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Exposure to high glutamate concentration activates aerobic glycolysis but inhibits ATP‐linked respiration in cultured cortical astrocytes
Author(s) -
Shen Yao,
Tian Yueyang,
Shi Xiaojie,
Yang Jianbo,
Ouyang Li,
Gao Jieqiong,
Lu Jianxin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cell biochemistry and function
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1099-0844
pISSN - 0263-6484
DOI - 10.1002/cbf.3047
Subject(s) - glutamate receptor , respiration , bioenergetics , oxidative phosphorylation , glycolysis , astrocyte , mitochondrion , cellular respiration , glutamate aspartate transporter , biology , biochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , adenosine triphosphate , neurotoxicity , extracellular , metabolism , chemistry , toxicity , metabotropic glutamate receptor , neuroscience , anatomy , central nervous system , receptor , organic chemistry
Astrocytes play a key role in removing the synaptically released glutamate from the extracellular space and maintaining the glutamate below neurotoxic level in the brain. However, high concentration of glutamate leads to toxicity in astrocytes, and the underlying mechanisms are unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether energy metabolism disorder, especially impairment of mitochondrial respiration, is involved in the glutamate‐induced gliotoxicity. Exposure to 10‐mM glutamate for 48 h stimulated glycolysis and respiration in astrocytes. However, the increased oxygen consumption was used for proton leak and non‐mitochondrial respiration, but not for oxidative phosphorylation and ATP generation. When the exposure time extended to 72 h, glycolysis was still activated for ATP generation, but the mitochondrial ATP‐linked respiration of astrocytes was reduced. The glutamate‐induced astrocyte damage can be mimicked by the non‐metabolized substrate d ‐aspartate but reversed by the non‐selective glutamate transporter inhibitor TBOA. In addition, the glutamate toxicity can be partially reversed by vitamin E. These findings demonstrate that changes of bioenergetic profile occur in cultured cortical astrocytes exposed to high concentration of glutamate and highlight the role of mitochondria respiration in glutamate‐induced gliotoxicity in cortical astrocytes. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.