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Jeppesen MJ, Powers R. Multiplatform untargeted metabolomics. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2023; 61:628-653. [PMID: 37005774 PMCID: PMC10948111 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5350 10.1002/mrc.5350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2024]
Abstract
Metabolomics samples like human urine or serum contain upwards of a few thousand metabolites, but individual analytical techniques can only characterize a few hundred metabolites at best. The uncertainty in metabolite identification commonly encountered in untargeted metabolomics adds to this low coverage problem. A multiplatform (multiple analytical techniques) approach can improve upon the number of metabolites reliably detected and correctly assigned. This can be further improved by applying synergistic sample preparation along with the use of combinatorial or sequential non-destructive and destructive techniques. Similarly, peak detection and metabolite identification strategies that employ multiple probabilistic approaches have led to better annotation decisions. Applying these techniques also addresses the issues of reproducibility found in single platform methods. Nevertheless, the analysis of large data sets from disparate analytical techniques presents unique challenges. While the general data processing workflow is similar across multiple platforms, many software packages are only fully capable of processing data types from a single analytical instrument. Traditional statistical methods such as principal component analysis were not designed to handle multiple, distinct data sets. Instead, multivariate analysis requires multiblock or other model types for understanding the contribution from multiple instruments. This review summarizes the advantages, limitations, and recent achievements of a multiplatform approach to untargeted metabolomics.
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- Micah J. Jeppesen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, United States
- Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, United States
- Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, United States
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Jeppesen MJ, Powers R. Multiplatform untargeted metabolomics. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2023; 61:628-653. [PMID: 37005774 PMCID: PMC10948111 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Metabolomics samples like human urine or serum contain upwards of a few thousand metabolites, but individual analytical techniques can only characterize a few hundred metabolites at best. The uncertainty in metabolite identification commonly encountered in untargeted metabolomics adds to this low coverage problem. A multiplatform (multiple analytical techniques) approach can improve upon the number of metabolites reliably detected and correctly assigned. This can be further improved by applying synergistic sample preparation along with the use of combinatorial or sequential non-destructive and destructive techniques. Similarly, peak detection and metabolite identification strategies that employ multiple probabilistic approaches have led to better annotation decisions. Applying these techniques also addresses the issues of reproducibility found in single platform methods. Nevertheless, the analysis of large data sets from disparate analytical techniques presents unique challenges. While the general data processing workflow is similar across multiple platforms, many software packages are only fully capable of processing data types from a single analytical instrument. Traditional statistical methods such as principal component analysis were not designed to handle multiple, distinct data sets. Instead, multivariate analysis requires multiblock or other model types for understanding the contribution from multiple instruments. This review summarizes the advantages, limitations, and recent achievements of a multiplatform approach to untargeted metabolomics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Micah J. Jeppesen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, United States
- Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, United States
- Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, United States
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Cai K, Zhao Y, Kang Z, Wang S, Wright AL, Jiang X. Environmental pseudotargeted metabolomics: A high throughput and wide coverage method for metabolic profiling of 1000-year paddy soil chronosequences. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 858:159978. [PMID: 36343812 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Pseudotargeted metabolomics is achieved by introducing an algorithm designed to choose ions for selected ion monitoring from identified metabolites. This method integrates the advantages of both untargeted and targeted metabolomics. In this study, environmental pseudotargeted metabolomics was established to analyze the soil metabolites, based on microwave assisted derivatization followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. The method development included the optimization of extraction factors and derivatization conditions, evaluation of silylation reagent types and matrix-dependent behaviors. Under the optimal conditions, the microwave oximation and silylation were completed in 5 min and 9 min. A total of 184 metabolites from 26 chemical classifications were identified in soil matrices. The method validation demonstrated excellent performance in terms of linearity (correlation coefficient > 0.99), repeatability (relative standard deviation (RSD) < 20 %), reproducibility (RSD < 25 %), stability (relative difference < 10 % within 18 h), and sensitivity (16-110 times higher signal-to-noise ratio). This developed method was applied to characterize the metabolite compositions and metabolic profiling in a 1000-year paddy soil chronosequence. The relative abundance of trehalose was highest in 6-(40.3 %), 60-(55.8 %), 300-(67.7 %)and 1000-(61.7 %)years paddy soil, respectively, but long-chain fatty acids were most abundant in marine sediment (57.4 %). Forty-two characteristic metabolites were considered as primarily responsible for discriminating and characterizing the paddy soil chronosequences development and seven major metabolic pathways were altered. In addition, GC-MS metabolite profile presented better discriminating power in paddy soil ecosystem changes than phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs). Overall, environmental pseudotargeted metabolomics can provide a high throughout and wide coverage approach for performing metabolic profiling in the soil research.
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- Kai Cai
- College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China; Guizhou Academy of Tobacco Science, 29 Longtanba Road, Guanshanhu District, Guiyang 550081, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
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- Indian River Research & Education Center, University of Florida-IFAS, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA
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- College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China.
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U MRA, Shen EYL, Cartlidge C, Alkhatib A, Thursz MR, Waked I, Gomaa AI, Holmes E, Sharma R, Taylor-Robinson SD. Optimized Systematic Review Tool: Application to Candidate Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2022; 31:1261-1274. [PMID: 35545293 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-21-0687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 09/17/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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This review aims to develop an appropriate review tool for systematically collating metabolites that are dysregulated in disease and applies the method to identify novel diagnostic biomarkers for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Studies that analyzed metabolites in blood or urine samples where HCC was compared with comparison groups (healthy, precirrhotic liver disease, cirrhosis) were eligible. Tumor tissue was included to help differentiate primary and secondary biomarkers. Searches were conducted on Medline and EMBASE. A bespoke "risk of bias" tool for metabolomic studies was developed adjusting for analytic quality. Discriminant metabolites for each sample type were ranked using a weighted score accounting for the direction and extent of change and the risk of bias of the reporting publication. A total of 84 eligible studies were included in the review (54 blood, 9 urine, and 15 tissue), with six studying multiple sample types. High-ranking metabolites, based on their weighted score, comprised energy metabolites, bile acids, acylcarnitines, and lysophosphocholines. This new review tool addresses an unmet need for incorporating quality of study design and analysis to overcome the gaps in standardization of reporting of metabolomic data. Validation studies, standardized study designs, and publications meeting minimal reporting standards are crucial for advancing the field beyond exploratory studies.
