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Artymowicz M, Struck-Lewicka W, Wiczling P, Markuszewski M, Markuszewski MJ, Siluk D. Targeted quantitative metabolomics with a linear mixed-effect model for analysis of urinary nucleosides and deoxynucleosides from bladder cancer patients before and after tumor resection. Anal Bioanal Chem 2023; 415:5511-5528. [PMID: 37460824 PMCID: PMC10444683 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-04826-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
Abstract
In the present study, we developed and validated a fast, simple, and sensitive quantitative method for the simultaneous determination of eleven nucleosides and deoxynucleosides from urine samples. The analyses were performed with the use of liquid chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry. The sample pretreatment procedure was limited to centrifugation, vortex mixing of urine samples with a methanol/water solution (1:1, v/v), evaporation and dissolution steps. The analysis lasted 20 min and was performed in dynamic multiple reaction monitoring mode (dMRM) in positive polarity. Process validation was conducted to determine the linearity, precision, accuracy, limit of quantification, stability, recovery and matrix effect. All validation procedures were carried out in accordance with current FDA and EMA regulations. The validated method was applied for the analysis of 133 urine samples derived from bladder cancer patients before tumor resection and 24 h, 2 weeks, and 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after the surgery. The obtained data sets were analyzed using a linear mixed-effect model. The analysis revealed that concentration level of 2-methylthioadenosine was decreased, while for inosine, it was increased 24 h after tumor resection in comparison to the preoperative state. The presented quantitative longitudinal study of urine nucleosides and deoxynucleosides before and up to 12 months after bladder tumor resection brings additional prospective insight into the metabolite excretion pattern in bladder cancer disease. Moreover, incurred sample reanalysis was performed proving the robustness and repeatability of the developed targeted method.
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Affiliation(s)
- Małgorzata Artymowicz
- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Gdańsk, Aleja Gen. J. Hallera 107, 80-416, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Gdańsk, Aleja Gen. J. Hallera 107, 80-416, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Gdańsk, Aleja Gen. J. Hallera 107, 80-416, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Urology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Mariana Smoluchowskiego 17, 80-214, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Gdańsk, Aleja Gen. J. Hallera 107, 80-416, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Gdańsk, Aleja Gen. J. Hallera 107, 80-416, Gdańsk, Poland.
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Miller HA, Miller DM, van Berkel VH, Frieboes HB. Evaluation of Lung Cancer Patient Response to First-Line Chemotherapy by Integration of Tumor Core Biopsy Metabolomics with Multiscale Modeling. Ann Biomed Eng 2023; 51:820-832. [PMID: 36224485 PMCID: PMC10023290 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-022-03096-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The standard of care for intermediate (Stage II) and advanced (Stages III and IV) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) involves chemotherapy with taxane/platinum derivatives, with or without radiation. Ideally, patients would be screened a priori to allow non-responders to be initially treated with second-line therapies. This evaluation is non-trivial, however, since tumors behave as complex multiscale systems. To address this need, this study employs a multiscale modeling approach to evaluate first-line chemotherapy response of individual patient tumors based on metabolomic analysis of tumor core biopsies obtained during routine clinical evaluation. Model parameters were calculated for a patient cohort as a function of these metabolomic profiles, previously obtained from high-resolution 2DLC-MS/MS analysis. Evaluation metrics were defined to classify patients as Disease-Control (DC) [encompassing complete-response (CR), partial-response (PR), and stable-disease (SD)] and Progressive-Disease (PD) following first-line chemotherapy. Response was simulated for each patient and compared to actual response. The results show that patient classifications were significantly separated from each other, and also when grouped as DC vs. PD and as CR/PR vs. SD/PD, by fraction of initial tumor radius metric at 6 days post simulated bolus drug injection. This study shows that patient first-line chemotherapy response can in principle be evaluated from multiscale modeling integrated with tumor tissue metabolomic data, offering a first step towards individualized lung cancer treatment prognosis.
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- Hunter A Miller
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
- James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
- Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
- James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Louisville, Lutz Hall 419, Louisville, KY, 40292, USA.
