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====Consumers====
====Consumers====
The most eager consumers of glutamine are the cells of intestines<ref name="Brosnan"/>, the kidney cells for the acid base balance, activated immune cells<ref>{{citation | last = Newsholme | first = Philip | year = 2001 | title = Why Is <small>L</small>-Glutamine Metabolism Important to Cells of the Immune System in Health, Postinjury, Surgery or Infection? | url = http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/131/9/2515S | journal = J. Nutr. | volume = 131 | issue = 9 | pages = 2515S–22S | pmid = 11533304}}.</ref> and many [[cancer]] cells.<ref name="Yuneva"/>
The most eager consumers of glutamine are the cells of intestines<ref name="Brosnan"/>, the kidney cells for the acid base balance, activated immune cells<ref>{{citation | last = Newsholme | first = Philip | year = 2001 | title = Why Is <small>L</small>-Glutamine Metabolism Important to Cells of the Immune System in Health, Postinjury, Surgery or Infection? | url = http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/131/9/2515S | journal = J. Nutr. | volume = 131 | issue = 9 | pages = 2515S–22S | pmid = 11533304}}.</ref> and many [[cancer]] cells.<ref name="Yuneva"/> In respect to the last point mentioned, different glutamine anlogues such as [[6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine|DON]], [[Azaserine]] or [[Acivicin]] are tested as anti-cancer drugs.


=== Examples for the usage of glutamine ===
=== Examples for the usage of glutamine ===

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L-Glutamine
Names
IUPAC name
Glutamine
Other names
2-Amino-4-carbamoylbutanoic acid
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
Abbreviations Gln, Q
ChemSpider
ECHA InfoCard 100.000.266 Edit this at Wikidata
  • N[C@@H](CCC(N)=O)C(O)=O
Properties
C5H10N2O3
Molar mass 146.146 g·mol−1
Melting point 185–186 ºC decomp.
soluble
+6.5º (H2O, c = 2)
Supplementary data page
Glutamine (data page)
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Glutamine (abbreviated as Gln or Q) is one of the 20 amino acids encoded by the standard genetic code. Its side chain is an amide formed by replacing the side-chain hydroxyl of glutamic acid with an amine functional group. It can therefore be considered the amide of glutamic acid. Its codons are CAA and CAG. In human blood glutamine is the most abundant free amino acid with a concentration of about 500-900 µmol/l.[2]

Betain structure

Glutamine zwitterionic forms at neutral pH: L-glutamine (left) and D-glutamine (right)


Functions

Glutamine has a variety of biochemical functions including:

  1. As any other amino acid, a major role in protein synthesis
  2. Regulation of acid-base balance in the kidney by producing ammonium[3]
  3. Cellular energy source, next to glucose[4]
  4. Nitrogen donor for many anabolic processes[2]
  5. Carbon source, refilling the Citric acid cycle[5]

Producing and consuming organs

Producers

Glutamine is synthetized by the enzyme glutamine synthetase from glutamate and ammonia. The most relevant glutamine producing organ is the muscle mass accounting for about 90% of all glutamine synthesized. To minor parts glutamine is released by the lung and the brain.[6] Although the liver is capable of relevant glutamine synthesis, its role in glutamine metabolism is more regulatory than producing, since the liver takes up large amounts of glutamine derived from gut.[2]

Consumers

The most eager consumers of glutamine are the cells of intestines[2], the kidney cells for the acid base balance, activated immune cells[7] and many cancer cells.[5] In respect to the last point mentioned, different glutamine anlogues such as DON, Azaserine or Acivicin are tested as anti-cancer drugs.

Examples for the usage of glutamine

In catabolic states of injury and illness, glutamine becomes conditionally-essential (requiring intake from food or supplements). Glutamine has been studied extensively over the past 10–15 years and has been shown to be useful in treatment of serious illnesses, injury, trauma, burns, and treatment related side-effects of cancer as well as in wound healing for postoperative patients.[8] Glutamine is also marketed as a supplement used for muscle growth in weightlifting, bodybuilding, endurance, and other sports.[9]. In biological research, L-glutamine is commonly added [10]to the media in cell culture.

