The study of metabolic pathways in tumors based on the transcriptome

Semin Cancer Biol. 2005 Aug;15(4):290-9. doi: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2005.04.008.

Abstract

DNA microarray technology revolutionized gene-expression analysis in molecular biology to observe patterns of gene expression in genomic scale. We review the biological aspects of genome-wide gene-expression activity in tumors specially focusing on the analysis of enzyme coding genes. First, the methods for analyzing gene-expression data for the study of metabolome in silico are discussed showing SV40T antigen expressing liver tumor data as an example. Next, an application for tumor metabolome analysis utilizing a reference set of gene-expression profiles is shown.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Computational Biology
  • Databases, Genetic
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Genome*
  • Neoplasm Proteins / genetics
  • Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Signal Transduction*
  • Transcription, Genetic / genetics*

Substances

  • Neoplasm Proteins