Multi-omics profiling of cachexia-target tissues reveals a spatio-temporal coordinated response to cancer
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ABSTRACT: Cachexia is a wasting disorder associated with high morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. Tumor-host interaction and maladaptive metabolic reprogramming are substantial, yet poorly understood, contributors to cachexia. We integrated metabolomics, RNA sequencing and 13C-glucose tracing data from multiple tissues and tumor of the C26 cachexia mouse model at different disease stages to provide a comprehensive overview of the spatio-temporal metabolic reprogramming during cachexia. We identified one-carbon metabolism as tissue-overarching pathway characteristic for metabolic wasting in mice and patients and linked to inflammation, promoting glucose hypermetabolism in muscle and atrophy. The same metabolic rewiring also occurred in a humanized cachexia mouse model. Together, our study provides a molecular framework to understand metabolic reprograming in cancer. It describes the first multi-tissue metabolite communication network during disease progression from the cachexia-free state to cachexia with one-carbon metabolism as tissue-overarching mechanism driving wasting.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE290937 | GEO | 2025/11/05
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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