Systems Analysis of In Vivo Tumor and Stromal Cell Metabolism in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma


Damon Runyon - Mark Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2022)

Caroline Bartman, PhD, Princeton University

Caroline Bartman, PhD

Dr. Bartman studies the unique nutritional requirements of cancer cells compared to healthy tissues. Dr. Bartman will use mass spectrometry measurements of labeled nutrients and computational modeling to quantify metabolic fluctuations in both pancreatic cancer cells and healthy organs in mice. Since altered metabolism is a hallmark of cancer cells, systematically mapping these metabolic changes may guide drug development to rationally target cancer while sparing healthy cells.

Content courtesy of Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

published research

Shen Y, Dinh HV, Cruz ER, Chen Z, Bartman CR, Xiao T, Call CM, Ryseck RP, Pratas J, Weilandt D, Baron H, Subramanian A, Fatma Z, Wu ZY, Dwaraknath S, Hendry JI, Tran VG, Yang L, Yoshikuni Y, Zhao H, Maranas CD, Wühr M, Rabinowitz JD. Mitochondrial ATP generation is more proteome efficient than glycolysis. Nat Chem Biol. 2024.

Xu X, Chen Z, Bartman CR, Xing X, Olszewski K, Rabinowitz JD. One-carbon unit supplementation fuels purine synthesis in tumor-infiltrating T cells and augments checkpoint blockade. Cell Chem Biol. 2024.

Bartman CR, Weilandt DR, Shen Y, Lee WD, Han Y, TeSlaa T, Jankowski CSR, Samarah L, Park NR, da Silva-Diz V, Aleksandrova M, Gultekin Y, Marishta A, Wang L, Yang L, Roichman A, Bhatt V, Lan T, Hu Z, Xing X, Lu W, Davidson S, Wühr M, Vander Heiden MG, Herranz D, Guo JY, Kang Y, Rabinowitz JD. Slow TCA flux and ATP production in primary solid tumours but not metastases. Nature. 2023.

Bartman CR, Faubert B, Rabinowitz JD, DeBerardinis RJ. Metabolic pathway analysis using stable isotopes in patients with cancer. Nat Rev Cancer. 2023.

Bartman CR, TeSlaa T, Rabinowitz JD. Quantitative flux analysis in mammals. Nat Metab. 2021.

TeSlaa T, Bartman CR, Jankowski CSR, Zhang Z, Xu X, Xing X, Wang L, Lu W, Hui S, Rabinowitz JD. The Source of Glycolytic Intermediates in Mammalian Tissues. Cell Metab. 2021.

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