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- Mei Ran Abellona U
- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- National Liver Unit, Menoufiya University, Shbeen El Kom, Egypt
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- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- National Liver Unit, Menoufiya University, Shbeen El Kom, Egypt
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- National Liver Unit, Menoufiya University, Shbeen El Kom, Egypt
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- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Perth WA, Australia
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Flight RM, Mitchell JM, Moseley HNB. Scan-Centric, Frequency-Based Method for Characterizing Peaks from Direct Injection Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Experiments. Metabolites 2022; 12:metabo12060515. [PMID: 35736448 PMCID: PMC9228344 DOI: 10.3390/metabo12060515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2022] [Revised: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We present a novel, scan-centric method for characterizing peaks from direct injection multi-scan Fourier transform mass spectra of complex samples that utilizes frequency values derived directly from the spacing of raw m/z points in spectral scans. Our peak characterization method utilizes intensity-independent noise removal and normalization of scan-level data to provide a much better fit of relative intensity to natural abundance probabilities for low abundance isotopologues that are not present in all of the acquired scans. Moreover, our method calculates both peak- and scan-specific statistics incorporated within a series of quality control steps that are designed to robustly derive peak centers, intensities, and intensity ratios with their scan-level variances. These cross-scan characterized peaks are suitable for use in our previously published peak assignment methodology, Small Molecule Isotope Resolved Formula Enumeration (SMIRFE).
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- Robert M. Flight
- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (R.M.F.); (J.M.M.)
- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (R.M.F.); (J.M.M.)
- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (R.M.F.); (J.M.M.)
- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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Loric S, Conti M. Versatile Functional Energy Metabolism Platform Working From Research to Patient: An Integrated View of Cell Bioenergetics. FRONTIERS IN TOXICOLOGY 2022; 3:750431. [PMID: 35295105 PMCID: PMC8915814 DOI: 10.3389/ftox.2021.750431] [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: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/06/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial dysfunctions that were not discovered during preclinical and clinical testing have been responsible for at least restriction of use as far as withdrawal of many drugs. To solve mitochondrial machinery complexity, integrative methodologies combining different data, coupled or not to mathematic modelling into systems biology, could represent a strategic way but are still very hard to implement. These technologies should be accurate and precise to avoid accumulation of errors that can lead to misinterpretations, and then alter prediction efficiency. To address such issue, we have developed a versatile functional energy metabolism platform that can measure quantitatively, in parallel, with a very high precision and accuracy, a high number of biological parameters like substrates or enzyme cascade activities in essential metabolism units (glycolysis, respiratory chain ATP production, oxidative stress...) Its versatility (our platform works on either cell lines or small animals and human samples) allows cell metabolism pathways fine tuning comparison from preclinical to clinical studies. Applied here to OXPHOS and/or oxidative stress as an example, it allows discriminating compounds with acute toxic effects but, most importantly, those inducing low noise chronic ones.
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Luck S. A parametric framework for multidimensional linear measurement error regression. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0262148. [PMID: 35061791 PMCID: PMC8782541 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 12/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The ordinary linear regression method is limited to bivariate data because it is based on the Cartesian representation y = f(x). Using the chain rule, we transform the method to the parametric representation (x(t), y(t)) and obtain a linear regression framework in which the weighted average is used as a parameter for a multivariate linear relation for a set of linearly related variable vectors (LRVVs). We confirm the proposed approach by a Monte Carlo simulation, where the minimum coefficient of variation for error (CVE) provides the optimal weights when forming a weighted average of LRVVs. Then, we describe a parametric linear regression (PLR) algorithm in which the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse is used to estimate measurement error regression (MER) parameters individually for the given variable vectors. We demonstrate that MER parameters from the PLR and nonlinear ODRPACK methods are quite similar for a wide range of reliability ratios, but ODRPACK is formulated only for bivariate data. We identify scale invariant quantities for the PLR and weighted orthogonal regression (WOR) methods and their correspondences with the partitioned residual effects between the variable vectors. Thus, the specification of an error model for the data is essential for MER and we discuss the use of Monte Carlo methods for estimating the distributions and confidence intervals for MER slope and correlation coefficient. We distinguish between elementary covariance for the y = f(x) representation and covariance vector for the (x(t), y(t)) representation. We also discuss the multivariate generalization of the Pearson correlation as the contraction between Cartesian polyad alignment tensors for the LRVVs and weighted average. Finally, we demonstrate the use of multidimensional PLR in estimating the MER parameters for replicate RNA-Seq data and quadratic regression for estimating the parameters of the conical dispersion of read count data about the MER line.
