title: Biosynthesis of highly enriched 13C-lycopene for human metabolic studies using repeated batch tomato cell culturing with 13C-glucose.
abstract: While putative disease-preventing lycopene metabolites are found in both tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) products and in their consumers, mammalian lycopene metabolism is poorly understood. Advances in tomato cell culturing techniques offer an economical tool for generation of highly-enriched (13)C-lycopene for human bioavailability and metabolism studies. To enhance the (13)C-enrichment and yields of labelled lycopene from the hp-1 tomato cell line, cultures were first grown in (13)C-glucose media for three serial batches and produced increasing proportions of uniformly labelled lycopene (14.3±1.2%, 39.6±0.5%, and 48.9±1.5%) with consistent yields (from 5.8 to 9 mg/L). An optimised 9-day-long (13)C-loading and 18-day-long labelling strategy developed based on glucose utilisation and lycopene yields, yielded (13)C-lycopene with 93% (13)C isotopic purity, and 55% of isotopomers were uniformly labelled. Furthermore, an optimised acetone and hexane extraction led to a fourfold increase in lycopene recovery from cultures compared to a standard extraction.
authors.affiliation: Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 320 W 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. nancy.moran@osumc.edu
authors.forename: Nancy Engelmann
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Moran
authors.forename: Randy B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Chi-Hua
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Lauren E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Conlon
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lila
authors.forename: Steven K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Clinton
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Erdman
mesh_terms: D001682:Biological Availability; D002247:Carbon Isotopes / Q000378:metabolism; D002338:Carotenoids / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005947:Glucose / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007553:Isotope Labeling; D000077276:Lycopene; D018551:Solanum lycopersicum / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D002338:Carotenoids; D005947:Glucose; D000077276:Lycopene
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