Quantitative Imaging of D-2-Hydroxyglutarate in Selected Histological Tissue Areas by a Novel Bioluminescence Technique

Voelxen, Nadine F. and Walenta, Stefan and Proescholdt, Martin and Dettmer, Katja and Pusch, Stefan and Mueller-Klieser, Wolfgang (2016) Quantitative Imaging of D-2-Hydroxyglutarate in Selected Histological Tissue Areas by a Novel Bioluminescence Technique. FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY, 6: UNSP 46. ISSN 2234-943X,

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Abstract

Patients with malignant gliomas have a poor prognosis with average survival of less than 1 year. Whereas in other tumor entities the characteristics of tumor metabolism are successfully used for therapeutic approaches, such developments are very rare in brain tumors, notably in gliomas. One metabolic feature characteristic of gliomas, in particular diffuse astrocytomas and oligodendroglial tumors, is the variable content of D-2-hydroxyglutarate (D2HG), a metabolite that was discovered first in this tumor entity. D2HG is generated in large amounts due to various "gain-of-function" mutations in the isocitrate dehydrogenases IDH1 and 1DH2. Meanwhile, D2HG has been detected in several other tumor entities, including intrahepatic bile-duct cancer, chondrosarcoma, acute myeloid leukemia, and angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma. D2HG is barely detectable in healthy tissue (<0.1 mM), but its concentration increases up to 35 mM in malignant tumor tissues. Consequently, the "oncometabolite" D2HG has gained increasing interest in the field of tumor metabolism. To facilitate its quantitative measurement without loss of spatial resolution at a microscopical level, we have developed a novel bioluminescence assay for determining D2HG in sections of snap-frozen tissue. The assay was verified independently by photometric tests and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. The novel technique allows the microscopically resolved determination of D2HG in a concentration range of 0-10 mu mol/g tissue (wet weight). In combination with the already established bioluminescence imaging techniques for ATP, glucose, pyruvate, and lactate, the novel D2HG assay enables a comparative characterization of the metabolic profile of individual tumors in a further dimension.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ACUTE MYELOID-LEUKEMIA; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 1; IDH2 MUTATIONS; CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAGNETIC-RESONANCE; 2-HYDROXYGLUTARATE; CANCER; GLIOMAS; L-2-HYDROXYGLUTARATE; METABOLITES; D-2 hydroxyglutarate; IDH mutations; bioluminescence imaging; oncometabolite; glioblastoma
Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Neurochirurgie
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2019 09:00
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2019 09:00
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/3259

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