Abstract
<h3>Summary</h3> Reprogramming metabolism is of great therapeutic interest for reducing morbidity and mortality during sepsis-induced critical illness<sup>1</sup>. Disappointing results from randomized controlled trials targeting glutamine and antioxidant metabolism in patients with sepsis have begged for both identification of new metabolic targets, and a deeper understanding of the metabolic fate of glutamine at the systemic and tissue-specific manner<sup>2–4</sup>. In critically ill patients versus elective surgical controls, skeletal muscle transcriptional metabolic reprogramming is comprised of reduced expression of genes involved in mitochondrial metabolism, electron transport, and glutamate transport, with concomitant increases in glutathione cycling, glutamine, branched chain, and aromatic amino acid transport. To analyze putative interorgan communications during sepsis, we performed systemic and tissue specific metabolic phenotyping in a murine polymicrobial sepsis model, cecal ligation and puncture. In the setting of drastically elevated inflammatory cytokines, we observed >10% body weight loss, >50% reductions in oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production, and near full suppression of voluntary activity for the 48 hours following sepsis as compared to sham-operated controls. We found increased correlations in the metabolome between liver, kidney, and spleen, with drastic loss of correlations between the heart and quadriceps metabolome and all other organs, pointing to a shared metabolic signature within vital abdominal organs, and unique metabolic signatures for skeletal and cardiac muscle during sepsis. A lowered GSH:GSSG and elevated AMP:ATP ratio in the liver underlie the significant upregulation of isotopically labeled glutamine’s contribution to TCA anaplerosis and glutamine-derived glutathione biosynthesis; meanwhile, the skeletal muscle and spleen were the only organs where glutamine’s contribution to the TCA cycle was significantly suppressed. These results highlight tissue-specific mitochondrial reprogramming, rather than global mitochondrial dysfunction, as a mechanistic consequence of sepsis. Using a multi-omic approach, we demonstrate a model by which sepsis-induced proteolysis fuels the liver’s production of anaplerotic substrates and the antioxidant glutathione to sustain tolerance to sepsis.
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