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Project uploaded by: Neel Sarovar
Project ID: IMP_100003
Title: NMR based metabolomics studies on human saliva from oral cancer patients and individuals that abuse tobacco
Project Description: Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) contribute about 95% of head and neck cancer with increasing prevalence in recent times. This type of cancer has been widely attributed to tobacco and alcohol. Early diagnosis increases the survival rate thus biomarker might be germane in its management. Metabolic profiling has the potential to understand the molecular mechanism of carcinogenesis and help to demystify the potential biomarkers for the early diagnosis of OSCC because metabolites are most informative proxies of the biochemical activity of an organism. Saliva metabolic profiling of OSCC and tobacco user were sought, using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Methods: We reported metabolic profiling of saliva from OSCC (n = 22), tobacco users (n = 21) and healthy control (n = 21) based on 1H NMR with multivariate, univariate, Chemometrics, cluster analyses (PCA, PLS-DA, OPLS-DA, ANOVA, T-test, fold change and heatmap). While perturbed metabolic pathways due to OSCC was also elucidated. Results: Both PLS-DA and OPLS-DA validated models showed adequate discrimination in OSCC as compared with tobacco user and healthy control. A total of 44 endogenous discriminating/distinguishing metabolites (FDR and p < 0.05) were identified, 19, 12 were upregulated and downregulated respectively while 8 were upregulated in tobacco user and 5 upregulated in healthy control. More so, some metabolites were dysregulated in OSCC vs. healthy control, OSCC vs. tobacco user and tobacco user vs., healthy control. Consequently, these perturbed metabolites revealed disturbance in glycolysis, TCA, fatty acid metabolism, amino acids and choline metabolism, which were correlated with the occurrence and development of OSCC. Conclusion: There is distinct saliva metabolite perturbation in OSCC and tobacco user, these results suggested that the metabolic profiling of OSCC has great potential in detecting this disease and helping to understand its underlying metabolic mechanisms. Saliva might be a good bio-fluid for NMR metabolomics as reported in this study.
Research Area: Biological Sciences
Funding Source: DBT and ICGEB
Project Contributors: DBT and ICGEB

Study uploaded by: Neel Sarovar
Study ID: IMS_100003
Title: NMR analysis of the human saliva metabolic profiling distinguishes oral cancer patients from tobacco user
Summary: Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) contribute about 95% of head and neck cancer with increasing prevalence in recent times. This type of cancer has been widely attributed to tobacco and alcohol. Early diagnosis increases the survival rate thus biomarker might be germane in its management. Metabolic profiling has the potential to understand the molecular mechanism of carcinogenesis and help to demystify the potential biomarkers for the early diagnosis of OSCC because metabolites are most informative proxies of the biochemical activity of an organism. Saliva metabolic profiling of OSCC and tobacco user were sought, using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Methods: We reported metabolic profiling of saliva from OSCC (n = 22), tobacco users (n = 21) and healthy control (n = 21) based on 1H NMR with multivariate, univariate, Chemometrics, cluster analyses (PCA, PLS-DA, OPLS-DA, ANOVA, T-test, fold change and heatmap). While perturbed metabolic pathways due to OSCC was also elucidated. Results: Both PLS-DA and OPLS-DA validated models showed adequate discrimination in OSCC as compared with tobacco user and healthy control. A total of 44 endogenous discriminating/distinguishing metabolites (FDR and p &lt; 0.05) were identified, 19, 12 were upregulated and downregulated respectively while 8 were upregulated in tobacco user and 5 upregulated in healthy control. More so, some metabolites were dysregulated in OSCC vs. healthy control, OSCC vs. tobacco user and tobacco user vs., healthy control. Consequently, these perturbed metabolites revealed disturbance in glycolysis, TCA, fatty acid metabolism, amino acids and choline metabolism, which were correlated with the occurrence and development of OSCC. Conclusion: There is distinct saliva metabolite perturbation in OSCC and tobacco user, these results suggested that the metabolic profiling of OSCC has great potential in detecting this disease and helping to understand its underlying metabolic mechanisms. Saliva might be a good bio-fluid for NMR metabolomics as reported in this study.
Keywords: Oral squamous cell carcinoma, Metabolic profiling, 1H NMR
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MO00058K
Release Date: July 2, 2025
Study Type: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Data Type: Untargeted
IEC/IBSC Approval Number : IEC/SJH/VMMC/PROJECT/JULY-2016/611, ICGEB/IEC/2017/03 and ICGEB/IEC/2018/01

Sr.No Sample ID Sample Name Organism Source Sample Preparation Protocol Sample Type Experimental Condition Time of treatment Variant/Variety Gender Age Replicates Storage Conditions Extraction Protocol Number of files per sample
1 IMSM_100002 C1 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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2 IMSM_100003 C2 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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3 IMSM_100004 C3 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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4 IMSM_100005 C4 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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5 IMSM_100006 C5 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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6 IMSM_100007 C6 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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7 IMSM_100008 C7 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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8 IMSM_100009 C8 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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9 IMSM_100010 C9 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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10 IMSM_100011 C10 Homo sapiens | NA Saliva NMR sample preparation in phosphase buffer Healthy NA NA NA NA

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Sr.No NMR Exp ID Sample Name/ID Reference Standard NMR Instrument Name NMR Instrument Type NMR Experiment Type NMR Spectrometer Frequency NMR Probe NMR Probe temperature NMR Solvent NMR tube size Data Transformation (Software/s Used)
1 IME_100003 C1 / IMSM_100002 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 5 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
2 IME_100004 C2 / IMSM_100003 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 6 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
3 IME_100005 C3 / IMSM_100004 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 7 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
4 IME_100006 C4 / IMSM_100005 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 8 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
5 IME_100007 C5 / IMSM_100006 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 9 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
6 IME_100008 C6 / IMSM_100007 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 10 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
7 IME_100009 C7 / IMSM_100008 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 11 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
8 IME_100010 C8 / IMSM_100009 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 12 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
9 IME_100011 C9 / IMSM_100010 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 13 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin
10 IME_100012 C10 / IMSM_100011 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS). Bruker Avance III 500MHz Solution NMR 1D 1H 500MHz 14 mm triple-resonance CPTCI cryogenic cooled probehead equipped with z-gradient 298K D2O 5mm TopSpin

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Sr.No ftprun ID NMR Exp ID NMR Data Files
11 IMR_100012 IME_100013 C11.zip
12 IMR_100013 IME_100014 C12.zip
13 IMR_100014 IME_100015 C13.zip
14 IMR_100015 IME_100016 C14.zip
15 IMR_100016 IME_100017 C15.zip
16 IMR_100017 IME_100018 C16.zip
17 IMR_100018 IME_100019 C17.zip
18 IMR_100019 IME_100020 C18.zip
19 IMR_100020 IME_100021 C19.zip
20 IMR_100021 IME_100022 C20.zip

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