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Wojakowska A, Marczak L, Zeman M, Chekan M, Zembala-Nożyńska E, Polanski K, Strugała A, Widlak P, Pietrowska M. Proteomic and metabolomic signatures of rectal tumor discriminate patients with different responses to preoperative radiotherapy. Front Oncol 2024; 14:1323961. [PMID: 38410100 PMCID: PMC10896604 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1323961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Background Neoadjuvant radiotherapy (neo-RT) is widely used in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) as a component of radical treatment. Despite the advantages of neo-RT, which typically improves outcomes in LARC patients, the lack of reliable biomarkers that predict response and monitor the efficacy of therapy, can result in the application of unnecessary aggressive therapy affecting patients' quality of life. Hence, the search for molecular biomarkers for assessing the radio responsiveness of this cancer represents a relevant issue. Methods Here, we combined proteomic and metabolomic approaches to identify molecular signatures, which could discriminate LARC tumors with good and poor responses to neo-RT. Results The integration of data on differentially accumulated proteins and metabolites made it possible to identify disrupted metabolic pathways and signaling processes connected with response to irradiation, including ketone bodies synthesis and degradation, purine metabolism, energy metabolism, degradation of fatty acid, amino acid metabolism, and focal adhesion. Moreover, we proposed multi-component panels of proteins and metabolites which could serve as a solid base to develop biomarkers for monitoring and predicting the efficacy of preoperative RT in rectal cancer patients. Conclusion We proved that an integrated multi-omic approach presents a valid look at the analysis of the global response to cancer treatment from the perspective of metabolomic reprogramming.
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- Anna Wojakowska
- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- The Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
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- Department of Pathomorphology, University of Technology, Katowice, Poland
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- Tumor Pathology Department, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- 2nd Department of Radiology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
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Strybel U, Marczak L, Zeman M, Polanski K, Mielańczyk Ł, Klymenko O, Samelak-Czajka A, Jackowiak P, Smolarz M, Chekan M, Zembala-Nożyńska E, Widlak P, Pietrowska M, Wojakowska A. Molecular Composition of Serum Exosomes Could Discriminate Rectal Cancer Patients with Different Responses to Neoadjuvant Radiotherapy. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:cancers14040993. [PMID: 35205741 PMCID: PMC8870712 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14040993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Exosomes could be used as biomarkers to predict and monitor the response to anti-cancer treatment, yet relevant knowledge is very limited in the case of rectal cancer. Here we applied a combined proteomic and metabolomic approach to reveal exosome components connected with different responses to neoadjuvant radiotherapy in this group of patients and processes associated with identified discriminatory molecules. Moreover, the composition of serum-derived exosomes and a whole plasma was analyzed in parallel to compare the biomarker potential of both specimens, which revealed the highest capacity of exosome proteome to discriminate samples of patients with different responses to radiotherapy. Abstract Identification of biomarkers that could be used for the prediction of the response to neoadjuvant radiotherapy (neo-RT) in locally advanced rectal cancer remains a challenge addressed by different experimental approaches. Exosomes and other classes of extracellular vesicles circulating in patients’ blood represent a novel type of liquid biopsy and a source of cancer biomarkers. Here, we used a combined proteomic and metabolomic approach based on mass spectrometry techniques for studying the molecular components of exosomes isolated from the serum of rectal cancer patients with different responses to neo-RT. This allowed revealing several proteins and metabolites associated with common pathways relevant for the response of rectal cancer patients to neo-RT, including immune system response, complement activation cascade, platelet functions, metabolism of lipids, metabolism of glucose, and cancer-related signaling pathways. Moreover, the composition of serum-derived exosomes and a whole serum was analyzed in parallel to compare the biomarker potential of both specimens. Among proteins that the most properly discriminated good and poor responders were GPLD1 (AUC = 0.85, accuracy of 74%) identified in plasma as well as C8G (AUC = 0.91, accuracy 81%), SERPINF2 (AUC = 0.91, accuracy 79%) and CFHR3 (AUC = 0.90, accuracy 81%) identified in exosomes. We found that the proteome component of serum-derived exosomes has the highest capacity to discriminate samples of patients with different responses to neo-RT when compared to the whole plasma proteome and metabolome. We concluded that the molecular components of exosomes are associated with the response of rectal cancer patients to neo-RT and could be used for the prediction of such response.
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- Urszula Strybel
- Department of Biomedical Proteomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland; (U.S.); (L.M.); (A.S.-C.); (P.J.)
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- Department of Biomedical Proteomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland; (U.S.); (L.M.); (A.S.-C.); (P.J.)
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-102 Gliwice, Poland; (M.Z.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (E.Z.-N.); (M.P.)
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK;
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- Department of Histology and Cell Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, 40-055 Katowice, Poland; (Ł.M.); (O.K.)
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- Department of Histology and Cell Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, 40-055 Katowice, Poland; (Ł.M.); (O.K.)
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- Department of Biomedical Proteomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland; (U.S.); (L.M.); (A.S.-C.); (P.J.)
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- Department of Biomedical Proteomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland; (U.S.); (L.M.); (A.S.-C.); (P.J.)
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-102 Gliwice, Poland; (M.Z.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (E.Z.-N.); (M.P.)
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-102 Gliwice, Poland; (M.Z.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (E.Z.-N.); (M.P.)
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-102 Gliwice, Poland; (M.Z.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (E.Z.-N.); (M.P.)
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- Clinical Research Support Centre, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-210 Gdańsk, Poland;
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-102 Gliwice, Poland; (M.Z.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (E.Z.-N.); (M.P.)
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- Department of Biomedical Proteomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland; (U.S.); (L.M.); (A.S.-C.); (P.J.)
- Correspondence:
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Ciardullo C, Szoltysek K, Zhou P, Pietrowska M, Marczak L, Willmore E, Enshaei A, Walaszczyk A, Ho JY, Rand V, Marshall S, Hall AG, Harrison CJ, Soundararajan M, Eswaran J. Low BACH2 Expression Predicts Adverse Outcome in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 14:23. [PMID: 35008187 PMCID: PMC8750551 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14010023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Revised: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is a heterogeneous disease with a highly variable clinical outcome. There are well-established CLL prognostic biomarkers that have transformed treatment and improved the understanding of CLL biology. Here, we have studied the clinical significance of two crucial B cell regulators, BACH2 (BTB and CNC homology 1, basic leucine zipper transcription factor 2) and BCL6 (B-cell CLL/lymphoma 6), in a cohort of 102 CLL patients and determined the protein interaction networks that they participate in using MEC-1 CLL cells. We observed that CLL patients expressing low levels of BCL6 and BACH2 RNA had significantly shorter overall survival (OS) than high BCL6- and BACH2-expressing cases. Notably, their low expression specifically decreased the OS of immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region-mutated (IGHV-M) CLL patients, as well as those with 11q and 13q deletions. Similar to the RNA data, a low BACH2 protein expression was associated with a significantly shorter OS than a high expression. There was no direct interaction observed between BACH2 and BCL6 in MEC-1 CLL cells, but they shared protein networks that included fifty different proteins. Interestingly, a prognostic index (PI) model that we generated, using integrative risk score values of BACH2 RNA expression, age, and 17p deletion status, predicted patient outcomes in our cohort. Taken together, these data have shown for the first time a possible prognostic role for BACH2 in CLL and have revealed protein interaction networks shared by BCL6 and BACH2, indicating a significant role for BACH2 and BCL6 in key cellular processes, including ubiquitination mediated B-cell receptor functions, nucleic acid metabolism, protein degradation, and homeostasis in CLL biology.
