title: Compartment-specific metabolomics for CHO reveals that ATP pools in mitochondria are much lower than in cytosol.
abstract: Mammalian cells show a compartmented metabolism. Getting access to subcellular metabolite pools is of high interest to understand the cells' metabolomic state. Therefore a protocol is developed and applied for monitoring compartment-specific metabolite and nucleotide pool sizes in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The approach consists of a subtracting filtering method separating cytosolic components from physically intact mitochondrial compartments. The internal standards glucose-6-phosphate and cis-aconitate were chosen to quantify cytosolic secession and mitochondrial membrane integrity. Extracts of related fractions were studied by liquid chromatography-isotope dilution mass spectrometry for the absolute quantification of a subset of glycolytic and tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates together with the adenylate nucleotides ATP, ADP and AMP. The application of the protocol revealed highly dynamic changes in the related pool sizes as a function of distinct cultivation periods of IgG1 producing CHO cells. Mitochondrial and cytosolic pool dynamics were in agreement with anticipated metabolite pools of independent studies. The analysis of adenosine phosphate levels unraveled significantly higher ATP levels in the cytosol leading to the hypothesis that mitochondria predominantly serve for fueling ATP into the cytosol where it is tightly controlled at physiological adenylate energy charges about 0.9.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany.
authors.forename: Jens-Christoph
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Matuszczyk
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany.
authors.forename: Attila
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Teleki
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pfizenmaier
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany. takors@ibvt.uni-stuttgart.de.
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Takors
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D016466:CHO Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D055432:Metabolomics; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism*; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D009711:Nucleotides; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate
keywords: Analytical protocol; Chinese hamster ovary (CHO); Metabolomics; Mitochondrial, nucleotide dynamics; Subcellular metabolite