Table 3 Levels of the most discriminative metabolites (VIP >3) for RCC subtype classification.

From: LC-MS based metabolomic profiling for renal cell carcinoma histologic subtypes

Name

m/z

Mode

VIP

Peak intensity

Ratio

Peak Intensity

Ratio

Mean cc

Mean pap

Mean chro

pap/cc

chro/cc

pap/chro

Mean Healthy

RCC/Healthy

Creatine

132.07694

POS

10.51

2.98E + 09

1.31E + 09

4.92E + 09

0.44

1.65

0.27*

2.06E + 09

1.26

L-Acetylcarnitine

204.12320

POS

10.43

4.50E + 09

1.91E + 09

3.13E + 09

0.42**

0.7

0.61

2.90E + 09

1.24

L-Carnitine

162.11262

POS

6.85

2.18E + 09

1.03E + 09

1.79E + 09

0.47*

0.82

0.58

1.34E + 09

1.82

L-Proline

116.07095

POS

6.45

1.39E + 09

2.06E + 09

8.66E + 08

1.48*

0.62

2.38***

1.56E + 09

0.71*

L-Phenylalanine

166.08636

POS

6.07

1.44E + 09

2.07E + 09

1.09E + 09

1.43

0.76

1.90*

2.09E + 09

0.51*

Betaine

118.08658

POS

5.15

2.10E + 09

2.46E + 09

1.82E + 09

1.17

0.87

1.35

1.71E + 09

1.44

Hypoxanthine

137.04591

POS

5.11

1.21E + 09

1.95E + 09

1.79E + 09

1.61*

1.48

1.09

3.26E + 09

0.54**

L-Lactic acid

89.02295

NEG

5

3.45E + 09

3.87E + 09

3.55E + 09

1.12

1.03

1.09

2.16E + 06

0.8

L-Isoleucine

132.10212

POS

4.65

1.44E + 09

1.51E + 09

8.21E + 08

1.05

0.57

1.83*

1.26E + 09

0.56**

Glycerophosphocholine

296.06608

POS

4.03

4.80E + 08

5.79E + 08

8.33E + 08

1.21

1.73

0.7

2.86E + 08

2.06

L-Methionine

150.05848

POS

3.89

2.18E + 08

6.83E + 08

2.83E + 08

3.14**

1.3

2.41*

6.15E + 08

0.36**

L-Tyrosine

182.08135

POS

3.7

3.99E + 08

7.36E + 08

3.26E + 08

1.85**

0.82

2.26***

9.71E + 08

0.49*

L-Palmitoylcarnitine

400.34272

POS

3.66

4.48E + 08

1.05E + 08

1.84E + 08

0.23**

0.41

0.57

1.17E + 08

0.96

Dimethylglycine

104.07109

POS

3.63

4.50E + 08

3.42E + 08

3.94E + 07

0.76

0.09***

8.67*

1.28E + 08

1.01

L-Tryptophan

205.09736

POS

3.4

4.34E + 08

6.37E + 08

2.85E + 08

1.47

0.66

2.24*

7.77E + 08

0.41**

Hydroxybutyrylcarnitine

248.14922

POS

3.22

4.08E + 08

1.22E + 08

5.12E + 08

0.3

1.26

0.24

2.50E + 08

2.62*

N-Acetyl-L-aspartic acid

174.03976

NEG

3.21

3.81E + 07

8.15E + 07

3.57E + 08

2.14

9.37**

0.23*

5.97E + 08

0.29*

Adenosine

268.10419

POS

3.19

1.19E + 08

1.09E + 08

4.88E + 08

0.91

4.1

0.22

1.45E + 08

1.37

L-Malic acid

133.01299

NEG

3.19

4.93E + 08

2.53E + 08

2.23E + 08

0.51

0.45*

1.14

5.19E + 08

0.63

Isobutyryl-L-carnitine

232.15447

POS

3.14

4.66E + 08

3.39E + 08

6.25E + 08

0.73

1.34

0.54

4.82E + 08

1.39

L-Glutamic acid

148.06055

POS

3.07

1.09E + 09

7.98E + 08

5.56E + 08

0.73

0.51

1.43

7.57E + 08

1.26

  1. p-values were calculated using a Mann-Whitney test for unpaired comparison and a Wilcoxon signed rank test for paired comparison. The level of significance was set at *for p < 0.05, **for p < 0.01 and ***for p < 0.001.