Yan Lin, Rust Bret M, Sundaram Sneha, Picklo Matthew J, Bukowski Michael R
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, USA.
Nutr Metab Insights. 2022 Aug 4;15:11786388221111126. doi: 10.1177/11786388221111126. eCollection 2022.
Both clinical and laboratory studies have shown that monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) is involved in cancer spread. To understand the role of MCP-1 in metabolism in the presence of metastasis, we conducted an untargeted metabolomic analysis of primary metabolism on plasma collected from a study showing that MCP-1 deficiency reduces spontaneous metastasis of Lewis lung carcinoma (LLC) to the lungs in mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD). In a 2 × 2 design, wild-type (WT) or knockout ( ) mice maintained on the AIN93G standard diet or HFD were subcutaneously injected with LLC cells to induce lung metastasis. We identified 87 metabolites for metabolomic analysis from this study. Amino acid metabolism was altered considerably in the presence of LLC metastases with the aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis pathways as the leading pathway altered. The HFD modified lipid and energy metabolism, evidenced by lower contents of arachidonic acid, cholesterol, and long-chain saturated fatty acids and higher contents of glucose and pyruvic acid in mice fed the HFD. These findings were supported by network analysis showing alterations in fatty acid synthesis and glycolysis/gluconeogenesis pathways between the 2 diets. Furthermore, elevations of the citrate cycle intermediates (citric acid, fumaric acid, isocitric acid, and succinic acid) and glyceric acid in mice, regardless of diet, suggest the involvement of MCP-1 in mitochondrial energy metabolism during LLC metastasis. The present study demonstrates that MCP-1 deficiency and the HFD altered plasma metabolome in mice bearing LLC metastases. These findings can be useful in understanding the impact of obesity on prevention and treatment of cancer metastasis.
临床和实验室研究均表明,单核细胞趋化蛋白-1(MCP-1)参与癌症扩散。为了解MCP-1在存在转移情况下的代谢作用,我们对一项研究中收集的血浆进行了初级代谢的非靶向代谢组学分析,该研究表明MCP-1缺乏可减少高脂饮食(HFD)喂养的小鼠中Lewis肺癌(LLC)向肺部的自发转移。在2×2设计中,将维持在AIN93G标准饮食或HFD上的野生型(WT)或敲除( )小鼠皮下注射LLC细胞以诱导肺转移。我们从这项研究中鉴定出87种用于代谢组学分析的代谢物。在存在LLC转移的情况下,氨基酸代谢发生了显著改变,氨酰-tRNA生物合成途径是改变的主要途径。HFD改变了脂质和能量代谢,喂食HFD的小鼠中花生四烯酸、胆固醇和长链饱和脂肪酸含量较低,葡萄糖和丙酮酸含量较高证明了这一点。这些发现得到了网络分析的支持,该分析显示两种饮食之间脂肪酸合成和糖酵解/糖异生途径存在改变。此外,无论饮食如何, 小鼠中柠檬酸循环中间体(柠檬酸、富马酸、异柠檬酸和琥珀酸)和甘油酸的升高表明MCP-1在LLC转移期间参与线粒体能量代谢。本研究表明,MCP-1缺乏和HFD改变了携带LLC转移的小鼠的血浆代谢组。这些发现有助于理解肥胖对癌症转移预防和治疗的影响。