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Associations of Diet with Urinary Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO) and Its Precursors among Free-Living 10-Year-Old Children: Data from SMBCS. Nutrients 2022; 14:nu14163419. [PMID: 36014922 PMCID: PMC9413070 DOI: 10.3390/nu14163419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), a diet-derived cometabolite linked to cardiometabolic disease, has been associated with elevated dietary status, particularly in people with kidney failure and adults with dietary modulations. However, the influence of the current diet on TMAO levels in free-living children has not been adequately described. This study was to explore associations of food compositions and dietary diversity with urinary TMAO and its precursor concentrations. Urinary TMAO and its precursor concentrations of 474 healthy children from the Sheyang Mini Birth Cohort were quantified by ultra-performance liquid chromatography−Q Exactive high-resolution mass spectrometer (UPLC-Q Exactive HRMS). Individual food compositions from 24 h dietary recall data were classified into 20 groups and diversity scores were calculated according to the guidelines of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Associations of urinary TMAO and its precursors with food compositions and dietary diversity scores were assessed by generalized linear regression models. In models adjusted for potential confounders, urinary TMAO was significantly associated with intakes of fish (β, regression coefficient = 0.155, p < 0.05) and vegetables (β = 0.120, p < 0.05). Eggs intake showed positive associations with TMAO’s precursors (trimethylamine: β = 0.179, p < 0.05; choline: β = 0.181, p < 0.05). No association between meat intake and TMAO was observed, whereas meat and poultry intakes were related to the levels of acetyl-L-carnitine and L-carnitine (β: 0.134 to 0.293, p < 0.05). The indicators of dietary diversity were positively correlated to TMAO concentration (β: 0.027 to 0.091, p < 0.05). In this free-living children-based study, dietary factors were related to urinary TMAO and its precursors, especially fish, meat, and eggs. As such, dietary diversity was positively related to the level of TMAO.
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Loo RL, Chan Q, Nicholson JK, Holmes E. Balancing the Equation: A Natural History of Trimethylamine and Trimethylamine- N-oxide. J Proteome Res 2022; 21:560-589. [PMID: 35142516 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Trimethylamine (TMA) and its N-oxide (TMAO) are ubiquitous in prokaryote and eukaryote organisms as well as in the environment, reflecting their fundamental importance in evolutionary biology, and their diverse biochemical functions. Both metabolites have multiple biological roles including cell-signaling. Much attention has focused on the significance of serum and urinary TMAO in cardiovascular disease risk, yet this is only one of the many facets of a deeper TMA-TMAO partnership that reflects the significance of these metabolites in multiple biological processes spanning animals, plants, bacteria, and fungi. We report on analytical methods for measuring TMA and TMAO and attempt to critically synthesize and map the global functions of TMA and TMAO in a systems biology framework.
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- Ruey Leng Loo
- Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, 5 Robin Warren Drive, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia.,The Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, 5 Robin Warren Drive, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom.,MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, 5 Robin Warren Drive, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia.,The Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, 5 Robin Warren Drive, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia.,Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, Level 1, Faculty Building, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2NA, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, 5 Robin Warren Drive, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia.,The Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, 5 Robin Warren Drive, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia.,Nutrition Research, Department of Metabolism, Nutrition and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Veyrat-Durebex C, Benz-de-Bretagne I, Clavier V, Bruno C, Andres CR, Antar C, Hennart B, Maillot F, Nadal-Desbarats L, Blasco H. Quality consideration for the validation of urine TMA and TMAO measurement by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in Fish Odor Syndrome. Anal Biochem 2021; 630:114330. [PMID: 34364856 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2021.114330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Trimethylaminuria, also known as Fish Odor Syndrome (FOS), is a condition characterized by the presence of high concentrations of trimethylamine (TMA) in urine, sweat and expired air of affected patients. Diagnosis of this benign but unpleasant disease is mainly based on clinical presentation and assessment of TMA and its metabolite, TMAO (trimethylamine-N-oxide), concentrations in urine of patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS We here described the validation of an analytical method for measurement of TMA and TMAO in urine using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) according to the specifications of the ISO 15189 norm. We used a fast validation protocol, based exactitude profile method, enabling to determine accuracy, intra and inter-day precision from a limited number of samples. RESULTS The linearity was established from 2.5 to 100 mg/L for TMA measurement and from 10 to 1000 mg/L for TMAO measurement, with good analytical performances i.e. accuracy, intra and inter-day precision. We also report a case diagnose for FOS from this method. CONCLUSIONS This method validation ensures the robustness of NMR in routine use for diagnosis of trimethylaminuria, as part of the reference center for inherited metabolic diseases at the Tours hospital.
