Metabolomic profiling identifies novel biomarkers and mechanisms in human bladder cancer treated with submucosal injection of gemcitabine
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Abstract
Introduction
Bladder cancer (BCa) ranks ninth among the most common solid tumors worldwide (1). Approximately 75% of newly diagnosed BCa cases are non-muscle invasive, and the majority are histologically low-grade cancer (2). Routine surveillance to monitor BCa recurrence includes cystoscopic examination due to a high risk of recurrence after initial resection. The repeat transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) remains the first-line treatment for BCa recurrence (3). However, all these invasive procedures result in a high cost of care, and are often associated with significant morbidity. Therefore, more effective interventions to prevent BCa recurrence are urgently needed.
Submucosal injection of antitumor drugs (pirarubicin) after standard TURBT was proven to be an effective approach to reducing superficial tumor recurrence (4). Gemcitabine is a pivotal chemotherapeutic agent widely used for BCa due to its low toxicity in general (5) and as an intravesical instillation (3). Data from our experimental and clinical studies also demonstrated that submucosal injection of gemcitabine prior to TURBT significantly reduced BCa recurrence (6). However, the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown.
Metabolomics is a newly emerging technology, which enables the identification of endogenous compounds and potentially novel mechanisms associated with disease processes (7). Metabolomics has been used to profile metabolites in various biological samples, such as serum (8), urine (9-15) and tissue (16,17), which are the results of the metabolic response of living systems to drug toxicity or disease (10). Potential biomarkers identified from metabo-lomic profiling studies on BCa may be of diagnostic value and act as indicators of cancer recurrence (18). Currently, a number of analytical platforms, such as high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS) (10), ultra-performance LC-MS (UPLC-MS) (12), and UPLC time-of-flight MS (UPLC-TOF-MS) (15), have been employed to study the metabolomics of BCa by using urine samples. However, metabolomic studies on BCa tissues is relatively scarce (16,17). Notably, different metabolomic platforms with their unique analytical approaches provide complementary insights into metabolome changes (9,11-15). Therefore, there is a need to study the tissue-based metabolic signatures of BCa using a new metabolomics platform.
Metabolomics has also been applied to cancer treatment and drug target discovery. Eidelman et al reported using metabolomics to screen the potential therapeutic pathways in prostate cancer (PCa) (19). Metabolomics has also been proven to be a promising approach to developing reliable therapeutic targets for PCa treatment (20). The present study employed liquid chromatography (LC)-Q-Exactive MS-based metabo-lomic technology to study the metabolic changes in BCa tissues before and after treatment with gemcitabine. Identification of the key metabolites may reveal new metabolic changes associated with BCa and uncover the changes that mediate the effect of gemcitabine in the treatment of BCa.
Materials and methods
Clinical samples
A total of 12 patients (9 men and 3 women; age range, 55-85 years) who had undergone TURBT at the Affiliated Huai'an No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University were recruited between December 2016 and September 2017. Bladder tissue samples were collected from the same patient immediately prior to and 30 min after submucosal injection of gemcitabine (50 mg, dissolved in 20 ml normal saline). The bladder tissues included BCa as well as adjacent non-cancerous bladder tissues. Therefore, a total of 48 samples were collected in four groups: Pre-gemcitabine normal, pre-gemcitabine BCa, post-gemcitabine normal, and post-gemcitabine BCa. Histopathological diagnosis was conducted by two independent pathologists according to the classification criteria of the World Health Organization/International Society of Urological Pathology (21). Written informed consent was obtained from each participant prior to recruitment. The Ethics Committee of The Affiliated Huai'an No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University reviewed and approved the study protocol (serial no. YL-P-2013-21-01). The sample size of the present study was similar to that of a previous study on PCa tissues, which produced valuable findings (22). In addition, the experimental design of self-control and complete collection of samples in our study may improve statistical power by avoiding confounding factors.
