NMR metabolomics of human lung tumours reveals distinct metabolic signatures for adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma

resumo

NMR metabolomics of lung tissues revealed distinct metabolic signatures for adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas (the two types being discriminated with a 94% classification rate), thus showing potential for aiding tumours subtyping, a critical diagnostic requirement in lung cancer management.Lung tumour subtyping, particularly the distinction between adenocarcinoma (AdC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC), is a critical diagnostic requirement. In this work, the metabolic signatures of lung carcinomas were investigated through H-1 NMR metabolomics, with a view to provide additional criteria for improved diagnosis and treatment planning. High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was used to analyse matched tumour and adjacent control tissues from 56 patients undergoing surgical excision of primary lung carcinomas. Multivariate modeling allowed tumour and control tissues to be discriminated with high accuracy (97% classification rate), mainly due to significant differences in the levels of 13 metabolites. Notably, the magnitude of those differences were clearly distinct for AdC and SqCC: major alterations in AdC were related to phospholipid metabolism (increased phosphocholine, glycerophosphocholine and phosphoethanolamine, together with decreased acetate) and protein catabolism (increased peptide moieties), whereas SqCC had stronger glycolytic and glutaminolytic profiles (negatively correlated variations in glucose and lactate and positively correlated increases in glutamate and alanine). Other tumour metabolic features were increased creatine, glutathione, taurine and uridine nucleotides, the first two being especially prominent in SqCC and the latter in AdC. Furthermore, multivariate analysis of AdC and SqCC profiles allowed their discrimination with a 94% classification rate, thus showing great potential for aiding lung tumours subtyping. Overall, this study has provided new, clear evidence of distinct metabolic signatures for lung AdC and SqCC, which can potentially impact on diagnosis and provide important leads for future research on novel therapeutic targets or imaging tracers.

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SPINNING H-1-NMR SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIVARIATE DATA-ANALYSIS; FDG UPTAKE; CANCER; GLUTATHIONE; CHOLINE; PROLIFERATION; SPECTROMETRY; DIAGNOSIS; AUTOPHAGY

categoria

Oncology

autores

Rocha, CM; Barros, AS; Goodfellow, BJ; Carreira, IM; Gomes, A; Sousa, V; Bernardo, J; Carvalho, L; Gil, AM; Duarte, IF

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agradecimentos

European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Competitive Factors Thematic Operational Programme (COMPETE) and national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal, under grant to C.R. (SFRH/BD/63916/2009) and projects CICECO-FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-037271 (Ref. FCT PEst-C/CTM/LA0011/2013), PTDC/QUI/68017/2006 and QOPNA (Ref. FCT PEst-C/QUI/UI0062/2013).

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