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- Charlotte Veyrat-Durebex
- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France; Unité INSERM U 1253, Université de Tours, Tours, France.
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France; Unité INSERM U 1253, Université de Tours, Tours, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France; Unité INSERM U 1253, Université de Tours, Tours, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France; Unité INSERM U 1253, Université de Tours, Tours, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France; Unité INSERM U 1253, Université de Tours, Tours, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France; Unité INSERM U 1253, Université de Tours, Tours, France.
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Schmidt AC, Leroux JC. Treatments of trimethylaminuria: where we are and where we might be heading. Drug Discov Today 2020; 25:1710-1717. [DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2020.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 05/01/2020] [Accepted: 06/23/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Simultaneous Measurement of Urinary Trimethylamine (TMA) and Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25081862. [PMID: 32316639 PMCID: PMC7222018 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25081862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Revised: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Trimethylamine (TMA) is a gut microbial metabolite—rendered by the enzymatic cleavage of nutrients containing a TMA moiety in their chemical structure. TMA can be oxidized as trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) catalyzed by hepatic flavin monooxygenases. Circulating TMAO has been demonstrated to portend a pro-inflammatory state, contributing to chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease. Consequently, TMAO serves as an excellent candidate biomarker for a variety of chronic inflammatory disorders. The highly positive correlation between plasma TMAO and urine TMAO suggests that urine TMAO has the potential to serve as a less invasive biomarker for chronic disease compared to plasma TMAO. In this study, we validated a method to simultaneously measure urine TMA and TMAO concentrations by liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC/MS). Urine TMA and TMAO can be extracted by hexane/butanol under alkaline pH and transferred to the aqueous phase following acidification for LC/MS quantitation. Importantly, during sample processing, none of the nutrients with a chemical structure containing a TMA moiety were spontaneously cleaved to yield TMA. Moreover, we demonstrated that the acidification of urine prevents an increase of TMA after prolonged storage as was observed in non-acidified urine. Finally, here we demonstrated that TMAO can spontaneously degrade to TMA at a very slow rate.
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Bouchemal N, Ouss L, Brassier A, Barbier V, Gobin S, Hubert L, de Lonlay P, Le Moyec L. Diagnosis and phenotypic assessment of trimethylaminuria, and its treatment with riboflavin: 1H NMR spectroscopy and genetic testing. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2019; 14:222. [PMID: 31533761 PMCID: PMC6751875 DOI: 10.1186/s13023-019-1174-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) is a metabolic disorder characterized by the excessive excretion of the malodorous compound trimethylamine (TMA). The diagnosis of TMAU is challenging because this disorder is situated at the boundary between biochemistry and psychiatry. Here, we used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to assess TMAU in 13 patients. We also sequenced the FMO3 gene in 11 of these patients. Treatment with vitamin B2 was prescribed. Results Two patients (aged 3 and 9 years at the initial consultation) had a particularly unpleasant body odor, as assessed by their parents and the attending physicians. The presence of high urine TMA levels confirmed the presence of a metabolic disorder. The two (unrelated) children carried compound heterozygous variants in the FMO3 gene. In both cases, vitamin B2 administration decreased TMA excretion and reduced body odor. The 11 adults complained of an unpleasant body odor, but the physicians did not confirm this. In all adult patients, the urine TMA level was within the normal range reported for control (non-affected) subjects, although two of the patients displayed an abnormally high proportion of oxidized TMA. Seven of the 9 tested adult patients had a hypomorphic variant of the FMO3 gene; the variant was found in the homozygous state, in the heterozygous state or combined with another hypomorphic variant. All 11 adults presented a particular psychological or psychiatric phenotype, with a subjective perception of unpleasant odor. Conclusions The results present the clinical and biochemical data of patients complaining of unpleasant body odor. Contrary to adult patients, the two children exhibited all criteria of recessively inherited trimethylaminuria, suspected by parents in infancy. B2 vitamin treatment dramatically improved the unpleasant body odor and the ratio of TMA/Cr vs TMAO/Cr in the urine in the children. Other patients presented a particular psychological or psychiatric phenotype.
