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PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Black, clear-bottomed 96-well plates (Corning) pre-coated with ECM (Merck) were seeded at 5,000 cells per well and incubated at 37 °C in 200 μl of Neurobasal medium supplemented with growth factors, as described above.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The medium was then replaced with either fresh medium or medium containing the following drug concentrations: AZD2014, 1 μM; gefitinib, 1 μM; imatinib, 10 μM. The cells were incubated for 72 h before re-imaging using the IncuCyte microscope, and cell numbers were determined using the Sartorius cell confluency module.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
At the end of the incubation, the medium was aspirated, and 100 μl of PBS containing 3 μM propidium iodide was added to each well to measure necrotic cell death.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The plates were imaged using the IncuCyte 10× cell-by-cell module using the red channel.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The experiment was repeated three times with six technical replicates for each drug treatment.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Neurospheres in Matrigel domes were grown at 37 °C, with one plate incubated in atmospheric O2 and the other grown in 0.5% O2, 0.5 Pa (Avatar, XCellbio).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Medium was refreshed every 48 h, and on day 10 it was removed, the plates placed on ice and the wells washed with 1 ml of ice-cold PBS, followed by the addition of 1 ml Corning Cell Recovery Solution.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The plates were incubated at 4 °C for 1 h and then washed four times with ice-cold PBS.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
RNA was isolated from cell pellets using a QIAshredder spin column (Qiagen) and AllPrep DNA/RNA Mini Kit (Qiagen), quantified using a Qubit fluorometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and quality tested using an Agilent 4200 TapeStation.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
For library preparation, the Illumina TruSeq Stranded mRNA Kit was used, and single-read sequencing was performed on a HiSeq 4000 machine (Illumina).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Quality control of raw sequence data was carried out using FastQC (v.0.11.8).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Some reads were trimmed to remove adaptor content using Trimmomatic (v.0.39).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Reads were aligned to GRCh38 Ensembl release 102 using STAR (v.2.7.7a) and alignment quality control was carried out using Picard tools (v.2.25.1).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Quantification was carried out using Salmon (v.1.6.0) against a reference transcriptome for the same genome release.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Differential gene expression analysis was carried out in R (v.4.2.2) using the DESeq2 package (v.1.38.3) with default parameters.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Multiple testing correction of P values was carried out using the Benjamini–Hochberg method.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Genes were determined to be differentially expressed at an adjusted P value of 0.05.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Gene set enrichment analysis was carried out using clusterProfiler (v.4.6.0).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Experiments were performed under the authority of a Home Office project licence (PP5634271) and approved by an Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Athymic, female nude rats that were at least 9 weeks old were implanted orthotopically with the primary GB lines at passage 10.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Animals were anaesthetized using 2% isoflurane (Isoflo, Abbott Laboratories) in O2/air (25/75%, vol/vol, 2 l min) with 5 mg kg Carpofen (Zoetis) and 0.3 mg ml buprenorphine hydrochloride (Alstoe) subcutaneous analgesia.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Body temperature was maintained using a heating pad.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
A stereotactic surgical frame (Kopf) was used to secure the animal’s head.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
A midline incision was made followed by a 1 mm burr hole anterior and to the right of the bregma.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
A total of 1 × 10 cells were injected in 5 µl of Neurobasal medium at a depth of 4 mm.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The burr hole was closed with bone wax (Ethicon) and skin with 6/0 vicryl (Ethicon).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Tumour growth was monitored using T2-weighted MRI.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Specifically, animals were anaesthetized using 2% isoflurane (Isoflo, Abbott Laboratories) in O2/air (25/75%, vol/vol, 2 l min) and placed supine inside a 7T magnet (Agilent), and T2-weighted MRI was used to monitor tumour growth.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
A 72 mm H volume coil was placed around the animal’s head, and breathing rate and temperature were monitored with a small animal instruments monitoring system (SAII).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Axial H T2-weighted images were acquired using a fast spin-echo sequence with an echo time of 50 ms, pulse repetition time of 1,500 ms, flip angle of 60–90° and a slice thickness of 2.0 mm, field-of-view of 40 mm × 40 mm and 128 × 128 or 256 × 256 data points.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Three animals per cell line were administered with [U-C]glucose as a bolus at 0.4 mg g, followed by continuous infusion of 0.012 mg g min at 300 µl h for 120 min (ref. ).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The brains were snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen, cryo-sectioned at a thickness of 10 µm and analysed with DESI-MSI and MALDI-MSI, as described above.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The 10× Genomics Visium platform was used and analysed with the Space Ranger pipeline.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Downstream analyses were conducted in R using the Seurat package.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Samples were processed individually using the SCTransform() function.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of <sup>13</sup>C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Spots were filtered based on standard quality control thresholds (for example, mitochondrial gene percentage of >20%, nCount_Spatial of <1,000 and nFeature_Spatial of <1,000).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Data were re-corrected across samples using PrepSCTFindMarkers() for joint numerical analyses.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Gene set scoring was performed using the Hallmark gene sets and the UCELL package, excluding mitochondrial genes from the oxidative phosphorylation score calculations.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