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- Stanley Luck
- Vector Analytics LLC, Wilmington, DE, United States of America
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McKay KM, Apostolopoulos N, Dahrouj M, Nguyen HV, Reddy A, Blazes M, Lacy M, Pepple KL, Lee AY, Lee CS. Assessing the Uniformity of Uveitis Clinical Concepts and Associated ICD-10 Codes Across Health Care Systems Sharing the Same Electronic Health Records System. JAMA Ophthalmol 2021; 139:887-894. [PMID: 34196692 DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2021.2045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Importance Big data studies may allow for the aggregation of patients with rare diseases such as uveitis to answer important clinical questions. Standardization of uveitis-related variables will be necessary, including the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes used to identify patients of interest. There are currently limited data on the uniformity of diagnosis mapping to ICD-10 codes for uveitis diagnoses among different health systems. Objective To assess the degree of uniformity in mapping of uveitis clinical concepts to ICD-10 codes across health care systems using the same electronic health record (EHR) system. Design, Setting, and Participants This multicenter survey study was conducted between September 14 and October 9, 2020, at 5 academic health care systems that use the Epic EHR. Researchers from the University of Washington, Harvard University, Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of California, San Francisco queried 54 uveitis-related diagnostic terms and recorded the associated ICD-10 codes. Main Outcomes and Measures The degree of uniformity for uveitis clinical concepts and associated ICD-10 codes. Results Fifty-four uveitis-related diagnostic terms were queried within the Epic EHR at 5 different health care systems. There was perfect agreement among all 5 centers for 52 of the 54 diagnostic terms. Two diagnostic terms had differences in ICD-10 coding: juvenile idiopathic arthritis associated chronic uveitis and intermediate uveitis. Intermediate uveitis was associated with codes H20.1x (ICD-10 description: chronic iridocyclitis) or H20.9 (ICD-10 description: unspecified iridocyclitis) in 3 centers while being associated with code H30.2x (ICD-10 description: posterior cyclitis) at the 2 remaining centers. The discrepancies appear to be related to a recent update in diagnostic mapping in the Epic EHR. Conclusions and Relevance This study suggests that ICD-10 code mapping to uveitis diagnostic terminology appears to be highly uniform at different centers with the Epic EHR. However, temporal changes in diagnosis mapping to ICD-10 codes and a lack of 1-to-1 mapping of diagnosis to ICD-10 code add additional sources of complexity to the interpretation of big data studies in uveitis.
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- K Matthew McKay
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
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- Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle
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Statistical analysis in metabolic phenotyping. Nat Protoc 2021; 16:4299-4326. [PMID: 34321638 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-021-00579-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Metabolic phenotyping is an important tool in translational biomedical research. The advanced analytical technologies commonly used for phenotyping, including mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, generate complex data requiring tailored statistical analysis methods. Detailed protocols have been published for data acquisition by liquid NMR, solid-state NMR, ultra-performance liquid chromatography (LC-)MS and gas chromatography (GC-)MS on biofluids or tissues and their preprocessing. Here we propose an efficient protocol (guidelines and software) for statistical analysis of metabolic data generated by these methods. Code for all steps is provided, and no prior coding skill is necessary. We offer efficient solutions for the different steps required within the complete phenotyping data analytics workflow: scaling, normalization, outlier detection, multivariate analysis to explore and model study-related effects, selection of candidate biomarkers, validation, multiple testing correction and performance evaluation of statistical models. We also provide a statistical power calculation algorithm and safeguards to ensure robust and meaningful experimental designs that deliver reliable results. We exemplify the protocol with a two-group classification study and data from an epidemiological cohort; however, the protocol can be easily modified to cover a wider range of experimental designs or incorporate different modeling approaches. This protocol describes a minimal set of analyses needed to rigorously investigate typical datasets encountered in metabolic phenotyping.
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Mitchell JM, Flight RM, Moseley HN. Deriving Lipid Classification Based on Molecular Formulas. Metabolites 2020; 10:E122. [PMID: 32214009 PMCID: PMC7143220 DOI: 10.3390/metabo10030122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Despite instrument and algorithmic improvements, the untargeted and accurate assignment of metabolites remains an unsolved problem in metabolomics. New assignment methods such as our SMIRFE algorithm can assign elemental molecular formulas to observed spectral features in a highly untargeted manner without orthogonal information from tandem MS or chromatography. However, for many lipidomics applications, it is necessary to know at least the lipid category or class that is associated with a detected spectral feature to derive a biochemical interpretation. Our goal is to develop a method for robustly classifying elemental molecular formula assignments into lipid categories for an application to SMIRFE-generated assignments. Using a Random Forest machine learning approach, we developed a method that can predict lipid category and class from SMIRFE non-adducted molecular formula assignments. Our methods achieve high average predictive accuracy (>90%) and precision (>83%) across all eight of the lipid categories in the LIPIDMAPS database. Classification performance was evaluated using sets of theoretical, data-derived, and artifactual molecular formulas. Our methods enable the lipid classification of non-adducted molecular formula assignments generated by SMIRFE without orthogonal information, facilitating the biochemical interpretation of untargeted lipidomics experiments. This lipid classification appears insufficient for validating single-spectrum assignments, but could be useful in cross-spectrum assignment validation.
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- Joshua M. Mitchell
- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (J.M.M.); (R.M.F.)
- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (J.M.M.); (R.M.F.)
- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (J.M.M.); (R.M.F.)
- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
- Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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Robust Moiety Model Selection Using Mass Spectrometry Measured Isotopologues. Metabolites 2020; 10:metabo10030118. [PMID: 32245221 PMCID: PMC7143054 DOI: 10.3390/metabo10030118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2020] [Revised: 03/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Stable isotope resolved metabolomics (SIRM) experiments use stable isotope tracers to provide superior metabolomics datasets for metabolic flux analysis and metabolic modeling. Since assumptions of model correctness can seriously compromise interpretation of metabolic flux results, we have developed a metabolic modeling software package specifically designed for moiety model comparison and selection based on the metabolomics data provided. Here, we tested the effectiveness of model selection with two time-series mass spectrometry (MS) isotopologue datasets for uridine diphosphate N-acetyl-d-glucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) generated from different platforms utilizing direct infusion nanoelectrospray and liquid chromatography. Analysis results demonstrate the robustness of our model selection methods by the successful selection of the optimal model from over 40 models provided. Moreover, the effects of specific optimization methods, degree of optimization, selection criteria, and specific objective functions on model selection are illustrated. Overall, these results indicate that over-optimization can lead to model selection failure, but combining multiple datasets can help control this overfitting effect. The implication is that SIRM datasets in public repositories of reasonable quality can be combined with newly acquired datasets to improve model selection. Furthermore, curation efforts of public metabolomics repositories to maintain high data quality could have a huge impact on future metabolic modeling efforts.
