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. 2021 Sep 10;13(18):4544. doi: 10.3390/cancers13184544

Table 2.

Multi-omics studies focused on BC tumor metabolic subtyping.

Study Sample Omics Data Group
Comparison
Major Findings *
Moestue et al. [63] Tissue M+T Basal- vs.
luminal-like
↑ GPC/PCho and glycine
CHKA/B
PLA2G4A, PLB1, CHDH and SARDH
Grinde et al. [64] Tissue M+T Basal- vs.
luminal-like
↓ PCho/GPC
Putluri et al. [65] Cell lines + Tissue M+T Basal- vs.
luminal-like
↓ phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine,
BCAA, lauric acid and oleic acid
↑ guanine, adenine, thymine, uracil, xanthine, and guanosine
Mahendralingam et al. [66] Tissue P+T Basal- vs.
luminal-like
↑ glycolysis (PFKM, ALDOC, GAPDH, and PKM) and ↓ OXPHOS
Tang et al. [67] Tissue G+M+T ER+ vs. ER- ↓ carnitine derivates and short- and medium-chain fatty acids
↑ long-chain fatty acids and monoacylglycerols
Barupal et al. [68] Tissue M+P+T ER+ vs. ER- ↑ R5P, adenine, guanosine, guanine, xanthine, and hypoxanthine and
β-alanine
G6PD, PGD, TKT, PGM1, RPIA, DERA
Hilvo et al. [60] Tissue L+T ER+ vs. ER- ↑ palmitate and myristic acid
Haukaas et al. [48] Tissue M+T+P Primary BC subtyping MC1: ↑ GPC, PCho ↓ acetate and
glutamine
CHKAALDH and GLS
MC2: ↑ glucose
MC3: ↑ lactate and alanine
Gong et al. [69] Tissue M+T TNBC
subtyping
MPS1: ↑ myristic, palmitoleic, oleic,
and arachidonic acid
ACACA, HMGCR, FASN,
SCD
MPS2: ↑ glucose 1-phosphate,
dihydroxyacetone phosphate,
lactate and
adenosine 3′ 5′ -diphosphate
and ↓ glucose
PFKP, ENO2, TYMS, CTPS1,
SLC2A1, SLC16A1

ACACA: acetyl-CoA carboxylase alpha, ALDH: aldehyde dehydrogenase, ALDOC: aldolase, fructose-bisphosphate C, BC: breast cancer, BCAA: branched-chain amino acid, CHDH: choline dehydrogenase, CHKA: choline kinase alpha, CHKB: choline kinase beta, CTPS1: CPT synthase 1, DERA: deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase, ENO2: enolase 2, ER: estrogen receptor, FASN: fatty acid synthase, G: genomics, GAPDH: glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, GLS: glutaminase, GPC: glycerophosphocholine, G6PD: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, HMGCR: HMG-CoA reductase, L: lipidomics, M: metabolomics, OXPHOS: oxidative phosphorylation, P: proteomics, PCho: phosphocholine, PKFM: phosphofructokinase (muscle), PFKP: phosphofructokinase (platelet), PGD: phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, PGM1: phosphoglucomutase 1, PKM: pyruvate kinase M1/2, PLA2G4A: phospholipase A2 group IVA, PLB1: phospholipase B1, PPP: pentose phosphate pathway, RPIA: ribose 5-phosphate isomerase 1, R5P: ribose-5-phosphate, SARDH: sarcosine dehydrogenase, SCD: stearoyl-CoA desaturase, SLC2A1: solute carrier family 2 member 1, SLC16A1: solute carrier family 16 member 2, T: transcriptomics, TCA: tricarboxylic acid, TKT: transketolase, TNBC: triple negative breast cancer, TYMS: thymidylate synthetase. * Direction of variation, considering luminal or ER+ BC group as a reference.