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- Nadia Bouchemal
- CSPBAT, UMR 7244, CNRS, Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Bobigny, France.
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- Reference Centre for Metabolic Diseases, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Imagine Institute, Université Paris-Descartes, APHP, Paris, France.,Service de Pédopsychiatrie, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
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- Reference Centre for Metabolic Diseases, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Imagine Institute, Université Paris-Descartes, APHP, Paris, France
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- Reference Centre for Metabolic Diseases, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Imagine Institute, Université Paris-Descartes, APHP, Paris, France
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- Unité de Génétique moléculaire, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
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- Reference Centre for Metabolic Diseases, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Imagine Institute, Université Paris-Descartes, APHP, Paris, France
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- Reference Centre for Metabolic Diseases, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Imagine Institute, Université Paris-Descartes, APHP, Paris, France
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Takis PG, Schäfer H, Spraul M, Luchinat C. Deconvoluting interrelationships between concentrations and chemical shifts in urine provides a powerful analysis tool. Nat Commun 2017; 8:1662. [PMID: 29162796 PMCID: PMC5698486 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01587-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The NMR chemical shifts of a substance in a complex mixture strongly depend on the composition of the mixture itself, as many weak interactions occur that are hardly predictable. Chemical shift variability is the major obstacle to automatically assigning, and subsequently quantitating, metabolite signals in body fluids, particularly urine. Here we demonstrate that the chemical shifts of signals in urine are actually predictable. This is achieved by constructing ca. 4000 artificial mixtures where the concentrations of 52 most abundant urine metabolites-including 11 inorganic ions-are varied, to sparsely but efficiently populate an N-dimensional concentration matrix. A strong relationship is established between the concentration matrix and the chemical shift matrix, so that chemical shifts of > 90 metabolite signals can be accurately predicted in real urine samples. The concentrations of the invisible inorganic ions are also accurately predicted, along with those of albumin and of several other abundant urine components.
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- Panteleimon G Takis
- Giotto Biotech S.R.L., Via Madonna del Piano 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- Bruker BioSpin, Silberstreifen, D-76287, Rheinstetten, Germany
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- Bruker BioSpin, Silberstreifen, D-76287, Rheinstetten, Germany
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- Giotto Biotech S.R.L., Via Madonna del Piano 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Via L. Sacconi 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
- Department of Chemistry Ugo Schiff, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
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Zhu X, Lei H, Wu J, Li JV, Tang H, Wang Y. Systemic responses of BALB/c mice to Salmonella typhimurium infection. J Proteome Res 2014; 13:4436-45. [PMID: 25209111 DOI: 10.1021/pr500770x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Salmonella typhimurium is a bacterial pathogen that poses a great threat to humans and animals. In order to discover hosts' responses to S. typhimurium infection, we collected and analyzed biofluids and organ tissues from mice which had ingested S. typhimurium. We employed (1)H NMR spectroscopy coupled with multivariate data analysis and immunological techniques. The results indicate that infection leads to a severe impact on mice spleen and ileum, which are characterized by splenomegaly and edematous villi, respectively. We found that increased levels of itaconic acid were correlated with the presence of splenomegaly during infection and may play an important role in Salmonella-containing vacuole acidification. In addition, metabonomic analyses of urine displayed the development of salmonellosis in mice, which is characterized by dynamic changes in energy metabolism. Furthermore, we found that the presence of S. typhimurium activated an anti-oxidative response in infected mice. We also observed changes in the gut microbial co-metabolites (hippurate, TMAO, TMA, methylamine). This investigation sheds much needed light on the host-pathogen interactions of S. typhimurium, providing further information to deepen our understanding of the long co-evolution process between hosts and infective bacteria.