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Andres DA, Young LEA, Veeranki S, Hawkinson TR, Levitan BM, He D, Wang C, Satin J, Sun RC. Improved workflow for mass spectrometry-based metabolomics analysis of the heart. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:2676-2686. [PMID: 31980460 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.011081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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MS-based metabolomics methods are powerful techniques to map the complex and interconnected metabolic pathways of the heart; however, normalization of metabolite abundance to sample input in heart tissues remains a technical challenge. Herein, we describe an improved GC-MS-based metabolomics workflow that uses insoluble protein-derived glutamate for the normalization of metabolites within each sample and includes normalization to protein-derived amino acids to reduce biological variation and detect small metabolic changes. Moreover, glycogen is measured within the metabolomics workflow. We applied this workflow to study heart metabolism by first comparing two different methods of heart removal: the Langendorff heart method (reverse aortic perfusion) and in situ freezing of mouse heart with a modified tissue freeze-clamp approach. We then used the in situ freezing method to study the effects of acute β-adrenergic receptor stimulation (through isoproterenol (ISO) treatment) on heart metabolism. Using our workflow and within minutes, ISO reduced the levels of metabolites involved in glycogen metabolism, glycolysis, and the Krebs cycle, but the levels of pentose phosphate pathway metabolites and of many free amino acids remained unchanged. This observation was coupled to a 6-fold increase in phosphorylated adenosine nucleotide abundance. These results support the notion that ISO acutely accelerates oxidative metabolism of glucose to meet the ATP demand required to support increased heart rate and cardiac output. In summary, our MS-based metabolomics workflow enables improved quantification of cardiac metabolites and may also be compatible with other methods such as LC or capillary electrophoresis.
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- Douglas A Andres
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536; Gill Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536; Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536
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- Gill Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536; Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536; Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536; Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536.
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Saccenti E, Hendriks MHWB, Smilde AK. Corruption of the Pearson correlation coefficient by measurement error and its estimation, bias, and correction under different error models. Sci Rep 2020; 10:438. [PMID: 31949233 PMCID: PMC6965177 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-57247-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 12/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Correlation coefficients are abundantly used in the life sciences. Their use can be limited to simple exploratory analysis or to construct association networks for visualization but they are also basic ingredients for sophisticated multivariate data analysis methods. It is therefore important to have reliable estimates for correlation coefficients. In modern life sciences, comprehensive measurement techniques are used to measure metabolites, proteins, gene-expressions and other types of data. All these measurement techniques have errors. Whereas in the old days, with simple measurements, the errors were also simple, that is not the case anymore. Errors are heterogeneous, non-constant and not independent. This hampers the quality of the estimated correlation coefficients seriously. We will discuss the different types of errors as present in modern comprehensive life science data and show with theory, simulations and real-life data how these affect the correlation coefficients. We will briefly discuss ways to improve the estimation of such coefficients.
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- Edoardo Saccenti
- Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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- Biosystems Data Analysis, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Jin H, Moseley HNB. Moiety modeling framework for deriving moiety abundances from mass spectrometry measured isotopologues. BMC Bioinformatics 2019; 20:524. [PMID: 31660850 PMCID: PMC6816163 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-019-3096-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Stable isotope tracing can follow individual atoms through metabolic transformations through the detection of the incorporation of stable isotope within metabolites. This resulting data can be interpreted in terms related to metabolic flux. However, detection of a stable isotope in metabolites by mass spectrometry produces a profile of isotopologue peaks that requires deconvolution to ascertain the localization of isotope incorporation. RESULTS To aid the interpretation of the mass spectroscopy isotopologue profile, we have developed a moiety modeling framework for deconvoluting metabolite isotopologue profiles involving single and multiple isotope tracers. This moiety modeling framework provides facilities for moiety model representation, moiety model optimization, and moiety model selection. The moiety_modeling package was developed from the idea of metabolite decomposition into moiety units based on metabolic transformations, i.e. a moiety model. The SAGA-optimize package, solving a boundary-value inverse problem through a combined simulated annealing and genetic algorithm, was developed for model optimization. Additional optimization methods from the Python scipy library are utilized as well. Several forms of the Akaike information criterion and Bayesian information criterion are provided for selecting between moiety models. Moiety models and associated isotopologue data are defined in a JSONized format. By testing the moiety modeling framework on the timecourses of 13C isotopologue data for uridine diphosphate N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) in human prostate cancer LnCaP-LN3 cells, we were able to confirm its robust performance in isotopologue deconvolution and moiety model selection. CONCLUSIONS SAGA-optimize is a useful Python package for solving boundary-value inverse problems, and the moiety_modeling package is an easy-to-use tool for mass spectroscopy isotopologue profile deconvolution involving single and multiple isotope tracers. Both packages are freely available on GitHub and via the Python Package Index.
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- Huan Jin
- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. .,Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. .,Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. .,Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
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Hinderer EW, Flight RM, Dubey R, MacLeod JN, Moseley HNB. Advances in gene ontology utilization improve statistical power of annotation enrichment. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0220728. [PMID: 31415589 PMCID: PMC6695228 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Gene-annotation enrichment is a common method for utilizing ontology-based annotations in gene and gene-product centric knowledgebases. Effective utilization of these annotations requires inferring semantic linkages by tracing paths through edges in the ontological graph, referred to as relations. However, some relations are semantically problematic with respect to scope, necessitating their omission or modification lest erroneous term mappings occur. To address these issues, we created the Gene Ontology Categorization Suite, or GOcats-a novel tool that organizes the Gene Ontology into subgraphs representing user-defined concepts, while ensuring that all appropriate relations are congruent with respect to scoping semantics. Here, we demonstrate the improvements in annotation enrichment by re-interpreting edges that would otherwise be omitted by traditional ancestor path-tracing methods. Specifically, we show that GOcats' unique handling of relations improves enrichment over conventional methods in the analysis of two different gene-expression datasets: a breast cancer microarray dataset and several horse cartilage development RNAseq datasets. With the breast cancer microarray dataset, we observed significant improvement (one-sided binomial test p-value = 1.86E-25) in 182 of 217 significantly enriched GO terms identified from the conventional path traversal method when GOcats' path traversal was used. We also found new significantly enriched terms using GOcats, whose biological relevancy has been experimentally demonstrated elsewhere. Likewise, on the horse RNAseq datasets, we observed a significant improvement in GO term enrichment when using GOcat's path traversal: one-sided binomial test p-values range from 1.32E-03 to 2.58E-44.