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- Carmela Ciardullo
- Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK; (C.C.); (M.S.)
- Translational & Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK; (K.S.); (E.W.); (A.E.); (A.G.H.); (C.J.H.)
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- Translational & Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK; (K.S.); (E.W.); (A.E.); (A.G.H.); (C.J.H.)
- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute, Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, 02-034 Warszawa, Poland;
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- School of Health & Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough TS1 3JN, UK; (P.Z.); (V.R.)
- National Horizons Centre, Teesside University, Darlington DL1 1HG, UK
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute, Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, 02-034 Warszawa, Poland;
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- Department of Natural Products Biochemistry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland;
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- Translational & Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK; (K.S.); (E.W.); (A.E.); (A.G.H.); (C.J.H.)
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- Translational & Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK; (K.S.); (E.W.); (A.E.); (A.G.H.); (C.J.H.)
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK;
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- Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, EduCity Iskandar, Johor 79200, Malaysia;
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- School of Health & Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough TS1 3JN, UK; (P.Z.); (V.R.)
- National Horizons Centre, Teesside University, Darlington DL1 1HG, UK
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- Department of Haematology, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust, Sunderland SR4 7TP, UK;
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- Translational & Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK; (K.S.); (E.W.); (A.E.); (A.G.H.); (C.J.H.)
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- Translational & Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK; (K.S.); (E.W.); (A.E.); (A.G.H.); (C.J.H.)
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- Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK; (C.C.); (M.S.)
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- Translational & Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK; (K.S.); (E.W.); (A.E.); (A.G.H.); (C.J.H.)
- Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, EduCity Iskandar, Johor 79200, Malaysia;
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Marczak L, Idkowiak J, Tracz J, Stobiecki M, Perek B, Kostka-Jeziorny K, Tykarski A, Wanic-Kossowska M, Borowski M, Osuch M, Formanowicz D, Luczak M. Mass Spectrometry-Based Lipidomics Reveals Differential Changes in the Accumulated Lipid Classes in Chronic Kidney Disease. Metabolites 2021; 11:275. [PMID: 33925471 PMCID: PMC8146808 DOI: 10.3390/metabo11050275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by the progressive loss of functional nephrons. Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications and atherosclerosis are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in CKD, the mechanism by which the progression of CVD accelerates remains unclear. To reveal the molecular mechanisms associated with atherosclerosis linked to CKD, we applied a shotgun lipidomics approach fortified with standard laboratory analytical methods and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry technique on selected lipid components and precursors to analyze the plasma lipidome in CKD and classical CVD patients. The MS-based lipidome profiling revealed the upregulation of triacylglycerols in CKD and downregulation of cholesterol/cholesteryl esters, sphingomyelins, phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanolamines and ceramides as compared to CVD group and controls. We have further observed a decreased abundance of seven fatty acids in CKD with strong inter-correlation. In contrast, the level of glycerol was elevated in CKD in comparison to all analyzed groups. Our results revealed the putative existence of a functional causative link-the low cholesterol level correlated with lower estimated glomerular filtration rate and kidney dysfunction that supports the postulated "reverse epidemiology" theory and suggest that the lipidomic background of atherosclerosis-related to CKD is unique and might be associated with other cellular factors, i.e., inflammation.
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- Lukasz Marczak
- Department of Natural Products Biochemistry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland; (J.I.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Natural Products Biochemistry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland; (J.I.); (M.S.)
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biomedical Proteomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland;
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- Department of Natural Products Biochemistry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland; (J.I.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-001 Poznan, Poland;
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- Department of Hypertension, Angiology and Internal Disease, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-001 Poznan, Poland; (K.K.-J.); (A.T.)
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- Department of Hypertension, Angiology and Internal Disease, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-001 Poznan, Poland; (K.K.-J.); (A.T.)
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- Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-355 Poznan, Poland;
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- Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznan, Poland;
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland;
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- Chair and Department of Medical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-806 Poznan, Poland;
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- Department of Biomedical Proteomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland;
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Pietrowska M, Zebrowska A, Gawin M, Marczak L, Sharma P, Mondal S, Mika J, Polańska J, Ferrone S, Kirkwood JM, Widlak P, Whiteside TL. Proteomic profile of melanoma cell-derived small extracellular vesicles in patients' plasma: a potential correlate of melanoma progression. J Extracell Vesicles 2021; 10:e12063. [PMID: 33613873 PMCID: PMC7876545 DOI: 10.1002/jev2.12063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Molecular profiling of small extracellular vesicles (sEV) isolated from plasma of cancer patients emerges as promising strategy for biomarkers discovery. We investigated the proteomic profiles of sEV immunoselected using anti-CSPG4 antibodies from 15 melanoma patients' plasma. The proteomes of sEV separated into melanoma cell-derived (MTEX) and non-malignant cell-derived (NMTEX) were compared using high-resolution mass spectrometry. Paired analysis identified the MTEX-associated profile of 16 proteins that discriminated MTEX from NMETEX. We also identified the MTEX profile that discriminated between seven patients with no evidence of melanoma (NED) after therapy and eight with progressive disease (PD). Among 75 MTEX proteins overexpressed in PD patients, PDCD6IP (ALIX) had the highest discriminating value, while CNTN1 (contactin-1) was upregulated only in MTEX of NED patients. This is the first report documenting that proteomes of tumour-derived sEV in patients' plasma discriminate cancer from non-cancer and identify proteins with potential to serve as prognostic biomarkers in melanoma.
