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Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'IDH1 Mutations Induce Organelle Defects Via Dysregulated Phospholipids (FA_HILICZ)'.
Answer: Infiltrating gliomas are devastating and incurable tumors. Amongst all gliomas, those harboring an isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 mutation (IDHmut), acquire a different tumor biology and clinical manifestation than those that are IDHWT. Understanding the unique metabolic profile reprogrammed by IDH1 mutation has the potential to identify new molecular targets for glioma therapy. Herein, we discovered monounsaturated (MUFA) to polyunsaturated (PUFA) lipid imbalances in organelles, generated by IDH mutation in cells and patient tissue, that were responsible for Golgi and ER dilation. We demonstrated a direct link between the IDH mutation and these organelle morphology via D-2HG-induced stearyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) overexpression, the rate limiting enzyme in MUFA biosynthesis. Inhibition of IDH mutation or SCD silencing restored ER and Golgi morphology, while D-2HG and oleic acid induced morphological defects in these organelles. Moreover, addition of oleic acid, which tilted the balance towards elevated levels of MUFA, produced IDH1mut-specific cellular apoptosis. Collectively, these results suggest that IDH1mut-induced SCD overexpression can rearrange the biodistribution of lipids in the organelles of glioma, providing a new insight on the link between lipids metabolism and organelle morphology in these cells, with potential and unique therapeutic implications.Linked studies;MTBLS1973 LCMS(CSHNeg)MTBLS1974 LCMS(CSHPos)
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Metabolome of pig endometrium and placenta.'.
Answer: Neonatal mortality is mostly due to a reduced piglet maturity. An essential question for adaptation to extra-uterine environment lies in the optimization of the crosstalk between maternal and fetal genomes for a distribution of resources that allows fetuses to express healthier phenotypes at birth. The CO-LOcATION project proposes an integrative biology approach combining transcriptomics, metabolomics, lipidomics and maturity phenotypes to answer this crucial question for both research and pig production sustainability. The project will use samples from the former ANR PORCINET project, which produced pure genotypes and reciprocal crossbreed genotypes with contrasted robustness at birth. The complexity of the maturity phenotypes will be addressed by studying the trade-off between growth and survival with a focus on endometrial-placental interactions using whole-genome approaches.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'NMR based metabolomics study of Y2 receptor activation by neuropeptide Y in the SK-N-BE2 human neuroblastoma cell line'.
Answer: Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and its Y2 receptors (Y2R) play an important role in regulating growth of various tumors and are highly expressed in human neuroblastoma brain tumors. Cell lines derived from neuroblastoma brain tumors provide a good model to study the consequences of NPY activation of Y2R in tumor metabolism. In this study, the metabolic response to activation and inhibition of Y2R was examined in the human neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-BE2 using high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). Three treatments were evaluated: (1) activation of Y2R with NPY, (2) blocking Y2R with BIIE0246, and (3) treatment of cells with both NPY and BIIE. The largest metabolic changes were observed for NPY activation of Y2R. The principal response to NPY activation of Y2R was increased glycolysis (Warburg effect). Our results also showed depleted intracellular nutrients in NPY activated cells, which may have been due to the high rate of conversion of glucose to lactate, glycine and alanine. All amino acids except glutamine were increased in response to Y2R activation, implying increased autophagic degradation of proteins. TCA cycle intermediates were not detected, possibly due to low steady-state concentrations, but the increase of glutamate and its high correlation with glucose provided evidence of increased TCA activity. The changes of most metabolites observed upon NPY treatment were reversed with BIIE treatment. In summary, our study indicates that NPY activation of Y2R in human neuroblastoma cells stimulates glycolysis, glutaminolysis and possibly TCA activity.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Biodiversity in marine invertebrate responses to acute warming revealed by a comparative multi-omics approach'.