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- Eugene W. Hinderer
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
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- Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
- Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
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- Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
- Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
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Mitchell JM, Flight RM, Moseley HNB. Small Molecule Isotope Resolved Formula Enumeration: A Methodology for Assigning Isotopologues and Metabolite Formulas in Fourier Transform Mass Spectra. Anal Chem 2019; 91:8933-8940. [PMID: 31260262 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Improvements in Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FT-MS) enable increasingly more complex experiments in the field of metabolomics. What is directly detected in FT-MS spectra are spectral features (peaks) that correspond to sets of adducted and charged forms of specific molecules in the sample. The robust assignment of these features is an essential step for MS-based metabolomics experiments, but the sheer complexity of what is detected and a variety of analytically introduced variance, errors, and artifacts has hindered the systematic analysis of complex patterns of observed peaks with respect to isotope content. We have developed a method called SMIRFE that detects small biomolecules and determines their elemental molecular formula (EMF) using detected sets of isotopologue peaks sharing the same EMF. SMIRFE does not use a database of known metabolite formulas; instead a nearly comprehensive search space of all isotopologues within a mass range is constructed and used for assignment. This search space can be tailored for different isotope labeling patterns expected in different stable isotope tracing experiments. Using consumer-level computing equipment, a large search space of 2000 Da was constructed, and assignment performance was evaluated and validated using verified assignments on a pair of peak lists derived from spectra containing unlabeled and 15N-labeled versions of amino acids derivatized using ethylchloroformate. SMIRFE identified 18 of 18 predicted derivatized EMFs, and each assignment was evaluated statistically and assigned an e-value representing the probability to occur by chance.
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Clarke R, Tyson JJ, Tan M, Baumann WT, Jin L, Xuan J, Wang Y. Systems biology: perspectives on multiscale modeling in research on endocrine-related cancers. Endocr Relat Cancer 2019; 26:R345-R368. [PMID: 30965282 PMCID: PMC7045974 DOI: 10.1530/erc-18-0309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Drawing on concepts from experimental biology, computer science, informatics, mathematics and statistics, systems biologists integrate data across diverse platforms and scales of time and space to create computational and mathematical models of the integrative, holistic functions of living systems. Endocrine-related cancers are well suited to study from a systems perspective because of the signaling complexities arising from the roles of growth factors, hormones and their receptors as critical regulators of cancer cell biology and from the interactions among cancer cells, normal cells and signaling molecules in the tumor microenvironment. Moreover, growth factors, hormones and their receptors are often effective targets for therapeutic intervention, such as estrogen biosynthesis, estrogen receptors or HER2 in breast cancer and androgen receptors in prostate cancer. Given the complexity underlying the molecular control networks in these cancers, a simple, intuitive understanding of how endocrine-related cancers respond to therapeutic protocols has proved incomplete and unsatisfactory. Systems biology offers an alternative paradigm for understanding these cancers and their treatment. To correctly interpret the results of systems-based studies requires some knowledge of how in silico models are built, and how they are used to describe a system and to predict the effects of perturbations on system function. In this review, we provide a general perspective on the field of cancer systems biology, and we explore some of the advantages, limitations and pitfalls associated with using predictive multiscale modeling to study endocrine-related cancers.
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- Robert Clarke
- Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Arlington, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Arlington, Virginia, USA
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Mellon SH, Bersani FS, Lindqvist D, Hammamieh R, Donohue D, Dean K, Jett M, Yehuda R, Flory J, Reus VI, Bierer LM, Makotkine I, Abu Amara D, Henn Haase C, Coy M, Doyle FJ, Marmar C, Wolkowitz OM. Metabolomic analysis of male combat veterans with post traumatic stress disorder. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0213839. [PMID: 30883584 PMCID: PMC6422302 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 03/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with impaired major domains of psychology and behavior. Individuals with PTSD also have increased co-morbidity with several serious medical conditions, including autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, raising the possibility that systemic pathology associated with PTSD might be identified by metabolomic analysis of blood. We sought to identify metabolites that are altered in male combat veterans with PTSD. In this case-control study, we compared metabolomic profiles from age-matched male combat trauma-exposed veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts with PTSD (n = 52) and without PTSD (n = 51) (‘Discovery group’). An additional group of 31 PTSD-positive and 31 PTSD-negative male combat-exposed veterans was used for validation of these findings (‘Test group’). Plasma metabolite profiles were measured in all subjects using ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. We identified key differences between PTSD subjects and controls in pathways related to glycolysis and fatty acid uptake and metabolism in the initial ‘Discovery group’, consistent with mitochondrial alterations or dysfunction, which were also confirmed in the ‘Test group’. Other pathways related to urea cycle and amino acid metabolism were different between PTSD subjects and controls in the ‘Discovery’ but not in the smaller ‘Test’ group. These metabolic differences were not explained by comorbid major depression, body mass index, blood glucose, hemoglobin A1c, smoking, or use of analgesics, antidepressants, statins, or anti-inflammatories. These data show replicable, wide-ranging changes in the metabolic profile of combat-exposed males with PTSD, with a suggestion of mitochondrial alterations or dysfunction, that may contribute to the behavioral and somatic phenotypes associated with this disease.