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- Monika Pietrowska
- Maria Sklodowska‐Curie National Research Institute of OncologyGliwicePoland
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- Maria Sklodowska‐Curie National Research Institute of OncologyGliwicePoland
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- Maria Sklodowska‐Curie National Research Institute of OncologyGliwicePoland
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- European Center for Bioinformatics and GenomicsInstitute of Bioorganic Chemistry PASPoznanPoland
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer CenterUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer InstitutePittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer CenterUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer InstitutePittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Data Science and Engineering, Silesian University of TechnologyGliwicePoland
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- Department of Data Science and Engineering, Silesian University of TechnologyGliwicePoland
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- Department of SurgeryHarvard Medical School, Massachusetts General HospitalBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer CenterUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer InstitutePittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA,Department of MedicineUniversity of Pittsburgh School of MedicinePittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Maria Sklodowska‐Curie National Research Institute of OncologyGliwicePoland
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer CenterUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer InstitutePittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA,Department of PathologyUniversity of Pittsburgh School of MedicinePittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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Wojakowska A, Zebrowska A, Skowronek A, Rutkowski T, Polanski K, Widlak P, Marczak L, Pietrowska M. Metabolic Profiles of Whole Serum and Serum-Derived Exosomes Are Different in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated by Radiotherapy. J Pers Med 2020; 10:jpm10040229. [PMID: 33203021 PMCID: PMC7711528 DOI: 10.3390/jpm10040229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND In general, the serum metabolome reflects the patient's body response to both disease state and implemented treatment. Though serum-derived exosomes are an emerging type of liquid biopsy, the metabolite content of these vesicles remains under researched. The aim of this pilot study was to compare the metabolite profiles of the whole serum and serum-derived exosomes in the context of differences between cancer patients and healthy controls as well as patients' response to radiotherapy (RT). METHODS Serum samples were collected from 10 healthy volunteers and 10 patients with head and neck cancer before and after RT. Metabolites extracted from serum and exosomes were analyzed by the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). RESULTS An untargeted GC-MS-based approach identified 182 and 46 metabolites in serum and exosomes, respectively. Metabolites that differentiated cancer and control samples, either serum or exosomes, were associated with energy metabolism. Serum metabolites affected by RT were associated with the metabolism of amino acids, sugars, lipids, and nucleotides. CONCLUSIONS cancer-related features of energy metabolism could be detected in both types of specimens. On the other hand, in contrast to RT-induced changes observed in serum metabolome, this pilot study did not reveal a specific radiation-related pattern of exosome metabolites.
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- Anna Wojakowska
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland;
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland; (A.Z.); (A.S.); (T.R.); (P.W.)
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland; (A.Z.); (A.S.); (T.R.); (P.W.)
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland; (A.Z.); (A.S.); (T.R.); (P.W.)
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK;
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland; (A.Z.); (A.S.); (T.R.); (P.W.)
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland;
- Correspondence: (L.M.); (M.P.)
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland; (A.Z.); (A.S.); (T.R.); (P.W.)
- Correspondence: (L.M.); (M.P.)
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Abramowicz A, Wojakowska A, Marczak L, Lysek-Gladysinska M, Smolarz M, Story MD, Polanska J, Widlak P, Pietrowska M. Ionizing radiation affects the composition of the proteome of extracellular vesicles released by head-and-neck cancer cells in vitro. J Radiat Res 2019; 60:289-297. [PMID: 30805606 PMCID: PMC6530623 DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rrz001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Revised: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
Exosomes and other extracellular vesicles are key players in cell-to-cell communication, and it has been proposed that they are involved in different aspects of the response to ionizing radiation, including transmitting the radiation-induced bystander effect and mediating radioresistance. The functional role of exosomes depends on their molecular cargo, including proteome content. Here we aimed to establish the proteome profile of exosomes released in vitro by irradiated UM-SCC6 cells derived from human head-and-neck cancer and to identify processes associated with radiation-affected proteins. Exosomes and other small extracellular vesicles were purified by size-exclusion chromatography from cell culture media collected 24 h after irradiation of cells with a single 2, 4 or 8 Gy dose, and then proteins were identified using a shotgun LC-MS/MS approach. Exosome-specific proteins encoded by 1217 unique genes were identified. There were 472 proteins whose abundance in exosomes was significantly affected by radiation (at any dose), including 425 upregulated and 47 downregulated species. The largest group of proteins affected by radiation (369 species) included those with increased abundance at all radiation doses (≥2 Gy). Several gene ontology terms were associated with radiation-affected exosome proteins. Among overrepresented processes were those involved in the response to radiation, the metabolism of radical oxygen species, DNA repair, chromatin packaging, and protein folding. Hence, the protein content of exosomes released by irradiated cells indicates their actual role in mediating the response to ionizing radiation.
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- Agata Abramowicz
- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska–Curie Institute–Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, ul. Wybrzeze Armii Krajowej 15, Gliwice, Poland
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- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska–Curie Institute–Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, ul. Wybrzeze Armii Krajowej 15, Gliwice, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Noskowskiego 12/14, Poznan, Poland
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- The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Institute of Biology, Department of Cell Biology and Electron Microscopy, ul. Swietokrzyska 15, Kielce, Poland
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- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska–Curie Institute–Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, ul. Wybrzeze Armii Krajowej 15, Gliwice, Poland
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Molecular Radiation Biology, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Akademicka 16, Gliwice, Poland
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- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska–Curie Institute–Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, ul. Wybrzeze Armii Krajowej 15, Gliwice, Poland
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- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska–Curie Institute–Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, ul. Wybrzeze Armii Krajowej 15, Gliwice, Poland
- Corresponding author. Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska–Curie Institute–Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, ul. Wybrzeze Armii Krajowej 15, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland. Tel: +0048-32-278-9627; Fax: +0048-32-278-9840;
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Ludwig S, Marczak L, Sharma P, Abramowicz A, Gawin M, Widlak P, Whiteside TL, Pietrowska M. Proteomes of exosomes from HPV(+) or HPV(-) head and neck cancer cells: differential enrichment in immunoregulatory proteins. Oncoimmunology 2019; 8:1593808. [PMID: 31143515 PMCID: PMC6527282 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2019.1593808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2018] [Revised: 02/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is an etiologic factor in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). HPV(+) cancers respond favorably to therapy potentially due to more robust anti-tumor immune responses. We hypothesized that tumor-derived exosomes (TEX) produced by HPV(+) or HPV(-) HNSCCs differentially modulate anti-tumor immune responses. Proteomes of exosomes from HPV(+) and HPV(-) HNSCC cell lines were compared in search for proteins putatively involved in the communication with immune system. TEX were isolated from supernatants of HPV(+) (SCC-2, SCC-47, and SCC-90) or HPV(-) (PCI-13 and PCI-30) cells by size exclusion chromatography. A comparison of proteome profiles was performed by high-resolution mass spectrometry. The presence and biological activity of selected immunoregulatory proteins were validated by flow cytometry and co-incubation assays. Exosomes produced by SCC-90 and PCI-30 cells contained 711 proteins, including 80 proteins specific for HPV(+) exosomes and 77 specific for HPV(-) exosomes, associated with similar GO terms such as regulation of cell growth, metabolism, communication, and cellular signaling. Search for proteins localized in the membrane and involved in immune regulation identified a few proteins detected specifically in HPV(+) or HPV(-) exosomes. Only HPV(+) exosomes were enriched in immune effector cell-related CD47 and CD276 antigens; only HPV(-) exosomes contained tumor-protective/growth-promoting antigens, MUC-1 and HLA-DA. Flow cytometry and Western blots confirmed the reciprocal presence/paucity of these proteins in a whole panel of tumor cells and corresponding exosomes. The differential content of protein cargos in HPV(+) and HPV(-) exosomes might contribute to the disparity in immune responses that characterize HPV(+) and HPV(-) HNSCC.
