Spatiotemporal Metabolomic Approaches to the Cancer-immunity Panorama: a Methodological Perspective

Overview

Journal Mol Cancer

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialties Molecular Biology
Oncology

Date 2024 Sep 18

PMID 39294747

Authors

Yang Xiao

Yongsheng Li

Huakan Zhao

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Abstract

Metabolic reprogramming drives the development of an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) through various pathways, contributing to cancer progression and reducing the effectiveness of anticancer immunotherapy. However, our understanding of the metabolic landscape within the tumor-immune context has been limited by conventional metabolic measurements, which have not provided comprehensive insights into the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of metabolism within TME. The emergence of single-cell, spatial, and in vivo metabolomic technologies has now enabled detailed and unbiased analysis, revealing unprecedented spatiotemporal heterogeneity that is particularly valuable in the field of cancer immunology. This review summarizes the methodologies of metabolomics and metabolic regulomics that can be applied to the study of cancer-immunity across single-cell, spatial, and in vivo dimensions, and systematically assesses their benefits and limitations.

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