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- Synthia H. Mellon
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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- Integrative Systems Biology, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, USACEHR, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, United States of America
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- Integrative Systems Biology, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, USACEHR, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, United States of America
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Integrative Systems Biology, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, USACEHR, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY and Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY and Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY and Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY and Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical School, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical School, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical School, New York, NY, United States of America
- Stephen and Alexandra Cohen Veteran Center for Posttraumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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Considine EC, Salek RM. A Tool to Encourage Minimum Reporting Guideline Uptake for Data Analysis in Metabolomics. Metabolites 2019; 9:E43. [PMID: 30841575 PMCID: PMC6468746 DOI: 10.3390/metabo9030043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Revised: 02/23/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite the proposal of minimum reporting guidelines for metabolomics over a decade ago, reporting on the data analysis step in metabolomics studies has been shown to be unclear and incomplete. Major omissions and a lack of logical flow render the data analysis' sections in metabolomics studies impossible to follow, and therefore replicate or even imitate. Here, we propose possible reasons why the original reporting guidelines have had poor adherence and present an approach to improve their uptake. We present in this paper an R markdown reporting template file that guides the production of text and generates workflow diagrams based on user input. This R Markdown template contains, as an example in this instance, a set of minimum information requirements specifically for the data pre-treatment and data analysis section of biomarker discovery metabolomics studies, (gleaned directly from the original proposed guidelines by Goodacre at al). These minimum requirements are presented in the format of a questionnaire checklist in an R markdown template file. The R Markdown reporting template proposed here can be presented as a starting point to encourage the data analysis section of a metabolomics manuscript to have a more logical presentation and to contain enough information to be understandable and reusable. The idea is that these guidelines would be open to user feedback, modification and updating by the metabolomics community via GitHub.
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- Elizabeth C Considine
- The Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, T12 YE02 Cork, Ireland.
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- The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France.
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Mitchell JM, Flight RM, Wang QJ, Higashi RM, Fan TWM, Lane AN, Moseley HNB. New methods to identify high peak density artifacts in Fourier transform mass spectra and to mitigate their effects on high-throughput metabolomic data analysis. Metabolomics 2018; 14:125. [PMID: 30830442 PMCID: PMC6153687 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-018-1426-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Direct injection Fourier-transform mass spectrometry (FT-MS) allows for the high-throughput and high-resolution detection of thousands of metabolite-associated isotopologues. However, spectral artifacts can generate large numbers of spectral features (peaks) that do not correspond to known compounds. Misassignment of these artifactual features creates interpretive errors and limits our ability to discern the role of representative features within living systems. OBJECTIVES Our goal is to develop rigorous methods that identify and handle spectral artifacts within the context of high-throughput FT-MS-based metabolomics studies. RESULTS We observed three types of artifacts unique to FT-MS that we named high peak density (HPD) sites: fuzzy sites, ringing and partial ringing. While ringing artifacts are well-known, fuzzy sites and partial ringing have not been previously well-characterized in the literature. We developed new computational methods based on comparisons of peak density within a spectrum to identify regions of spectra with fuzzy sites. We used these methods to identify and eliminate fuzzy site artifacts in an example dataset of paired cancer and non-cancer lung tissue samples and evaluated the impact of these artifacts on classification accuracy and robustness. CONCLUSION Our methods robustly identified consistent fuzzy site artifacts in our FT-MS metabolomics spectral data. Without artifact identification and removal, 91.4% classification accuracy was achieved on an example lung cancer dataset; however, these classifiers rely heavily on artifactual features present in fuzzy sites. Proper removal of fuzzy site artifacts produces a more robust classifier based on non-artifactual features, with slightly improved accuracy of 92.4% in our example analysis.
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- Joshua M Mitchell
- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Center for Environment and Systems Biochemistry and the Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Center for Environment and Systems Biochemistry and the Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Center for Environment and Systems Biochemistry and the Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Department of Toxicology & Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Center for Environment and Systems Biochemistry and the Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Department of Toxicology & Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Center for Environment and Systems Biochemistry and the Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Department of Toxicology & Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
- Center for Environment and Systems Biochemistry and the Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
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Gauthier PT, Evenset A, Christensen GN, Jorgensen EH, Vijayan MM. Lifelong Exposure to PCBs in the Remote Norwegian Arctic Disrupts the Plasma Stress Metabolome in Arctic Charr. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2018; 52:868-876. [PMID: 29236471 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Lake Ellasjøen on the remote Norwegian island of Bjørnøya is populated by Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) having 20-fold higher body burdens of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) compared to charr from the neighboring Lake Laksvatn. This provides a natural setting to test the hypothesis that lifelong exposure to PCBs compromises the energy metabolism in this northernmost living salmonid. To test this, blood was sampled from charr from both lakes immediately after capture and following a 1 h handling and confinement stressor to assess possible differences in their energy metabolism and energy substrate mobilization, respectively. The plasma metabolome of charr was assessed by metabolite detection/separation with LC-MS. Plasma metabolite profiles revealed differences in key pathways involved in amino acid metabolism between charr from each lake, underscoring an impact of PCBs on energy metabolism in Arctic charr residing in Lake Ellasjøen. Subjecting charr from either lake to an acute stressor altered the plasma metabolite profiles and revealed distinct stress metabolome in Lake Ellasjøen charr, suggesting a reduced metabolic capacity. Taken together, lifelong exposure to PCBs in Ellasjøen charr disrupts the plasma metabolome, and may impair the adaptive metabolic response to stressors, leading to a reduced fitness.
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- Patrick T Gauthier
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary , Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N1N4
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- Akvaplan-niva AS, Fram Centre-High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment , Hjalmar Johansens Gate 14, 9007 Tromsø, Norway
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- Akvaplan-niva AS, Fram Centre-High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment , Hjalmar Johansens Gate 14, 9007 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway , NO-9037, Tormsø, Norway
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary , Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N1N4
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Shin TH, Lee DY, Lee HS, Park HJ, Jin MS, Paik MJ, Manavalan B, Mo JS, Lee G. Integration of metabolomics and transcriptomics in nanotoxicity studies. BMB Rep 2018; 51:14-20. [PMID: 29301609 PMCID: PMC5796629 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2018.51.1.237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Biomedical research involving nanoparticles has produced useful products with medical applications. However, the potential toxicity of nanoparticles in biofluids, cells, tissues, and organisms is a major challenge. The '-omics' analyses provide molecular profiles of multifactorial biological systems instead of focusing on a single molecule. The 'omics' approaches are necessary to evaluate nanotoxicity because classical methods for the detection of nanotoxicity have limited ability in detecting miniscule variations within a cell and do not accurately reflect the actual levels of nanotoxicity. In addition, the 'omics' approaches allow analyses of in-depth changes and compensate for the differences associated with high-throughput technologies between actual nanotoxicity and results from traditional cytotoxic evaluations. However, compared with a single omics approach, integrated omics provides precise and sensitive information by integrating complex biological conditions. Thus, these technologies contribute to extended safety evaluations of nanotoxicity and allow the accurate diagnoses of diseases far earlier than was once possible in the nanotechnology era. Here, we review a novel approach for evaluating nanotoxicity by integrating metabolomics with metabolomic profiling and transcriptomics, which is termed "metabotranscriptomics". [BMB Reports 2018; 51(1): 14-20].
