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Emami N, Deperthes D, Malm J, Diamandis EP. Major Role of Human KLK14 in Seminal Clot Liquefaction. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:19561-9. [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m801194200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Johnson CH, Athersuch TJ, Wilson ID, Iddon L, Meng X, Stachulski AV, Lindon JC, Nicholson JK. Kinetic andJ-Resolved Statistical Total Correlation NMR Spectroscopy Approaches to Structural Information Recovery in Complex Reacting Mixtures: Application to Acyl Glucuronide Intramolecular Transacylation Reactions. Anal Chem 2008; 80:4886-95. [DOI: 10.1021/ac702614t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Caroline H. Johnson
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, The Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, The Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, The Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, The Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, The Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, The Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, The Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, The Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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Emami N, Diamandis EP. Human Kallikrein-related Peptidase 14 (KLK14) Is a New Activator Component of the KLK Proteolytic Cascade. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:3031-3041. [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m707253200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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To perform metabonomics investigations, it is necessary to generate comprehensive metabolite profiles for complex samples such as biofluids and tissue/tissue extracts. Analytical technologies that can be used to achieve this aim are constantly evolving, and new developments are changing the way in which such profiles' metabolite profiles can be generated. Here, the utility of various analytical techniques for global metabolite profiling, such as, e.g., 1H NMR, MS, HPLC-MS, and GC-MS, are explored and compared.
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- Eva Maria Lenz
- Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca, Mereside, Alderley Park, Cheshire SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
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Kline EE, Treat EG, Averna TA, Davis MS, Smith AY, Sillerud LO. Citrate Concentrations in Human Seminal Fluid and Expressed Prostatic Fluid Determined via
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H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Outperform Prostate Specific Antigen in Prostate Cancer Detection. J Urol 2006; 176:2274-9. [PMID: 17070311 DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.07.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2005] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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PURPOSE We compared the performance of citrate concentration measurements in unprocessed human semen and expressed prostatic secretions from controls and from patients with biopsy confirmed prostate cancer to that of prostate specific antigen testing with respect to specificity and sensitivity for prostate cancer detection. MATERIALS AND METHODS Semen and expressed prostatic secretions were collected in biopsy proven, prostate cancer bearing and noncancer bearing cases. Citrate concentrations were determined by quantitative in vitro, high field, water suppressed proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Assessments of the diagnostic performance of citrate and prostate specific antigen results in our study populations were made by ROC curve analysis. RESULTS Citrate was measured in samples from 61 participants, of whom 16 without and 21 with cancer donated semen, and 17 without and 7 with cancer donated expressed prostatic secretions. Mean citrate +/- SE compared to that in controls was 2.7-fold lower in patients with cancer samples in semen (132.2 +/- 30.1 vs 48.0 +/- 7.9 mM, p < 0.05) and expressed prostatic secretions (221.4 +/- 55.4 vs 81.5 +/- 36.0 mM, p < 0.05). ROC curve analysis showed that measurements of citrate in semen performed as well as measurements of citrate in expressed prostatic secretion for detecting prostate cancer (AUC 0.81, 95% CI 0.60 to 0.92 and AUC 0.73, 95% CI 0.38 to 0.90, respectively, p > 0.05). ROC curve analysis also showed that the measurement of citrate in either fluid outperformed prostate specific antigen measurement for detecting prostate cancer in these subjects (AUC 0.61, 95% CI 0.44 to 0.74). CONCLUSIONS In vitro nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic measurement of the citrate concentration in semen or expressed prostatic secretions outperforms prostate specific antigen testing for detecting prostate cancer.