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- Sonja Ludwig
- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.,Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry, European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.,Departments of Immunology and Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Abramowicz A, Marczak L, Wojakowska A, Zapotoczny S, Whiteside TL, Widlak P, Pietrowska M. Harmonization of exosome isolation from culture supernatants for optimized proteomics analysis. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0205496. [PMID: 30379855 PMCID: PMC6209201 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Exosomes, the smallest subset of extracellular vesicles (EVs), have recently attracted much attention in the scientific community. Their involvement in intercellular communication and molecular reprogramming of different cell types created a demand for a stringent characterization of the proteome which exosomes carry and deliver to recipient cells. Mass spectrometry (MS) has been extensively used for exosome protein profiling. Unfortunately, no standards have been established for exosome isolation and their preparation for MS, leading to accumulation of artefactual data. These include the presence of high-abundance exosome-contaminating serum proteins in culture media which mask low-abundance exosome-specific components, isolation methods that fail to yield “pure” vesicles or variability in protein solubilization protocols. There is an unmet need for the development of standards for exosome generation, harvesting, and isolation from cellular supernatants and for optimization of protein extraction methods before proteomics analysis by MS. In this communication, we illustrate the existing problems in this field and provide a set of recommendations that are expected to harmonize exosome processing for MS and provide the faithful picture of the proteomes carried by exosomes. The recommended workflow for effective and specific identification of proteins in exosomes released by the low number of cells involves culturing cells in medium with a reduced concentration of exosome-depleted serum, purification of exosomes by size-exclusion chromatography, a combination of different protein extraction method and removal of serum-derived proteins from the final dataset using an appropriate sample of cell-unexposed medium as a control. Application of this method allowed detection of >250 vesicle-specific proteins in exosomes from 10 mL of culture medium.
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- Agata Abramowicz
- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Zeber-Lubecka N, Kulecka M, Ambrozkiewicz F, Paziewska A, Goryca K, Karczmarski J, Rubel T, Wojtowicz W, Mlynarz P, Marczak L, Tomecki R, Mikula M, Ostrowski J. Limited prolonged effects of rifaximin treatment on irritable bowel syndrome-related differences in the fecal microbiome and metabolome. Gut Microbes 2016; 7:397-413. [PMID: 27662586 PMCID: PMC5046165 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2016.1215805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic functional disorder and its development may be linked, directly and indirectly, to intestinal dysbiosis. Here we investigated the interactions between IBS symptoms and the gut microbiome, including the relation to rifaximin (1200 mg daily; 11.2 g per a treatment). We recruited 72 patients, including 31 with IBS-D (diarrhea), 11 with IBS-C (constipation), and 30 with IBS-M (mixed constipation and diarrhea) and 30 healthy controls (HCs). Of them, 68%, 64%, and 53% patients with IBS-D, IBS-C, and IBS-M, respectively, achieved 10-12 week-term improvement after the rifaximin treatment. Stool samples were collected before and after the treatment, and fecal microbiotic profiles were analyzed by deep sequencing of 16S rRNA, while stool metabolic profiles were studied by hydrogen 1-nuclear magnetic resonance ((1)H-NMR) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Of 26 identified phyla, only Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria were consistently found in all samples. Bacteroidetes was predominant in fecal samples from HCs and IBS-D and IBS-M subjects, whereas Firmicutes was predominant in samples from IBS-C subjects. Species richness, but not community diversity, differentiated all IBS patients from HCs. Metabolic fingerprinting, using NMR spectra, distinguished HCs from all IBS patients. Thirteen metabolites identified by GC-MS differed HCs and IBS patients. However, neither metagenomics nor metabolomics analyses identified significant differences between patients with and without improvement after treatment.
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- Natalia Zeber-Lubecka
- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Radioelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland,Department of Genetics, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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Marczak L, Idkowiak J, Dabrowski J, Rozwadowska N, Malcher A, Zimna A, Kurpisz M, Luczak M, Stobiecki M. Phospholipid profiling of Induced Pluripotent Stem cells by mass spectrometry approaches. N Biotechnol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2016.06.1354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Luczak M, Suszynska-Zajczyk J, Marczak L, Formanowicz D, Pawliczak E, Wanic-Kossowska M, Stobiecki M. Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics Reveals Differences in Molecular Mechanism of Atherosclerosis Related and Non-Related to Chronic Kidney Disease. Int J Mol Sci 2016; 17:E631. [PMID: 27144566 PMCID: PMC4881457 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17050631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2016] [Revised: 04/18/2016] [Accepted: 04/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The major cause of mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is atherosclerosis related to traditional and non-traditional risk factors. However, the understanding of the molecular specificity that distinguishes the risk factors for classical cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CKD-related atherosclerosis (CKD-A) is far from complete. In this study we investigated the disease-related differences in the proteomes of patients with atherosclerosis related and non-related to CKD. Plasma collected from patients in various stages of CKD, CVD patients without symptoms of kidney dysfunction, and healthy volunteers (HVs), were analyzed by a coupled label-free and mass spectrometry approach. Dysregulated proteins were confirmed by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). All proteomic data were correlated with kidney disease development and were subjected to bioinformatics analysis. One hundred sixty-two differentially expressed proteins were identified. By directly comparing the plasma proteomes from HVs, CKD, and CVD patients in one study, we demonstrated that proteins involved in inflammation, blood coagulation, oxidative stress, vascular damage, and calcification process exhibited greater alterations in patients with atherosclerosis related with CKD. These data indicate that the above nontraditional risk factors are strongly specific for CKD-A and appear to be less essential for the development of "classical" CVD.
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- Magdalena Luczak
- European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland.
