Small molecule metabolites: discovery of biomarkers and therapeutic targets

S Qiu, Y Cai, H Yao, C Lin, Y Xie, S Tang… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic abnormalities lead to the dysfunction of metabolic pathways and metabolite
accumulation or deficiency which is well-recognized hallmarks of diseases. Metabolite …

Identification and prioritization of environmental organic pollutants: from an analytical and toxicological perspective

T Ruan, P Li, H Wang, T Li, G Jiang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exposure to environmental organic pollutants has triggered significant ecological impacts
and adverse health outcomes, which have been received substantial and increasing …

Integrative analysis of multimodal mass spectrometry data in MZmine 3

R Schmid, S Heuckeroth, A Korf, A Smirnov… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Innovation in mass spectrometry (MS) and the rapidly increasing throughput and sensitivity
of MS instrumentation require adaptations and innovations in data processing tools. Here …

Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics in microbiome investigations

A Bauermeister, H Mannochio-Russo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbiotas are a malleable part of ecosystems, including the human ecosystem.
Microorganisms affect not only the chemistry of their specific niche, such as the human gut …

High-confidence structural annotation of metabolites absent from spectral libraries

MA Hoffmann, LF Nothias, M Ludwig… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Untargeted metabolomics experiments rely on spectral libraries for structure annotation, but,
typically, only a small fraction of spectra can be matched. Previous in silico methods search …

Reverse metabolomics for the discovery of chemical structures from humans

EC Gentry, SL Collins, M Panitchpakdi, P Belda-Ferre… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Determining the structure and phenotypic context of molecules detected in untargeted
metabolomics experiments remains challenging. Here we present reverse metabolomics as …

Metabolite annotation from knowns to unknowns through knowledge-guided multi-layer metabolic networking

Z Zhou, M Luo, H Zhang, Y Yin, Y Cai, ZJ Zhu - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based untargeted metabolomics allows
to measure both known and unknown metabolites in the metabolome. However, unknown …

Defining the scope of exposome studies and research needs from a multidisciplinary perspective

P Zhang, C Carlsten, R Chaleckis… - … science & technology …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The concept of the exposome was introduced over 15 years ago to reflect the important role
that the environment exerts on health and disease. While originally viewed as a call-to-arms …

Advanced methods for natural products discovery: bioactivity screening, dereplication, metabolomics profiling, genomic sequencing, databases and informatic tools …

SP Gaudêncio, E Bayram, L Lukić Bilela, M Cueto… - Marine drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Natural Products (NP) are essential for the discovery of novel drugs and products for
numerous biotechnological applications. The NP discovery process is expensive and time …

Annotation of natural product compound families using molecular networking topology and structural similarity fingerprinting

NJ Morehouse, TN Clark, EJ McMann… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spectral matching of MS2 fragmentation spectra has become a popular method for
characterizing natural products libraries but identification remains challenging due to …