To annotate spatial spots, genes from Hallmark gene sets of interest were combined and subjected to k-means clustering (k = 3).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
To annotate TME spots, we performed two deconvolution steps with robust cell type decomposition, using previously published reference cell annotations.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
First, a balanced normal reference was sampled from the non-neoplastic cells, combined with the neoplastic cells and used as input for robust cell type decomposition.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The assignment was further confirmed by histological evaluation.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
To label TME niches, we further deconvolved TME signals into oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, vascular cells, immune cells (macrophages) and neurons.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Given that each spatial spot contained multiple cells, we normalized the deconvolution weights to a maximum of one, providing a relative abundance.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
To mitigate over-assignment to sorted TME cell types, we included unsorted cell types (neoplastic + oligodendrocyte precursor cell with high transcriptomic similarity) in this deconvolution step as a ‘block’ effect.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Joint feature plots (tumour and TME) were generated using a custom modification of the SpatialFeaturePlotBlend() source function.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The original repository is available at https://github.com/george-hall-ucl/SpatialFeaturePlotBlend.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
For the TME population-level quantification, for each spot, the weights of all deconvolved populations were normalized to sum to one, thereby representing the relative contribution of each cell population within that specific spot.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Subsequently, these normalized weights were plotted across the three metabolic states.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Total ion count-normalized MSI data were extracted using the SCiLS Lab API (v.2022b; Bruker Daltonik), and metabolic labels were spatially smoothed to provide coherent spatial regions.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Immediately neighbouring pixels (≤8) were identified for each MSI pixel, and across five iterations, for each pixel that had at least two neighbours and for which the majority of neighbours were assigned a different label, the label was replaced with the majority label.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
An image was created using spatial coordinates, in which pixels were coloured using the first three principal components as RGB channels.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Landmarks were identified between this MSI dimensionality reduction image and the H&E image of the corresponding tissue section, and subsequently between the H&E image and the corresponding H&E image of the contiguous tissue section used for spatial transcriptomic analysis.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
These landmarks were then used to map the MSI coordinates onto the spatial transcriptomic coordinate space using an affine transform.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
MSI labels were finally transferred to spots on the spatial transcriptomic image using the k-nearest neighbours algorithm (k = 3).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Regions were defined using k-means clustering and fitted using the Kmeans function in the amap R package and performed independently on the neurosphere, human and metastases datasets.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The values for each of the seven C-labelled metabolites used for metabolic clustering were standardised into z-scores (by subtracting the metabolite’s mean and dividing by the metabolite’s standard deviation).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Each pixel was then assigned to three or four groups, using k-means clustering with Manhattan distances.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Antibodies used for immunohistochemistry are described in Supplementary Table 5.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Antibodies were tagged using the Fluidigm Maxpar Antibody Labelling Kit.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Slides were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS for 10 min, washed three times in PBS, permeabilized using a 1:1,000 dilution of Triton X-100 in casein solution, washed another three times in PBS and then blocked for 30 min with casein solution (Thermo Fisher).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Antibodies were diluted in casein solution, and the slides were incubated overnight at 4 °C.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The slide was then washed three times in PBS, and nuclei were stained with DNA intercalator-iridium (Fluidigm) at a dilution of 1:400 in PBS for 30 min.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The slide was washed three times in PBS, 30 s in deionized water and then dried at room temperature.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
A region for IMC analysis was selected using consecutive H&E-stained sections and the DESI-MSI data.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
IMC analysis was performed using a Hyperion Instrument (Fluidigm Corporation) with an ablation energy of 4 db and an ablation frequency of 200 Hz.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
IMC images were produced using MCD viewer (v.1.0; Fluidigm), and analysis was performed using HALO (Indica Labs).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Tumour-bearing rat brains were snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and sectioned at 6 μm thickness for immunohistochemistry analysis using Leica’s Polymer Refine Kit (antibodies listed in Supplementary Table 6).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Images were analysed using Aperio image-viewing software and HALO (v.3.6.4134.137).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
