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A plasma metabolomic signature discloses human breast cancer

2017; Impact Journals LLC; Volume: 8; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18632/oncotarget.14521

1949-2553

Mariona Jové, Ricardo Collado, José L. Quiles, Mari-Carmen Ramírez-Tortosa, Joaquím Sol, María Dolores Ruíz-Sanjuan, Mónica Fernández, Capilla de la Torre Cabrera, César L. Ramírez-Tortosa, Sergio Granados‐Principal, Pedro Sánchez‐Rovira, Reinald Pamplona,

Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism

// Mariona Jové 1, * , Ricardo Collado 2, * , José Luís Quiles 3 , Mari-Carmen Ramírez-Tortosa 4 , Joaquim Sol 1 , Maria Ruiz-Sanjuan 5 , Mónica Fernandez 5 , Capilla de la Torre Cabrera 5 , Cesar Ramírez-Tortosa 6, 7 , Sergio Granados-Principal 5 , Pedro Sánchez-Rovira 5 , Reinald Pamplona 1 1 Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Lleida-Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Lleida (UdL-IRBLleida), Lleida, Spain 2 Department of Oncology, Medical Oncology Unit, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres, Official Postgraduate Programme in Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Granada, Spain 3 Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix”, Biomedical Research Center, Department of Physiology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain 4 Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix”, Biomedical Research Center, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, University of Granada, Granada, Spain 5 Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital of Jaén, Jaén, Spain 6 Department of Pathological Anatomy, Hospital of Jaén, Jaén, Spain 7 GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research (Pfizer / University of Granada / Andalusian Regional Government), PTS Granada, Granada, Spain * These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Reinald Pamplona, email: reinald.pamplona@mex.udl.cat Pedro Sánchez-Rovira, email: oncopsr@yahoo.es Keywords: breast cancer, biomarker, mass spectrometry, metabolites, metabolomics Received: August 12, 2016     Accepted: December 26, 2016     Published: January 05, 2017 ABSTRACT Purpose : Metabolomics is the comprehensive global study of metabolites in biological samples. In this retrospective pilot study we explored whether serum metabolomic profile can discriminate the presence of human breast cancer irrespective of the cancer subtype. Methods : Plasma samples were analyzed from healthy women (n = 20) and patients with breast cancer after diagnosis (n = 91) using a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry platform. Multivariate statistics and a Random Forest (RF) classifier were used to create a metabolomics panel for the diagnosis of human breast cancer. Results : Metabolomics correctly distinguished between breast cancer patients and healthy control subjects. In the RF supervised class prediction analysis comparing breast cancer and healthy control groups, RF accurately classified 100% both samples of the breast cancer patients and healthy controls. So, the class error for both group in and the out-of-bag error were 0. We also found 1269 metabolites with different concentration in plasma from healthy controls and cancer patients; and basing on exact mass, retention time and isotopic distribution we identified 35 metabolites. These metabolites mostly support cell growth by providing energy and building stones for the synthesis of essential biomolecules, and function as signal transduction molecules. The collective results of RF, significance testing, and false discovery rate analysis identified several metabolites that were strongly associated with breast cancer. Conclusions : In breast cancer a metabolomics signature of cancer exists and can be detected in patient plasma irrespectively of the breast cancer type.