向代谢组学,在 MI 后 、 和 时,与谷氨酰胺代谢相关的代谢物在巨噬细胞中发生差异改变。与无 MI 对照相比,MI 后活细胞中的谷氨酰胺代谢增加。心脏远程区域的基因表达表明谷氨酰胺代谢丧失。谷氨酰胺给药可改善 MI 后 、 和 时的左心室 (LV) 功能,这与改善收缩和代谢基因表达有关。相反,谷氨酰胺酶-1 的药理学抑制剂 BPTES 的给药会使 MI 后 LV 功能恶化。谷氨酰胺或 BPTES 的给药均不影响从梗塞区域分离的巨噬细胞的基因表达或生物能量。我们的结果表明,谷氨酰胺代谢在 MI 后维持 LV 收缩功能方面起着关键作用,并且谷氨酰胺给药可改善 LV 功能。谷氨酰胺代谢可能也在调节巨噬细胞功能方面发挥作用,但巨噬细胞对谷氨酰胺代谢的外源性药理操作没有反应。在心肌梗死后,梗塞巨噬细胞和远程左心室 (LV) 中的谷氨酰胺代谢均发生改变。补充谷氨酰胺可改善 MI 后的 LV 功能,而用 BPTES 抑制谷氨酰胺代谢会使 LV 功能恶化。补充谷氨酰胺或 BPTES 不会影响 MI 后巨噬细胞的免疫代谢表型。
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