Guest Editor(s)

• Dr. Iola Melissa Fernandes Duarte

  CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

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• Dr. Ana Maria Pissarra Coelho Gil

  CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

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Special Issue Introduction

Metabolomics, the most recent entry in the omics universe, entails the comprehensive measurement of small molecules in biological samples and of their fluctuations upon pathophysiological alterations or external stimuli. Cancer research is one of the fields where metabolomics has been more extensively applied, concomitantly with the rising appreciation of metabolic reprogramming as a key enabling cancer hallmark. Cancer metabolomics has already allowed several candidate diagnostic biomarkers to be identified in tumor biopsies, as well as in surrounding or circulating body fluids. Additionally, metabolic signatures have been correlated with disease stages and response to treatment. Still, great challenges remain in this respect, such as establishing the specificity of metabolic markers and validating their utility in clinical practice. Metabolomics is also useful in helping elucidate oncogenic mechanisms and their molecular links to cellular metabolic pathways. Indeed, with metabolites being increasingly perceived as bioactive molecules capable of influencing tumorigenesis and disease progression, metabolomics approaches, including stable isotope-resolved metabolomics, emerge as uniquely valuable tools in mechanistic discoveries, especially when combined with other biological assays and computational methods.
For this special issue, we would like to invite research and/or review papers which address the application of metabolomics in cancer research, from biomarker identification and validation to bioactivity screening and targeted mechanistic studies. Works focusing on recent analytical and bioinformatics advances, as well as on integration with other omics data, are also welcome.

Participants

1. Peter Adriaensens  Biomolecule Design Group, Institute for Materials Research (IMO), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
2. Gilson C Santos  National Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Jiri Jonas (CNRMN), Structural Biology Program, Medical Biochemistry Institute and Center for Structural Biology and Bioimaging I (CENABIO I), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
3. Nathan Bowen  Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development, Department of Biological Sciences, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, USA.
4. Brian D Adams  HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA.
5. Consolato Sergi  Stollery Children's Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
6. Zi-Wei Dai  Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, USA.
7. Ana M Gil  Department of Chemistry and CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials (CICECO/UA), University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal.
8. M Wasif Saif  Zucker School of Medicine at Northwell/Hofstra, Hempstead, New York; Division of Medical Oncology, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, New York, USA.
9. Matthew L Goodwin  Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
10. Thereza Quirico-Santos  Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciencia e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
11. Rosalinda Sorrentino  Department of Pharmacy (DIFARMA), University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
12. Danny N Dhanasekaran  Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA; Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA.
13. Angelo Paci  Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Gustave Roussy, CNRS, Vectorologie et thérapeutiques anticancéreuses, Villejuif, France.
The list is arranged in no particular order and being updated.

Keywords

Metabolomics, cancer, tumour metabolism, biomarkers, oncometabolites, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, stable isotope-assisted metabolomics, bioinformatics

Submission Deadline

31 Aug 2020

Submission Information

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Submission Deadline: 31 Aug 2020
Contacts: Monica Gao, assistant editor, monica@jcmtjournal.com