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Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes. Although extensive investigations have been done to study metabolic changes in primary melanoma in vivo and in vitro, little effort has been devoted to metabolic profiling of metastatic tumors in organs other than lymph nodes. In this work, NMR-based metabolomics combined with multivariate data analysis is used to study metastatic B16-F10 melanoma in C57BL/6J mouse spleen. Principal component analysis, an unsupervised multivariate data analysis method, is used to detect possible outliers, while orthogonal projection to latent structure (OPLS), a supervised multivariate data analysis method, is employed to find important metabolites responsible for discriminating the control and the melanoma groups. Two different strategies, i.e. spectral binning and spectral deconvolution, are used to reduce the original spectral data before statistical analysis. Spectral deconvolution is found to be superior for identifying a set of discriminatory metabolites between the control and the melanoma groups, especially when the sample size is small. OPLS results show that the melanoma group can be well separated from its control group. It is found that taurine, glutamate, aspartate, O-phosphoethanolamine, niacinamide, ATP, lipids and glycerol derivatives are decreased statistically and significantly while alanine, malate, xanthine, histamine, dCTP, GTP, thymidine, 2′-deoxyguanosine are statistically and significantly elevated. These significantly changed metabolites are associated with multiple biological pathways and may be potential biomarkers for metastatic melanoma in spleen.
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Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institute of Health (NIH) under Award Numbers R01ES022176, and NIH/R01EB013231. All of the NMR experiments were performed in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research, and located at PNNL. PNNL is a multi-program national laboratory operated for the DOE by Battelle Memorial Institute under Contract DE-AC06-76RLO 1830. And finally we thank Dr. Xihai Wang for his contributions in pathology and animal work.
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Wang, X., Hu, M., Feng, J. et al. 1H NMR metabolomics study of metastatic melanoma in C57BL/6J mouse spleen. Metabolomics 10, 1129–1144 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-014-0652-z
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