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- Eric E Kline
- Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Cancer Research and Treatment Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Schlotterbeck G, Ross A, Dieterle F, Senn H. Metabolic profiling technologies for biomarker discovery in biomedicine and drug development. Pharmacogenomics 2006; 7:1055-75. [PMID: 17054416 DOI: 10.2217/14622416.7.7.1055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The state-of-the-art of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and statistical tools for the acquisition and evaluation of complex multidimensional spectroscopic data in metabolic profiling is reviewed in this article. The continuous evolution of the sensitivity, precision and throughput has made these technologies powerful and extremely robust tools for application in systems biology, pharmaceutical and diagnostics research. Particular emphasis is also given to the collection and storage of biological samples that are subjected to metabolite profiling. Selected examples from preclinical and clinical applications are paradigmatically shown. These illustrate the power of the profiling technologies for characterizing the metabolic phenotype of healthy, diseased and treated subjects. The complexity of disease and drug treatment is asking for an adequate response by integrated and comprehensive metabolite profiling approaches that allow the discovery of new combinations of metabolic biomarkers.
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- Götz Schlotterbeck
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Pharmaceuticals Division, PRBD-E, CH- 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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Averna TA, Kline EE, Smith AY, Sillerud LO. A DECREASE IN
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H NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPICALLY DETERMINED CITRATE IN HUMAN SEMINAL FLUID ACCOMPANIES THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA. J Urol 2005; 173:433-8. [PMID: 15643195 DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000148949.72314.d7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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PURPOSE Because human prostatic fluid contributes almost 50% of the volume of seminal plasma and this fluid contains unique prostatic metabolites such as citrate, which are markedly altered during tumorigenesis, we investigated high resolution H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of unprocessed human seminal plasma as a rapid, noninvasive diagnostic tool for prostate adenocarcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS Semen and prostatic massage samples from control and tumor bearing subjects were stored frozen at -20C and thawed prior to water suppressed NMR analysis. We found that freezing produced no significant alterations in the semen NMR spectra. Quantitative NMR spectroscopy was performed by first calibrating the water suppression data acquisition sequence with a series of standard samples containing known amounts of citrate within the physiological range. RESULTS Well resolved citrate resonances from the seminal plasma of 3 control subjects with prostate specific antigen (PSA) less than 1 ng/ml were integrated to give concentrations of 97 to 178 mM. Semen from a 47-year-old man with benign prostatic hyperplasia and a PSA of 5.5 ng/ml contained 156 mM citrate. In contrast, seminal plasma from 2 patients with prostate cancer, including a 46-year-old man with Gleason grade 8 and PSA 45.2 ng/ml, and a 64-year-old man with grade 6 and PSA 13.0 ng/ml, revealed citrate NMR signals corresponding to a concentration of only 28 and 24 mM, respectively. Spectra from prostatic massage fluid from a normal 23-year-old volunteer showed a citrate of 483 mM, while massage fluid from a 56-year-old patient with Gleason grade 4 cancer showed a citrate of only 1.35 mM. CONCLUSIONS To our knowledge this study is the first to use high resolution NMR of semen to diagnose prostate cancer. Given the known effects of adenocarcinoma on prostate metabolism, the study indicates that high resolution H NMR can be used to measure citrate in seminal fluid, potentially providing a new, rapid, noninvasive screening method.
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- Tiffany A Averna
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Cancer Research and Treatment Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Chaudhury K, Sharma U, Jagannathan NR, Guha SK. Effect of a new injectable male contraceptive on the seminal plasma amino acids studied by proton NMR spectroscopy. Contraception 2002; 66:199-204. [PMID: 12384210 DOI: 10.1016/s0010-7824(02)00343-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Effect of RISUG, a newly developed male contraceptive, on various amino acids of seminal plasma ejaculates was studied by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 400 MHz. Levels of amino acids were compared with the seminal plasma of obstructive azoospermia and controls. Glutamic acid, glutamine, and arginine were found to be high in concentration in human seminal plasma. The concentration of aromatic amino acids such as tyrosine, histidine, and phenylalanine in RISUG-injected subjects showed no significant difference compared to controls (p > 0.1); however, there was a statistically significant decrease in the concentration of these amino acids in obstructive azoospermia. The concentration of some prominent amino acids that showed overlapping resonances, such as isoleucine+leucine+valine (p < 0.01), alanine+isoleucine+lysine (p < 0.01), arginine+lysine+leucine (p < 0.01), and glutamic acid+glutamine (p < 0.01), showed a statistically significant decrease in RISUG-injected subjects compared to controls. Overlap of these amino acid resonances were noticed even at 600 MHz. In general, the total amino acids concentration in RISUG-injected subjects was found to be higher than in azoospermic subjects, confirming the occurrence of 'partial' obstructive azoospermia in subjects injected with this contraceptive.
