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Rasmussen L, Foulks Z, Wu J, Burton C, Shi H. Establishing pteridine metabolism in a progressive isogenic breast cancer cell model - part II. Metabolomics 2022; 18:27. [PMID: 35482254 PMCID: PMC10030290 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-022-01885-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Determining the biological significance of pteridines in cancer development and progression remains an important step in understanding the altered levels of urinary pteridines seen in certain cancers. Our companion study revealed that several folate-derived pteridines and lumazines correlated with tumorigenicity in an isogenic, progressive breast cancer cell model, providing direct evidence for the tumorigenic origin of pteridines. OBJECTIVES This study sought to elucidate the pteridine biosynthetic pathway in a progressive breast cancer model via direct pteridine dosing to determine how pteridine metabolism changes with tumorigenicity. METHODS First, MCF10AT breast cancer cells were dosed individually with 15 pteridines to determine which pteridines were being metabolized and what metabolic products were being produced. Second, pteridines that were significantly metabolized were dosed individually across the progressive breast cancer cell model (MCF10A, MCF10AT, and MCF10ACA1a) to determine the relationship between each metabolic reaction and breast cancer tumorigenicity. RESULTS Several pteridines were found to have altered metabolism in breast cancer cell lines, including pterin, isoxanthopterin, xanthopterin, sepiapterin, 6-biopterin, lumazine, and 7-hydroxylumazine (p < 0.05). In particular, isoxanthopterin and 6-biopterin concentrations were differentially expressed (p < 0.05) with respect to tumorigenicity following dosing with pterin and sepiapterin, respectively. Finally, the pteridine biosynthetic pathway in breast cancer cells was proposed based on these findings. CONCLUSIONS This study, along with its companion study, demonstrates that pteridine metabolism becomes disrupted in breast cancer tumor cells. This work highlights several key metabolic reactions within the pteridine biosynthetic pathway that may be targeted for further investigation and clinical applications.
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- Lindsey Rasmussen
- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 W 11th Street, 65409, Rolla, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 W 11th Street, 65409, Rolla, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 65409, Rolla, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 W 11th Street, 65409, Rolla, MO, USA.
- Center for Biomedical Research, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 65409, Rolla, MO, USA.
- Phelps Health, 65401, Rolla, MO, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 W 11th Street, 65409, Rolla, MO, USA.
- Center for Biomedical Research, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 65409, Rolla, MO, USA.
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Ma C, Zeng W, Meng Q, Wang C, Peng Y. Identification of partial denitrification granulation enhanced by low C/N ratio in the aspect of metabolomics and quorum sensing. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 286:131895. [PMID: 34435576 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 07/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Partial denitrification granular sludge (PDGS) and denitrification granular sludge (DGS) play an important role in nitrogen removal from wastewater. However, the inherent cause of aggregation capacity related to the ratio of COD to nitrogen (COD/N) is still unclear. In this study, metabolomics analysis was combined with microbiological analyses, granular performance and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) structure to explore the granulation mechanism at different influent COD/N ratios. The results showed that the higher COD/N ratio selectively enhanced the gluconeogenesis pathway, purine and pyrimidine metabolism pathway, resulting in more extracellular polysaccharide (PS) excretion and floc sludge. The absence of carbon source weakened tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) reaction, resulting in NAD+ and ADP decrease, nitrite accumulation and change of microbial community structure. The amino acids biosynthesis pathway was enhanced under low COD/N ratio, which promoted the hydrophobicity of EPS. PDGS had stronger Acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs)-based quorum sensing (QS) than DGS during the operational period. CO8-HSL, C8-HSL and C6-HSL, as the main form of AHLs, played a dominating role in DGS and PDGS. Batch tests illustrated that adding AHLs obviously improved the synthesis of the amino acids, threonine (Thr), tryptophan (Trp), methionine (Met) and glycine (Gly). Dosing AHLs regulated PS synthesis only at a high COD/N ratio. The glucose-6P, glycerate-3p and UDP-Glc were up-regulated only in DSG, which increased the hydrophilic groups in EPS. The results not only provided the new insights into the metabolism of denitrifying granular sludge, but also indicated the application potential of the technologies regarding start-up and operation of granule sludge.
