Table 2 Summary of deregulated pathways.

From: In situ profiling reveals metabolic alterations in the tumor microenvironment of ovarian cancer after chemotherapy

A. Metabolic pathways upregulated in pre-chemotherapy tissues from ER and PR tumors.

Upregulated pathways in chemo-naïve tissues of ER versus PR

ER

PR

Stroma

Epithelium

Stroma

Epithelium

Pyrimidine salvage (entities ratio 0.01)

Respiratory electron transporta (entities ratio 0.008)

Transport of bile salts and organic acids metal ions and amine compoundsa (entities ratio 0.04)

Recycle of bile acids and salts (entities ratio 0.01)

 

Metabolism of amino acids and derivatives (entities ratio 0.15)

Oxygen-dependent proline hydroxylation of Hypoxia-inducible Factor Alphaa (entities ratio 0.003)

Pyrimidine salvage (entities ratio 0.01)

   

Pyrimidine catabolism (entities ratio 0.02)

B. Metabolic pathways upregulated and downregulated in post- versus pre-chemotherapy tissues from ER and PR tumors.

Deregulated pathways in post-chemo versus pre-chemo tissues of ER and PR

ER

PR

Stroma

Epithelium

Stroma

Epithelium

Upregulated

Urea cycle (entities ratio 0.12)

TP53 Regulates Metabolic Genes (entities ratio 0.01)

Aspartate and asparagine metabolism (entities ratio 0.01)

TP53 Regulates Metabolic Gene (entities ratio 0.01)

 

Citric acids cycle (entities ratio 0.02)

Metabolism of nucleotides (entities ratio 0.08)

Phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism (entities ratio 0.02)

Metabolism of nucleotides (entities ratio 0.08)

   

Nucleotide biosynthesis (entities ratio 0.03)

 
   

Urea cycle (entities ratio 0.01)

 

Downregulated

Metabolism of nucleotidesb (entities ratio 0.08)

Urea cycleb (entities ratio 0.01)

GABA degradation and synthesis (entities ratio 0.01)

2-Hydroxyglutarate

 

Nucleotide salvageb (entities ratio 0.03)

Metabolism of nucleotidesb (entities ratio 0.08)

  
 

Purine catabolismb (entities ratio 0.03)

Phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolismb (entities ratio 0.02)

  
  1. ap < 0.05 probability score corrected for false-discovery rate (FDR) using Benjamini-Hochberg method.
  2. bp < 0.01 probability score corrected for false-discovery rate (FDR) using Benjamini-Hochberg method.