Answer: Understanding species' responses to environmental change underpins our abilities to make predictions on future biodiversity under any range of scenarios. In spite of the huge biodiversity in most ecosystems, a model species approach is often taken in environmental studies. To date, we still do not know how many species we need to study to input into models and inform on ecosystem-level responses to change. In this study, we tested current paradigms on factors setting thermal limits by investigating the acute warming response of six Antarctic marine invertebrates: a crustacean Paraceradocus miersi, a brachiopod Liothyrella uva, two bivalve molluscs, Laternula elliptica, Aequiyoldia eightsii, a gastropod mollusc Marseniopsis mollis and an echinoderm Cucumaria georgiana. Each species was warmed at the rate of 1 °C / h and taken to the same physiological end point (just prior to heat coma). Their molecular responses were evaluated using complementary metabolomics (NMR-based metabolomics; LC-MS was also used for one of the sample types) and transcriptomics approaches with the aim of discovering the underlying mechanisms of their resilience or sensitivity to warming. The responses were species-specific; only two showed accumulation of anaerobic end products and three exhibited the classical heat shock response with expression of HSP70 transcripts. These diverse cellular measures did not directly correlate with resilience to heat stress and suggested that each species may have a different critical point of failure. Thus, one unifying molecular mechanism underpinning response to warming could not be assigned, and no overarching paradigm was supported. This biodiversity in response makes future ecosystems predictions extremely challenging, as we clearly need to develop a macrophysiology-type approach to cellular evaluations of the environmental stress response, studying a range of well-rationalized members from different community levels and of different phylogenetic origins rather than extrapolating from one or two arbitrary model species.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Human basal cell carcinoma samples analysed by laser desorption rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry (LD-REIMS) imaging'.
Answer: Laser ablation rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry (LA-REIMS) was used to analyse human basal cell carcinoma (BCC) samples. 14 samples are presented here, along with H&E-stained histological images.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'The gut microbiota contributes to changes in the host immune response induced by Trichinella spiralis'.
Answer: The gut microbiota plays an important role in parasite-host interactions and the induction of immune defense responses. Trichinella spiralis is an important zoonotic parasite that can directly or indirectly interact with the host in the gut. Changes in the gut microbiota following infection with T. spiralis and the role of the gut microbiota in host immune defense against T. spiralis infection were investigated in our study. 16S rRNA sequencing analysis revealed that infection with T. spiralis can reduce the diversity of the gut microbiota and alter the structure of the gut microbiota during early infection, which was restored when the worm left the gut. Antibiotic treatment (ABX) and fecal bacterial transplantation (FMT) were used to investigate the role of the gut microbiota in the host expulsion response during infection with T. spiralis. We found that ABX mice had a higher burden of parasites, and the burden of parasites decreased after fecal bacterial transplantation. The results of flow cytometry and qPCR revealed that the disturbance of the gut microbiota affects the proportion of CD4+ T cells and the production of IL-4, which weakens Th2 responses and makes expulsion difficult. In addition, as the inflammatory response decreased with the change of the microbiota, the Th1 response also decreased. The metabolomic results were in good agreement with these findings, as the levels of inflammatory metabolites such as ceramides were reduced in the ABX group. In general, T. spiralis infection can cause changes in the gut microbiota, and the presence or absence of microbes may also weaken intestinal inflammation and the expulsion of T. spiralis by affecting the immune response of the host.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Untargeted food contaminant detection using UHPLC-HRMS combined with multivariate analysis: Feasibility study on tea (Dataset 1 - Development)'.