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- Chenyang Ma
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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Rasmussen L, Foulks Z, Burton C, Shi H. Establishing pteridine metabolism in a progressive isogenic breast cancer cell model. Metabolomics 2021; 18:2. [PMID: 34919200 PMCID: PMC10067363 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-021-01861-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Pteridines include folate-derived metabolites that have been putatively associated with certain cancers in clinical studies. However, their biological significance in cancer metabolism and role in cancer development and progression remains poorly understood. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of tumorigenicity on pteridine metabolism by studying a panel of 15 pteridine derivatives using a progressive breast cancer cell line model with and without folic acid dosing. METHODS The MCF10A progressive breast cancer model, including sequentially derived MCF10A (benign), MCF10AT (premalignant), and MCF10CA1a (malignant) cell lines were dosed with 0, 100, and 250 mg/L folic acid. Pteridines were analyzed in both intracellular and extracellular contexts using an improved high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method. RESULTS Pteridines were located predominately in the extracellular media. Folic acid dosing increased extracellular levels of pterin, 6-hydroxylumazine, xanthopterin, 6-hydroxymethylpterin, and 6-carboxypterin in a dose-dependent manner. In particular, pterin and 6-hydroxylumazine levels were positively correlated with tumorigenicity upon folate dosing. CONCLUSIONS Folic acid is a primary driver for pteridine metabolism in human breast cell. Higher folate levels contribute to increased formation and excretion of pteridine derivatives to the extracellular media. In breast cancer, this metabolic pathway becomes dysregulated, resulting in the excretion of certain pteridine derivatives and providing in vitro evidence for the observation of elevated pteridines in the urine of breast cancer patients. Finally, this study reports a novel use of the MCF10A progressive breast cancer model for metabolomics applications that may readily be applied to other metabolites of interest.
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- Lindsey Rasmussen
- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 W 11th Street, Rolla, MO, 65409, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 W 11th Street, Rolla, MO, 65409, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 W 11th Street, Rolla, MO, 65409, USA.
- Phelps Health, Rolla, MO, 65401, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 W 11th Street, Rolla, MO, 65409, USA.
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Yuan TF, Huang HQ, Gao L, Wang ST, Li Y. A novel and reliable method for tetrahydrobiopterin quantification: Benzoyl chloride derivatization coupled with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis. Free Radic Biol Med 2018; 118:119-125. [PMID: 29501564 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.02.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2018] [Revised: 02/02/2018] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is a crucial cofactor for nitric oxide synthase, acylglycerol mono-oxygenase and aromatic amino acids hydroxylases. Its significant function for redox pathways in vivo attracted much attention for long. However, because of the oxidizable and substoichiometric nature, analysis of BH4 has never been truly achieved with adequate sensitivity and applicability. In the present work, we pioneeringly stabilized BH4 by derivatizing the active secondary amine on five-position with benzoyl chloride (BC). Benefiting from the favorable chemical stability and excellent mass spectrometric sensitivity of the product (BH4-BC), ultra-sensitive and reliable quantification of endogenous BH4 in plasma was achieved using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis. In such methodology, BH4-BC-d5 was introduced as stable isotopic internal standard. And the limit of quantification (LOQ) could reach 0.02 ng mL-1. In the end, after investigation of plasma BH4 in healthy volunteers (n = 38), we found that the levels of BH4 were significantly and negatively correlated to age. Comparing with all the other existed strategies, the present method was obviously superior in sensitivity, specificity and practical applicability. It could be expected that this work could largely promote the future studies in BH4-related fields.
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- Teng-Fei Yuan
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China.
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China.