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- Koel Chaudhury
- Center for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
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Cheng LL, Wu C, Smith MR, Gonzalez RG. Non-destructive quantitation of spermine in human prostate tissue samples using HRMAS 1H NMR spectroscopy at 9.4 T. FEBS Lett 2001; 494:112-6. [PMID: 11297745 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02329-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We present the results of a study of human prostate specimens evaluated by high resolution magic angle spinning (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy at 400 MHz (9.4 T) and by quantitative histopathology. We demonstrate that NMR and pathology data can be obtained from the same intact specimens, and report for the first time a linear correlation between the NMR measured concentration of spermine, a proposed endogenous inhibitor to prostate cancer growth, and the volume percentage of normal prostatic epithelial cells as quantified by histopathology. Our results show that NMR may serve as a critical tool for the investigation of the inhibitory mechanism of spermine in human subjects.
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- L L Cheng
- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Havard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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We tested the hypothesis that treatment of mdx mouse muscular dystrophy with the glucocorticoid deflazacort prevents cardiomyopathic lesions and is accompanied by changes in metabolism and gene expression that reflect the improved tissue integrity. Cardiac muscle pathology, expression of alpha-cardiac myosin heavy chain, DNA synthesis, laminin, and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) were examined to characterize dystrophy and changes with treatment. The potential of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-NMRS) to track cardiac dystrophy and deflazacort effects was also studied. Deflazacort (but not equipotent prednisone) reproducibly decreased lesion prevalence and severity. Treatment also produced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and a 5.4-fold increase in alpha-cardiac myosin content. Expression of bFGF messenger RNA (mRNA), notable around lesions, rose 3.3-fold, and laminin expression rose 2.1-fold after deflazacort. Studies using H-NMRS showed a cardiac "signature" with less glycine and taurine than limb muscle or diaphragm and shifts with progression of dystrophy (distinct from normal aging) in many metabolites. Increased taurine, acetate, and succinate were present after 2 weeks of deflazacort treatment but were not present after 4 weeks. Although paired kinetic and functional studies of myocardium will be needed to determine the origin of such changes, these results demonstrate the potential application of H-NMRS to monitor clinical heart disease and treatment. In addition, the metabolic effects of deflazacort were substantial in preventing the progression of cardiomyopathy in mdx mice and included increased expression of protectant and stabilizing factors and hypertrophy of cardiac myocytes.
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- R Q Skrabek
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, University of Manitoba, 730 William Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3E 0W3
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Kalic M, Lauterwein J, Büsselmann G, Kamp G. Assignment of overlapping (1)H NMR signals in carp seminal plasma by proton-detected 2D C,H correlation spectroscopy. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 269:76-80. [PMID: 10694480 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The (1)H NMR spectrum of the perchloric acid extract of carp seminal plasma was heavily congested. It is demonstrated that proton-detected C,H chemical shift correlation spectroscopy (HSQC, HSQC-TOCSY) allows an unequivocal identification of proline, glutamate, taurine, and methionine sulfoxide, although several key proton signals were strongly overlapped.
