Restoration of impaired metabolic energy balance (ATP pool) and tube formation potential of endothelial cells under "high glucose", diabetic conditions by the bioinorganic polymer polyphosphate

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Abstract

Micro-vascularization is a fast, energy-dependent process that is compromised by elevated glucose concentrations such as in diabetes mellitus disease. Here, we studied the effect of the physiological bioinorganic polymer, polyphosphate (polyP), on the reduced ATP content and impaired function of endothelial cells cultivated under "high glucose" (35 mM diabetes mellitus conditions) concentrations. This high-energy biopolymer has been shown to provide a source of metabolic energy, stored in its phosphoanhydride bonds. We show that exposure of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC cells) to "high glucose" levels results in reduced cell viability, increased apoptotic cell death, and a decline in intracellular ATP level. As a consequence, the ability of HUVEC cells to form tube-like structures in the in vitro cell tube formation assay was almost completely abolished under "high glucose" conditions. Those cells were grown onto a physiological collagen scaffold (collagen/basement membrane extract). We demonstrate that these adverse effects of increased glucose levels can be reversed by administration of polyP to almost normal values. Using Na-polyP, complexed in a stoichiometric (molar) ratio to Ca2+ ions and in the physiological concentration range between 30 and 300 μM, an almost complete restoration of the reduced ATP pool of cells exposed to "high glucose" was found, as well as a normalization of the number of apoptotic cells and energy-dependent tube formation. It is concluded that the adverse effects on endothelial cells caused by the metabolic energy imbalance at elevated glucose concentrations can be counterbalanced by polyP, potentially opening new strategies for treatment of the micro-vascular complications in diabetic patients.

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Wang, X., Ackermann, M., Neufurth, M., Wang, S., Li, Q., Feng, Q., … Müller, W. E. G. (2017). Restoration of impaired metabolic energy balance (ATP pool) and tube formation potential of endothelial cells under “high glucose”, diabetic conditions by the bioinorganic polymer polyphosphate. Polymers, 9(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym9110575

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