Metabolomics approaches in pancreatic adenocarcinoma : tumor metabolism profiling predicts clinical outcome of patients

BACKGROUND: Pancreatic adenocarcinomas (PAs) have very poor prognoses even when surgery is possible. Currently, there are no tissular biomarkers to predict long-term survival in patients with PA. The aims of this study were to (1) describe the metabolome of pancreatic parenchyma (PP) and PA, (2) determine the impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on PP and PA, and (3) find tissue metabolic biomarkers associated with long-term survivors, using metabolomics analysis.

METHODS: 1H high-resolution magic angle spinning (HRMAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy using intact tissues was applied to analyze metabolites in PP tissue samples (n = 17) and intact tumor samples (n = 106), obtained from 106 patients undergoing surgical resection for PA.

RESULTS: An orthogonal partial least square-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) showed a clear distinction between PP and PA. Higher concentrations of myo-inositol and glycerol were shown in PP, whereas higher levels of glucose, ascorbate, ethanolamine, lactate, and taurine were revealed in PA. Among those metabolites, one of them was particularly obvious in the distinction between long-term and short-term survivors. A high ethanolamine level was associated with worse survival. The impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy was higher on PA than on PP.

CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that HRMAS NMR spectroscopy using intact tissue provides important and solid information in the characterization of PA. Metabolomics profiling can also predict long-term survival: the assessment of ethanolamine concentration can be clinically relevant as a single metabolic biomarker. This information can be obtained in 20 min, during surgery, to distinguish long-term from short-term survival.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

BMC medicine - 15(2017), 1 vom: 16. März, Seite 56

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Battini, S [VerfasserIn]
Faitot, F [VerfasserIn]
Imperiale, A [VerfasserIn]
Cicek, A E [VerfasserIn]
Heimburger, C [VerfasserIn]
Averous, G [VerfasserIn]
Bachellier, P [VerfasserIn]
Namer, I J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

5KV86114PT
Biomarker
Biomarkers
Ethanolamine
HRMAS
Journal Article
Long-term survival
Metabolomics
NMR
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

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Date Completed 05.06.2017

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12916-017-0810-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM26988260X