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CELLULAR METABOLISM

Heat induction of heat shock protein 25 requires cellular glutamine in intestinal epithelial cells

¹Department of Biomedical Sciences (Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition) and ²Department of Medicine, Martin Boyer Laboratories, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and ³Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit, Department of Medicine and Anatomy/Cell Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Submitted 9 May 2005 ; accepted in final form 13 March 2006

Glutamine is considered a nonessential amino acid; however, it becomes conditionally essential during critical illness when consumption exceeds production. Glutamine may modulate the heat shock/stress response, an important adaptive cellular response for survival. Glutamine increases heat induction of heat shock protein (Hsp) 25 in both intestinal epithelial cells (IEC-18) and mesenchymal NIH/3T3 cells, an effect that is neither glucose nor serum dependent. Neither arginine, histidine, proline, leucine, asparagine, nor tyrosine acts as physiological substitutes for glutamine for heat induction of Hsp25. The lack of effect of these amino acids was not caused by deficient transport, although some amino acids, including glutamate (a major direct metabolite of glutamine), were transported poorly by IEC-18 cells. Glutamate uptake could be augmented in a concentration- and time-dependent manner by increasing either media concentration and/or duration of exposure. Under these conditions, glutamate promoted heat induction of Hsp25, albeit not as efficiently as glutamine. Further evidence for the role of glutamine conversion to glutamate was obtained with the glutaminase inhibitor 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine (DON), which inhibited the effect of glutamine on heat-induced Hsp25. DON inhibited phosphate-dependent glutaminase by 75% after 3 h, decreasing cell glutamate. Increased glutamine/glutamate conversion to glutathione was not involved, since the glutathione synthesis inhibitor, buthionine sulfoximine, did not block glutamine’s effect on heat induction of Hsp25. A large drop in ATP levels did not appear to account for the diminished Hsp25 induction during glutamine deficiency. In summary, glutamine is an important amino acid, and its requirement for heat-induced Hsp25 supports a role for glutamine supplementation to optimize cellular responses to pathophysiological stress.

IEC-18; NIH/3T3; glutaminase; 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine; glutathione

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