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ISCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108059
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Extensive metabolic heterogeneity in breast cancers can be classified into three subtypes based on metabolic pathways, which are strongly correlated with tumor aggressiveness and patient outcome. Machine-learning can be used to identify metabolic subtypes and guide precision therapies for breast cancers.
Extensive metabolic heterogeneity in breast cancers has limited the deployment of metabolic therapies. To enable patient stratification, we studied the metabolic landscape in breast cancers (similar to 3000 patients combined) and identified three subtypes with increasing degrees of metabolic deregulation. Subtype M1 was found to be dependent on bile-acid biosynthesis, whereas M2 showed reliance on methionine pathway, and M3 engaged fatty-acid, nucleotide, and glucose metabolism. The extent of metabolic alterations correlated strongly with tumor aggressiveness and patient outcome. This pattern was reproducible in independent datasets and using in vivo tumor metabolite data. Using machine-learning, we identified robust and generalizable signatures of metabolic subtypes in tumors and cell lines. Experimental inhibition of metabolic pathways in cell lines representing metabolic subtypes revealed subtype-specific sensitivity, therapeutically relevant drugs, and promising combination therapies. Taken together, metabolic stratification of breast cancers can thus aid in predicting patient outcome and designing precision therapies.
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