@article{CatchpolePlatzerWeikertetal.2011,
  author    = {Catchpole, Gareth and Platzer, Alexander and Weikert, Cornelia and Kempkensteffen, Carsten and Johannsen, Manfred and Krause, Hans and Jung, Klaus and Miller, Kurt and Willmitzer, Lothar and Selbig, Joachim and Weikert, Steffen},
  title     = {Metabolic profiling reveals key metabolic features of renal cell carcinoma},
  series = {Journal of cellular and molecular medicine : a journal of translational medicine},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Journal of cellular and molecular medicine : a journal of translational medicine},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Malden},
  issn      = {1582-1838},
  doi       = {10.1111/j.1582-4934.2009.00939.x},
  pages     = {109 -- 118},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Recent evidence suggests that metabolic changes play a pivotal role in the biology of cancer and in particular renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Here, a global metabolite profiling approach was applied to characterize the metabolite pool of RCC and normal renal tissue. Advanced decision tree models were applied to characterize the metabolic signature of RCC and to explore features of metastasized tumours. The findings were validated in a second independent dataset. Vitamin E derivates and metabolites of glucose, fatty acid, and inositol phosphate metabolism determined the metabolic profile of RCC. alpha-tocopherol, hippuric acid, myoinositol, fructose-1-phosphate and glucose-1-phosphate contributed most to the tumour/normal discrimination and all showed pronounced concentration changes in RCC. The identified metabolic profile was characterized by a low recognition error of only 5\% for tumour versus normal samples. Data on metastasized tumours suggested a key role for metabolic pathways involving arachidonic acid, free fatty acids, proline, uracil and the tricarboxylic acid cycle. These results illustrate the potential of mass spectroscopy based metabolomics in conjunction with sophisticated data analysis methods to uncover the metabolic phenotype of cancer. Differentially regulated metabolites, such as vitamin E compounds, hippuric acid and myoinositol, provide leads for the characterization of novel pathways in RCC.},
  language  = {en}
}