Answer: Powerful data pretreatment strategies inspired from the field of metabolomics were adapted to chemical food safety context to enable samples discrimination by multivariate methods based on low abundance ions. A highly automated workflow was produced. The open-source XCMS package was used and efficient data filtration strategies were set up. Data were treated using Independent Components Analysis, and data mining strategies developed to automatically detect and annotate ions of low abundance by coupling blind data exploration strategies with a broad scale database approach. Our method was efficient in discriminating tea samples based on their contamination levels (even at 10µg/kg) and detecting unexpected impurities in the spiking mix. Several “tracer” contaminants were considered, covering a broad range of physicochemical properties and structural diversity with overall 66% detected and annotated blindly. The methodology was successfully applied to a data set exhibiting only 3 “tracer” contaminants (at 50µg/kg) and more product diversity.  Dataset 1 with 1 tea spiked with 32 contaminants and referred to as the Development dataset is reported in the current study MTBLS752.  Dataset 2 with 2 teas spiked with 3 contaminants and referred to as the Validation dataset is reported in MTBLS754.  Linked Studies: MTBLS754
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Relationships between digestive efficiency and metabolomic profiles of serum and intestinal contents in chickens'.
Answer: The increasing cost of conventional feedstuffs has bolstered interest in genetic selection for digestive efficiency (DE), a component of feed efficiency, assessed by apparent metabolisable energy corrected to zero nitrogen retention (AMEn). However, its measurement is time-consuming and constraining, and its relationship with metabolic efficiency poorly understood. To simplify selection for this trait, we searched for indirect metabolic biomarkers through an analysis of the serum metabolome using nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR). A partial least squares (PLS) model including six amino acids and two derivatives from butyrate predicted 59% of AMEn variability. Moreover, to increase our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms controlling DE, we investigated 1H NMR metabolomes of ileal, caecal, and serum contents by fitting canonical sparse PLS. This analysis revealed strong associations between metabolites and DE. Models based on the ileal, caecal, and serum metabolome respectively explained 77%, 78%, and 74% of the variability of AMEn and its constitutive components (utilisation of starch, lipids, and nitrogen). In our conditions, the metabolites presenting the strongest associations with AMEn were proline in the serum, fumarate in the ileum and glucose in caeca. This study shows that serum metabolomics offers new opportunities to predict chicken DE.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Maternal Gut Microbiota Influences Immune Activation at the Maternal-Fetal Interface Affecting Pregnancy Outcome'.
Answer: Preeclampsia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in pregnant women, affecting 5-8% of gestations worldwide. Its development is influenced by maternal immune abnormalities, metabolic disorders and gut dysbiosis. In this study, we show that gut dysbiosis in pregnant C57BL/6J dams leads to increased fetal resorption, impaired placental development and altered vascularization. These adverse outcomes are associated with key pathological features of preeclampsia, including hypoxia, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and reduction in uterine natural killer (NK) cell numbers. Furthermore, gut dysbiosis significantly perturbs placental carbohydrate metabolism, which impairs NK cell IFN-γ secretion. Notably, glucose supplementation restores placental NK cell function and reduces fetal resorption, suggesting that the observed impairment is reversible and dependent on a lower glycolytic rate. These findings highlight maternal gut microbiota as a key player in carbohydrate metabolism, with a pivotal role in modulating placental immunity and pregnancy outcome. The results provide valuable insights into potential metabolic biomarkers and suggest that targeting the gut microbiota may offer a strategy for preventing preeclampsia.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Extracellular Vesicles from probiotics mediated Walnut green husk polysaccharide alleviates ochratoxin-A-induced cognitive impairment via SCFA and 5-HT mediated microbiota-gut-brain axis'.
