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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2017

Epimetabolites: discovering metabolism beyond building and burning.

Megan R Showalter, Tomas Cajka, Oliver Fiehn

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Megan R ShowalterNIH West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California Davis, Davis 95616 CA, United States.
Tomas CajkaNIH West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California Davis, Davis 95616 CA, United States.
Oliver FiehnNIH West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California Davis, Davis 95616 CA, United States; Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: ofiehn@ucdavis.edu.

Funding

West Coast Central Comprehensive Metabolomics Resource Core (WC3MRC)U24DK097154 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI FIEHN, OLIVER · 2012 to 2017
$9.9M
Functional Cardio-MetabolomicsP20HL113452 · NHLBI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI HAZEN, STANLEY L, TANG, WAI HONG WILSON · 2012 to 2016
$4.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS P20 HL113452NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK097154
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enzymatic transformations of primary, canonical metabolites generate active biomolecules that regulate important cellular and physiological processes. Roles include regulation of histone demethylation in epigenetics, inflammation in tissue injury, insulin sensitivity, cancer cell invasion, stem cell pluripotency status, inhibition of nitric oxide signaling and others. Such modified compounds, defined as epimetabolites, have functions distinct from classic hormones as well as removed from generic anabolism and catabolism. Epimetabolites are discovered by untargeted metabolomics using liquid- or gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry and structurally annotated by in-silico fragmentation prediction tools. Their specific biological functions are subsequently investigated by targeted metabolomics methods.

Indexed as

MetabolomeChromatographyHumansMass SpectrometryMetabolomicsMolecular StructureSoftware

Identifiers

PMID28213207
PMCPMC5850962

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