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- Tae Hwan Shin
- Institute of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University,
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- Department of Physiology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499,
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- Department of Physiology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499,
Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922,
Korea
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- Department of Physiology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499,
Korea
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- Department of Physiology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499,
Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922,
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- Genomic Instability Research Center, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499,
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- Institute of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University,
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- Department of Physiology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499,
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Medvedovici A, Bacalum E, David V. Sample preparation for large-scale bioanalytical studies based on liquid chromatographic techniques. Biomed Chromatogr 2017; 32. [DOI: 10.1002/bmc.4137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Revised: 10/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Andrei Medvedovici
- Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Analytical Chemistry; University of Bucharest; Bucharest Romania
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- Research Institute; University of Bucharest; Bucharest Romania
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Analytical Chemistry; University of Bucharest; Bucharest Romania
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Jaini R, Wang P, Dudareva N, Chapple C, Morgan JA. Targeted Metabolomics of the Phenylpropanoid Pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana using Reversed Phase Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry. PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS : PCA 2017; 28:267-276. [PMID: 28146307 DOI: 10.1002/pca.2672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2016] [Revised: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The phenylpropanoid pathway is a source of a diverse group of compounds derived from phenylalanine, many of which are involved in lignin biosynthesis and serve as precursors for the production of valuable compounds, such as coumarins, flavonoids, and lignans. Consequently, recent efforts have been invested in mechanistically understanding monolignol biosynthesis, making the quantification of these metabolites vital. OBJECTIVE To develop an improved and comprehensive analytical method for (i) extensively profiling, and (ii) accurately quantifiying intermediates of the monolignol biosynthetic network, using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system. METHOD A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization was developed to quantify phenylpropanoid metabolites in Arabidopsis wildtype and cinnamoyl CoA reductase1 (CCR1) deficient lines (ccr1). RESULTS Vortexing at high temperatures (65°C) enhanced release of phenylpropanoids, specifically the more hydrophobic compounds. A pH of 5.3 and ammonium acetate buffer concentration of 2.5 mM resulted in an optimal analyte response across standards. Ion suppression was estimated using standard spike recovery studies for accurate quantitation. The optimized method was used to profile Arabidopsis wildtype and ccr1 stems. An increase in hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives and a decrease in the hydroxycinnamyl aldehydes and alcohols in ccr1 lines, supports a shift of flux from lignin synthesis to other secondary metabolites and phenylpropanoid derivatives. CONCLUSIONS Compared to existing targeted profiling techniques, our method is capable of quantifying a wider range of intermediates (15 out of 22 in WT Arabidopsis stems) at low in vivo concentrations (~50 pmol/g-FW for certain compounds), while requiring minimal sample preparation. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Rohit Jaini
- School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
- Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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Li B, Tang J, Yang Q, Cui X, Li S, Chen S, Cao Q, Xue W, Chen N, Zhu F. Performance Evaluation and Online Realization of Data-driven Normalization Methods Used in LC/MS based Untargeted Metabolomics Analysis. Sci Rep 2016; 6:38881. [PMID: 27958387 PMCID: PMC5153651 DOI: 10.1038/srep38881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/15/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In untargeted metabolomics analysis, several factors (e.g., unwanted experimental & biological variations and technical errors) may hamper the identification of differential metabolic features, which requires the data-driven normalization approaches before feature selection. So far, ≥16 normalization methods have been widely applied for processing the LC/MS based metabolomics data. However, the performance and the sample size dependence of those methods have not yet been exhaustively compared and no online tool for comparatively and comprehensively evaluating the performance of all 16 normalization methods has been provided. In this study, a comprehensive comparison on these methods was conducted. As a result, 16 methods were categorized into three groups based on their normalization performances across various sample sizes. The VSN, the Log Transformation and the PQN were identified as methods of the best normalization performance, while the Contrast consistently underperformed across all sub-datasets of different benchmark data. Moreover, an interactive web tool comprehensively evaluating the performance of 16 methods specifically for normalizing LC/MS based metabolomics data was constructed and hosted at http://server.idrb.cqu.edu.cn/MetaPre/. In summary, this study could serve as a useful guidance to the selection of suitable normalization methods in analyzing the LC/MS based metabolomics data.
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- Bo Li
- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- College of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, Innovative Drug Research Centre and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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A Conversation on Data Mining Strategies in LC-MS Untargeted Metabolomics: Pre-Processing and Pre-Treatment Steps. Metabolites 2016; 6:metabo6040040. [PMID: 27827887 PMCID: PMC5192446 DOI: 10.3390/metabo6040040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2016] [Revised: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 10/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Untargeted metabolomic studies generate information-rich, high-dimensional, and complex datasets that remain challenging to handle and fully exploit. Despite the remarkable progress in the development of tools and algorithms, the "exhaustive" extraction of information from these metabolomic datasets is still a non-trivial undertaking. A conversation on data mining strategies for a maximal information extraction from metabolomic data is needed. Using a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based untargeted metabolomic dataset, this study explored the influence of collection parameters in the data pre-processing step, scaling and data transformation on the statistical models generated, and feature selection, thereafter. Data obtained in positive mode generated from a LC-MS-based untargeted metabolomic study (sorghum plants responding dynamically to infection by a fungal pathogen) were used. Raw data were pre-processed with MarkerLynxTM software (Waters Corporation, Manchester, UK). Here, two parameters were varied: the intensity threshold (50-100 counts) and the mass tolerance (0.005-0.01 Da). After the pre-processing, the datasets were imported into SIMCA (Umetrics, Umea, Sweden) for more data cleaning and statistical modeling. In addition, different scaling (unit variance, Pareto, etc.) and data transformation (log and power) methods were explored. The results showed that the pre-processing parameters (or algorithms) influence the output dataset with regard to the number of defined features. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that the pre-treatment of data prior to statistical modeling affects the subspace approximation outcome: e.g., the amount of variation in X-data that the model can explain and predict. The pre-processing and pre-treatment steps subsequently influence the number of statistically significant extracted/selected features (variables). Thus, as informed by the results, to maximize the value of untargeted metabolomic data, understanding of the data structures and exploration of different algorithms and methods (at different steps of the data analysis pipeline) might be the best trade-off, currently, and possibly an epistemological imperative.