- Center for Predictive Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
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Zhao Y, Sun W, Ji Z, Liu X, Qiao Y. Serum metabolites as early detection markers of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in Chinese patients. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1061083. [PMID: 36937410 PMCID: PMC10020364 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1061083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Background Biomarkers of different stages and grades of bladder cancer (BC) are important in clinical work. The objective of our study was to investigate new biomarkers of early-stage BC with liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) using serum samples. Methods A total of 215 cases were included in our study, including 109 healthy adults as the control group and 106 non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients as the NMIBC group. Serum samples were collected from BC patients in the early stage, called NMIBC, and healthy people before surgery. We used LC-HRMS to distinguish the NMIBC group from the control group and the low-grade NMIBC group from the control group. Results An apparent difference between the NMIBC group and the control group was visualized by unsupervised principal component analysis (PCA). Metabolite panels for 16-hydroxy-10-oxohexadecanoic acid, PGF2a ethanolamide, sulfoglycolithocholate, and threoninyl-alanine were used to distinguish the two groups. The area under the curve (AUC) of the panels was 0.985, and the sensitivity and specificity were 98.63% and 98.59%, respectively. To distinguish the low-grade NMIBC group from the control group, serum metabolic profiling differences between the low-grade NMIBC group and control group samples were also analyzed. Metabolite panels of L-octanoylcarnitine, PGF2a ethanolamide, and threoninyl-alanine showed good discrimination performance. The AUC of the panels was 0.999, and the sensitivity and specificity were 97.8% and 100%, respectively. Conclusion Metabolomics analysis of serum samples can distinguish the NMIBC group from the control group, particularly the early-stage low-grade NMIBC group.
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- Yi Zhao
- Department of Urology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
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- School of Basic Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Wei Sun, ; Zhigang Ji,
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- Department of Urology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Wei Sun, ; Zhigang Ji,
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- School of Basic Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
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Modeling of Tumor Growth with Input from Patient-Specific Metabolomic Data. Ann Biomed Eng 2022; 50:314-329. [PMID: 35083584 PMCID: PMC9743982 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-022-02904-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Advances in omic technologies have provided insight into cancer progression and treatment response. However, the nonlinear characteristics of cancer growth present a challenge to bridge from the molecular- to the tissue-scale, as tumor behavior cannot be encapsulated by the sum of the individual molecular details gleaned experimentally. Mathematical modeling and computational simulation have been traditionally employed to facilitate analysis of nonlinear systems. In this study, for the first time tumor metabolomic data are linked via mathematical modeling to the tumor tissue-scale behavior, showing the capability to mechanistically simulate cancer progression personalized to omic information obtainable from patient tumor core biopsy analysis. Generally, a higher degree of metabolic dysregulation has been correlated with more aggressive tumor behavior. Accordingly, key parameters influenced by metabolomic data in this model include tumor proliferation, vascularization, aggressiveness, lactic acid production, monocyte infiltration and macrophage polarization, and drug effect. The model enables evaluating interactions of interest between these parameters which drive tumor growth based on the metabolomic data. The results show that the model can group patients consistently with the clinically observed outcomes of response/non-response to chemotherapy. This modeling approach provides a first step towards evaluation of tumor growth based on tumor-specific metabolomic data.
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Pre- and Post-Resection Urine Metabolic Profiles of Bladder Cancer Patients: Results of Preliminary Studies on Time Series Metabolomics Analysis. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:cancers14051210. [PMID: 35267519 PMCID: PMC8909385 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14051210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 02/20/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Bladder cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers worldwide and due to non-specific symptoms, it is often detected at a late stage. For this reason, possible diagnostic alternatives that could be used for non-invasive screening are still being sought. In recent years, metabolomics approach has been frequently used for this type of research, using urine or blood collected from two groups: patients with a given disease and healthy volunteers. Usually, to minimize the impact of between-subject differences, participants of the study are matched in terms of age, gender, or BMI. Another way to rule out the impact of this variability is to analyze samples taken at intervals from the same patient. Therefore, the aim of our study was to validate results obtained using the traditional approach on a small group of patients, from whom samples were taken before and after resection of the bladder tumor, in a given time frame. Abstract The incidence of bladder cancer (BCa) has remained high for many years. Nevertheless, its pathomechanism has not yet been fully understood and is still being studied. Therefore, multiplatform untargeted urinary metabolomics analysis has been performed in order to study differences in the metabolic profiles of urine samples collected at three time points: before transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT), the day after the procedure and two weeks after TURBT. Collected samples were analyzed with the use of high-performance liquid chromatography hyphenated with time-of-flight mass spectrometry detection (HPLC-TOF/MS) and gas chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry detection (GC-QqQ/MS, in a scan mode). Levels of metabolites selected in our previous study were assessed in order to confirm their potential to differentiate the healthy and diseased samples, regardless of the risk factors and individual characteristics. Hippuric acid, pentanedioic acid and uridine confirmed their potential for sample differentiation. Based on the results of statistical analysis for the paired samples (comparison of metabolic profiles of samples collected before TURBT and two weeks after), a set of metabolites belonging to nucleotide metabolism and methylation processes was also selected. Longitudinal studies proved to be useful for the evaluation of metabolic changes in bladder cancer.