Answer: BACKGROUND: Ochratoxin A (OTA) have made it a serious hazard to food safety worldwide that poses a serious health risk to humans. Our previous research showed that Walnut green husk polysaccharides (WGP) can effectively alleviate intestinal inflammation and intestinal microbiota disturbances caused by OTA. The present study further explored whether WGP can prevents OTA-induced cognitive impairments and elucidate its neuroprotective mechanism. Here, we established fecal microbiota transplantation, Lactobacillus johnsonii (L.john) and Akkermansia muciniphila (AKK) colonization, L.john and AKK-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs), as well as 5-HT and short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) supplementation tests to evaluate the role of the intestinal microbiota and its metabolites in WGP in alleviating OTA-induced cognitive impairment. RESULTS: OTA exposure induced cognitive impairments and inhibition of hippocampal neurogenesis, which was reversed by WGP supplementation. Meanwhile, WGP supplementation significantly reversed OTA-induced gut dysbacteriosis and low abundance of L.john and AKK, high proinflammation factor levels and low neurotransmitter levels in serum, intestine and hippocampus, as well as low SCFA levels in fecal. Antibiotic cocktail treatment eliminates the neuroprotective effect of WGP on OTA-treated mice. In addition, transplantation of the OTA-gut microbiota into normal mice causing similar results to OTA treatment, and these changes were alleviated with the transplantation of OTA+WGP-gut microbiota. Furthermore, colonization with L.john and AKK markedly reversed OTA-induced cognitive impairments and inhibition of hippocampal neurogenesis, as well as increased 5-HT and SCFA levels. EVs derived from L.john and AKK exhibit consistent performance with colonized L.john and AKK, and also have superior abilities in alleviating OTA-induced cognitive impairment and inhibiting hippocampal neurogenesis. Moreover, as a key regulatory factor of microbiota-gut-brain axis, 5-HT and SCFA supplementation significantly alleviated OTA-induced cognitive impairment and inhibition of hippocampal neurogenesis. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, this work provides new evidence for microbiota-gut-brain axis involved in the neuroprotective effects of WGP on OTA-induced cognitive dysfunction. L.john, AKK and its derived EVs mediate the ameliorative effects of WGP on OTA-induced cognitive impairment. A feasible mechanism is that WGP increased the content of L.john, AKK and its derived EVs, which improve 5-HT and SCFA production in colon to ameliorate cognitive impairment and enhance hippocampal neurogenesis.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Fecal metabolomic study in patients with choledocholithiasis concurrent with cholangitis'.
Answer: Metabolites associated with the gut microbiota play an important role in the pathogenesis of choledocholithiasis concurrent with cholangitis (CC). This study aims to characterize the fecal metabolite profile of CC patients and to investigate the correlation and balance within the gut cross-domain network.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Untargeted serum metabolomics of ulcerative colitis patients vs healthy subjects using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry'.
Answer: Metabolic profiling of serum samples were performed on an Agilent 1290 infinity system (Agilent technologies, Santa-Clara, California, USA) coupled to an AB SCIEX Triple TOF 6600 System (AB SCIEX, Framingham, MA, USA) with an electrospray ion (ESI) source in both positive and negative ion modes. There were 30 differential metabolites under positive ion mode and 23 differential metabolites under negative ion mode, respectively.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Strong effect of Penicillium roqueforti populations on volatile and metabolic compounds responsible for aromas, flavour and texture in blue cheeses'.
Answer: Studies of food microorganism domestication can provide important insight into adaptation mechanisms and lead to commercial applications. Penicillium roqueforti is a fungus with four genetically differentiated populations, two of which were independently domesticated for blue cheese-making, with the other two populations thriving in other environments. Most blue cheeses are made with strains from a single P. roqueforti population, whereas Roquefort cheeses are inoculated with strains from a second population. We made blue cheeses in accordance with the production specifications for Roquefort-type cheeses, inoculating each cheese with a single P. roqueforti strain, using a total of three strains from each of the four populations. We investigated differences between the cheeses made with the strains from the four P. roqueforti populations, in terms of the induced flora, the proportion of blue color, water activity and the identity and abundance of aqueous and organic metabolites as proxies for proteolysis and lipolysis as well as volatile compounds responsible for flavor and aroma. We found that the population-of-origin of the P. roqueforti strains used for inoculation had a minor impact on bacterial diversity and no effect on the abundance of the main microorganism. The cheeses produced with P. roqueforti strains from cheese populations had a higher percentage of blue area and a higher abundance of the volatile compounds typical of blue cheeses, such as methyl ketones and secondary alcohols. In particular, the Roquefort strains produced higher amounts of these aromatic compounds, partly due to more efficient proteolysis and lipolysis. The Roquefort strains also led to cheeses with a lower water availability, an important feature for preventing spoilage in blue cheeses, which is subject to controls for the sale of Roquefort cheese. The typical appearance and flavors of blue cheeses thus result from human selection on P. roqueforti, leading to the acquisition of specific features by the two cheese populations. These findings have important implications for our understanding of adaptation and domestication, and for cheese improvement.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Zika virus disrupts steroidogenesis and impairs spermatogenesis by stalling the translation of CYP17A1 mRNA'.