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- M Kalic
- Organisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität, Orléansring 23, Münster, 48149, Germany
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Lindon JC, Nicholson JK, Holmes E, Everett JR. Metabonomics: Metabolic processes studied by NMR spectroscopy of biofluids. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/1099-0534(2000)12:5<289::aid-cmr3>3.0.co;2-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 362] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron DB, Males RG, Swanson MG, Yu KK, Hricak H. The prostate: MR imaging and spectroscopy. Present and future. Radiol Clin North Am 2000; 38:115-38, viii-ix. [PMID: 10664669 DOI: 10.1016/s0033-8389(05)70152-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The applications of combined MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging of prostate cancer have expanded significantly over the past 10 years and have reached the point of clinical trial results to test robustness and clinical significance. MR spectroscopic imaging extends the diagnostic evaluation of prostate cancer beyond the morphologic information provided by MR imaging throughout the detection of cellular metabolites. The combined metabolic and anatomic information provided by MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging has allowed a more accurate assessment of the presence, location, extent, and aggressiveness of prostate cancer both before and after treatment. This information has already demonstrated the ability to improve therapeutic planning for individual prostate cancer patients and shows great promise in the assessment of therapeutic response and the evaluation of new treatment regimes.
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- J Kurhanewicz
- Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, USA
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Abel CB, Lindon JC, Noble D, Rudd BA, Sidebottom PJ, Nicholson JK. Characterization of metabolites in intact Streptomyces citricolor culture supernatants using high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance and directly coupled high-pressure liquid chromatography-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Anal Biochem 1999; 270:220-30. [PMID: 10334839 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1999.4093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A novel NMR spectroscopic approach to the direct biochemical characterization of bacterial culture broths is presented. A variety of one- and two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopic methods were used to characterize low-molecular-weight organic components of broth supernatants from cultures of Streptomyces citricolor. By applying 1H NMR spectroscopy to analyze whole, untreated culture supernatants, it was possible to identify and monitor simultaneously a range of media substrates and excreted metabolites. Identified metabolites include 2-phenylethylamine, trehalose, succinate, acetate, uridine, and aristeromycin, a secondary metabolite with antibiotic properties. Directly coupled HPLC-NMR spectroscopy was also applied to the analysis of broth supernatants for the first time, to aid spectral assignments, especially where signals were extensively overlapped in the 1H NMR spectra of the whole broth mixtures. Two-dimensional NMR methods such as 1H-1H correlation spectroscopy, 1H-13C heteronuclear single quantum correlation, and 1H-13C heteronuclear multiple bond correlation aided the structure elucidation and peak assignments of individual components in the mixtures by providing information on 1H-1H coupling networks and 13C chemical shifts. This work shows that high-resolution NMR spectroscopic methods provide a rapid and efficient means of investigating microbial metabolism directly without invasive or destructive sample pretreatment.
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- C B Abel
- Biological Chemistry, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Katz-Brull R, Margalit R, Bendel P, Degani H. Choline metabolism in breast cancer; 2H-, 13C- and 31P-NMR studies of cells and tumors. MAGMA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 1998; 6:44-52. [PMID: 9794289 DOI: 10.1007/bf02662511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Choline metabolism in breast cancer cells and tumors has been investigated by multinuclear NMR in order to provide the biochemical basis for the presence of high phosphocholine in breast carcinoma relative to benign breast tumors and normal breast tissue. Choline was found to be transported into MCF7 human breast cancer cells and rapidly phosphorylated to phosphocholine which was then accumulated in the cells to high concentrations. The increased level of phosphocholine did not affect the rate of synthesis of phosphatidylcholine, indicating tight regulation of this pathway. The incorporation of [1,2-13C]choline (100 microM) into phosphocholine and phosphatidylcholine after 24 h was 69.5 and 36% of the total respective pools. Incorporation of 2H9-choline to tumors implanted in nude mice was achieved by infusing the deuterated choline to the blood circulation. The metabolism of deuterated choline was then monitored by 2H localized MRS. The blood level of choline before the infusion was 58.6 +/- 10.3 microM (measured by 1H-NMR of plasma samples) and increased approximately 5-fold during the infusion (measured by 2H-NMR). This increase in the blood level resulted in a gradual increase of a signal at 3.2 ppm due to deuterated choline metabolites. It appears that the increased availability of choline in the blood circulation leads to accumulation of phosphocholine in the tumors by the same mechanism as in the cells.