- Institute of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 60-965 Poznan, Poland.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Dojazd 11, 60-632 Poznan, Poland.
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- European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland.
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780 Poznan, Poland.
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- Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Przybyszewskiego 49, 60-355 Poznan, Poland.
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- Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Przybyszewskiego 49, 60-355 Poznan, Poland.
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- European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland.
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Cieslak J, Pawlak P, Wodas L, Borowska A, Stachowiak A, Puppel K, Kuczynska B, Luczak M, Marczak L, Mackowski M. Characterization of equine CSN1S2 variants considering genetics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. J Dairy Sci 2015; 99:1277-1285. [PMID: 26709185 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2015-9807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2015] [Accepted: 09/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Currently, research interest is increasing in horse milk composition and its effect on human health. Despite previously published studies describing the presence of intra- and interbreed variability of equine milk components, no investigations have focused on the genetic background of this variation. Among horse caseins and the genes encoding them, least is known about the structure and expression of the α-S2 casein gene, CSN1S2. Herein, based on direct sequencing of the equine CSN1S2 coding sequence, we describe the presence of 51-bp insertion-deletion (in/del) polymorphism, which significantly changes the protein sequence (lack or presence of 17-amino acid serine-rich peptide). Bioinformatic analysis revealed that the observed in/del polymorphism spanned exactly 2 exons; therefore, we hypothesized that we were observing different CSN1S2 splicing isoforms. However, further investigation indicated that the detected sequence variation was caused by a large (1.3-kb) deletion in the genomic DNA. We found that the polymorphic forms (A, longer; B, shorter; KP658381 and KP658382 GenBank records, respectively) were unevenly distributed among different horse breeds (the highest frequency of variant B was observed in coldblood horses and Haflingers). We propose that the analyzed polymorphism is associated with CSN1S2 expression level (the highest expression was recorded for individuals carrying the BB genotype), which was much more pronounced for milk CSN1S2 protein content than for relative transcript abundance (measured in milk somatic cells). Our results provide insight into the equine CSN1S2 structure and lay a foundation for further functional analyses regarding, for example, allergenicity or physiochemical properties of the observed CSN1S2 variants.
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- Jakub Cieslak
- Department of Horse Breeding, and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637 Poznan, Poland.
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- Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Horse Breeding, and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Horse Breeding, and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Horse Breeding, and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Animal Science, Cattle Breeding Division, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Ciszewskiego 8, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Animal Science, Cattle Breeding Division, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Ciszewskiego 8, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Horse Breeding, and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
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Jelonek K, Wojakowska A, Marczak L, Muer A, Tinhofer-Keilholz I, Lysek-Gladysinska M, Widlak P, Pietrowska M. Ionizing radiation affects protein composition of exosomes secreted in vitro from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Acta Biochim Pol 2015; 62:265-72. [PMID: 26098714 DOI: 10.18388/abp.2015_970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2015] [Revised: 05/25/2015] [Accepted: 06/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Exosomes are membrane vesicles of endocytic origin that participate in inter-cellular communication. Environmental and physiological conditions affect composition of secreted exosomes, their abundance and potential influence on recipient cells. Here, we analyzed protein component of exosomes released in vitro from cells exposed to ionizing radiation (2Gy dose) and compared their content with composition of exosomes released from control not irradiated cells. Exosomes secreted from FaDu cells originating from human squamous head and neck cell carcinoma were analyzed using LC-MS/MS approach. We have found that exposure to ionizing radiation resulted in gross changes in exosomal cargo. There were 217 proteins identified in exosomes from control cells and 384 proteins identified in exosomes from irradiated cells, including 148 "common" proteins, 236 proteins detected specifically after irradiation and 69 proteins not detected after irradiation. Among proteins specifically overrepresented in exosomes from irradiated cells were those involved in transcription, translation, protein turnover, cell division and cell signaling. This indicated that exosomal cargo reflected radiation-induced changes in cellular processes like transient suppression of transcription and translation or stress-induced signaling.
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- Karol Jelonek
- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Radiooncology and Radiotherapy, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Suszyńska-Zajczyk J, Luczak M, Marczak L, Jakubowski H. Inactivation of the paraoxonase 1 gene affects the expression of mouse brain proteins involved in neurodegeneration. J Alzheimers Dis 2015; 42:247-60. [PMID: 24844689 DOI: 10.3233/jad-132714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Homocysteine (Hcy) is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Paraoxonase 1 (Pon1) participates in Hcy metabolism and is also linked to AD. The inactivation of the Pon1 gene in mice causes the accumulation of Hcy-thiolactone in the brain and increases the susceptibility to Hcy-thiolactone-induced seizures. To gain insight into the brain-related Pon1 function, we used two-dimensional IEF/SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis and MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry to study brain proteomes of Pon1-/- and Pon1+/+ mice fed with a hyperhomocysteinemic high-methionine (Met) or a control diet. We found that: 1) proteins involved in brain-specific function (Nrgn), antioxidant defenses (Sod1, DJ-1), and cytoskeleton assembly (Tbcb, CapZa2) were differentially expressed in brains of Pon1-null mice; 2) proteins involved in brain-specific function (Ncald, Nrgn, Stmn1), antioxidant defenses (Prdx2, DJ-1), energy metabolism (Ak1), cell cycle (GDI1, Ran), cytoskeleton assembly (Tbcb), and unknown function (Hdhd2) showed differential expression in brains of Pon1-null fed with a hyperhomocysteinemic high-Met diet; 3) most proteins regulated by the Pon1-/- genotype were also regulated by the high-Met diet; 4) the proteins differentially expressed in Pon1-null mouse brains play important roles in neural development, learning, plasticity, and aging and are linked to neurodegenerative diseases, including AD. Taken together, our findings suggest that Pon1 interacts with diverse cellular processes from energy metabolism and anti-oxidative defenses to cell cycle, cytoskeleton dynamics, and synaptic plasticity essential for normal brain homeostasis and that these interactions are modulated by hyperhomocysteinemia and account for the involvement of Hcy and Pon1 in AD.
