Summary of Study ST002806
This data is available at the NIH Common Fund's National Metabolomics Data Repository (NMDR) website, the Metabolomics Workbench, https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org, where it has been assigned Project ID PR001753. The data can be accessed directly via it's Project DOI: 10.21228/M8413M This work is supported by NIH grant, U2C- DK119886.
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Study ID | ST002806 |
Study Title | Comprehensive Metabolic Profiling of MYC-Amplified Medulloblastoma Tumors Reveals Key Dependencies on Amino Acid, Tricarboxylic Acid and Hexosamine Pathways |
Study Summary | Reprogramming of cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. Altering metabolism allows cancer cells to overcome unfavorable microenvironment conditions and to increase and invade. Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Genomic amplification of MYC defines a subset of poor-prognosis medulloblastoma. We performed comprehensive metabolic studies of human MYC-amplified medulloblastoma by comparing the metabolic profiles of tumor cells in three different conditions—in vitro, in flank xenografts, and orthotopic xenografts in the cerebellum. Principal component analysis showed that the metabolic profiles of brain and flank high-MYC medulloblastoma tumors clustered closely together and separated away from the normal brain and in vitro MYC-amplified cells. Compared to typical brains, MYC-amplified medulloblastoma orthotopic xenograft tumors showed upregulation of the TCA cycle and the synthesis of nucleotides, hexosamines, amino acids, and glutathione. There was significantly higher glucose uptake and usage in orthotopic xenograft tumors compared to flank xenograft tumors and cells in culture. In orthotopic tumors, glucose was the primary carbon source for the de novo synthesis of glutamate, glutamine, and glutathione through the TCA cycle. In vivo, the glutaminase II pathway was the main pathway utilizing glutamine. Glutathione was the most abundant upregulated metabolite in orthotopic tumors compared to normal brains. Glutamine-derived glutathione was synthesized through the glutamine transaminase K (GTK) enzyme in vivo. In conclusion, high MYC medulloblastoma cells have different metabolic profiles in vitro compared to in vivo; critical vulnerabilities may be missed by not performing in vivo metabolic analyses. |
Institute | Johns Hopkins University |
Last Name | Pham |
First Name | Khoa |
Address | 600 N. Wolfe Street, Pathology Bldg., Rm. 401, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, USA |
kpham8@jhmi.edu | |
Phone | 4109553439 |
Submit Date | 2023-07-29 |
Raw Data Available | Yes |
Raw Data File Type(s) | mzXML |
Analysis Type Detail | LC-MS |
Release Date | 2023-08-20 |
Release Version | 1 |
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Treatment:
Treatment ID: | TR002922 |
Treatment Summary: | In vitro metabolic flux experiments involved the media in confluent cells being changed just before the experiment. Three biological replicate samples of each cell line were pulsed with 10 μM U-glucose (13C6 99% purity) label from Cambridge Isotope (No. CLM-1396-1) or 4 μM U-glutamine (13C5, 15N2, 99% purity) label from Cambridge Isotope (No. CNLM-1275-H-0.5) for 2 h. Following the pulse, cells were spun down and washed with PBS. 1 mL of 80% UPLC-grade ice cold methanol was added to each pellet. Pellets were vortexed for 1 min and incubated at −80 °C to extract metabolites. Analysis of metabolites is described below. In Vivo Stable Isotope Labeling and Metabolite Extraction and Analyses Uniformly labeled glutamine was prepared at a 100 μM concentration in PBS and uniformly labeled glucose was prepared as a 20% solution in PBS. Three animals per group were given three 100 μL IP injections of isotope spaced 15 min apart. Euthanasia occurred two hours after the second isotope injection. Tumors were visually identified in the right cerebellar hemisphere due to their more grey/white appearance compared to the normal cerebellum and were dissected and immediately removed and flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. All uniformly labeled isotopes were obtained from Cambridge Isotope Labs, Tewksbury, MA, USA. |