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- R Katz-Brull
- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Since drugs in clinical use are mostly synthetic or natural products, NMR spectroscopy has been mainly used for the elucidation and confirmation of structures. For the last decade, NMR methods have been introduced to quantitative analysis in order to determine the impurity profile of a drug, to characteristic the composition of drug products, and to investigate metabolites of drugs in body fluids. For pharmaceutical technologists, solid state measurements can provide information about polymorphism of drug powders, conformation of drugs in tablets etc. Micro-imaging can be used to study the dissolution of tablets, and whole-body imaging is a powerful tool in clinical diagnostics. Taken together, this review covers applications of NMR spectroscopy in drugs analysis, in particular, methods of international pharmacopoeiae, pharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics. The authors have repeated many of the methods describe in their own laboratories.
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- U Holzgrabe
- Pharmazeutisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Germany.
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Willker W, Flögel U, Leibfritz D. A 1H/13C inverse 2D method for the analysis of the polyamines putrescine, spermidine and spermine in cell extracts and biofluids. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 1998; 11:47-54. [PMID: 9608588 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1492(199804)11:2<47::aid-nbm500>3.0.co;2-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The polyamines putrescine, spermidine and spermine are involved in the regulation of various metabolic processes. It is therefore desirable to detect and quantify the polyamines with NMR. We present the proton and carbon assignments for all polyamine signals obtained from PCA extracts of F98 glioma cells with high resolution using a semi-selective HSQC 2D-experiment. The biosynthesis of the polyamines in cell culture was examined using the labeled substrates [U-13C]glucose and [U-13C]glutamate. In such studies the high resolution of the semi-selective HSQC experiment at very high magnetic fields (14-19 T) allows the analysis of carbon-carbon couplings, and isotopomer patterns. The different effects of osmotic stress on the concentrations of polyamines and amino acids are also reported.
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- W Willker
- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität NW2, Bremen, Germany
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Tomlins AM, Foxall PJ, Lynch MJ, Parkinson J, Everett JR, Nicholson JK. High resolution 1H NMR spectroscopic studies on dynamic biochemical processes in incubated human seminal fluid samples. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1379:367-80. [PMID: 9545599 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(97)00116-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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High resolution 600 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy was used to investigate the changes in biochemical composition of whole human seminal fluid (SF) and an artificial mixture of prostatic (PF) and seminal vesicle fluid (SVF). A variety of time-related biochemical changes were monitored simultaneously and non-invasively in SF, including enzymatic hydrolysis of phosphorylcholine to choline and polypeptides to amino acids. The fastest NMR-observable reactions in SF were the conversion of phosphorylcholine to choline (t1/2 approximately equal to 9 min) and uridine-5'-monophosphate (UMP) to uridine (t1/2 < 2 min). UMP has not previously been detected in SF because of its rapid hydrolysis. Artificial mixtures of separately obtained prostatic and SVF showed very similar biochemical changes to those observed in whole SF. Addition of EDTA to SF incubated for 2 min post ejaculation strongly inhibited peptide hydrolysis. Zn2+, present in whole SF was shown to be non EDTA-chelatable 2 min after ejaculation, whereas after 7 min, a singlet signal from the ethylenic protons of the Zn-EDTA2- complex was clearly observed which remained constant after 7 min. This indicates that soon after ejaculation (< 5 min) Zn2+ is immobilised in a macromolecular complex which is rapidly broken down by proteolytic enzymes, the released Zn2+ then being free to react with EDTA. Mg- and Ca-EDTA2- complexes were observed at 2 min and remained constant (at 1.4 and 2.1 mM, respectively) throughout the entire time course of the experiment. These studies cast new light on the time-related biochemical changes occurring in the post-ejaculatory SF which may have an important role in reproductive function.