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Poznań, Poland Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, International Center for Public Health, Newark, NJ, USA
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Jelonek K, Wojakowska A, Marczak L, Muer A, Tinhofer-Keilholz I, Lysek-Gladysinska M, Widlak P, Pietrowska M. PO-1072 Ionizing radiation affects protein composition of exosomes secreted in vitro from HNSCC. Radiother Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(15)41064-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Suszyńska-Zajczyk J, Wróblewski J, Utyro O, Luczak M, Marczak L, Jakubowski H. Bleomycin hydrolase and hyperhomocysteinemia modulate the expression of mouse proteins involved in liver homeostasis. Amino Acids 2014; 46:1471-80. [PMID: 24633403 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-014-1712-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 02/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The liver is the major contributor to homocysteine (Hcy) metabolism and fatty liver disease is associated with hyperhomocysteinemia. Bleomycin hydrolase (Blmh) is an aminohydrolase that also participates in Hcy metabolism by hydrolyzing Hcy-thiolactone. To gain insight into hepatic functions of Blmh, we analyzed the liver proteome of Blmh(-/-) and Blmh(+/+) mice in the absence and presence of diet-induced (high methionine) hyperhomocysteinemia using 2D IEF/SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. We identified eleven liver proteins whose expression was significantly altered as a result of the Blmh gene inactivation. The differential expression (Blmh(-/-) vs. Blmh(+/+)) of four liver proteins was lower, of two proteins was higher, and was further modified in mice fed with a hyperhomocysteinemic high-Met diet. The down-regulated proteins are involved in lipoprotein metabolism (ApoA1, ApoE), antigen processing (Psme1), energy metabolism (Atp5h, Gamt), methylglyoxal detoxification (Glo1), oxidative stress response (Sod1), and inactivation of catecholamine neurotransmitters (Comt). The two up-regulated proteins are involved in nitric oxide generation (Ddah1) and xenobiotic detoxification (Sult1c1). We also found that livers of Blmh(-/-) mice expressed a novel variant of glyoxalase domain-containing protein 4 (Glod4) by a post-transcriptional mechanism. Our findings suggest that Blmh interacts with diverse cellular processes-from lipoprotein metabolism, nitric oxide regulation, antigen processing, and energy metabolism to detoxification and antioxidant defenses-that are essential for liver homeostasis and that modulation of these interactions by hyperhomocysteinemia underlies the involvement of Hcy in fatty liver disease.
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Morkunas I, Formela M, Marczak L, Stobiecki M, Bednarski W. The mobilization of defence mechanisms in the early stages of pea seed germination against Ascochyta pisi. Protoplasma 2013; 250:63-75. [PMID: 22274650 PMCID: PMC3557380 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-012-0374-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2011] [Accepted: 01/03/2012] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Ascochyta pisi is a necrotrophic pathogenic fungus, which mainly survives between seasons through infected seeds. Defence responses of pea embryo axes to A. pisi were investigated in the heterotrophic phase of seed germination and during the transition from the heterotrophic to the autotrophic phase. Germinated pea seeds, both non-inoculated and inoculated with A. pisi, were cultured in perlite for 96 h. Polarographic studies performed on intact embryo axes of germinating pea seeds infected with A. pisi showed a high respiratory intensity in time from 48 to 96 h after inoculation. Forty-eight-hour embryo axes of germinating pea seeds exhibited the highest respiration rate, which in infected axes was maintained at the following time points after inoculation. Moreover, at 72 and 96 h after inoculation, respiratory intensity was by 64% and 73% higher than in the control. Electron paramagnetic resonance analysis revealed a higher concentration of semiquinone free radicals with g values of g (||) = 2.0031 ± 0.0004 and g (⊥) = 2.0048 ± 0.0004 in infected axes than in the control. Generation of superoxide anion radical was also higher in infected axes than in the control but stronger at 72 and 96 h after inoculation. Starting from 72 h after infection, the level of Mn(2+) ions in infected axes decreased in relation to the control. At the same time, the highest activity of superoxide dismutase (EC 1.15.1.1) and catalase (EC 1.11.1.6) was observed in 72-h infected axes. In turn, the activity of peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7) up to 72 h after infection was lower than in the control. In 48-h infected embryo axes, a very high level of pterocarpan pisatin was observed. Infection of germinating pea seeds with A. pisi restricted mainly the growth of the epicotyl, but did not inhibit the increase in length and fresh weight of root embryo axes versus cultivation time. These results indicate that in pea during the stages of seed germination and early seedling growth, protective mechanisms are induced in embryo axes against A. pisi.
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- Iwona Morkunas
- Department of Plant Physiology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wołyńska 35, 60-637 Poznań, Poland.
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Sobotta L, Kachlicki P, Marczak L, Kryjewski M, Mielcarek J. Photochemical activity of glenvastatin, a HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2011.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Pietrowska M, Polańska J, Suwiński R, Wideł M, Rutkowski T, Marczyk M, Domińczyk I, Ponge L, Marczak L, Polański A, Widłak P. Comparison of peptide cancer signatures identified by mass spectrometry in serum of patients with head and neck, lung and colorectal cancers: association with tumor progression. Int J Oncol 2011; 40:148-56. [PMID: 21894432 DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2011.1186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2011] [Accepted: 08/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mass spectrometry-based analyses of the low-molecular-weight fraction of serum proteome allow identifying proteome profiles (signatures) that are potentially useful in detection and diagnostics of cancer. Here we compared serum proteome profiles of healthy donors and patients with three different types of cancer aiming to identify peptide signatures that were either common for all cancer samples or specific for cancer type. Blood samples were collected before start of the therapy from patients with head and neck squamous cell cancer, colorectal adenocarcinoma and non-small cell lung cancer, and from a corresponding group of healthy volunteers. Mass profiles of the serum proteome were recorded in the range between 2 and 13 kDa using MALDI-ToF spectrometry and 131 identified peptide ions were used for statistical analyses. Similar degrees of overall similarities were observed in all intra-group and inter-group analyses when general features of serum proteome profiles were compared between individual samples. However, classifiers built of selected spectral components allowed differentiation between healthy donors and three groups of cancer patients with 69-74% sensitivity and 82-84% specificity. There were two common peptide species (3766 and 5867 Da) with increased levels in all cancer samples. Several spectral components permitted differentiation between lung cancer samples and either head and neck cancer or colorectal cancer samples, but two latter types of samples could not be properly discriminated. Abundance of spectral components that putatively corresponded to fragments of serum amyloid A (11511 and 11667 Da) was highest in lung cancer samples, yet increased levels of these peptides appeared to generally associate with more advanced cancer cases. We concluded that certain components of serum peptide signatures are common for different cancer signatures and putatively reflect general response of organism to the disease, yet other components of such signatures are more specific and most likely correspond to clinical stage of the malignancy.
