ISSN: 1837-9664Journal of Cancer
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J Cancer 2022; 13(5):1555-1564. doi:10.7150/jca.52943 This issue Cite
Research Paper
Integrative analysis of metabolome and gut microbiota in Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
1. Department of Oncology, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, ShangHai 200437, China.
2. Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Changhai Hospital Affiliated to Navy Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
3. Department of Nephrology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, China.
4. Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Biomedical Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, ShangHai, 201203, China.
*Both authors contributed equally to this work.
Abstract
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly malignant tumour with a poor prognosis and a high mortality rate. It is of great significance to explore sensitive or specific biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognosis. We first examined the metabolome and gut microbiota of resectable and unresectable PDAC patients to comprehensively investigate the characteristics of PDAC at different stages of progression. At the genus level, we found that the relative abundances of Alistipes, Anaerostipes, Faecalibacterium and Parvimonas were reduced in unresectable PDAC patients, whereas Pseudonocardia, Cloacibacterium, Mucispirillum, and Anaerotruncus were increased. Metabolomics analysis showed that the main changed metabolites were amino acids, carnitine derivatives, lipids and fatty acids. ROC analysis showed that Oleic acid, Linoleic acid, Palmitic acid, Linoelaidyl carnitine, 2-Octenedioic acid, 3R, 7R-1,3,7-Octanetriol, LysoPE (P-16:0/0:0) and 3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid had high AUC values (>0.9). Function and network analyses showed that these altered metabolites correlated with NF-kappa B signalling, the FXR/RXR pathway, mitochondrial dysfunction, mTOR signalling and IL-6 signalling. In particular, the abundance of Palmitic acid, Oleic acid, Linoelaidyl carnitine and 2-Octenedioic acid positively correlated with g_Anaerostipes, g_Alistipes, s_indistinctus, s_catus and s_formicigenerans but negatively correlated with g_Cloacibacterium, s_reuteri and s_hathewayi. Meanwhile,We also found that s_catus, s_ formicigenerans, s_ hathewayi, g_ Alistipes, g_ Anaerostipes, PE (22:6 (4Z, 7z, 10z, 13z, 16Z, 19Z)/p-18:1 (11z)), (3R, 7R) - 1,3,7-octanetriol and linoelaidyl carnitine were positively correlated with the survival time of patients.These findings may be helpful for the differentiation of resectable and unresectable PDAC based on changes in intestinal flora and metabolites at different stages of PDAC. This study also provides a strategy for preventing the deterioration of PDAC by regulating the gut microbiota and metabolism.
Keywords: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, metabolomics, gut microbiota, biomarkers, 16s rDNA
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