Oral Presentation 12th Australian Peptide Conference 2017

Understanding cancer-associated lipid metabolism through clinical lipidomics and proteomics (#5)

Michelle Hill 1 2
  1. QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
  2. The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Metabolic reprogramming is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Re-wired lipid metabolism supports the proliferation and survival of cancer cells through multiple pathways, such as increased energy and membrane source, anti-apoptosis through altered membrane microdomains (lipid rafts) and mitochondrial lipids. Our group has been applying mass spectrometry-based lipidomics and proteomics approaches to understand the lipid metabolism changes underlying oesophageal adenocarcinoma and multiple myeloma. This presentation will our learnings and results from these interdisciplinary studies.