Tissue preparation for metabolomic analysis
Following harvesting, all tissues were snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen, and kept in a -80°C freezer until further analysis. The sample preparation was conducted as described previously (23). Briefly, the tissues were fragmented, ultrasonicated for 5 min (power: 60%, pulses: 6/4) in distilled water, and then 150 μl homogenate and 450 μl methanol (Merck KGaA) were mixed in a 1.5-ml Eppendorf tube for protein precipitation. The mixture was centrifuged at 16,000 x g for 15 min at 4°C, and the supernatant was collected and dried in a vacuum centrifugal concentrator. The dry residue was reconstituted in ultra-pure water and used for metabolomic analysis.
Metabolomic analysis
The metabolomic analysis was conducted as previously reported (23). LC-HRMS analysis was performed on an UPLC Ultimate 3000 system (Dionex), coupled with a Q-Exactive mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). The instrument operated at a 70,000 resolution with a full-scan acquisition ranging from 70 to 1,500 m/z. The chromatographic separation of metabolites associated with the metabolomic profiling used a multistep gradient containing ultra-pure water (mobile phase A) and acetonitrile (ACN; mobile phase B), both acidified with 0.1% formic acid. The gradient operated at a flow rate of 0.4 ml/min over a 15-min period. The metabolites were identified based on the accurate mass and the retention time compared with the commercial standards. The metabolite standards were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA, Damas-beta Co., Ltd., Aladdin Reagent Company and Adamas Reagent Co., Ltd.
Statistical analysis
Data collected from the mass spectrometer were processed for pattern recognition analysis (principal component analysis, PCA). Normalized MS data were exported to SIMCA-P+ software (V14.0, Umetrics AB) to perform PCA where grouping trends could be observed. The difference in metabolites between two groups was compared by paired t-test. According to previous reports (24,25), the correlation between metabolite changes and cancer stage was analyzed based on the comparison between two groups using paired t-test based on the cancer stage classification. A P-value of <0.05 was considered as the threshold for statistically significant differences.
To further characterize the metabolic changes and the metabolic pathways involved, the differentiated metabolites were first annotated with Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG, http://www.genome.jp/kegg/) and Human Metabolome Database (HMDB, http://www.hmdb.ca/) (date of access for databases: April 19, 2018). Data were then processed and analyzed using MetaboAnalyst 4.0 (http://www.metaboanalyst.ca/MetaboAnalyst/) by R software (v3.4.3, GitHub). Two modules of MetaboAnalyst were used, namely pathway analysis and enrichment analysis, which are based on the KEGG database and Small Molecule Pathway Database (SMPDB, http://smpdb.ca/), respectively (26). The metabolic network of the differential metabolites and altered metabolic pathways in KEGG general metabolic pathway was visualized by iPath 3.0 (http://pathways.embl.de/).
Results
Clinical characteristics of 12 subjects
The mean age of the subjects, including 9 men and 3 women, was 67 years (range, 55-85 years). In all 12 patients, the diagnosis of urothelial carcinoma was confirmed by histopathological examination. A total of 2 patients had Ta, 1 patient had T1, and 9 patients had T2 disease. Two patients were diagnosed with high-grade T2 tumors with squamous metaplasia. The clinical characteristics of the participants are shown in Table I, and are considered to be representative according to the general population of BCa in China (2,27).
PCA
A total of 165 metabolites were detected. PCA was performed to process the metabolite data based on a mean center-scaling model, which is an unsupervised projection method employed to visually display the intrinsic similarities and differences in the dataset. As shown in Fig. 1, PCA (pre-gemcitabine normal vs. pre-gemcitabine BCa tissues) revealed a well-differentiated and clustered pattern in score plots, indicating the significant metabolome changes between these two groups.
Altered metabolites and cancer-associated metabolic pathways in BCa
UPLC-Q-Exactive analysis identified 34 differentially expressed metabolites annotated in the KEGG and HMDB databases in pre-gemcitabine BCa tissues compared with pre-gemcitabine adjacent normal tissues (Table II).
 | Table IIList of the altered metabolites identified in BCa and their changes in the comparison between BCa tissues with or without gemcitabine pretreatment and pre-gemcitabine normal tissues. |
The 34 BCa-associated metabolites were then submitted to MetaboAnalyst for analysis. Table II lists all metabolites found to be altered in BCa. Table III and Fig. 2A show the metabolic pathways connected with these 34 metabolites, among which three pathways, namely glutathione, purine and thiamine metabolism, were significantly associated with BCa. Furthermore, in order to expand our understanding of metabolic pathways related to BCa, the module of enrichment analysis of MetaboAnalyst was used, which verified that glutathione metabolism was significantly associated with BCa (Table IV and Fig. 2B). The metabolic network of the differential metabolites and altered metabolic pathways in the KEGG general metabolic pathway map is shown in Fig. 2C.