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- A M Tomlins
- Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
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Kalic M, Kamp G, Lauterwein J. Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of boar seminal plasma. Problems encountered in the identification of small molecules: hypotaurine and carnitine. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 1997; 10:341-347. [PMID: 9471125 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1492(199710)10:7<341::aid-nbm464>3.0.co;2-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Two major components in boar seminal plasma were assigned by 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The first, previously called substance X (see Ref. 1, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1243, 101-109 (1995)), was identified with difficulty as hypotaurine. This pointed to general difficulties in the NMR assignments of small molecules in mixtures of substances, even at the highest magnetic fields. In contrast, the identification of the second component as carnitine was obtained in a straightforward manner by total correlation spectroscopy and proton-detected 13C chemical shift correlation methods (gradient-selected heteronuclear single quantum coherence and heteronuclear multiple bond correlation). Carnitine is known as a transporter of fatty acids through membranes. Both compounds were ultimately confirmed by addition of the authentic compounds.
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- M Kalic
- Organisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität, Münster, Germany
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Catt SL, O'Brien JK, Maxwell WMC, Evans G. Assessment of Ram and Boar Spermatozoa during Cell-sorting by Flow Cytometry. Reprod Domest Anim 1997. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.1997.tb01290.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Holmes E, Foxall PJ, Spraul M, Farrant RD, Nicholson JK, Lindon JC. 750 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy characterisation of the complex metabolic pattern of urine from patients with inborn errors of metabolism: 2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria and maple syrup urine disease. J Pharm Biomed Anal 1997; 15:1647-59. [PMID: 9260660 DOI: 10.1016/s0731-7085(97)00066-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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750 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy has been used to characterise in detail the abnormal low molecular weight metabolites of urine from two patients with inborn errors of metabolism. One case of the rare condition 2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria has been examined. There is at present no rapid routine method to detect this genetic defect, although NMR spectroscopy of urine is shown to provide a distinctive pattern of resonances. Assignment of a number of prominent urinary metabolites not normally seen in control urine could be made on the basis of their known NMR spectral parameters including the diagnostic marker 2-hydroxyglutaric acid, which served to confirm the condition. In addition, 750 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy has been used to characterise further the abnormal metabolic profile of urine from a patient with maple syrup urine disease. This abnormality arises from a defect in branched chain keto-acid decarboxylase activity and results in a build up in the urine of high levels of branched chain oxo- and hydroxy-acids resulting from altered metabolism of the branched chain amino acids, valine, leucine and isoleucine. A number of previously undetected abnormal metabolites have been identified through the use of one-dimensional and two-dimensional J-resolved and COSY 750 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy, including ethanol, 2-hydroxy-isovalerate, 2,3-dihydroxy-valerate, 2-oxo-3-methyl-n-valerate and 2-oxo-isocaproate. NMR spectroscopy of urine, particularly when combined with automatic data reduction and computer pattern recognition using a combination of biochemical markers, promises to provide an efficient alternative to other techniques for the diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism.
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- E Holmes
- Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
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BACKGROUND This is a study of the unusual small molecular components of human prostatic fluid using a non-destructive technique. METHODS Single pulse high resolution proton MRS of 38 human prostatic fluid samples (12 control, 10 with benign prostatic enlargement, 4 with prostatic cancer, 11 with vasal aplasia, and one with prostatodynia). Regression models for the metabolites measured were made and compared, and correlations were analyzed. RESULTS A very strong correlation between the secretion of citrate and spermine (r = 0.94), two of the major components of prostatic fluid, was found. The molar ratio was 5:1 citrate: spermine. There was no difference seen between samples obtained by expression or ejaculation. The regression models suggest there is a significant difference (P < 0.02) in the citrate to spermine ratio in prostatic fluid from men with prostate cancer, with a relatively higher level of spermine. CONCLUSIONS The authors speculate that citrate and spermine secretion is linked and may be forming a novel complex.