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Xiong X, Zhang Y, Zhang W. Simultaneous determination of twelve polar pteridines including dihydro- and tetrahydropteridine in human urine by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. Biomed Chromatogr 2018; 32:e4244. [PMID: 29575016 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.4244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Pteridines and their derivatives are important cofactors in the process of cell metabolism, and the level of urinary excretion of these compounds is considered as an important clinical criterion. In this work, a new separation method involving hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) with tandem mass spectrometric detection has been developed for the simultaneous analysis of 12 pteridines including oxidized, di- and tetrahydroforms, namely neopterin, 7,8-dihydroneopterin, biopterin, 7,8-dihydrobiopterin, 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrobiopterin, dimethylpterin, dimethyltetrahydropterin, pterin, isoxanthopterin, xanthopterin, sepiapterin and pterin-6-carboxylic acid, in human urine without oxidative pretreatments. The stabilizing agent (dithiothreitol) at various concentrations and the stability of oxidized, di- and tetrahydroforms during the sample's short-term storage and processing and of the extracts were tested. In the developed method, 12 pteridines were chromatographically separated on an ZIC-HILIC column by gradient elution, and the run time was 20 min. Matrix effect was evaluated and several dilutions of urine were tested in order to study the evolution of signal suppression. Spiked recovery studies demonstrated that the technique was both accurate (83.1-116.7%) and precise (RSD 1.4-15.6%). Finally, several clinical urine specimens without oxidative pretreatments were examined with the new technique and compared with previous reports.
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- Xin Xiong
- Department of Pharmacy, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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Pteridine determination in human serum with special emphasis on HPLC methods with fluorimetric detection. Pteridines 2017. [DOI: 10.1515/pterid-2017-0002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Conjugated and unconjugated pteridines and their derivatives are important cofactors in cellular metabolism. Hence, the amount of unconjugated pteridines in biological fluids has been found to be modified as a result of several disorders. It is necessary to note that while for the control of pteridines in urine samples there are numerous reference data, the literature referred to for the analysis of these analytes in serum/plasma is scarce. In biological fluids, pteridines can exist in different oxidation states, and these compounds can be classified into two groups according to: (a) oxidized or aromatic pteridines and (b) reduced pteridines. Oxidized pteridines yield a strong fluorescence signal, whereas reduced pteridines present a low quantum yield of fluorescence. In order to enable the analysis of the reduced forms, several preoxidation procedures to generate aromatic rings have been established. Also, stabilization of the reduced forms by the addition of reducing agents has been widely reported. The objective of this paper is to show possibilities and different approaches in the analysis of pteridines in serum samples. We have mainly focused on the description of the current situation in the application of high-performance chromatography methods with fluorimetric detection.
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Pteridines and their derivatives function as intermediates in the metabolism of several vitamins and cofactors, and their relevance to disease has inspired new efforts to study their roles as disease biomarkers. Recent analytical advances, such as the emergence of sensitive mass spectrometry techniques, new workflows for measuring pteridine derivatives in their native oxidation states and increased multiplexing capacities for the simultaneous determination of many pteridine derivatives, have enabled researchers to explore the roles of urinary pteridines as disease biomarkers at much lower levels with greater accuracy than with previous technologies or methods. As a result, urinary pteridines are being increasingly studied as putative cancer biomarkers with promising results being reported from exploratory studies. In addition, the role of urinary neopterin as a universal biomarker for immune system activation is being investigated in new diseases where it is anticipated to become a useful supplementary marker in clinical diagnostic settings. In summary, this review provides an overview of recent developments in the clinical study of urinary pteridines as disease biomarkers, covers the most promising aspects of advanced analytical techniques being developed for the determination of urinary pteridines and discusses the major challenges associated with implementing pteridine biomarkers in clinical laboratory settings.
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- Casey Burton
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Single Nanoparticle, Single Cell, and Single Molecule Monitoring, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Single Nanoparticle, Single Cell, and Single Molecule Monitoring, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 400 West 11th Street, Rolla, MO 65409, USA
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Burton C, Shi H, Ma Y. Development of a high-performance liquid chromatography – Tandem mass spectrometry urinary pterinomics workflow. Anal Chim Acta 2016; 927:72-81. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2016.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2016] [Revised: 05/01/2016] [Accepted: 05/02/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Cho Y, Choi MH, Kim B, Kim S. Supercritical fluid chromatography coupled with in-source atmospheric pressure ionization hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry for compound speciation. J Chromatogr A 2016; 1444:123-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2016.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2015] [Revised: 02/27/2016] [Accepted: 03/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Degradation and interconversion of plant pteridines during sample preparation and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry. Food Chem 2016; 194:1189-98. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.08.098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2015] [Revised: 08/21/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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