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- Monika Pietrowska
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
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Widłak P, Pietrowska M, Wojtkiewicz K, Rutkowski T, Wygoda A, Marczak L, Marczyk M, Polańska J, Walaszczyk A, Domińczyk I, Składowski K, Stobiecki M, Polański A. Radiation-related changes in serum proteome profiles detected by mass spectrometry in blood of patients treated with radiotherapy due to larynx cancer. J Radiat Res 2011; 52:575-581. [PMID: 21768750 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.11019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The study aimed to detect features of human serum proteome that were associated with exposure to ionizing radiation. The analyzed group consisted of 46 patients treated with radical radiotherapy for larynx cancer; patients were irradiated with total doses in a range from 51 to 72 Gy. Three consecutive blood samples were collected from each patient: before the start, 2 weeks after the start, and 4-6 weeks after the end of radiotherapy. The low-molecular-weight fraction of the serum proteome (2,000-13,000 Da) was analyzed by the MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry. Proteome profiles of serum samples collected before the start of radiotherapy and during the early stage of the treatment were similar. In marked contrast, mass profiles of serum samples collected several weeks after the end of the treatment revealed clear changes. We found that 41 out of 312 registered peptide ions changed their abundance significantly when serum samples collected after the final irradiation were compared with samples collected at the two earlier time points. We also found that abundances of certain serum peptides were associated with total doses of radiation received by patients. The results of this pilot study indicate that features of serum proteome analyzed by mass spectrometry have potential applicability as a retrospective marker of exposure to ionizing radiation.
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- Piotr Widłak
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland.
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Pietrowska M, Marczak L, Polanska J, Nowicka E, Behrent K, Tarnawski R, Stobiecki M, Polanski A, Widlak P. Optimizing of MALDI-ToF-based low-molecular-weight serum proteome pattern analysis in detection of breast cancer patients; the effect of albumin removal on classification performance. Neoplasma 2010; 57:537-44. [PMID: 20845992 DOI: 10.4149/neo_2010_06_537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Mass spectrometry-based analysis of the serum proteome allows identifying multi-peptide patterns/signatures specific for blood of cancer patients, thus having high potential value for cancer diagnostics. However, because of problems with optimization and standardization of experimental and computational design, none of identified proteome patterns/signatures was approved for diagnostics in clinical practice as yet. Here we compared two methods of serum sample preparation for mass spectrometry-based proteome pattern analysis aimed to identify biomarkers that could be used in early detection of breast cancer patients. Blood samples were collected in a group of 92 patients diagnosed at early (I and II) stages of the disease before the start of therapy, and in a group of age-matched healthy controls (104 women). Serum specimens were purified and analyzed using MALDI-ToF spectrometry, either directly or after membrane filtration (50 kDa cut-off) to remove albumin and other large serum proteins. Mass spectra of the low-molecular-weight fraction (2-10 kDa) of the serum proteome were resolved using the Gaussian mixture decomposition, and identified spectral components were used to build classifiers that differentiated samples from breast cancer patients and healthy persons. Mass spectra of complete serum and membrane-filtered albumin-depleted samples have apparently different structure and peaks specific for both types of samples could be identified. The optimal classifier built for the complete serum specimens consisted of 8 spectral components, and had 81% specificity and 72% sensitivity, while that built for the membrane-filtered samples consisted of 4 components, and had 80% specificity and 81% sensitivity. We concluded that pre-processing of samples to remove albumin might be recommended before MALDI-ToF mass spectrometric analysis of the low-molecular-weight components of human serum Keywords: albumin removal; breast cancer; clinical proteomics; mass spectrometry; pattern analysis; serum proteome.
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- M Pietrowska
- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Gliwice, Poland
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Widlak P, Pietrowska M, Wygoda A, Rutkowski T, Skladowski K, Marczak L, Stobiecki M, Wojtkiewicz K, Polanska J, Polanski A. Potential of Serum Proteome Patterns Analysis by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry for Prediction of Acute Radiation Injury Response in Head and Neck Cancers Patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.07.1538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Pietrowska M, Polanska J, Marczak L, Behrendt K, Nowicka E, Stobiecki M, Polanski A, Tarnawski R, Widlak P. Mass spectrometry-based analysis of therapy-related changes in serum proteome patterns of patients with early-stage breast cancer. J Transl Med 2010; 8:66. [PMID: 20618994 PMCID: PMC2908576 DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-8-66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2010] [Accepted: 07/11/2010] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background The proteomics approach termed proteome pattern analysis has been shown previously to have potential in the detection and classification of breast cancer. Here we aimed to identify changes in serum proteome patterns related to therapy of breast cancer patients. Methods Blood samples were collected before the start of therapy, after the surgical resection of tumors and one year after the end of therapy in a group of 70 patients diagnosed at early stages of the disease. Patients were treated with surgery either independently (26) or in combination with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (5) or adjuvant radio/chemotherapy (39). The low-molecular-weight fraction of serum proteome was examined using MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry, and then changes in intensities of peptide ions registered in a mass range between 2,000 and 14,000 Da were identified and correlated with clinical data. Results We found that surgical resection of tumors did not have an immediate effect on the mass profiles of the serum proteome. On the other hand, significant long-term effects were observed in serum proteome patterns one year after the end of basic treatment (we found that about 20 peptides exhibited significant changes in their abundances). Moreover, the significant differences were found primarily in the subgroup of patients treated with adjuvant therapy, but not in the subgroup subjected only to surgery. This suggests that the observed changes reflect overall responses of the patients to the toxic effects of adjuvant radio/chemotherapy. In line with this hypothesis we detected two serum peptides (registered m/z values 2,184 and 5,403 Da) whose changes correlated significantly with the type of treatment employed (their abundances decreased after adjuvant therapy, but increased in patients treated only with surgery). On the other hand, no significant correlation was found between changes in the abundance of any spectral component or clinical features of patients, including staging and grading of tumors. Conclusions The study establishes a high potential of MALDI-ToF-based analyses for the detection of dynamic changes in the serum proteome related to therapy of breast cancer patients, which revealed the potential applicability of serum proteome patterns analyses in monitoring the toxicity of therapy.
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- Monika Pietrowska
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
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Marczak L, Kachlicki P, Koźniewski P, Skirycz A, Krajewski P, Stobiecki M. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry monitoring of anthocyanins in extracts from Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2008; 22:3949-56. [PMID: 18980256 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.3819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Anthocyanins are secondary plant metabolites ubiquitous in the plant kingdom. They have different biological activities, so monitoring their content in plant tissue or in feed/food derived from plants may be an important task in different projects from various fields of molecular biology and biotechnology. Profiling of secondary metabolites with high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS) systems is time-consuming, especially when many samples have to be checked within a defined time frame with a reasonable number of repetitions according to the metabolomic standards. Even application of the advanced ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC)/MS or equivalent systems would require a long time for analysis of numerous samples. We demonstrate the applicability of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for the assessment of level (concentration) of anthocyanins in leaf tissues of four Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes grown at normal (20 degrees C/16 degrees C day/night) and decreased (4 degrees C) temperature. The quantitative results were obtained for anthocyanins with MALDI-TOF MS using ferulic acid as a matrix. The amounts of anthocyanins in leaves of A. thaliana varied from 0.3-2.5 microg per gram of leaves for ecotypes Col-0 and C24, respectively, and contents of these markedly increased in plants grown in the cold. The applied analytical method exhibited better repeatability of measurements than obtained with an HPLC/ion trap MS system.