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- Xiaoyang Zhu
- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
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Kim YH, Kim KH. An accurate and reliable analysis of trimethylamine using thermal desorption and gas chromatography–time of flight mass spectrometry. Anal Chim Acta 2013; 780:46-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2013.03.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2012] [Revised: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 03/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Robinette SL, Holmes E, Nicholson JK, Dumas ME. Genetic determinants of metabolism in health and disease: from biochemical genetics to genome-wide associations. Genome Med 2012; 4:30. [PMID: 22546284 PMCID: PMC3446258 DOI: 10.1186/gm329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Increasingly sophisticated measurement technologies have allowed the fields of metabolomics and genomics to identify, in parallel, risk factors of disease; predict drug metabolism; and study metabolic and genetic diversity in large human populations. Yet the complementarity of these fields and the utility of studying genes and metabolites together is belied by the frequent separate, parallel applications of genomic and metabolomic analysis. Early attempts at identifying co-variation and interaction between genetic variants and downstream metabolic changes, including metabolic profiling of human Mendelian diseases and quantitative trait locus mapping of individual metabolite concentrations, have recently been extended by new experimental designs that search for a large number of gene-metabolite associations. These approaches, including metabolomic quantitiative trait locus mapping and metabolomic genome-wide association studies, involve the concurrent collection of both genomic and metabolomic data and a subsequent search for statistical associations between genetic polymorphisms and metabolite concentrations across a broad range of genes and metabolites. These new data-fusion techniques will have important consequences in functional genomics, microbial metagenomics and disease modeling, the early results and implications of which are reviewed.
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- Steven L Robinette
- Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Heinzmann SS, Merrifield CA, Rezzi S, Kochhar S, Lindon JC, Holmes E, Nicholson JK. Stability and robustness of human metabolic phenotypes in response to sequential food challenges. J Proteome Res 2011; 11:643-55. [PMID: 21999107 DOI: 10.1021/pr2005764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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High-resolution spectroscopic profiles of biofluids can define metabolic phenotypes, providing a window onto the impact of diet on health to reflect gene-environment interactions. (1)H NMR spectroscopic profiling was used to characterize the effect of nutritional intervention on the stability of the metabolic phenotype of 7 individuals following a controlled 7 day dietary protocol. Inter-individual metabolic differences influenced proportionally more of the spectrum than dietary modulation, with certain individuals displaying a greater stability of metabolic phenotypes than others. Correlation structures between urinary metabolites were identified and used to map inter-individual pathway differences. Choline degradation was the pathway most affected by the individual, suggesting that the gut microbiota influence host metabolic phenotypes. This influence was further emphasized by the highly correlated excretion of the microbial-mammalian co-metabolites phenylacetylglutamine, 4-cresylsulfate (r = 0.87), and indoxylsulfate (r = 0.67) across all individuals. Above the background of inter-individual differences, clear biochemical effects of single type dietary interventions, animal protein, fruit and wine intake, were observed; for example, the spectral variance introduced by fruit ingestion was attributed to the metabolites tartrate, proline betaine, hippurate, and 4-hydroxyhippurate. This differential metabolic baseline and response to selected dietary challenges highlights the importance of understanding individual differences in metabolism and provides a rationale for evaluating dietary interventions and stratification of individuals with respect to guiding nutrition and health programmes.
