The association between lipid metabolism and long-term outcomes is relevant for tumor diagnosis and therapy. Archival material such as formalin-fixed and paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissues is a highly valuable resource for this aim as it is linked to long-term clinical follow-up. There-fore, there is a need to develop robust methodologies able to detect lipids in FFPE material and correlate them with clinical outcomes. In this work, lipidic alterations were investigated in patient-derived xenograft of breast cancer by using a matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spec-trometry (MALDI MSI) based workflow that included antigen retrieval as a sample preparation step. We evaluated technical reproducibility, spatial metabolic differentiation within tissue com-partments, and treatment response induced by a glutaminase inhibitor (CB-839). This protocol shows a good inter-day robustness (CV = 26 ± 12%). Several lipids could reliably distinguish necrotic and tumor regions across the technical replicates. Moreover, this protocol identified distinct alterations in the tissue lipidome of xenograft treated with glutaminase inhibitors. In conclusion, lipidic alterations in FFPE tissue of breast cancer xenograft observed in this study are a step-forward to a robust and reproducible MALDI-MSI based workflow for pre-clinical and clinical applications.

Denti, V., Andersen, M., Smith, A., Bofin, A., Nordborg, A., Magni, F., et al. (2021). Reproducible lipid alterations in patient-derived breast cancer xenograft ffpe tissue identified with maldi msi for pre-clinical and clinical application. METABOLITES, 11(9) [10.3390/metabo11090577].

Reproducible lipid alterations in patient-derived breast cancer xenograft ffpe tissue identified with maldi msi for pre-clinical and clinical application

Denti V.;Smith A.;Magni F.;
2021

Abstract

The association between lipid metabolism and long-term outcomes is relevant for tumor diagnosis and therapy. Archival material such as formalin-fixed and paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissues is a highly valuable resource for this aim as it is linked to long-term clinical follow-up. There-fore, there is a need to develop robust methodologies able to detect lipids in FFPE material and correlate them with clinical outcomes. In this work, lipidic alterations were investigated in patient-derived xenograft of breast cancer by using a matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spec-trometry (MALDI MSI) based workflow that included antigen retrieval as a sample preparation step. We evaluated technical reproducibility, spatial metabolic differentiation within tissue com-partments, and treatment response induced by a glutaminase inhibitor (CB-839). This protocol shows a good inter-day robustness (CV = 26 ± 12%). Several lipids could reliably distinguish necrotic and tumor regions across the technical replicates. Moreover, this protocol identified distinct alterations in the tissue lipidome of xenograft treated with glutaminase inhibitors. In conclusion, lipidic alterations in FFPE tissue of breast cancer xenograft observed in this study are a step-forward to a robust and reproducible MALDI-MSI based workflow for pre-clinical and clinical applications.
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Breast cancer; Diagnosis; FFPE tissue; Lipidomics; MALDI MSI;
English
26-ago-2021
2021
11
9
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Denti, V., Andersen, M., Smith, A., Bofin, A., Nordborg, A., Magni, F., et al. (2021). Reproducible lipid alterations in patient-derived breast cancer xenograft ffpe tissue identified with maldi msi for pre-clinical and clinical application. METABOLITES, 11(9) [10.3390/metabo11090577].
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