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- Lukasz Marczak
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznań, Poland
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Nowicka E, Pietrowska M, Behrendt K, Walaszczyk A, Polanska J, Polanski A, Marczak L, Stobiecki M, Widlak P, Tarnawski R. Potential clinical application of serum proteome mass spectrometry analyses in breast cancer patients diagnosis and management. EJC Suppl 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(08)70432-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Kawiak A, Piosik J, Stasilojc G, Gwizdek-Wisniewska A, Marczak L, Stobiecki M, Bigda J, Lojkowska E. Induction of apoptosis by plumbagin through reactive oxygen species-mediated inhibition of topoisomerase II. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2007; 223:267-76. [PMID: 17618663 DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2007.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2006] [Revised: 04/30/2007] [Accepted: 05/31/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been recognized as key molecules, which can selectively modify proteins and therefore regulate cellular signalling including apoptosis. Plumbagin, a naphthoquinone exhibiting antitumor activity, is known to generate ROS and has been found to inhibit the activity of topoisomerase II (Topo II) through the stabilization of the Topo II-DNA cleavable complex. The objective of this research was to clarify the role of ROS and Topo II inhibition in the induction of apoptosis mediated by plumbagin. As determined by the comet assay, plumbagin induced DNA cleavage in HL-60 cells, whereas in a cell line with reduced Topo II activity-HL-60/MX2, the level of DNA damage was significantly decreased. The onset of DNA strand break formation in HL-60 cells was delayed in comparison with the generation of intracellular ROS. In HL-60/MX2 cells, ROS were generated at a similar rate, whereas a significant reduction in the level of DNA damage was detected. The pretreatment of cells with N-acetylcysteine (NAC) attenuated plumbagin-induced DNA damage, pointing out to the involvement of ROS generation in cleavable complex formation. These results suggest that plumbagin-induced ROS does not directly damage DNA but requires the involvement of Topo II. Furthermore, experiments carried out using light spectroscopy indicated no direct interactions between plumbagin and DNA. The induction of apoptosis was significantly delayed in HL-60/MX2 cells indicating the involvement of Topo II inhibition in plumbagin-mediated apoptosis. Thus, these findings strongly suggest ROS-mediated inhibition of Topo II as an important mechanism contributing to the apoptosis-inducing properties of plumbagin.
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- Anna Kawiak
- Department of Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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Kachlicki P, Marczak L, Kerhoas L, Einhorn J, Stobiecki M. Profiling isoflavone conjugates in root extracts of lupine species with LC/ESI/MSn systems. J Mass Spectrom 2005; 40:1088-103. [PMID: 15971291 DOI: 10.1002/jms.884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Extracts obtained from roots of three lupine species (Lupinus albus, L. angustifolius, L. luteus) were analysed using LC/UV and LC/ESI/MS(n). The experiments were performed using two mass spectrometric systems, equipped with the triple quadrupole or ion trap analysers. Thirteen to twenty isomeric isoflavone conjugates were identified in roots of the investigated lupine species. These were di- and monoglycosides of genistein and 2'-hydroxygenistein with different patterns of glycosylation, both at oxygen and carbon atoms; some glycosides were acylated with malonic acid. It was not possible to establish the glycosylation sites of the aglycone only on the basis of the registered mass spectra; however, it was possible to differentiate C- and O-glucosides of isoflavones. Only comparison of retention times with those of standard compounds permitted to indicate the correct glycosylation pattern. In the case of diglycosides, the glycosylation pattern (O-diglucoside or O-glucosylglucoside) was distinguishable on the basis of the relative intensities of daughter ions in the mass spectra of protonated molecular ions. It was not possible to elucidate the site of malonylation on the sugar moiety from mass spectra, however, protonated molecules [M + H](+) of isoflavone glucosides with different placement of the malonyl group on the sugar ring were recognized in the extracts. In addition to the isoflavone glycosides, some flavone or flavonol glycosides were identified in the samples on the basis of collision-induced daughter ion spectra of the aglycone ions. A comparison of results obtained with the triple quadrupole and ion trap analysers was done in the course of the investigations.
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- Piotr Kachlicki
- Institute of Plant Genetics PAS, Strzeszyńska 34, 60-479 Poznań, Poland
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Extracts from plantlets of different species of the genus Drosera, grown as in vitro cultures, were evaluated for the level of phenolic secondary metabolites from the group of naphthoquinones and flavonols. The profiles of natural products in the extracts obtained from different species were monitored by HPLC with UV detection at 260 and 330 nm. On the basis of the data obtained, Drosera binata, the species with the highest amount of plumbagin, was selected for further studies. The most effective method of extraction of quinones was established and the composition of phenolic secondary metabolites in the tissues was determined. For the identification of phenolic compounds, HPLC-UV and HPLC-ESI/MS were applied.
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- L Marczak
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznań, Poland
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Marczak L, Gelsomino S. Kaposi's sarcoma of the foot. A case presentation. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 1992; 82:386-8. [PMID: 1432658 DOI: 10.7547/87507315-82-7-386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- L Marczak
- American College of Foot Surgeons, Chicago, IL
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Marczak L, Gelsomino S, Lusk D. Calcified tendo Achillis insertion: a new surgical approach. J Foot Surg 1991; 30:457-9. [PMID: 1783753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The authors present a new surgical approach to the medical condition that is known as enthesiopathy of the tendo Achillis. The cases presented demonstrate a surgical technique that addresses the calcified Achilles tendon at its insertion, without weakening the insertion fibers. This technique allows bone-to-bone healing instead of tenodesis and significantly reduces the likelihood of a ruptured tendo Achillis.
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- L Marczak
- Department of Podiatric Surgery, Thorek Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
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An inclusion cyst develops from the introduction of epidermal fragments into a heterotopic location, where it grows through accumulation of epithelial and keratinous debris. This is caused by a combination of increased physical activity and the imposition on the site. Inclusion cysts are seen most frequently in younger and more active patients, rather than in older individuals. This case is unique because the epidermal inclusion cyst occurred on the plantar aspect of the foot of an elderly, sedentary patient who had not sustained any injury to the area.
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- L Marczak
- American Board of Podiatric Surgery, Chicago, IL 60602
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