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- Silke S Heinzmann
- Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London , Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Ando I, Hirose T, Nemoto T, Totsune K, Imai Y, Takeuchi K, Fujiwara M. Quantification of molecules in 1H-NMR metabolomics with formate as a concentration standard. J Toxicol Sci 2010; 35:253-6. [DOI: 10.2131/jts.35.253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Itiro Ando
- Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Biomedicinal Information Research Center, AIST
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- Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Department of Social Welfare, Faculty of Synthetic Welfare, Tohoku Fukushi University
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- Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- CKD Center, Koujinkai Central Hemodialysis Clinic
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- Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Fujiwara M, Kobayashi T, Jomori T, Maruyama Y, Oka Y, Sekino H, Imai Y, Takeuchi K. Pattern recognition analysis for 1H NMR spectra of plasma from hemodialysis patients. Anal Bioanal Chem 2009; 394:1655-60. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-2830-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2009] [Revised: 04/28/2009] [Accepted: 04/30/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Rossi M, D'Armiento M, Parisi I, Ferrari P, Hall CM, Cervasio M, Rivasi F, Balli F, Vecchione R, Corso G, Andria G, Parenti G. Clinical phenotype of lathosterolosis. Am J Med Genet A 2007; 143A:2371-81. [PMID: 17853487 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.31929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Lathosterolosis (LS) is a defect of cholesterol biosynthesis due to the deficiency of the enzyme sterol-C5-desaturase. Only two patients have been described to date, both presenting with multiple malformations, mental retardation, and liver involvement. In addition in one of them pathological examination revealed mucolipidosis-like inclusions on optic microscopy analysis, and peculiar lysosomal lamellar bodies on electron microscopy analysis. This study is focused on a better characterization of the clinical phenotype of LS. We describe a further case in a fetus, sibling of the first patient reported, presenting with neural tube defect, craniofacial and limb anomalies, and prenatal liver involvement. The fetal phenotype suggests the possible occurrence of significant intrafamilial variability in LS, and expands the phenotypic spectrum of the disease. Histological examination of autopsy samples from the fetus and skin fibroblasts from the living sibling suggested that the mucolipidosis-like picture previously reported is not a constant feature of LS, being possibly associated with the most severe biochemical defects, but confirmed the ultrastructural finding of lamellar inclusions. The LS phenotype appears to be characterized by the distinctive association of a recognizable pattern of congenital anomalies, involving axial and appendicular skeleton, liver, central nervous and urogenital systems, and lysosomal storage. This condition partially overlaps with other defects of sterol metabolism, suggesting intriguing pathogenic links among these conditions.
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- Massimiliano Rossi
- Dipartimento di Pediatria, Federico II University, Naples, Italy, and Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
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In the absence of oxygen, Escherichia coli can use alternative exogenous electron acceptors, including trimethylamine oxide (TMAO), to generate energy. In this study, we showed that in contrast to the other anaerobic respiratory systems, the TMAO reductase (Tor) system was expressed during both aerobiosis and anaerobiosis. By using a torA-lacZ fusion and quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, we established that the torCAD operon encoding the Tor system was induced in the presence of TMAO mainly during exponential phase, and that optimal induction required a certain level of DNA supercoiling. We also showed that the presence of oxygen prevented neither the biogenesis of the Tor system nor the reduction of TMAO. The physiological role of TMAO reduction during aerobiosis has not been yet established, but our experiments suggest that alkaline TMA production could enhance the growth conditions by increasing the pH of the culture.
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- Mireille Ansaldi
- Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 31, chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France
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Hsu WY, Lo WY, Lai CC, Tsai FJ, Tsai CH, Tsai Y, Lin WD, Chao MC. Rapid screening assay of trimethylaminuria in urine with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2007; 21:1915-9. [PMID: 17510942 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.3043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Trimethyamine (TMA) and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) are the most important urine parameters for diagnosing and monitoring trimethylaminuria. A rapid, simple, and specific method based on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) was developed to determine the presence of TMA and TMAO in urine samples from patients with trimethylaminuria. Formation of the quaternary tetramethylamino iodide by derivatization of TMA with methyl iodide allows measurement of TMA by MALDI-TOFMS. The method is repeatable and reproducible, with coefficients of variance (CVs)<3%. This new method was used for direct determination of TMA and TMAO in urine specimens obtained from normal children and patients. The proposed method allows for rapid and reliable measurements of TMA and TMAO in urine specimens from patients affected by trimethylaminuria.