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Elie MR, Choi J, Nkrumah-Elie YM, Gonnerman GD, Stevens JF, Tanguay RL. Metabolomic analysis to define and compare the effects of PAHs and oxygenated PAHs in developing zebrafish. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2015; 140:502-10. [PMID: 26001975 PMCID: PMC4492807 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2015] [Revised: 05/05/2015] [Accepted: 05/07/2015] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their oxygenated derivatives are ubiquitously present in diesel exhaust, atmospheric particulate matter and soils sampled in urban areas. Therefore, inhalation or non-dietary ingestion of both PAHs and oxy-PAHs are major routes of exposure for people; especially young children living in these localities. While there has been extensive research on the parent PAHs, limited studies exist on the biological effects of oxy-PAHs which have been shown to be more soluble and more mobile in the environment. Additionally, investigations comparing the metabolic responses resulting from parent PAHs and oxy-PAHs exposures have not been reported. To address these current gaps, an untargeted metabolomics approach was conducted to examine the in vivo metabolomic profiles of developing zebrafish (Danio rerio) exposed to 4 µM of benz[a]anthracene (BAA) or benz[a]anthracene-7,12-dione (BAQ). By integrating multivariate, univariate and pathway analyses, a total of 63 metabolites were significantly altered after 5 days of exposure. The marked perturbations revealed that both BAA and BAQ affect protein biosynthesis, mitochondrial function, neural development, vascular development and cardiac function. Our previous transcriptomic and genomic data were incorporated in this metabolomics study to provide a more comprehensive view of the relationship between PAH and oxy-PAH exposures on vertebrate development.
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- Marc R Elie
- Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Environmental Health Sciences Center, Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States.
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- College of Pharmacy and Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO 80045, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Environmental Health Sciences Center, Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States
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- College of Pharmacy and Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Environmental Health Sciences Center, Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States.
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Noack S, Wiechert W. Quantitative metabolomics: a phantom? Trends Biotechnol 2014; 32:238-44. [PMID: 24708998 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2014.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2014] [Revised: 03/06/2014] [Accepted: 03/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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'Mass specs are precise but biology is not!' is a frequently heard argument when quantitative experimental data do not fit into the overall picture. The problem with this opinion is that the significance of measured biological data becomes a matter of gut feeling. Doubtlessly, the measurement precision of modern mass spectrometers is far better than the reproducibility of biological experiments. However, precisely for this reason, technical reproduction of mass spectrometric measurements neither characterizes the whole experiment from cell cultivation to producing biological data nor says anything about systematic errors in the overall measurement procedure. Taking quantitative metabolomics as a fruitful example, we deal with the question of why it is so difficult to say something precise about imprecision in biology.
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- Stephan Noack
- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany.
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Higashi RM, Fan TWM, Lorkiewicz PK, Moseley HNB, Lane AN. Stable isotope-labeled tracers for metabolic pathway elucidation by GC-MS and FT-MS. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1198:147-67. [PMID: 25270929 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1258-2_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Advances in analytical methodologies, principally nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS), over the last decade have made large-scale analysis of the human metabolome a reality. This is leading to the reawakening of the importance of metabolism in human diseases, particularly widespread metabolic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and obesity. Emerging NMR and MS atom-tracking technologies and informatics are poised to revolutionize metabolomics-based research because they deliver the high information throughput (HIT) that is needed for deciphering systems biochemistry. In particular, stable isotope-resolved metabolomics (SIRM) enables unambiguous tracking of individual atoms through compartmentalized metabolic networks in a wide range of experimental systems, including human subjects. MS offers a wide range of instrumental capabilities involving different levels of initial capital outlay and operating costs, ranging from gas-chromatography (GC) MS that is affordable by many individual laboratories to the HIT-supporting Fourier-transform (FT) class of MS that rivals NMR in cost and infrastructure support. This chapter focuses on sample preparation, instrument, and data processing procedures for these two extremes of MS instrumentation used in SIRM.
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- Richard M Higashi
- Graduate Center of Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Biopharm Complex, 789 S. Limestone St., Lexington, KY, 40536, USA,
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Carreer WJ, Flight RM, Moseley HNB. A Computational Framework for High-Throughput Isotopic Natural Abundance Correction of Omics-Level Ultra-High Resolution FT-MS Datasets. Metabolites 2013; 3:853-866. [PMID: 24404440 PMCID: PMC3882318 DOI: 10.3390/metabo3040853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2013] [Revised: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 09/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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New metabolomics applications of ultra-high resolution and accuracy mass spectrometry can provide thousands of detectable isotopologues, with the number of potentially detectable isotopologues increasing exponentially with the number of stable isotopes used in newer isotope tracing methods like stable isotope-resolved metabolomics (SIRM) experiments. This huge increase in usable data requires software capable of correcting the large number of isotopologue peaks resulting from SIRM experiments in a timely manner. We describe the design of a new algorithm and software system capable of handling these high volumes of data, while including quality control methods for maintaining data quality. We validate this new algorithm against a previous single isotope correction algorithm in a two-step cross-validation. Next, we demonstrate the algorithm and correct for the effects of natural abundance for both (13)C and (15)N isotopes on a set of raw isotopologue intensities of UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine derived from a (13)C/(15)N-tracing experiment. Finally, we demonstrate the algorithm on a full omics-level dataset.
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- William J Carreer
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (W.J.C.); (R.M.F.)
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (W.J.C.); (R.M.F.)
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; (W.J.C.); (R.M.F.)
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