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Trial reportJournal of proteome research2019

Proteomic Analysis of Human Plasma during Intermittent Fasting.

Dylan J Harney, Amy T Hutchison, Luke Hatchwell, Sean J Humphrey, David E James, Samantha Hocking, Leonie K Heilbronn, Mark Larance

Open access · greenAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of proteome research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 110 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dylan J HarneyCharles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences , University of Sydney , Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia.
Amy T HutchisonDiscipline of Medicine , University of Adelaide , Adelaide , SA 5005 , Australia.
Luke HatchwellCharles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences , University of Sydney , Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia.
Sean J HumphreyCharles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences , University of Sydney , Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia.
David E JamesCharles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences , University of Sydney , Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia.
Samantha HockingCentral Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health , University of Sydney , Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia.
Leonie K HeilbronnDiscipline of Medicine , University of Adelaide , Adelaide , SA 5005 , Australia.
Mark LaranceCharles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences , University of Sydney , Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8579-2267
The University of Sydney · AUThe University of Adelaide · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intermittent fasting (IF) increases lifespan and decreases metabolic disease phenotypes and cancer risk in model organisms, but the health benefits of IF in humans are less clear. Human plasma derived from clinical trials is one of the most difficult sample sets to analyze using mass spectrometry-based proteomics due to the extensive sample preparation required and the need to process many samples to achieve statistical significance. Here, we describe an optimized and accessible device (Spin96) to accommodate up to 96 StageTips, a widely used sample preparation medium enabling efficient and consistent processing of samples prior to LC-MS/MS. We have applied this device to the analysis of human plasma from a clinical trial of IF. In this longitudinal study employing 8-weeks IF, we identified significant abundance differences induced by the IF intervention, including increased apolipoprotein A4 (APOA4) and decreased apolipoprotein C2 (APOC2) and C3 (APOC3). These changes correlated with a significant decrease in plasma triglycerides after the IF intervention. Given that these proteins have a role in regulating apolipoprotein particle metabolism, we propose that IF had a positive effect on lipid metabolism through modulation of HDL particle size and function. In addition, we applied a novel human protein variant database to detect common protein variants across the participants. We show that consistent detection of clinically relevant peptides derived from both alleles of many proteins is possible, including some that are associated with human metabolic phenotypes. Together, these findings illustrate the power of accessible workflows for proteomics analysis of clinical samples to yield significant biological insight.

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AdultAgedApolipoprotein C-IIApolipoprotein C-IIIApolipoproteins AChromatography, LiquidDatabases, ProteinFastingFemaleGene ExpressionHumansLipid MetabolismLipoproteins, HDLLongitudinal StudiesMiddle AgedParticle SizeAPOC3 protein, humanapolipoprotein A-IVApolipoprotein C-IIApolipoprotein C-IIIApolipoproteins ALipoproteins, HDLTriglycerides3D-printing96-wellhumanintermittent fastingliquid chromatographymass spectrometry (MS)plasmasample cleanupsolid-phase extraction (SPE)

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PMID30892045
PMCPMC6503536
OpenAlexW2923047521

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