Candidate targets of submucosal injection of gemcitabine
Based on targeted metabolomic analysis, we next analyzed these 34 differential metabolite changes in post-gemcitabine BCa tissues, and compared their levels with those in pre-gemcitabine normal tissues. A total of 32 metabolites maintained significant changes with identical trends in the comparison between pre-gemcitabine normal vs. pre-gemcitabine BCa tissues, indicating that the findings for differential metabolites in BCa are reliable. Importantly, the significant decrease in the levels of two metabolites associated with BCa recovered to insignificant levels following submucosal injection of gemcitabine (Table II and Fig. 3A, B and E-F). These were bilirubin and retinal, which may be the candidate targets of gemcitabine for the prevention of recurrence of urothelial BCa. We further analyzed the changes in the two metabolites in association with cancer stage. In Ta/T1 stage disease, when comparing pre-gemcitabine normal vs. pre-gemcitabine BCa tissues, bilirubin was decreased significantly in the BCa tissues (P=4.15E-2) (Table SI and Fig. 3C), while this decrease recovered to an insignificant level following submucosal injection of gemcitabine (P=5.40E-1) (Table SI and Fig. 3D); however, at this stage, the decrease of retinal in the tumor was still not statistically significant (P=4.76E-1) (Table SI). In T2 stage disease, when comparing pre-gemcitabine normal vs. pre-gemcitabine BCa tissues, retinal was decreased significantly in the BCa tissues (P=4.98E-2) (Table SI and Fig. 3G), while its change became statistically insignificant following submucosal injection of gemcitabine (P=3.22E-1) (Table SI and Fig. 3H); however, at this stage, the decrease of retinal in tumor was not statistically significant (P=1.68E-1) (Table SI). These results indicate that bilirubin and retinal changes were correlated with cancer stage, and gemcitabine may exert its effect through metabolic pathways associated with cancer stage.
Effects of submucosal injection of gemcitabine on normal tissues
To identify the effects of submucosal injection of gemcitabine on normal bladder tissues, the metabolomes of normal tissues were compared pre- and post-gemcitabine treatment. A total of 10 metabolites were found to be significantly altered in the normal tissues following submucosal injection of gemcitabine, whereas only 2 metabolites were associated with BCa (Table V). Histamine was significantly decreased in BCa, and its level was significantly increased in normal tissues after submucosal injection of gemcitabine (Fig. 3I and J). However, thiamine was significantly decreased in BCa, and its level was significantly decreased in normal tissues after submucosal injection of gemcitabine (Fig. 3M and N). We further analyzed the changes in the two metabolite in relation to cancer stage. In Ta/T1 stage disease, when comparing pre-gemcitabine normal vs. pre-gemcitabine BCa tissues, the changes in histamine (P=2.60E-1) and thiamine (P=8.39E-2) in the tumor were insignificant (Table SI). However, in T2 stage disease, when comparing pre-gemcitabine normal vs. pre-gemcitabine BCa tissues, the decrease in histamine (P=4.61E-3) (Table SI and Fig. 3K) and thiamine (P=4.13E-4) (Table SI and Fig. 3O) in the BCa tissues was significant. In T2 stage disease, the histamine level was significantly increased in normal tissues after submucosal injection of gemcitabine (P=3.55E-3) (Table SI and Fig. 3L), while thiamine was significantly decreased (P=4.11E-2) (Table SI and Fig. 3P). These results indicate that these metabolite changes were correlated with cancer stage, and gemcitabine may exert its effects mainly through these metabolic pathways in T2 stage disease.