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- Wei-Yi Hsu
- Department of Medical Genetics and Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Lee MB, Storer MK, Blunt JW, Lever M. Validation of 1H NMR spectroscopy as an analytical tool for methylamine metabolites in urine. Clin Chim Acta 2006; 365:264-9. [PMID: 16257400 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2005.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2005] [Revised: 09/04/2005] [Accepted: 09/05/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Methylamines have many metabolic roles and there is an increasing demand for their measurement. Glycine betaine is an important osmolyte, and a reservoir for methyl groups. Proline betaine and trigonelline are important dietary betaines. Trimethylamine, derived from gut flora, is normally converted to trimethylamine oxide but in 'fish odour syndrome' is excreted as TMA. These compounds are all suitable for quantification by (1)H NMR spectroscopy as they all have methyl protons. METHOD Urine samples are acidified and (1)H NMR spectra are obtained using presaturation for water suppression. Peak integrals or heights are compared to an internal standard of acetonitrile. RESULTS Inter- and intra-assay CV's were <5% for TMAO and creatinine, and <10% for the other analytes. Responses were linear from 50 to 1000 microM for all metabolites, and recoveries were > or =97%. Limits of detection using NMR are slightly higher than alternative HPLC assays (15-25 microM). However, sensitivity is adequate for the detection of raised levels in urine, and sample analysis was complete in less than 5 min. CONCLUSION (1)H NMR spectroscopy is a convenient, rapid and economical option for the determination of betaines and related compounds in urine in a single analysis.
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- Martin B Lee
- Biochemistry Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, P.O. Box 151, Christchurch, New Zealand; Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Martinez I, Bathen T, Standal IB, Halvorsen J, Aursand M, Gribbestad IS, Axelson DE. Bioactive compounds in cod (Gadus morhua) products and suitability of 1H NMR metabolite profiling for classification of the products using multivariate data analyses. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2005; 53:6889-95. [PMID: 16104816 DOI: 10.1021/jf0507902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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This work investigates the suitability of (1)H NMR spectroscopy to identify the fate of some bioactive compounds in seafood submitted to several processing conditions and examines the possibility of using (1)H NMR spectroscopy profiling to classify such products. Perchloric acid extracts of cod white muscle from newly killed and (i) unprocessed, (ii) boiled, and (iii) fried fillets and from (iv) frozen fillets, (v) the frozen fillets after thawing, and (vi) their drip loss and from (vii) rehydrated cod klippfish (n = 5) were analyzed by 500 MHz (1)H NMR spectroscopy. It was possible to identify taurine, betaine, anserine, creatine, and trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) in all extracts examined, and frozen fish was recognizable by the presence of dimethylamine (DMA). None of the heating procedures seemed to induce the loss of bioactive compounds from the fillet, but freezing and thawing did: the compounds were lost in what is known as drip loss. About 80% of the samples were correctly classified using a probabilistic neural network procedure having as inputs the scores of the first 20 principal components of the principal component analysis of a selected region of the NMR spectra.
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- Iciar Martinez
- SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture Ltd., N-7465 Trondheim, Norway.
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Podadera P, Sipahi AM, Arêas JAG, Lanfer-Marquez UM. Diagnosis of suspected trimethylaminuria by NMR spectroscopy. Clin Chim Acta 2005; 351:149-54. [PMID: 15563884 DOI: 10.1016/j.cccn.2004.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2004] [Revised: 08/31/2004] [Accepted: 09/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Trimethylamine (TMA) is a volatile substance produced in the gut, absorbed into the blood and further metabolized by healthy individuals into trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) by TMA-oxidase and then excreted in urine. Patients suffering from trimethylaminuria (TMAU) show an impaired enzymatic oxidation of TMA, excreting this amine in breath, urine and other body secretions which confers an unpleasant body odor. METHODS We diagnosed a Brazilian adult male patient suspected of trimethylaminuria with a burden of choline bitartarate by monitoring the urinary excretion of TMA and TMAO by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-NMR). RESULTS The patient's urinalyses showed an augmented TMA (12.64+/-0.95 mg/l) and TMAO (88.42+/-0.82 mg/l) excretion 6 h after the overload test representing an oxidation capacity of 84.6%, consistent with a heterozygosis condition. Diets containing tuna fish or eggs resulted in an excretion of TMA and TMAO similar to that of the control diet. Only the diet based on dogfish, rich in TMAO, enhanced the excretion of TMA and TMAO reaching 24.65 and 1055.55 mg/l, respectively, in the 0-24 h urine sample. CONCLUSIONS It was concluded first, that the patient was not able to metabolize the dietary overload of TMA and second, that more studies are needed to substantiate foods that should be avoided, especially regarding fish, due to their high TMA precursor contents.