Answer: ZIKV infection is associated with testicular damage and abnormal spermatogenesis. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying these pathogenic processes remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that ZIKV disrupts Leydig cells' ability to produce testosterone, leading to decreased sperm counts and motility. Specifically, the non-structural protein NS2A of ZIKV downregulates testosterone production by directly binding to mRNA of CYP17A1, a key enzyme in testosterone synthesis, thereby inhibiting its translation. Notably, the sole membrane-traversing segment and its flanking loops of NS2A are crucial for this interaction with CYP17A1 mRNA. Scanning mutagenesis studies within this sequence identified amino acid residues critical for NS2A binding and the suppression of CYP17A1 mRNA translation. Testicular inoculation of adeno-associated virus (AAV) delivering ZIKV-NS2A or its mutant showed that ZIKV-NS2A alone is sufficient to affect steroidogenesis and spermatogenesis in vivo. Moreover, a mutant virus generated by reverse genetics, containing a single amino acid mutation that abolishes NS2A's binding to CYP17A1 mRNA, exhibited significantly lower inhibition of steroidogenesis and spermatogenesis compared to the wild-type virus in mouse models. These findings enhance our understanding of how ZIKV impacts male reproductive health and provide crucial insights for future preventive and therapeutic strategies.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Homeostasis of the biosynthetic E. coli metabolome'.
Answer: Metabolite concentrations vary across conditions and such metabolome changes are relevant for metabolic and gene regulation. Here, we used LC-MS/MS to explore metabolite concentration changes in Escherichia coli. We measured 101 primary metabolites in 19 experimental conditions that include various nutrients and stresses. Many metabolites showed little variation across conditions and only few metabolites correlated with the growth rate. The least varying metabolites were nucleotides (e.g. UTP had 10% variation) and amino acids (e.g. methionine had 13% variation). These results show that E. coli maintains protein and RNA building blocks within narrow concentration ranges, thus indicating that many feedback mechanisms in biosynthetic pathways contribute to end-product homeostasis.
Question: Write a study description for the study titled 'Niacin restriction with NAMPT-inhibition is synthetic lethal to neuroendocrine carcinoma (Cell NAMPTi treatment)'.
Answer: NAMPT plays a major role in NAD biosynthesis in many cancers and is an attractive potential cancer target. However, factors dictating therapeutic efficacy of NAMPT inhibitors (NAMPTi) are unclear. We report that neuroendocrine phenotypes predict lung and prostate carcinoma vulnerability to NAMPTi, and that NAMPTi therapy against those cancers is enhanced by dietary modification. Neuroendocrine differentiation of tumor cells was associated with down-regulation of genes relevant to QPRT-dependent de novo NAD synthesis, promoting NAMPTi susceptibility in vitro. We also found that circulating nicotinic acid riboside (NAR), a non-canonical niacin absent in culture media, antagonizes NAMPTi efficacy as it fuels NAMPT-independent but NMRK1-dependent NAD synthesis in tumors. In mouse transplantation models, depleting blood NAR by nutritional or genetic manipulations was synthetic lethal to tumors when combined with NAMPTi. Our findings provide a rationale for simultaneous targeting of NAR metabolism and NAMPT therapeutically in neuroendocrine carcinoma.Cell NAMPTi treatment is reported in the current study MTBLS7251.Mouse NAMPT targeted therapy is reported in MTBLS7252.Mouse NAD targeted time-course is reported in MTBLS7253.