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Influence of reduced concentration of L-glutamine on growth and viability of cells in monolayer, in spheroids, and in experimental tumours.

Abstract：

:L-Glutamine is a requirement for many cells in tissue culture, an intermediate in many metabolic pathways, and an alternative substrate to glucose for energy metabolism. These properties suggest that glutamine concentration might be a determinant of cell viability in tumours, especially in regions that are deficient in other metabolites. We have therefore studied the effects of glutamine depletion on single cells in culture, on spheroids and on experimental tumours. Absence of glutamine suppressed the growth rate of two cell lines, but cells cultured for up to 6 h in the absence of glutamine had no decrease in plating efficiency. There was little effect on growth of MGH-U1 (human bladder cancer) spheroids of varying the glutamine concentration in the range of 0.1 to 2 mM and spheroids exposed to these concentrations did not develop central necrosis. Lower concentration of glutamine suppressed the rate of spheroid growth, and spheroids did not grow in the absence of glutamine. Pseudomonas 7A glutaminase reduced the survival of cells in glutamine-free culture and prevented growth of spheroids. Glutaminase was injected into mice bearing experimental tumours to reduce blood levels of glutamine; some animals also received 15 Gy radiation to their tumours to assess the effects of glutamine levels on surviving nutrient-deprived (i.e. hypoxic) cells. Glutaminase had no effect on cell survival in the Lewis lung tumour or in MGH-U1 xenografts, with or without radiation; glutaminase caused dose-dependent growth delay of the KHT tumour, which was additive to that caused by radiation. The present results suggest that (i) short-term changes of glutamine concentration have small effects on cell viability; and (ii) depletion of glutamine levels in blood through the in vivo use of glutaminase is unlikely to produce major therapeutic effects against nutrient-deprived cells in solid tumours.

journal_name

Br J Cancer

journal_title

British journal of cancer

authors

Tannock IF,Steele D,Roberts J

doi

10.1038/bjc.1986.234

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-11-01 00:00:00

pages

733-41

issue

eissn

0007-0920

issn

1532-1827

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Influence of reduced concentration of L-glutamine on growth and viability of cells in monolayer, in spheroids, and in experimental tumours.