Discussion
In the present study, UPLC-Q-Exactive-based metabolomic analysis was utilized to profile metabolites in BCa tissues. The major findings may be summarized as follows: i) A total of 34 key metabolites associated with BCa were identified (Table II); ii) three metabolic pathways, namely glutathione, purine and thiamine metabolism, were altered in BCa, and glutathione metabolism was the consistently altered pathway in enrichment and pathway analyses (Tables III and IV, and Fig. 2A and B); iii) among the 34 cancer-associated metabolites, the levels of bilirubin and retinal recovered after gemcitabine injection, suggesting that these two are likely the targets of gemcitabine treatment (Table II, Fig. 3A-D and E-H); iv) the effects of gemcitabine on normal bladder tissues were also investigated, and it was deduced that histamine may have the ability to protect against disease recurrence, whereas thiamine may be involved in the side effects of treatment (Table V, Fig. 3I-L and M-P), which requires further confirmation in future studies.
The identification of the three metabolic pathways significantly altered in BCa may be pathophysiologically important. Glycine is an important amino acid that participates in all three metabolic pathways. A decrease in glycine was reported as a biomarker in BCa (14). As a precursor of purine synthesis, reduced glycine in BCa indicates that a critical metabolic process associated with cell proliferation is altered in BCa (14). Notably, glutathione metabolism is the consistently altered pathway in enrichment and pathway analysis. Glutathione is the most abundant low-molecular-weight peptide present in eukaryotic cells (28). Glutathione is a primary cellular antioxidant that effectively scavenges free radicals and other reactive oxygen species (29) and, therefore, plays an important role in protecting cells from oxidative injury (30). Glutathione is also involved in cellular detoxification, and is required in several aspects of the immune response (31). Ke et al reported altered oxidized glutathione in BCa; they discovered four single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the glutathione synthetase gene, and these changes were associated with BCa recurrence after TUR and Bacillus Calmette Guerin treatment (31). Our findings, together with others, suggest that oxidative stress in BCa cells is at least partially due to the disrupted glutathione metabolism.
By using LC-Q-Exactive MS, this study is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to investigate the metabolite changes in BCa treated with gemcitabine followed by TURBT. Among the 34 cancer-associated metabolites, the levels of bilirubin and retinal recovered after gemcitabine treatment, indicating that they may be the potential targets of gemcitabine for reducing BCa recurrence. Bilirubin, a degradation product of free heme groups, protected LLC-PK1 cells against cisplatin-induced death (32). A large population-based study demonstrated that patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) have a nine-fold increased risk of developing urinary BCa, and BCa and PBC share a number of etiological factors (33). Uridine 5'-diphospho-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) are enzymes that participate in several biological processes involving bilirubin conjugation. UGTs catabolize carcinogens and, therefore, protect bladder cells from the harmful effects of toxic chemicals accumulated in the bladder. Targeting UGT1A may serve as a novel therapeutic intervention against uroepithelial carcinomas (34). Retinal (retinaldehyde; Rald) is derived from retinol (vitamin A) oxidized by alcohol dehydrogenases (35). Retinal plays an essential role in molecular signaling in vision, and serves mainly as a retinoic acid (an active form of vitamin A) precursor outside the eye (36). The serum levels of vitamin A were found to be decreased in patients with BCa (37). A high dietary intake of vitamin A reduces the incidence of BCa (38). Ziouzenkova et al reported retinal as a distinct biological regulator involved in suppressing adipo-genesis, diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance (39). The potential effect of bilirubin and retinal on the clinical outcome of patients with BCa identified in the present study is worthy of further investigation in the future.
The effects of gemcitabine on the metabolism of adjacent normal tissues were also examined. Most gemcitabine-induced metabolites do not overlap with those identified in BCa, indicating that gemcitabine did not exert notable adverse effects on normal bladder tissues. It was observed that histamine change may be associated with the prevention of relapse. Histamine is derived from the decarboxylation of histidine by histidine decarboxylase in mammals (8). Histamine is primarily released in inflammatory processes by mast cells (8), which are closely associated with BCa (40). Histamine H1 receptor (HRH1) expression was identified in BCa and found to be associated with the prognosis (41). It was observed that thiamine change may be involved in treatment-related side effects. Thiamine, or vitamin B-1, is a water-soluble vitamin (42). An early report by Pamukcu et al demonstrated that the incidence of urinary bladder carcinomas in rats fed bracken fern and additionally s.c. injected once weekly with 2 mg of thiamine hydrochloride was significantly higher compared with that in rats fed bracken fern but receiving no thiamine supplements, as thiamine may interfere with the absorption, distribution, metabolism, or excretion of the bracken fern (43). However, a case-control study from New Hampshire investigated the effect of minerals and vitamins on the risk of BCa, and found that a higher total intake of thiamine was inversely correlated with BCa risk in older participants (44).