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- Priscilla Podadera
- Departamento de Alimentos e Nutrição Experimental, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 580, CEP 05508-900-São Paulo, Brazil
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McCrindle SL, Kappler U, McEwan AG. Microbial Dimethylsulfoxide and Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Respiration. Adv Microb Physiol 2005; 50:147-98. [PMID: 16221580 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2911(05)50004-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Over the last two decades, the biochemistry and genetics of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) respiration has been characterised, particularly in Escherichia coli marine bacteria of the genus Shewanella and the purple phototrophic bacteria, Rhodobacter sphaeroides and R. capsulatus. All of the enzymes (or catalytic subunits) involved the final step in DMSO and TMAO respiration contain a pterin molybdenum cofactor and are members of the DMSO reductase family of molybdoenzymes. In E. coli, the dimethylsulfoxide reductase (DmsABC) can be purified from membranes as a complex, which exhibits quinol-DMSO oxidoreductase activity. The enzyme is anchored to the membrane via the DmsC subunit and its catalytic subunit DmsA is now considered to face the periplasm. Electron transfer to DmsA involves the DmsB subunit, which is a polyferredoxin related to subunits found in other molybdoenzymes such as nitrate reductase and formate dehydrogenase. A characteristic of the DmsAB-type DMSO reductase is its ability to reduce a variety of S- and N-oxides. E. coli contains a trimethylamine-N-oxide reductase (TorA) that is highly specific for N-oxides. This enzyme is located in the periplasm and is connected to the quinone pool via a membrane-bound penta-haem cytochrome (TorC). DorCA in purple phototrophic bacteria of the genus Rhodobacter is very similar to TorCA with the critical difference that DorA catalyses reduction of both DMSO and TMAO. It is known as a DMSO reductase because the S-oxide is the best substrate. Crystal structures of DorA and TorA have revealed critical differences at the Mo active site that may explain the differences between substrate specificity between the two enzymes. DmsA, TorA and DorA possess a "twin arginine" N-terminal signal sequence consistent with their secretion via the TAT secretory system and not the Sec system. The enzymes are secreted with their bound prosthetic groups: this take place in the cytoplasm and the biogenesis involves a chaperone protein, which is cognate for each enzyme. Expression of the DMSO and TMAO respiratory operons is induced in response to a fall in oxygen tension. dmsABC expression is positively controlled by the oxygen-responsive transcription factor, Fnr and ModE, a transcription factor that binds molybdate. In contrast, torCAD expression is not under Fnr- or ModE-control but is dependent upon a sensor histidine kinase-response regulator pair, TorSR, which activate gene expression under conditions of low oxygen tension in the presence of N- or S-oxide. Regulation of dorCDA expression is similar to that seen for torCAD but it appears that the expression of the sensor histidine kinase-response regulator pair, DorSR is regulated by Fnr and there is an additional tier of regulation involving the ModE-homologue MopB, molybdate and the transcription factor DorX. Analysis of microbial genomes has revealed the presence of dms and tor operons in a wide variety of bacteria and in some archaea and duplicate dms and tor operons have been identified in E. coli. Challenges ahead will include the determination of the significance of the presence of the dms operon in bacterial pathogens and the determination of the significance of DMSO respiration in the global turnover of marine organo-sulfur compounds.
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- Sharon L McCrindle
- School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
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Mazón Ramos A, Gil-Setas A, Berrade Zubiri S, Bandrés Echeverri T, Wevers R, Engelke U, Zschocke J. [Primary trimethylaminuria or fish odor syndrome. A novel mutation in the first documented case in Spain]. Med Clin (Barc) 2003; 120:219-21. [PMID: 12605812 DOI: 10.1016/s0025-7753(03)73656-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Trimethylaminuria or fish odor syndrome is a metabolic disorder characterized by a failure in the oxidation route from trimethylamine (TMA) to trimethylamineN-oxide (TMA-O). Primary trimethylaminuria is an inherited autosomic recessive disease due to mutations in the human FMO3 gene. High levels of free TMA in urine and other body fluids confer an unpleasant body odor resembling that of fish. Here we report a case of primary trimethylaminuria in a 4-year-old girl. PATIENT AND METHOD A 4-year-old girl who presented with a strong corporal scent resembling that of fish from the age of 9 months agreeing with the introduction of fish in the diet. The patient did not have other relevant personal history and had a correct psychomotor and growing development. Liver function, urea and creatinine levels were normal. The biochemical diagnosis was done by spectrometry, measuring the amount of TMA and TMA-O prior to and after fish intake. RESULTS Genetic analysis evinced that the patient was homozygous for a novel mutation in exon 3, R51G (c. 151A > G). Both parents were heterozygous. CONCLUSIONS R51G (c. 151 A > G) mutation had not been found in other patients with trimethylaminuria.
