Summary of Study ST002806

This data is available at the NIH Common Fund's National Metabolomics Data Repository (NMDR) website, the Metabolomics Workbench, https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org, where it has been assigned Project ID PR001753. The data can be accessed directly via it's Project DOI: 10.21228/M8413M This work is supported by NIH grant, U2C- DK119886.

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Study ID	ST002806
Study Title	Comprehensive Metabolic Profiling of MYC-Amplified Medulloblastoma Tumors Reveals Key Dependencies on Amino Acid, Tricarboxylic Acid and Hexosamine Pathways
Study Summary	Reprogramming of cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. Altering metabolism allows cancer cells to overcome unfavorable microenvironment conditions and to increase and invade. Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Genomic amplification of MYC defines a subset of poor-prognosis medulloblastoma. We performed comprehensive metabolic studies of human MYC-amplified medulloblastoma by comparing the metabolic profiles of tumor cells in three different conditions—in vitro, in flank xenografts, and orthotopic xenografts in the cerebellum. Principal component analysis showed that the metabolic profiles of brain and flank high-MYC medulloblastoma tumors clustered closely together and separated away from the normal brain and in vitro MYC-amplified cells. Compared to typical brains, MYC-amplified medulloblastoma orthotopic xenograft tumors showed upregulation of the TCA cycle and the synthesis of nucleotides, hexosamines, amino acids, and glutathione. There was significantly higher glucose uptake and usage in orthotopic xenograft tumors compared to flank xenograft tumors and cells in culture. In orthotopic tumors, glucose was the primary carbon source for the de novo synthesis of glutamate, glutamine, and glutathione through the TCA cycle. In vivo, the glutaminase II pathway was the main pathway utilizing glutamine. Glutathione was the most abundant upregulated metabolite in orthotopic tumors compared to normal brains. Glutamine-derived glutathione was synthesized through the glutamine transaminase K (GTK) enzyme in vivo. In conclusion, high MYC medulloblastoma cells have different metabolic profiles in vitro compared to in vivo; critical vulnerabilities may be missed by not performing in vivo metabolic analyses.
Institute	Johns Hopkins University
Last Name	Pham
First Name	Khoa
Address	600 N. Wolfe Street, Pathology Bldg., Rm. 401, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, USA
Email	kpham8@jhmi.edu
Phone	4109553439
Submit Date	2023-07-29
Raw Data Available	Yes
Raw Data File Type(s)	mzXML
Analysis Type Detail	LC-MS
Release Date	2023-08-20
Release Version	1

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Sample Preparation:

Sampleprep ID:	SP002919
Sampleprep Summary:	In vitro metabolic flux experiments involved the media in confluent cells being changed just prior to the experiment. Three biological replicate samples of each cell line were pulsed with 10 μM U-glucose (13C6 99% purity) label from Cambridge Isotope (No. CLM-1396-1) or 4 μM U-glutamine (13C5, 15N2, 99% purity) label from Cambridge Isotope (No. CNLM-1275-H-0.5) for 2 h. Following the pulse, cells were spun down and washed with PBS. 1 mL of 80% UPLC-grade ice cold methanol was added to each pellet. Pellets were vortexed for 1 min and incubated at −80 °C to extract metabolites. Analysis of metabolites is described below. Frozen tumors were manually homogenized in liquid nitrogen using a mortar and pestle chilled by dry ice and liquid nitrogen. As the flank tumors were very large, an aliquot of tumor powder was weighed and incubated at −80 °C with 5 volumes of 80% ice-cold HPLC grade methanol to extract metabolites. Samples (both in vivo and in vitro) were centrifuged at 14,000× g rpm for 10 min at 4 °C, and the supernatants were transferred to glass insert liquid chromatography vials.

Sampleprep ID:

SP002919

Sampleprep Summary:

In vitro metabolic flux experiments involved the media in confluent cells being changed just prior to the experiment. Three biological replicate samples of each cell line were pulsed with 10 μM U-glucose (13C6 99% purity) label from Cambridge Isotope (No. CLM-1396-1) or 4 μM U-glutamine (13C5, 15N2, 99% purity) label from Cambridge Isotope (No. CNLM-1275-H-0.5) for 2 h. Following the pulse, cells were spun down and washed with PBS. 1 mL of 80% UPLC-grade ice cold methanol was added to each pellet. Pellets were vortexed for 1 min and incubated at −80 °C to extract metabolites. Analysis of metabolites is described below. Frozen tumors were manually homogenized in liquid nitrogen using a mortar and pestle chilled by dry ice and liquid nitrogen. As the flank tumors were very large, an aliquot of tumor powder was weighed and incubated at −80 °C with 5 volumes of 80% ice-cold HPLC grade methanol to extract metabolites. Samples (both in vivo and in vitro) were centrifuged at 14,000× g rpm for 10 min at 4 °C, and the supernatants were transferred to glass insert liquid chromatography vials.