HALO (v.3.6.4134.137) and HighPlex FL (v.4.1.3) modules were used for automated image analysis.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Optical densities for weakly, moderately and strongly stained cells used for the automated quantitative analysis of scanned sections were as follows: Ki67 – (nuclear) 7, 40.7522, 54.385, p53 – (nuclear) 1.8, 3.5929, 5.1327, CC3 – (cytoplasm) 1.9427, 4.646, 6.1947, Vimentin – (cytoplasm) 13.3343, 25.7522, 41.2035, CD3 – (nuclear) 2.2832, 32.6875, 63, GZMB – (nuclear) 0.6956, 0.8673, 1.6106, CD4 – (cytoplasm) 3.9823, 6.7699, 10.354, CD8A – (nuclear) 1.6327, 18.7679, 26, CD68 – (cytoplasm) 10.4106, 45.9027, 78.6903, CD45 – (cytoplasm) 2, 5.3363, 7.115, ASMA – (cytoplasm) 2.8, 12.1327, 18.6239, CD31 – (cytoplasm) 2.274, 4.5841, 6.876, panCK – (cytoplasm) 1.836, 2.8673, 3.9823, Collagen I – (cytoplasm) 28.293, 104.7301, 179.58.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Five cellular phenotypes were identified: CD4 helper T cells (CD45CD4CD3); cytotoxic T cells (CD3CD45CD8A); activated cytotoxic T cells (CD3CD45CD8AGZMB); natural killer cells and neutrophils (CD45GZMB); and macrophages and microglia (CD68).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
A random forest classifier was used to distinguish vessels and non-vessels within the images.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Large vessels were positive for Collagen I and CD31.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Annotations were created manually on several images, and these were used to train the classifier.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
The five cellular phenotypes were plotted spatially, three 60 µm bands travelling out from the vessels were defined and the total number of cells displaying these cellular phenotypes in each band was determined.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Sample size for human tumour collection was determined intra-operatively based on patient and tumour factors (for example, proximity to eloquent brain).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
A minimum of six samples were collected for each tumour region.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
For xenograft and neurosphere studies, a minimum of three independent biological replicates were used (three different rats; three different cell line passages with a minimum of six technical replicates).
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
No randomization or blinding was used, and all data were included in the analysis.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism (v.10.0.3), R (v.4.3.0) and SCiLS.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Bioinformatics analyses were performed in R. Statistical tests were two-sided unless stated otherwise.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Student’s t-tests and one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiplicity correction were used to test the equality of means between two or more groups, respectively.
PMC12116388
Cell-intrinsic metabolic phenotypes identified in patients with glioblastoma, using mass spectrometry imaging of &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C-labelled glucose metabolism.
Further information on research design is available in the Nature Portfolio Reporting Summary linked to this article.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
We describe a mechanism of tumorigenesis mediated by kinase-dead BRAF in the presence of oncogenic RAS.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
We show that drugs that selectively inhibit BRAF drive RAS-dependent BRAF binding to CRAF, CRAF activation, and MEK–ERK signaling.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
This does not occur when oncogenic BRAF is inhibited, demonstrating that BRAF inhibition per se does not drive pathway activation; it only occurs when BRAF is inhibited in the presence of oncogenic RAS.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
Kinase-dead BRAF mimics the effects of the BRAF-selective drugs and kinase-dead Braf and oncogenic Ras cooperate to induce melanoma in mice.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
Our data reveal another paradigm of BRAF-mediated signaling that promotes tumor progression.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
They highlight the importance of understanding pathway signaling in clinical practice and of genotyping tumors prior to administering BRAF-selective drugs, to identify patients who are likely to respond and also to identify patients who may experience adverse effects.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
The RAS–ERK (extracellular-signal regulated protein kinase) MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) signaling pathway regulates cell responses to environmental cues (Marshall, 1995) and plays an important role in human cancer (Gray-Schopfer et al., 2007).
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
The pathway comprises the RAS small guanine-nucleotide binding protein and the protein kinases RAF, MEK (mitogen and extracellular-regulated protein kinase kinase), and ERK.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
RAS is attached to the inner face of the plasma membrane and is activated downstream of growth factor, cytokine, and hormone receptors.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
Active RAS recruits RAF to the membrane for activation through a complex process involving changes in phosphorylation and binding to other enzymes and scaffold proteins (Kolch, 2000).
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
RAF phosphorylates and activates MEK, which phosphorylates and activates ERK.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
The complexity of this pathway is increased by the multiplicity of its components.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
There are three RAS (HRAS, NRAS, and KRAS), three RAF (ARAF, BRAF, and CRAF), two MEK (MEK1 and MEK2), and two ERK (ERK1 and ERK2) genes that encode proteins with nonredundant functions.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
Furthermore, the pathway is not linear.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
BRAF binds to and activates CRAF in a RAS-dependent manner that appears to require CRAF transphosphorylation by BRAF (Garnett et al., 2005; Rushworth et al., 2006; Weber et al., 2001), providing subtle pathway regulation that is not fully understood.
PMC2872605
Kinase-dead BRAF and oncogenic RAS cooperate to drive tumor progression through CRAF.
ERK phosphorylates many substrates and the duration and intensity of its activity affects how cells respond to extracellular signals (Marshall, 1995).