Fig. 1.
Glucose but not glutamine is a major carbon source for TCA cycle metabolites during early human macrophage activation. (A) Diagram of uniformly labelled [U-13C]-glucose catabolism, highlighting the TCA cycle metabolites and their expected glucose-derived 13C atoms (filled circles). (B,C) Glucose-derived and M+0 metabolites measured by LC-MS in control and LPS (8 h; 100 ng/ml)-stimulated hMDMs; n=6 donors. See Fig. S1 for individual data points. Glu, glutamate; Succ, succinate. (D) Diagram of uniformly labelled [U-13C]-glutamine catabolism, highlighting the TCA cycle metabolites and their expected glutamine-derived 13C atoms (filled circles). (E,F) Glutamine-derived and M+0 metabolites measured by LC-MS in control and LPS (8 h; 100 ng/ml)-stimulated hMDMs; n=6 donors. See Fig. S1 for individual data points.