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Glutamine synthetase activity fuels nucleotide biosynthesis and supports growth of glutamine-restricted glioblastoma
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L-Glutamine (Gln) functions physiologically to balance the carbon and nitrogen requirements of tissues. It has been proposed that in cancer cells undergoing aerobic glycolysis, accelerated anabolism is sustained by Gln-derived carbons, which replenish the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle (anaplerosis). However, it is shown here that in glioblastoma (GBM) cells, almost half of the Gln-derived glutamate (Glu) is secreted and does not enter the TCA cycle, and that inhibiting glutaminolysis does not affect cell proliferation. Moreover, Gln-starved cells are not rescued by TCA cycle replenishment. Instead, the conversion of Glu to Gln by glutamine synthetase (GS; cataplerosis) confers Gln prototrophy, and fuels de novo purine biosynthesis. In both orthotopic GBM models and in patients, (13)C-glucose tracing showed that GS produces Gln from TCA-cycle-derived carbons. Finally, the Gln required for the growth of GBM tumours is contributed only marginally by the circulation, and is mainly either autonomously synthesized by GS-positive glioma cells, or supplied by astrocytes.
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“The evidence for the necessity of glutamine for cancer progression is conflicted: some studies have reported that tumours can grow well without glutamine [66,67], while others showed that cancers are glutamine-addicted [68,69,70].”
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“Furthermore, human glioblastoma cells do not rely much on circulating glutamine for proliferation but rather more on glutamate to synthesize glutamine via glutamine synthetase to fuel purine biosynthesis193.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tardito, S., Oudin, A., Ahmed, S. U., Fack, F., Keunen, O., Zheng, L., Miletic, H., Sakariassen, P. Ø., Weinstock, A., Wagner, A., Lindsay, S. L., Hock, A. K., Barnett, S. C., Ruppin, E., Mørkve, S. H., Lund-Johansen, M., Chalmers, A. J., Bjerkvig, R., Niclou, S. P., & Gottlieb, E.
- Affiliations
- Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute (GB)
- Luxembourg Institute of Health (LU)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- University of Bergen (NO)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Haukeland University Hospital (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Gottlieb, Eyal
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Cell Biology
- Published
- 2015-11-23
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1556-1568
- ISSN
- 1465-7392 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4679
- PMC
- PMC4663685
- OpenAlex
- W2174361280
- Cited by
- 557
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 32 · 2025: 43 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 57 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 73 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 67 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 44 · 2016: 33 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 13.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Cell Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Sunderland Repository (University of Sunderland) (acceptedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Cancer Research UK (A18278, 18278, A12477, 18274)
- Medical Research Council (MR/J004731/1)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Keywords
- glutamine synthetase, glioblastoma, glutamine starvation, glutamate, purine biosynthesis, cataplerosis, anaplerosis, TCA cycle, glutamine metabolism, astrocytes, tumor growth, 13C glucose tracing
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Astrocytes, Brain Neoplasms, Cells, Cultured, Citric Acid Cycle, Female, Glioblastoma, Glutamine, Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase, Humans, Male, Models, Biological, Nucleotides, Transplantation, Heterologous, Neoplastic Stem Cells, Blotting, Western, Mice, SCID, Mice, Inbred NOD, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Glutamic Acid, Coculture Techniques, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Proliferation
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