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Merging Metabolic Modeling and Imaging for Screening Therapeutic Targets in Colorectal Cancer.
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BioRxiv : the preprint server for biology [bioRxiv] 2024 Sep 22. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 22. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) play a key role in metabolic reprogramming and are well-established contributors to drug resistance in colorectal cancer (CRC). To exploit this metabolic crosstalk, we integrated a systems biology approach that identified key metabolic targets in a data-driven method and validated them experimentally. This process involved a novel machine learning-based method to computationally screen, in a high-throughput manner, the effects of enzyme perturbations predicted by a computational model of CRC metabolism. This approach reveals the network-wide effects of metabolic perturbations. Our results highlighted hexokinase (HK) as the crucial target, which subsequently became our focus for experimental validation using patient-derived tumor organoids (PDTOs). Through metabolic imaging and viability assays, we found that PDTOs cultured in CAF-conditioned media exhibited increased sensitivity to HK inhibition, confirming the model predictions. Our approach emphasizes the critical role of integrating computational and experimental techniques in exploring and exploiting CRC-CAF crosstalk.<br />Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2692-8205
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- MEDLINE
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- BioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38826317
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.24.595756