PMID- 27330522 OWN - NLM STAT- Publisher LR - 20191120 IS - 1573-3882 (Print) IS - 1573-3890 (Electronic) IS - 1573-3882 (Linking) VI - 12 DP - 2016 TI - Metabolic fingerprints of human primary endothelial and fibroblast cells. PG - 92 LID - 92 AB - INTRODUCTION: Human primary cells originating from different locations within the body could differ greatly in their metabolic phenotypes, influencing both how they act during physiological/pathological processes and how susceptible/resistant they are to a variety of disease risk factors. A novel way to monitor cellular metabolism is through cell energetics assays, so we explored this approach with human primary cell types, as models of sclerotic disorders. OBJECTIVES: In order to better understand pathophysiological processes at the cellular level, our goals were to measure metabolic pathway activities of endothelial cells and fibroblasts, and determine their metabolic phenotype profiles. METHODS: Biolog Phenotype MicroArray technology was used for the first time to characterize metabolic phenotypes of diverse primary cells. These colorimetric assays enable detection of utilization of 367 specific biochemical substrates by human endothelial cells from the coronary artery (HCAEC), umbilical vein (HUVEC) and normal, healthy lung fibroblasts (NHLF). RESULTS: Adenosine, inosine, d-mannose and dextrin were strongly utilized by all three cell types, comparable to glucose. Substrates metabolized solely by HCAEC were mannan, pectin, gelatin and prevalently tricarballylic acid. HUVEC did not show any uniquely metabolized substrates whereas NHLF exhibited strong utilization of sugars and carboxylic acids along with amino acids and peptides. CONCLUSION: Taken together, we show for the first time that this simple energetics assay platform enables metabolic characterization of primary cells and that each of the three human cell types examined gives a unique and distinguishable profile. FAU - Zigon, Polona AU - Zigon P AD - Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Vodnikova 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. FAU - Mrak-Poljsak, Katjusa AU - Mrak-Poljsak K AD - Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Vodnikova 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. FAU - Lakota, Katja AU - Lakota K AD - Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Vodnikova 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. FAU - Tercelj, Matic AU - Tercelj M AD - Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Vodnikova 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. FAU - Cucnik, Sasa AU - Cucnik S AD - Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Vodnikova 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia ; Faculty of Pharmacy, Chair of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. FAU - Tomsic, Matija AU - Tomsic M AD - Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Vodnikova 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. FAU - Sodin-Semrl, Snezna AU - Sodin-Semrl S AD - Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Vodnikova 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia ; Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technology, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160407 PL - United States TA - Metabolomics JT - Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society JID - 101274889 PMC - PMC4887525 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cellular metabolism OT - Human primary cells OT - OmniLog OT - Phenomics OT - Phenotype MicroArrays EDAT- 2016/06/23 06:00 MHDA- 2016/06/23 06:00 PMCR- 2016/04/07 CRDT- 2016/06/23 06:00 PHST- 2015/11/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/03/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/06/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/06/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/06/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/04/07 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1024 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s11306-016-1024-7 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Metabolomics. 2016;12:92. doi: 10.1007/s11306-016-1024-7. Epub 2016 Apr 7.