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Carbon sources and pathways for citrate secreted by human prostate cancer cells determined by NMR tracing and metabolic modeling

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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024357119

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prostate; citrate; carbon-13; Krebs cycle; cancer

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  1. European Union
  2. province Gelderland (Europees Fonds voor Regionale Ontwikkeling: UltraSense NMR project)
  3. province Overijsel (Europees Fonds voor Regionale Ontwikkeling: UltraSense NMR project)

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Glucose is identified as the main carbon source for secreted citrate in prostate epithelial cells. Glutamine contributes to positions in secreted citrate through oxidative Krebs cycle and reductive carboxylation routes, but does not contribute to its net synthesis. Approximately 21% of pyruvate in the Krebs cycle is converted via pyruvate carboxylase as an anaplerotic route, compensating for carbon loss from citrate secretion.
Prostate epithelial cells have the unique capacity to secrete large amounts of citrate, but the carbon sources and metabolic pathways that maintain this production are not well known. We mapped potential pathways for citrate carbons in the human prostate cancer metastasis cell lines LNCaP and VCaP, for which we first established that they secrete citrate (For LNCaP 5.6 +/- 0.9 nmol/h per 10(6) cells). Using C-13-labeled substrates, we traced the incorporation of C-13 into citrate by NMR of extracellular fluid. Our results provide direct evidence that glucose is a main carbon source for secreted citrate. We also demonstrate that carbons from supplied glutamine flow via oxidative Krebs cycle and reductive carboxylation routes to positions in secreted citrate but likely do not contribute to its net synthesis. The potential anaplerotic carbon sources aspartate and asparagine did not contribute to citrate carbons. We developed a quantitative metabolic model employing the C-13 distribution in extracellular citrate after C-13 glucose and pyruvate application to assess intracellular pathways of carbons for secreted citrate. From this model, it was estimated that in LNCaP about 21% of pyruvate entering the Krebs cycle is converted via pyruvate carboxylase as an anaplerotic route at a rate more than sufficient to compensate carbon loss of this cycle by citrate secretion. This model provides an estimation of the fraction of molecules, including citrate, leaving the Krebs cycle at every turn. The measured ratios of C-13 atoms at different positions in extracellular citrate may serve as biomarkers for (malignant) epithelial cell metabolism.

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