Project description:Consumers have shown more and more interest in high-quality and healthy dairy products and buffalo milk is commercially more viable than other milks in producing superior dairy products due to its higher contents of fat, crude protein, and total solids. Metabolomics is one of the most powerful strategies in molecular mechanism research however, little study has been focused on the milk metabolites in different buffalo species. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the underlying molecular mechanism of the fatty synthesis and candidate biomarkers by analyzing the metabolomic profiles. Milk of three groups of buffaloes, including 10 Mediterranean, 12 Murrah, and 10 crossbred buffaloes (Murrah × local swamp buffalo), were collected and UPLC-Q-Orbitrap HRMS was used to obtain the metabolomic profiles. Results showed that milk fatty acid in Mediterranean buffalo was significantly higher than Murrah buffalo and crossbred buffalo. A total of 1837/726 metabolites was identified in both positive and negative electrospray ionization (ESI±) mode, including 19 significantly different metabolites between Mediterranean and Murrah buffalo, and 18 different metabolites between Mediterranean and crossbred buffalo. We found 11 of the different metabolites were both significantly different between Mediterranean vs. Murrah group and Mediterranean vs crossbred group, indicating that they can be used as candidate biomarkers of Mediterranean buffalo milk. Further analysis found that the different metabolites were mainly enriched in fat synthesis related pathways such as fatty acid biosynthesis, unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis, and linoleic acid metabolism, indicating that the priority of different pathways affected the milk fat content in different buffalo species. These specific metabolites may be used as biomarkers in the identification of milk quality and molecular breeding of high milk fat buffalo.
Project description:The mechanism of hypertension in children remains elusive. The objective of this study was to analyze plasma metabolomics characteristics to explore the potential mechanism of hypertension in children. Serum samples from 29 control children, 38 children with normal body mass index and simple hypertension (NBp), 8 children overweight with simple hypertension (OBp), 37 children with normal body mass index and H-type hypertension (NH) and 19 children overweight with H-type hypertension (OH) were analyzed by non-targeted metabolomics. A total of 1235 differential metabolites were identified between children with hypertension and normal controls, of which 193 metabolites including various lipids were significantly expressed. Compared with the control group, 3-dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, oleic acid and linoleic acid were up-regulated, and gamma-muricholic acid was down-regulated in the NBp group; 3-dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, 4-acetamidobutanoate and 1-hexadecanoyl-2-octadecadienoyl-sn-glyero-3-phosphocholine were up-regulated in the OBp group, whereas adenosine and 1-myristoyl-sn-glyero-3-phosphocholine were down-regulated; in the NH group, 1-palmitoyl-2-linoleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, phenol and 3-methoxytyramine were up-regulated, while pentadecanoic acid was down-regulated; in the OH group, NG,NG-dimethyl-L-arginine, 1-palmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and monoethyl phthalate were up-regulated, while phloretin and glycine were down-regulated. The results showed that the children with hypertension had obvious disorders of lipid metabolism (especially in the overweight hypertension group), which led to the occurrence of hypertension. Additionally, the concentration of NO production-related NG, NG-dimethyl-L-arginine, was significantly increased, which may play an important role in H-type hypertension in children.
Project description:Insect metabolites play vital roles in regulating the physiology, behavior, and numerous adaptations of insects, which has contributed to them becoming the largest class of Animalia. However, systematic metabolomics within the insects is still unclear. The present study performed a widely targeted metabolomics analysis based on the HPLC-MS/MS technology to construct a novel integrated metabolic database presenting comprehensive multimetabolite profiles from nine insect species across three metamorphosis types. A total of 1442 metabolites were identified, including amino acids and their metabolites, organic acids and their derivatives, fatty acids (FAs), glycerophospholipids (GPs), nucleotides and their metabolites, and benzene and its substituted derivatives. Among them, 622 metabolites were used to generate a 0 and 1 matrix based on their presence or absence, and these metabolites were enriched in arachidonic acid metabolism, tyrosine metabolism, phenylalanine metabolism, and insect hormone biosynthesis pathways. Our study revealed that there is a high coincidence between the evolutionary relationships of the species and the hierarchical cluster based on the types of metabolites, while the quantities of the metabolites show a high diversity among species. The metabolome of the nine representative insects provides an important platform for implementing the analysis of insect systemic metabolites and biological events at the metabolic level.
Project description:Human brain tissue was obtained from the New Zealand Brain Bank from donors with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or age-matched controls (n=9/group). Mean post mortem delays were ~12h. Six distinct brain regions were dissected, Hippocampus, Cingulate Gyrus, Entorhinal Cortex (severely affected), Motor and Sensory Cortex (less affected) and Cerebellum (spared). Protein was extracted from each sample and, each region was analysed independently. For each region, samples were divided into 3 sets of 3 cases and 3 controls and assigned to an iTRAQ 8 plex, alongside two aliquots of a pooled QC sample. Samples were digested, iTRAQ labelled and analysed. For each region, between 3000 and 4200 proteins were compared between AD and control, identifying a series of known and novel protein expression changes associated with the progression of AD.