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- Ana Mazón Ramos
- Laboratorio de Microbiología, Ambulatorio General Solchaga, Pamplona, España.
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Murphy HC, Dolphin CT, Janmohamed A, Holmes HC, Michelakakis H, Shephard EA, Chalmers RA, Phillips IR, Iles RA. A novel mutation in the flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 gene, FM03, that causes fish-odour syndrome: activity of the mutant enzyme assessed by proton NMR spectroscopy. PHARMACOGENETICS 2000; 10:439-51. [PMID: 10898113 DOI: 10.1097/00008571-200007000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We have previously shown that primary trimethylaminuria, or fish-odour syndrome, is caused by an inherited defect in the flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3) catalysed N-oxidation of the dietary-derived malodorous amine, trimethylamine (TMA). We now report a novel causative mutation for the disorder identified in a young girl diagnosed by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of her urine. Sequence analysis of genomic DNA amplified from the patient revealed that she was homozygous for a T to C missense mutation in exon 3 of the FMO3 gene. The mutation changes an ATG triplet, encoding methionine, at codon 82 to an ACG triplet, encoding threonine. A polymerase chain reaction/restriction enzyme-based assay was devised to genotype individuals for the FMO3Thr82 allele. Wild-type and mutant FMO3, heterologously expressed in a baculovirus-insect cell system, were assayed by ultraviolet spectrophotometry and NMR spectroscopy for their ability to catalyse the N-oxidation of TMA. The latter technique has the advantage of enabling the simultaneous, direct and semi-continuous measurement of both of the products, TMA N-oxide and NADP, and of one of the reactants, NADPH. Results obtained from both techniques demonstrate that the Met82Thr mutation abolishes the catalytic activity of the enzyme and thus represents the genetic basis of the disorder in this individual. The combination of NMR spectroscopy with gene sequence and expression technology provides a powerful means of determining genotype-phenotype relationships in trimethylaminuria.
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- H C Murphy
- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Research Group, St Bartholomew's and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Whitechapel, London, UK
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Mamer OA, Choinière L, Treacy EP. Measurement of trimethylamine and trimethylamine N-oxide independently in urine by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. Anal Biochem 1999; 276:144-9. [PMID: 10603236 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1999.4351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We report a method based upon fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS) and stable isotope dilution techniques for the measurement of urinary trimethylamine (TMA) and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAOx). TMA is extracted from urine that was spiked with (15)N-labeled TMA. The extracted TMA isotopomers are quaternized with trideuteromethyl iodide and analyzed in FAB-MS with hexaethylene glycol as matrix. TMAOx is measured by evaporation of another sample of the urine spiked with (15)N-labeled TMAOx on the FAB probe and analyzed as for the TMA. The method allows the ready and simple distinguishing of controls and patients with TMAuria, and is useful in monitoring patients with the disorder. We give examples of its use in determining normal control ranges for these metabolites and in evaluating patients.
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- O A Mamer
- The Mass Spectrometry Unit, McGill University, 1130 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Canada H3A 1A3
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Mills GA, Walker V, Mughal H. Quantitative determination of trimethylamine in urine by solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 1999; 723:281-5. [PMID: 10080656 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(98)00542-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Trimethylaminuria (fish odour syndrome) is diagnosed from an increase in urinary excretion of trimethylamine with decreased trimethylamine oxide. We report a new quantitative stable isotope dilution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry procedure for the analysis of these metabolites using solid-phase microextraction (SPME). Both polydimethylsiloxane and mixed Carboxen-polydimethylsiloxane SPME fibres were found to be suitable for the headspace extraction of TMA. This new sampling technique could have wide application for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile compounds by metabolic screening laboratories.
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- G A Mills
- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK
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