Aiding recovery after surgery

It is also known that glutamine has various effects in reducing healing time after operations. Hospital-stay times after abdominal surgery can be reduced by providing parenteral nutrition regimes containing high amounts of glutamine to patients. Clinical trials have revealed that patients on supplementation regimes containing glutamine have improved nitrogen balances, generation of cysteinyl-leukotrienes from polymorphonuclear neutrophil granulocytes and improved lymphocyte recovery and intestinal permeability (in postoperative patients) - in comparison to those who had no glutamine within their dietary regime; all without any side-effects.[11]

Nutrition

Occurrences in nature

Glutamine is the most abundant naturally occurring, non-essential amino acid in the human body and one of the few amino acids which directly crosses the blood-brain barrier.[12] In the body it is found circulating in the blood as well as stored in the skeletal muscles. It becomes conditionally essential (requiring intake from food or supplements) in states of illness or injury.[8]

Dietary sources

Dietary sources of L-glutamine include beef, chicken, fish, eggs, milk, dairy products, wheat, cabbage, beets, beans, spinach, and parsley. Small amounts of free L-glutamine are also found in vegetable juices and fermented foods, such as miso.[13]

Aiding gastrointestinal function

In recent studies, glutamine-enriched diets have been linked with intestinal effects including maintenance of gut barrier function, and cell differentiation. This may relate to the fact that the intestinal extraction rate of glutamine is higher than that for other amino acids, and is therefore thought to be the most viable option when attempting to alleviate conditions relating to the gastrointestinal tract. These conditions were discovered after comparing plasma concentration within the gut between glutamine-enriched and non glutamine-enriched diets. However, even though glutamine is thought to have "cleansing" properties and effects, it is unknown to what extent glutamine has clinical benefits, due to the varied concentrations of glutamine in varieties of food.[14]

References

  1. ^ Weast, Robert C., ed. (1981). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (62nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. C-311. ISBN 0-8493-0462-8..
  2. ^ a b c d Brosnan, John T. (2003), "Interorgan amino acid transport and its regulation", J. Nutr., 133 (6): 2068S–72S, PMID 12771367.
  3. ^ Guyton, Arthur C.; Hall, John E. (2005), Textbook of Medical Physiology (11th ed.), Saunders, p. 393, ISBN 0721602401.
  4. ^ J. Carlos, Aledo (2004), "Glutamine breakdown in rapidly dividing cells: waste or investment?", BioEssays, 26 (7): 778–85, doi:10.1002/bies.20063, PMID 15221859.
  5. ^ a b Yuneva, Mariia; Zamboni, Nicola; Oefner, Peter; Sachidanandam, Ravi; Lazebnik, Yuri (2007), "Defiency in glutamine but not glucose induces MYC-dependent apoptosis in human cells", J. Cell Biol., 178 (1): 93–105, doi:10.1083/jcb.200703099, PMC 2064426, PMID 17606868.
  6. ^ Newsholme, P.; Lima, M. M. R.; Procopio, J.; Pithon-Curi, T. C.; Doi, S. Q.; Bazotte, R. B.; Curi, R. (2003), "Glutamine and glutamate as vital metabolites", Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res., 36 (2): 153–63, doi:10.1590/S0100-879X2003000200002, PMID 12563517.
  7. ^ Newsholme, Philip (2001), "Why Is L-Glutamine Metabolism Important to Cells of the Immune System in Health, Postinjury, Surgery or Infection?", J. Nutr., 131 (9): 2515S–22S, PMID 11533304.
  8. ^ a b Glutamine, University of Maryland Medical Center, retrieved 2009-09-06.
  9. ^ Ivy, John; Portman, Robert (2004), Nutrient Timing: The Future of Sports Nutrition, Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health, p. 57, ISBN 1591201411.
  10. ^ "L-glutamine", exactantigen.com, retrieved 2009-11-27
  11. ^ Morlion, Bart J.; Stehle, Peter; Wachtler, Paul; Siedhoff, Hans-P.; Köller, Manfred; König, Wolfgang; Fürst, Peter; Puchstein, Christoph (1998), "Total parenteral nutrition with glutamine dipeptide after major abdominal surgery: a randomized, double-blind, controlled study", Ann. Surg., 227 (2): 302–8, doi:10.1097/00000658-199802000-00022, PMC 1191250, PMID 9488531.
  12. ^ Lee, Wha-Joon; Hawkins, Richard A.; Viña, Juan R.; Peterson, Darryl R. (1998), "Glutamine transport by the blood-brain barrier: a possible mechanism for nitrogen removal", Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol., 274 (4): C1101–7, PMID 9580550.
  13. ^ "Glutamine", Vitamins Supplements Guide, retrieved 2007-11-01.
  14. ^ Jian, Zhu Ming; Cao, J. D.; Zhu, X. G.; Zhao, W. X.; Yu, J. C.; Ma, E. L.; Wang, X. R.; Zhu, M. W.; Shu, H. (1999), "The impact of alanyl-glutamine on clinical safety, nitrogen balance, intestinal permeability, and clinical outcome in postoperative patients: a randomized, double-blind, controlled study of 120 patients", J. Parenteral Enteral Nutr., 23 (5 Suppl): S62–66, doi:10.1177/014860719902300516, PMID 10483898.
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