Metabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementation

Myocardial infarction is the most prevalent of cardiovascular diseases and pharmacological interventions do not lead to restoration of the lost cardiomyocytes. Despite extensive stem cell therapy studies, clinical trials using cardiac progenitor cells have shown moderate results. Furthermore, differ...

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Main Authors: Malandraki-Miller, S, Lopez, C, Alonaizan, R, Purnama, U, Perbellini, F, Pakzad, K, Carr, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019
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author Malandraki-Miller, S
Lopez, C
Alonaizan, R
Purnama, U
Perbellini, F
Pakzad, K
Carr, C
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Lopez, C
Alonaizan, R
Purnama, U
Perbellini, F
Pakzad, K
Carr, C
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description Myocardial infarction is the most prevalent of cardiovascular diseases and pharmacological interventions do not lead to restoration of the lost cardiomyocytes. Despite extensive stem cell therapy studies, clinical trials using cardiac progenitor cells have shown moderate results. Furthermore, differentiation of endogenous progenitors to mature cardiomyocytes is rarely reported. A metabolic switch from glucose to fatty acid oxidation occurs during cardiac development and cardiomyocyte maturation, however in vitro differentiation protocols do not consider the lack of fatty acids in cell culture media. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of this metabolic switch on control and differentiated adult cardiac progenitors, by fatty acid supplementation. Addition of oleic acid stimulated the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha pathway and led to maturation of the cardiac progenitors, both before and after transforming growth factor-beta 1 differentiation. Addition of oleic acid following differentiation increased expression of myosin heavy chain 7 and connexin 43. Also, total glycolytic metabolism increased, as did mitochondrial membrane potential and glucose and fatty acid transporter expression. This work provides new insights into the importance of fatty acids, and of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha, in cardiac progenitor differentiation. Harnessing the oxidative metabolic switch induced maturation of differentiated endogenous stem cells.
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spelling oxford-uuid:07cebdb8-2ac0-4760-9f6d-edfdc05df6af2022-03-26T09:09:40ZMetabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:07cebdb8-2ac0-4760-9f6d-edfdc05df6afEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2019Malandraki-Miller, SLopez, CAlonaizan, RPurnama, UPerbellini, FPakzad, KCarr, CMyocardial infarction is the most prevalent of cardiovascular diseases and pharmacological interventions do not lead to restoration of the lost cardiomyocytes. Despite extensive stem cell therapy studies, clinical trials using cardiac progenitor cells have shown moderate results. Furthermore, differentiation of endogenous progenitors to mature cardiomyocytes is rarely reported. A metabolic switch from glucose to fatty acid oxidation occurs during cardiac development and cardiomyocyte maturation, however in vitro differentiation protocols do not consider the lack of fatty acids in cell culture media. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of this metabolic switch on control and differentiated adult cardiac progenitors, by fatty acid supplementation. Addition of oleic acid stimulated the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha pathway and led to maturation of the cardiac progenitors, both before and after transforming growth factor-beta 1 differentiation. Addition of oleic acid following differentiation increased expression of myosin heavy chain 7 and connexin 43. Also, total glycolytic metabolism increased, as did mitochondrial membrane potential and glucose and fatty acid transporter expression. This work provides new insights into the importance of fatty acids, and of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha, in cardiac progenitor differentiation. Harnessing the oxidative metabolic switch induced maturation of differentiated endogenous stem cells.
spellingShingle Malandraki-Miller, S
Lopez, C
Alonaizan, R
Purnama, U
Perbellini, F
Pakzad, K
Carr, C
Metabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementation
title Metabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementation
title_full Metabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementation
title_fullStr Metabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementation
title_full_unstemmed Metabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementation
title_short Metabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementation
title_sort metabolic flux analyses to assess the differentiation of adult cardiac progenitors after fatty acid supplementation
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