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Li P, Liao ST, Wang JS, Zhang Q, Lv Y, Yang MH, Kong LY. Pharmacokinetic and NMR metabolomics approach to evaluate therapeutic effect of berberine and Coptidis Rhizoma for sepsis. CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINES 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chmed.2018.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Analyzing chromatographic data using multilevel modeling. Anal Bioanal Chem 2018; 410:3905-3915. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-018-1061-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2017] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Patejko M, Struck-Lewicka W, Siluk D, Waszczuk-Jankowska M, Markuszewski MJ. Urinary Nucleosides and Deoxynucleosides. Adv Clin Chem 2018; 83:1-51. [PMID: 29304899 DOI: 10.1016/bs.acc.2017.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Urinary nucleosides and deoxynucleosides are mainly known as metabolites of RNA turnover and oxidative damage of DNA. For several decades these metabolites have been examined for their potential use in disease states including cancer and oxidative stress. Subsequent improvements in analytical sensitivity and specificity have provided a reliable means to measure these unique molecules to better assess their relationship to physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions. In fact, some are currently used as antiviral and antitumor agents. In this review we provide insight into their molecular characteristics, highlight current separation techniques and detection methods, and explore potential clinical usefulness.
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Wiczling P, Daghir-Wojtkowiak E, Yumba Mpanga A, Szczesny D, Kaliszan R, Markuszewski MJ. How to model temporal changes in nontargeted metabolomics study? A Bayesian multilevel perspective. J Sep Sci 2017; 40:4667-4676. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201700918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2017] [Revised: 09/25/2017] [Accepted: 10/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Paweł Wiczling
- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics; Medical University of Gdańsk; Gdańsk Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics; Medical University of Gdańsk; Gdańsk Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics; Medical University of Gdańsk; Gdańsk Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics; Medical University of Gdańsk; Gdańsk Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics; Medical University of Gdańsk; Gdańsk Poland
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- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics; Medical University of Gdańsk; Gdańsk Poland
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Bardini R, Politano G, Benso A, Di Carlo S. Multi-level and hybrid modelling approaches for systems biology. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2017; 15:396-402. [PMID: 28855977 PMCID: PMC5565741 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2017.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Revised: 06/28/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
During the last decades, high-throughput techniques allowed for the extraction of a huge amount of data from biological systems, unveiling more of their underling complexity. Biological systems encompass a wide range of space and time scales, functioning according to flexible hierarchies of mechanisms making an intertwined and dynamic interplay of regulations. This becomes particularly evident in processes such as ontogenesis, where regulative assets change according to process context and timing, making structural phenotype and architectural complexities emerge from a single cell, through local interactions. The information collected from biological systems are naturally organized according to the functional levels composing the system itself. In systems biology, biological information often comes from overlapping but different scientific domains, each one having its own way of representing phenomena under study. That is, the different parts of the system to be modelled may be described with different formalisms. For a model to have improved accuracy and capability for making a good knowledge base, it is good to comprise different system levels, suitably handling the relative formalisms. Models which are both multi-level and hybrid satisfy both these requirements, making a very useful tool in computational systems biology. This paper reviews some of the main contributions in this field.
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- Politecnico di Torino, Department of Control and Computer Engineering, 10129 Torino, Italy
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