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- M J Lynch
- Institute of Urology and Nephrology, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom
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Kamp G, Büsselmann G, Lauterwein J. Spermatozoa: models for studying regulatory aspects of energy metabolism. EXPERIENTIA 1996; 52:487-94. [PMID: 8641386 DOI: 10.1007/bf01919321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Spermatozoa are highly specialized cells, and they offer advantages for studying several basic aspects of metabolic control such as the role of adenosine triphosphate-(ATP)-homeostasis for cell function, the mechanisms of fatigue and metabolic depression, the metabolic channelling through the cytoplasm and the organization and regulation of glycolytic enzymes. Spermatozoa of four species with different reproductive modes are introduced and the first results are presented: Spermatozoa of the marine worm Arenicola marina are well adapted to external fertilization in sea water with fluctuating oxygen tension: they are motile for several hours in oxygen-free sea water, even when the ATP level is dramatically reduced. Anaerobic ATP production occurs by alanine, acetate and propionate fermentation probably by the same pathways known from somatic cells of this species. Under aerobic conditions the phosphagen system might function like a shuttle for energy-rich phosphate from mitochondria to the dynein-ATPases. Storage of turkey and carp spermatozoa for several hours without exogenous substrates and oxygen results in the degradation of phosphocreatine and ATP to inorganic phosphate and adenosine monophosphate (AMP), respectively. Despite low energy charges, stored spermatozoa of both species are capable of progressive movements. In carp spermatozoa fatigue of motility is not accompanied by the dramatic acidosis one discusses as an important effect in muscle fatigue. Energy metabolism of boar spermatozoa is typically based on glycolysis consuming extracellular carbohydrates and producing lactate and protons. The sperm seem to tolerate low intracellular pH (< 6.5). The lack of a phosphagen system (no energy shuttle from mitochondria to the distal dynein-ATPases) is probably compensated by a high glycolytic ATP-production in the mitochondria-free piece of the flagellum.
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- G Kamp
- Institut für Zoophysiologie der Universität Münster, Germany
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Kamp G, Lauterwein J. Multinuclear magnetic resonance studies of boar seminal plasma. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1243:101-9. [PMID: 7827097 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(94)00117-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Multinuclear magnetic resonance studies were performed on aqueous solutions of lyophilisates of boar seminal plasma. 1H- and 13C-NMR spectral assignments were obtained by one- and two-dimensional experiments. Four prominent constituents were identified in the lyophilisate as well as in the original seminal plasma: inositol (95% myo-inositol, 5% scyllo-inositol), citrate, lactate and glycerophosphorylcholine (GPC). The concentrations of these compounds were evaluated from appropriate 1H- and 13C-NMR resonances using biochemically determined citrate as reference. 31P-NMR spectroscopy confirmed the presence of GPC and revealed phosphorylcholine, glycerophosphorylserine and glycerophosphorylethanolamine as further components.
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- G Kamp
- Institut für Zoophysiologie der Universität, Münster, FRG
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Spraul M, Nicholson JK, Lynch MJ, Lindon JC. Application of the one-dimensional TOCSY pulse sequence in 750 MHz 1H-NMR spectroscopy for assignment of endogenous metabolite resonances in biofluids. J Pharm Biomed Anal 1994; 12:613-8. [PMID: 7948181 DOI: 10.1016/0731-7085(93)e0028-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The complex 1H-NMR spectrum arising from an intact biofluid has been simplified using a one-dimensional homonuclear polarization transfer experiment (known as TOCSY or HOHAHA). This approach establishes connectivity between sequentially coupled multiplets, and the method is illustrated by the confirmation of the chemical shifts and hence resonance assignment of a number of endogenous metabolites in the 750 MHz 1H-NMR spectrum of seminal fluid. This has allowed the detection and assignment of pyroglutamate and uracil in this fluid for the first time.
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- M Spraul
- Bruker Analytische Messtechnik GmbH, Silberstreifen, Germany
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