LC–MS Based Lipidomics Depict Phosphatidylethanolamine as Biomarkers of TNBC MDA-MB-231 over nTNBC MCF-7 Cells

Alan Rubén Estrada-Pérez, Norbert Bakalara, Juan Benjamín García-Vázquez, Martha Cecilia Rosales-Hernández, Cynthia Fernández-Pomares, José Correa-Basurto

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Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) is the first malignant neoplasm in women, with a high death rate despite early diagnoses and treatment advances. Significant differences exist between the most common BC and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). TNBC presents molecular differences such as lacking expression of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and HER2 proteins, making this cancer have a poor clinical prognostic and lack clear strategies for its treatment. However, growing evidence points to metabolic dysregulation as another differential process between stages and types of BC. Therefore, the study of this crucial hallmark could identify new therapeutic targets to treat this aggressive form of BC. These differences induce an in vitro exploration of the metabolic behavior of the MCF7 cells (nTNBC) and MDA-MB-231 (TNBC) cells under lipidomic based LC–MS. The results show more significant differences in lipid regulation (phosphatidylethanolamine) that could be associated with the aggressiveness and difficulties of the treatment of TNBC.

Original languageEnglish
Article number12074
JournalInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume23
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2022

Keywords

  • LC–MS
  • breast cancer
  • lipidomics
  • triple negative breast cancer

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