Metabolite measurement: pitfalls to avoid and practices to follow

W Lu, X Su, MS Klein, IA Lewis, O Fiehn… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Metabolites are the small biological molecules involved in energy conversion and
biosynthesis. Studying metabolism is inherently challenging due to metabolites' reactivity …

Mass spectrometric based approaches in urine metabolomics and biomarker discovery

MM Khamis, DJ Adamko… - Mass spectrometry …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Urine metabolomics has recently emerged as a prominent field for the discovery of non‐
invasive biomarkers that can detect subtle metabolic discrepancies in response to a specific …

Human pancreatic cancer tumors are nutrient poor and tumor cells actively scavenge extracellular protein

JJ Kamphorst, M Nofal, C Commisso, SR Hackett, W Lu… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Glucose and amino acids are key nutrients supporting cell growth. Amino acids are imported
as monomers, but an alternative route induced by oncogenic KRAS involves uptake of …

Metabolomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals compartmentalized co-catabolism of carbon substrates

LPS de Carvalho, SM Fischer, J Marrero, C Nathan… - Chemistry & biology, 2010 - cell.com
Metabolic adaptation to the host environment is a defining feature of the pathogenicity of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), but we lack biochemical knowledge of its metabolic …

Multifunctional essentiality of succinate metabolism in adaptation to hypoxia in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

H Eoh, KY Rhee - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a chronic, facultative intracellular pathogen that spends the
majority of its decades-long life cycle in a non-or slowly replicating state. However, the …

Gluconeogenic carbon flow of tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates is critical for Mycobacterium tuberculosis to establish and maintain infection

J Marrero, KY Rhee, D Schnappinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Metabolic adaptation to the host niche is a defining feature of the pathogenicity of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). In vitro, Mtb is able to grow on a variety of carbon …

Avoiding misannotation of in-source fragmentation products as cellular metabolites in liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry-based metabolomics

YF Xu, W Lu, JD Rabinowitz - Analytical chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) technology allows for rapid quantitation
of cellular metabolites, with metabolites identified by mass spectrometry and …

Expanding coverage of the metabolome for global metabolite profiling

O Yanes, R Tautenhahn, GJ Patti… - Analytical chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics is the comprehensive study of naturally occurring
small molecules collectively known as the metabolome. Given the vast structural diversity …

Para-Aminosalicylic Acid Acts as an Alternative Substrate of Folate Metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Chakraborty, T Gruber, CE Barry III, HI Boshoff… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Folate biosynthesis is an established anti-infective target, and the antifolate para-
aminosalicylic acid (PAS) was one of the first anti-infectives introduced into clinical practice …

Evaluation of coupling reversed phase, aqueous normal phase, and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography with Orbitrap mass spectrometry for metabolomic …

T Zhang, DJ Creek, MP Barrett, G Blackburn… - Analytical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
In this study, we assessed three liquid chromatographic platforms: reversed phase (RP),
aqueous normal phase (ANP), and hydrophilic interaction (HILIC) for the analysis of polar …