Colorectal cancer isobaric labeling for metabolite quantification

ABSTRACT: A major challenge in reducing the death rate of colorectal cancer is to screen patients using low-invasive testing. Blood test shows a high compliance rate with reduced invasiveness. In this work, a multiplex isobaric tag labeling strategy coupled with mass spectrometry is adopted to relatively quantify primary and secondary amine-containing metabolites in serum for the discovery of metabolite biomarkers of colorectal cancer. Serum samples from patients at different risk statuses and colorectal cancer growth statuses are studied. Metabolite identification is based on accurate mass matching and/or retention time of labeled metabolite standards. We quantify 40 metabolites across all the serum samples, including 18 metabolites validated with standards. We find significantly decreased levels of threonine and asparagine in the patients with growing adenomas or high-risk adenomas (p < 0.05). Glutamine levels decrease in patients with adenomas of unknown growth status or high-risk adenomas. In contrast, arginine levels are elevated in patients with low-risk adenoma. Receiver operating characteristic analysis shows high sensitivity and specificity of these metabolites for detecting growing adenomas. Based on these results, we conclude that potential metabolite biomarkers identified here contribute to distinguishing colorectal patients with growing adenomas from normal individuals and patients with unknown growth status of adenomas.

ORGANISM(S): Human Homo Sapiens

TISSUE(S): Blood

DISEASE(S): Cancer

SUBMITTER: Yuan Liu  

PROVIDER: ST002420 | MetabolomicsWorkbench | Wed Dec 28 00:00:00 GMT 2022

REPOSITORIES: MetabolomicsWorkbench