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Progression-dependent altered metabolism in osteosarcoma resulting in different nutrient source dependencies

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Title:Progression-dependent altered metabolism in osteosarcoma resulting in different nutrient source dependencies
Creators Name:Fritsche-Guenther, R., Gloaguen, Y., Kirchner, M., Mertins, P., Tunn, P.U. and Kirwan, J.A.
Abstract:Osteosarcoma (OS) is a primary malignant bone tumor and OS metastases are mostly found in the lung. The limited understanding of the biology of metastatic processes in OS limits the ability for effective treatment. Alterations to the metabolome and its transformation during metastasis aids the understanding of the mechanism and provides information on treatment and prognosis. The current study intended to identify metabolic alterations during OS progression by using a targeted gas chromatography mass spectrometry approach. Using a female OS cell line model, malignant and metastatic cells increased their energy metabolism compared to benign OS cells. The metastatic cell line showed a faster metabolic flux compared to the malignant cell line, leading to reduced metabolite pools. However, inhibiting both glycolysis and glutaminolysis resulted in a reduced proliferation. In contrast, malignant but non-metastatic OS cells showed a resistance to glycolytic inhibition but a strong dependency on glutamine as an energy source. Our in vivo metabolic approach hinted at a potential sex-dependent metabolic alteration in OS patients with lung metastases (LM), although this will require validation with larger sample sizes. In line with the in vitro results, we found that female LM patients showed a decreased central carbon metabolism compared to metastases from male patients.
Keywords:Osteosarcoma, GC-MS, Flux Analysis, Glucose, Glutamine, Sex and Gender
Source:Cancers
ISSN:2072-6694
Publisher:MDPI
Volume:12
Number:6
Page Range:1371
Date:27 May 2020
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12061371
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