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Metabolites, Volume 9, Issue 9

2019 September - 22 articles

Cover Story: Actinomycetes are renowned natural product sources, and bioinformatics analyses of genomes from these bacteria support that a plethora of metabolites remain to be unveiled. Discovery of these molecules necessitates tools for recognizing experimental variables that mediate metabolite production. We devised an isotopic ratio outlier analysis strategy to accelerate metabolite discovery by deciphering actinomycete metabolome perturbations in response to environmental changes. Treatment and control samples, fermented under different conditions, were supplemented with an internal standard (I.S.) containing a distinct isotope of all metabolites prior to LC/MS. Comparison of resulting signals for each treatment and control metabolite relative to its isotopic I.S. enabled rapid recognition of metabolites whose production was perturbed. This adds to the analytical toolkit for accessing the metabolic prowess of actinomycetes. View this paper.
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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,349 Views
16 Pages

Associations between Blood Metabolic Profile at 7 Years Old and Eating Disorders in Adolescence: Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

  • Diana L. Santos Ferreira,
  • Christopher Hübel,
  • Moritz Herle,
  • Mohamed Abdulkadir,
  • Ruth J. F. Loos,
  • Rachel Bryant-Waugh,
  • Cynthia M. Bulik,
  • Bianca L. De Stavola,
  • Deborah A. Lawlor and
  • Nadia Micali

19 September 2019

Eating disorders are severe illnesses characterized by both psychiatric and metabolic factors. We explored the prospective role of metabolic risk in eating disorders in a UK cohort (n = 2929 participants), measuring 158 metabolic traits in non-fastin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,566 Views
15 Pages

Involvement of Spermidine in the Reduced Lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans During Vitamin B12 Deficiency

  • Tomohiro Bito,
  • Naho Okamoto,
  • Kenji Otsuka,
  • Yukinori Yabuta,
  • Jiro Arima,
  • Tsuyoshi Kawano and
  • Fumio Watanabe

19 September 2019

Vitamin B12 deficiency leads to various symptoms such as neuropathy, growth retardation, and infertility. Vitamin B12 functions as a coenzyme for two enzymes involved in amino acid metabolisms. However, there is limited information available on wheth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,719 Views
15 Pages

Comprehensive Evaluation of Parameters Affecting One-Step Method for Quantitative Analysis of Fatty Acids in Meat

  • Michael P. Agnew,
  • Cameron R. Craigie,
  • Gayani Weralupitiya,
  • Marlon M. Reis,
  • Patricia L. Johnson and
  • Mariza G. Reis

18 September 2019

Despite various direct transmethylation methods having been published and applied to analysis of meat fatty acid (FA) composition, there are still conflicting ideas about the best method for overcoming all the difficulties posed by analysis of comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,746 Views
19 Pages

18 September 2019

There is widespread metabolic disruption in women upon becoming pregnant. South Asians (SA) compared to White Europeans (WE) have more fat mass and are more insulin-resistant at a given body mass index (BMI). Whether these are reflected in other gest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,994 Views
16 Pages

R-MetaboList 2: A Flexible Tool for Metabolite Annotation from High-Resolution Data-Independent Acquisition Mass Spectrometry Analysis

  • Manuel D. Peris-Díaz,
  • Shannon R. Sweeney,
  • Olga Rodak,
  • Enrique Sentandreu and
  • Stefano Tiziani

17 September 2019

Technological advancements have permitted the development of innovative multiplexing strategies for data independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry (MS). Software solutions and extensive compound libraries facilitate the efficient analysis of MS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,222 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2019

One of the most prominent hallmarks of cancer cells is their dependency on the glycolytic pathway for energy production. As a potent inhibitor of glycolysis, 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2DG) has been proposed for cancer treatment and extensively investigated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,934 Views
16 Pages

Neonatal Urine Metabolic Profiling and Development of Childhood Asthma

  • Bo L. Chawes,
  • Giuseppe Giordano,
  • Paola Pirillo,
  • Daniela Rago,
  • Morten A. Rasmussen,
  • Jakob Stokholm,
  • Klaus Bønnelykke,
  • Hans Bisgaard and
  • Eugenio Baraldi

