Journal: EBioMedicine
Article Title: A circular network of coregulated sphingolipids dictates lung cancer growth and progression
doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103301
Figure Lengend Snippet: Serum sphingolipidomics analysis indicates altered sphingolipid metabolic states in NSCLC patients as compared with healthy individuals. ( a ) Schematic representation of the workflow for sample allocation as well as the extraction and identification procedure of serum sphingolipids from NSCLC patients and healthy individuals. ( b, c ) Manhattan plots reveal the relative levels of non-clinically relevant sphingolipid subclasses, including ceramide (Cer), ceramide-1-phosphate (C1P), sphingosine (SPH), sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), sphingomyelin (SM) and the relative levels of clinically relevant sphingolipid subclasses, such as galactosylceramide (GalCer)/glucosylceramide (GlcCer), sulfatide, lactosylceramide (LacCer), lacto/neolacto-series glycosphingolipid (lacto/neolacto-series GSL) in NSCLC patients as compared to healthy individuals. Values are shown as log 2 fold-change relative to healthy individuals. Each dot represents a sphingolipid species, color codes per sphingolipid subclass. Dot size indicates significance (-log 10 value). Serum sphingolipidomics data are combined of 100 NSCLC patients and 100 healthy individuals from the training dataset and represented as mean. ( d ) Analysis of correlations between different sphingolipid subclasses, as function of correlation strength. Black dotted line represents strongly correlated sphingolipids. ( e ) Overview of different sphingolipid levels in NSCLC patients. lacto/neolacto-series glycosphingolipid and sulfatide species are indicated in a close-up of the sphingolipid metabolic network. Red color represents up-regulated sphingolipids and green for down-regulated sphingolipids. Blue dotted line represents p < 0.05. All data are obtained from the training dataset. ( b, c ) Student's t test.
Article Snippet: Briefly, 100 μl serum of NSCLC patient or healty individuals was accurately weighed into a glass bottle, in which 1.5 ml of chloroform (CHCl 3 ) /MeOH (1:2, v/v) and internal standard C17 Ceramide (d18:1/17:0) (Cat# 860517, Avanti Polar Lipids), sphinganine-D7 (Cat# 860658, Avanti Polar Lipids) and sphingosine1-phosphate-D7 (Cat# 860641, Avanti Polar Lipids) was added.
Techniques: Extraction