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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep37955
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- Medical Research Council [MR/K012770/1]
- Newcastle University Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund
- Newcastle Healthcare Charity & Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity
- NIH [HL108927, HL1108723]
- CF Foundation [R026-CR11]
- MRC [MR/K012770/1, MR/M008797/1, G0800419] Funding Source: UKRI
- Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) [AMS-SGCL6-Brodlie] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/K012770/1, 1584849, G0800419, MR/M008797/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The cystic fibrosis (CF) airway surface liquid (ASL) provides a nutrient rich environment for bacterial growth including elevated glucose, which together with defective bacterial killing due to aberrant HCO3- transport and acidic ASL, make the CF airways susceptible to colonisation by respiratory pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Approximately half of adults with CF have CF related diabetes (CFRD) and this is associated with increased respiratory decline. CF ASL contains elevated lactate concentrations and hyperglycaemia can also increase ASL lactate. We show that primary human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells secrete lactate into ASL, which is elevated in hyperglycaemia. This leads to ASL acidification in CFHBE, which could only be mimicked in non-CF HBE following HCO3- removal. Hyperglycaemia-induced changes in ASL lactate and pH were exacerbated by the presence of P. aeruginosa and were attenuated by inhibition of monocarboxylate lactate-H+ co-transporters (MCTs) with AR-C155858. We conclude that hyperglycaemia and P. aeruginosa induce a metabolic shift which increases lactate generation and efflux into ASL via epithelial MCT2 transporters. Normal airways compensate for MCT-driven H+ secretion by secreting HCO3-, a process which is dysfunctional in CF airway epithelium leading to ASL acidification and that these processes may contribute to worsening respiratory disease in CFRD.
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