There is currently a lack of effective biomarkers for BCa diagnosis and prognosis. Metabolomic profiles from tissue have the potential to be used, along with other current diagnostics, to help guide the clinical management of patients with BCa. The changed metabolites identified in the present study, such as glycine, may be used as potential biomarkers for BCa. In addition, those metabolites discovered in BC gemcitabine treatment may reveal new metabolic pathways that mediate the anti-recurrence effect of gemcitabine, which currently remain elusive.
In summary, the present study employed UPLC-HRMS-based metabolomic analysis to investigate metabolite changes in bladder tissues from BCa and BCa treated with gemcitabine. The findings may provide new insights into metabolic changes in BCa and the biomolecular basis of submucosal injection of gemcitabine for BCa. In addition, the study demonstrated that the UPLC-HRMS-based metabolomic analysis provides comprehensive metabolite profiling data that may pave the way to a novel approach to BCa research.
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations:
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TURBT |
transurethral resection of bladder tumor |
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PCA |
principal component analysis |
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ACN |
acetonitrile |
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KEGG |
Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
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HMDB |
human metabolome database |
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SMPDB |
Small Molecule Pathway Database |
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HPLC/MS |
high-performance liquid chromatography/ mass spectrometry |
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UPLC-MS |
ultra-performance LC-MS |
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UPLC-TOF-MS |
UPLC time-of-flight MS |
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UPLC-HRMS |
UPLC high-resolution MS |
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BCa |
bladder cancer |
Funding
The present study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation (81872650 and 81573182); the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (18KJA320003 and 18KJB320001); the Key Research & Development Plan of Jiangsu Province (BE2017628); the Southeast University & Nanjing Medical University Collaborative Research Project (2242018K3DN25); the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD); the 333 Project of Jiangsu Province (BRA2017241); the Natural Science Foundation of Huai'an (HAB201801); the Huai'an Promotion Project for Science and Technology International Cooperation (HAC201708); and the Innovation Fund Project of the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine (SKLRM-GC201901).
Availability of data and materials
The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Authors' contributions
CY, XS, KW, YG, RS and MC designed and performed the experiments. TL and MC analyzed and interpreted the raw data. SZ, XJ, BZ and HW collected the bladder tissue samples. ZG and SS performed the histopathological examination of BCa tissues. JL and JT preserved the samples and collected the basic information of the participants. CY, TL and MC wrote the manuscript. XW, HJ, XN, XW, MC and GF critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content. MC and GF supervised the project. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript for publication.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
The Ethics Committee of The Affiliated Huai'an No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University reviewed and approved the study protocol (serial no. YL-P-2013-21-01).
Patient consent for publication
Not applicable.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' information
Chao Yang: 15949177271@163.com; Xian Sun: 1019949991@qq.com; Hengbing Wang: wanghengbing2004@163.com; Ting Lu: 552095014@qq.com; Keqing Wu: wkwly1993@qq.com; Yusheng Guan: guanys@njmu.edu.cn; Jing Tang: tjing19681222@sina.com; Jian Liang: lj3936@126.com; Rongli Sun: 101012172@seu.edu.cn; Zhongying Guo: guozhongying407@163.com; Sinian Zheng: zhengsinian@163.com; Xiaoli Wu: wuxiaoli2233@126.com; Hesong Jiang: njjhs2007@163.com; Xi Jiang: piscesjxi@163.com; Bing Zhong: 15152569186@163.com; Xiaobing Niu: bingke2008@sina.com; Suan Sun: hayyssa@163.com; Xinru Wang: xrwang@njmu.edu.cn
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