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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2018

Metabolomic "Dark Matter" Dependent on Peroxisomal β-Oxidation in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Alexander B Artyukhin, Ying K Zhang, Allison E Akagi, Oishika Panda, Paul W Sternberg, Frank C Schroeder

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander B ArtyukhinBoyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14850, United States.
Ying K ZhangBoyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14850, United States.
Allison E AkagiDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California 91125, United States.
Oishika PandaBoyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14850, United States.
Paul W SternbergDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California 91125, United States.
Frank C SchroederBoyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14850, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4420-0237
Cornell University · USCalifornia Institute of Technology · US

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRYT32GM007616 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI STERNBERG, PAUL WARREN · 1985 to 2019
$22.9M
Small Molecule Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegansR01GM088290 · NIGMS · BOYCE THOMPSON INST FOR PLANT RESEARCH · PI SCHROEDER, FRANK CLEMENS · 2010 to 2017
$2.2M
Starvation-induced social behavior in C. elegansR01GM113692 · NIGMS · BOYCE THOMPSON INST FOR PLANT RESEARCH · PI SCHROEDER, FRANK CLEMENS · 2016 to 2018
$1.1M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM088290NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM113692NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007616
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peroxisomal β-oxidation (pβo) is a highly conserved fat metabolism pathway involved in the biosynthesis of diverse signaling molecules in animals and plants. In Caenorhabditis elegans, pβo is required for the biosynthesis of the ascarosides, signaling molecules that control development, lifespan, and behavior in this model organism. Via comparative mass spectrometric analysis of pβo mutants and wildtype, we show that pβo in C. elegans and the satellite model P. pacificus contributes to life stage-specific biosynthesis of several hundred previously unknown metabolites. The pβo-dependent portion of the metabolome is unexpectedly diverse, e.g., intersecting with nucleoside and neurotransmitter metabolism. Cell type-specific restoration of pβo in pβo-defective mutants further revealed that pβo-dependent submetabolomes differ between tissues. These results suggest that interactions of fat, nucleoside, and other primary metabolism pathways can generate structural diversity reminiscent of that arising from combinatorial strategies in microbial natural product biosynthesis.

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MetabolomicsAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansGlycolipidsMolecular StructureOxidation-ReductionPeroxisomesGlycolipids

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PMID29401383
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