| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,230,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥6,240,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,440,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥6,630,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,530,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Many patients with pancreatic cancer have metastases to distant organs at the time of initial presentation. The goal of this study is to understand the mechanisms of pancreatic cancer metastasis at the proteome level, contributing to create a novel biomarker. To address, we employed a model system in which cells isolated from three sites of metastasis (liver, lung and peritoneum) from a single patient were compared. We used a SILAC-based accurate quantitative proteomic strategy combined with a high resolution mass spectrometry to analyze the total proteome and tyrosine phosphoproteome of each of the metastases. Our data revealed distinct patterns of both overall proteome expression as well as tyrosine kinase activities across the three different metastatic lesions. This heterogeneity is significant because it led to differential sensitivity of the neoplastic cells to small molecule inhibitors targeting various kinases and other pathways.
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