Abstract
Several studies indicate that glutamine is a critical requirement for growth of cultured cells. The present studies describe the effect of deprivation of glucose or glutamine on mouse bone marrow cell or HL-60 cell colony formation in soft agar. The mouse bone marrow cells were induced to undergo granulocyte/macrophage type differentiation by colony-stimulating factor. Glutamine, but not glucose, was found to be an indispensable metabolite for the cloning of HL-60 cells or differentiated mouse bone marrow cells. In addition, the effect of glucose or glutamine on the rate of differentiation of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO)-induced HL-60 cells in liquid culture was studied. Glutamine was found to be superior to glucose in its ability to support the proliferation and myeloid differentiation of HL-60 cells. When an optimal concentration of DMSO was used, the rate of differentiation of induced HL-60 cells was found to be a function of the concentration of glutamine. In addition to these studies glutamine utilization and product formation was studied in induced and uninduced HL-60 cells after 60 min incubation with 1 mM initial glutamine concentration. The fractional distribution of the glutamine carbon into its metabolic products remained unchanged in induced versus uninduced HL-60 cells. However, the rate of utilization of glutamine and product formation by terminally differentiated HL-60 cells was less than the rate of utilization of glutamine by undifferentiated HL-60 cells. The data do not explain the role of glutamine in the complex process of differentiation but establish the critical requirements for glutamine, but not glucose, in myelopoiesis.
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