16 September 2019

Urine metabolomics case-control studies of childhood asthma have demonstrated a discriminative ability. Here, we investigated whether urine metabolic profiles from healthy neonates were associated with the development of asthma in childhood. Untarget...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,250 Views
18 Pages

Untargeted Metabolomics Toward Systematic Characterization of Antioxidant Compounds in Betulaceae Family Plant Extracts

  • Sunmin Lee,
  • Dong-Gu Oh,
  • Digar Singh,
  • Hye Jin Lee,
  • Ga Ryun Kim,
  • Sarah Lee,
  • Jong Seok Lee and
  • Choong Hwan Lee

16 September 2019

Plant species have traditionally been revered for their unparalleled pharmacognostic applications. We outline a non-iterative multi-parallel metabolomic-cum-bioassay-guided methodology toward the functional characterization of ethanol extracts from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,935 Views
21 Pages

Targeted Clinical Metabolite Profiling Platform for the Stratification of Diabetic Patients

  • Linda Ahonen,
  • Sirkku Jäntti,
  • Tommi Suvitaival,
  • Simone Theilade,
  • Claudia Risz,
  • Risto Kostiainen,
  • Peter Rossing,
  • Matej Orešič and
  • Tuulia Hyötyläinen

14 September 2019

Several small molecule biomarkers have been reported in the literature for prediction and diagnosis of (pre)diabetes, its co-morbidities, and complications. Here, we report the development and validation of a novel, quantitative method for the determ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,316 Views
14 Pages

Comparative Evaluation of Six Traditional Fermented Soybean Products in East Asia: A Metabolomics Approach

  • Yong Sung Kwon,
  • Sunmin Lee,
  • Seung Hwa Lee,
  • Hae Jin Kim and
  • Choong Hwan Lee

13 September 2019

Many ethnic fermented soybean products (FSPs) have long been consumed as seasoning and protein sources in East Asia. To evaluate the quality of various FSPs in East Asia, non-targeted metabolite profiling with multivariate analysis of six traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,485 Views
23 Pages

Production of Active Poly- and Oligosaccharidic Fractions from Ulva sp. by Combining Enzyme-Assisted Extraction (EAE) and Depolymerization

  • Mathilde Fournière,
  • Thomas Latire,
  • Marie Lang,
  • Nolwenn Terme,
  • Nathalie Bourgougnon and
  • Gilles Bedoux

12 September 2019

Data on fractionation and depolymerization of the matrix ulvan polysaccharides, and studies on the biological activities on skin cells, are very scarce. In this work, crude ulvans were produced by using EAE (enzyme-assisted extraction) and compared t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,556 Views
17 Pages

10 September 2019

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) has a critical role in cellular metabolism and energy homeostasis. Its importance has been established early with the discovery of NAD’s therapeutic role for pellagra. This review addresses some of the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,090 Views
14 Pages

An Isotopic Ratio Outlier Analysis Approach for Global Metabolomics of Biosynthetically Talented Actinomycetes

  • Jordan Carey,
  • Thanh Nguyen,
  • Jennifer Korchak,
  • Christopher Beecher,
  • Felice de Jong and
  • Amy L. Lane

10 September 2019

Actinomycetes are powerhouses of natural product biosynthesis. Full realization of this biosynthetic potential requires approaches for recognizing novel metabolites and determining mediators of metabolite production. Herein, we develop an isotopic ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,941 Views
16 Pages

Pharmacometabolomics of Bronchodilator Response in Asthma and the Role of Age-Metabolite Interactions

  • Rachel S. Kelly,
  • Joanne E. Sordillo,
  • Sharon M. Lutz,
  • Lydiana Avila,
  • Manuel Soto-Quiros,
  • Juan C. Celedón,
  • Michael J. McGeachie,
  • Amber Dahlin,
  • Kelan Tantisira and
  • Ann Chen Wu
  • + 4 authors

7 September 2019

The role of metabolism in modifying age-related differential responses to asthma medications is insufficiently understood. The objective of this study was to determine the role of the metabolome in modifying the effect of age on bronchodilator respon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,539 Views
22 Pages

Multiplatform Urinary Metabolomics Profiling to Discriminate Cachectic from Non-Cachectic Colorectal Cancer Patients: Pilot Results from the ColoCare Study