Project description:Human brain tissue was obtained from the New Zealand Brain Bank from donors with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or age-matched controls (n=9/group). Mean post mortem delays were ~12h. Six distinct brain regions were dissected, Hippocampus, Cingulate Gyrus, Entorhinal Cortex (severely affected), Motor and Sensory Cortex (less affected) and Cerebellum (spared). Protein was extracted from each sample and, each region was analysed independently. For each region, samples were divided into 3 sets of 3 cases and 3 controls and assigned to an iTRAQ 8 plex, alongside two aliquots of a pooled QC sample. Samples were digested, iTRAQ labelled and analysed. For each region, between 3000 and 4200 proteins were compared between AD and control, identifying a series of known and novel protein expression changes associated with the progression of AD.
Project description:Metabolic networks are complex, intersecting, and composed of numerous enzyme-catalyzed biochemical reactions that transfer various molecular moieties among metabolites. Thus, robust reconstruction of metabolic networks requires metabolite moieties to be tracked, which cannot be readily achieved with mass spectrometry (MS) alone. We previously developed an Ion Chromatography-ultrahigh resolution-MS1/data independent-MS2 method to track the simultaneous incorporation of the heavy isotopes 13C and 15N into the moieties of purine/pyrimidine nucleotides in mammalian cells. Ultrahigh resolution-MS1 resolves and counts multiple tracer atoms in intact metabolites, while data independent-tandem MS (MS2) determines isotopic enrichment in their moieties without concern for the numerous mass isotopologue source ions to be fragmented. Together, they enabled rigorous MS-based reconstruction of metabolic networks at specific enzyme levels. We have expanded this approach to trace the labeled atom fate of [13C6]-glucose in 3D A549 spheroids in response to the anticancer agent selenite and that of [13C5,15N2]-glutamine in 2D BEAS-2B cells in response to arsenite transformation. We deduced altered activities of specific enzymes in the Krebs cycle, pentose phosphate pathway, gluconeogenesis, and UDP-GlcNAc synthesis pathways elicited by the stressors. These metabolic details help elucidate the resistance mechanism of 3D versus 2D A549 cultures to selenite and metabolic reprogramming that can mediate the transformation of BEAS-2B cells by arsenite.
Project description:Human brain tissue was obtained from the New Zealand Brain Bank from donors with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or age-matched controls (n=9/group). Mean post mortem delays were ~12h. Six distinct brain regions were dissected, Hippocampus, Cingulate Gyrus, Entorhinal Cortex (severely affected), Motor and Sensory Cortex (less affected) and Cerebellum (spared). Protein was extracted from each sample and, each region was analysed independently. For each region, samples were divided into 3 sets of 3 cases and 3 controls and assigned to an iTRAQ 8 plex, alongside two aliquots of a pooled QC sample. Samples were digested, iTRAQ labelled and analysed. For each region, between 3000 and 4200 proteins were compared between AD and control, identifying a series of known and novel protein expression changes associated with the progression of AD.
Project description:Human brain tissue was obtained from the New Zealand Brain Bank from donors with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or age-matched controls (n=9/group). Mean post mortem delays were ~12h. Six distinct brain regions were dissected, Hippocampus, Cingulate Gyrus, Entorhinal Cortex (severely affected), Motor and Sensory Cortex (less affected) and Cerebellum (spared). Protein was extracted from each sample and, each region was analysed independently. For each region, samples were divided into 3 sets of 3 cases and 3 controls and assigned to an iTRAQ 8 plex, alongside two aliquots of a pooled QC sample. Samples were digested, iTRAQ labelled and analysed. For each region, between 3000 and 4200 proteins were compared between AD and control, identifying a series of known and novel protein expression changes associated with the progression of AD.
Project description:Alzheimer's disease (AD) or age-matched controls (n=9/group). Mean post mortem delays were ~12h. Six distinct brain regions were dissected, Hippocampus, Cingulate Gyrus, Entorhinal Cortex (severely affected), Motor and Sensory Cortex (less affected) and Cerebellum (spared). Protein was extracted from each sample and, each region was analysed independently. For each region, samples were divided into 3 sets of 3 cases and 3 controls and assigned to an iTRAQ 8 plex, alongside two aliquots of a pooled QC sample. Samples were digested, iTRAQ labelled and analysed. For each region, between 3000 and 4200 proteins were compared between AD and control, identifying a series of known and novel protein expression changes associated with the progression of AD.