Spent media analysis suggests cultivated meat media will require species and cell type optimization
Creators
- 1. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- 2. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- 3. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- 4. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- 5. Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA
- 6. Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- 7. Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Description
Cell culture media design is perhaps the most significant hurdle currently facing the commercialization of cultivated meat as an alternative source of dietary protein. Since media optimization for a specific culture system requires a significant amount of effort and investment, a major question remaining is whether media formulations can be easily shared across multiple production schemes for cells of different species and lineages. Here, we perform spent medium analysis to compare the specific nutrient utilization of primary embryonic chicken muscle precursor cells and fibroblasts to the murine C2C12 myoblast cell line. We demonstrate that these related cell types have significantly different nutrient utilization patterns collectively and on a per-cell basis, and that many components of conventional media do not appear to be depleted by the cells. Namely, glucose was not consumed as rapidly nor as completely by the chicken muscle precursors compared to other cells overall, and there were significant differences in specific consumption rates for several other key nutrients over the first day of culture. Ultimately, our results indicate that no one medium is likely ideal and cost effective to culture multiple cell types and that novel methods to streamline media optimization efforts will be important for the industry to develop.
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