  • Jennifer Ose,
  • Biljana Gigic,
  • Tengda Lin,
  • David B. Liesenfeld,
  • Jürgen Böhm,
  • Johanna Nattenmüller,
  • Dominique Scherer,
  • Lin Zielske,
  • Petra Schrotz-King and
  • Cornelia M. Ulrich
  • + 13 authors

6 September 2019

Cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome that is characterized by loss of skeletal muscle mass in cancer patients. The biological pathways involved remain poorly characterized. Here, we compare urinary metabolic profiles in newly diagnosed colorectal ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,588 Views
14 Pages

Comparison of Differential Flavor Metabolites in Meat of Lubei White Goat, Jining Gray Goat and Boer Goat

  • Weiting Wang,
  • Bei Sun,
  • Peng Hu,
  • Meng Zhou,
  • Sujun Sun,
  • Pengfei Du,
  • Yi Ru,
  • Alexander Suvorov,
  • Yongsheng Li and
  • Shoujing Wang
  • + 1 author

5 September 2019

Flavor is one of the most important sensory characteristics of meat. The development of taste and aroma can be attributed to thousands of flavor molecules and precursors that are present in meat tissues. As a result, the identification of these flavo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,697 Views
16 Pages

Oxylipin Profiling of Alzheimer’s Disease in Nondiabetic and Type 2 Diabetic Elderly

  • Jill K. Morris,
  • Brian D. Piccolo,
  • Casey S. John,
  • Zachary D. Green,
  • John P. Thyfault and
  • Sean H. Adams

5 September 2019

Oxygenated lipids, called “oxylipins,” serve a variety of important signaling roles within the cell. Oxylipins have been linked to inflammation and vascular function, and blood patterns have been shown to differ in type 2 diabetes (T2D)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,705 Views
21 Pages

Non-Targeted UHPLC-Q-TOF/MS-Based Metabolomics Reveals a Metabolic Shift from Glucose to Glutamine in CPB Cells during ISKNV Infection Cycle

  • Xiaozhe Fu,
  • Xixi Guo,
  • Shiwei Wu,
  • Qiang Lin,
  • Lihui Liu,
  • Hongru Liang,
  • Yinjie Niu and
  • Ningqiu Li

4 September 2019

Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) has caused serious economic losses in the cultured mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi) industry in China. Host metabolism alteration induced by disease infection may be the core problem of pathogenesi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,528 Views
11 Pages

Optimal Regimen of N-Acetylcysteine on Chromium-Induced Renal Cell Damage

  • I-Jeng Yeh,
  • Tzu-Yi Wang,
  • Jhong-Ching Lin,
  • Tzeng-Jih Lin,
  • Jung-San Chang,
  • Meng-Chi Yen,
  • Yao-Hua Liu,
  • Pei-Lin Wu,
  • Fen-Wei Chen and
  • Chiung-Yu Peng
  • + 1 author

28 August 2019

Chromium (Cr) is a well-known heavy metal that can cause renal damage. The production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) due to chromium-induced toxicity induces cell dysfunction, apoptosis, and death. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is an antioxidant used as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,779 Views
11 Pages

A Facile Profiling Method of Short Chain Fatty Acids Using Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

  • Ha Eun Song,
  • Hyo Yeong Lee,
  • Su Jung Kim,
  • Sung Hoon Back and
  • Hyun Ju Yoo

28 August 2019

Short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are the main products of dietary fibers that are not digested by the human body, and they have been shown to affect human metabolism and inflammation. The amount of SCFAs in the body is related to many human diseases,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,907 Views
15 Pages

WiPP: Workflow for Improved Peak Picking for Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Data

  • Nico Borgsmüller,
  • Yoann Gloaguen,
  • Tobias Opialla,
  • Eric Blanc,
  • Emilie Sicard,
  • Anne-Lise Royer,
  • Bruno Le Bizec,
  • Stéphanie Durand,
  • Carole Migné and
  • Jennifer Kirwan
  • + 5 authors

21 August 2019

Lack of reliable peak detection impedes automated analysis of large-scale gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) metabolomics datasets. Performance and outcome of individual peak-picking algorithms can differ widely depending on both algorithmi...

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