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ArticleScientific reports2019

Itaconic acid inhibits growth of a pathogenic marine Vibrio strain: A metabolomics approach.

Thao Van Nguyen, Andrea C Alfaro, Tim Young, Saras Green, Erica Zarate, Fabrice Merien

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. The role and therapeutic potential of itaconate in lung disease.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2024
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  17. The role of itaconate in host defense and inflammation.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2022
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  20. Itaconate ameliorates methicillin-resistantAnnals of translational medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thao Van NguyenAquaculture Biotechnology Research Group, School of Science, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Andrea C AlfaroAquaculture Biotechnology Research Group, School of Science, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. andrea.alfaro@aut.ac.nz.
Tim YoungAquaculture Biotechnology Research Group, School of Science, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Saras GreenMass Spectrometry Centre, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Erica ZarateMass Spectrometry Centre, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Fabrice MerienAUT-Roche Diagnostics Laboratory, School of Science, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Auckland University of Technology · NZUniversity of Auckland · NZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The antimicrobial role of itaconic acid (ITA) has been recently discovered in mammalian cells. In our previous studies, we discovered that marine molluscs biosynthesise substantial quantities of ITA when exposed to marine pathogens, but its antimicrobial function to Vibrio bacteria is currently unknown. Thus, in this study, we used an untargeted gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) platform to identify metabolic changes of Vibrio sp. DO1 (V. corallyliticus/neptunius-like isolate) caused by ITA exposure. Vibrio sp. DO1 was cultured in Luria-Bertani broth supplemented with 3 mM sodium acetate and with different concentrations of ITA (0, 3 and 6 mM) for 24 h. The results showed that ITA completely inhibited Vibrio sp. growth at 6 mM and partially inhibited the bacterial growth at 3 mM. A principal component analysis (PCA) revealed a clear separation between metabolite profiles of Vibrio sp. DO1 in the 3 mM ITA treatment and the control, which were different in 25 metabolites. Among the altered metabolites, the accumulation of glyoxylic acid and other metabolites in glyoxylate cycle (cis-aconitic acid, isocitric acid and fumaric acid) together with the increase of isocitrate lyase (ICL) activity in the 3 mM ITA treatment compared to the control suggest that ITA inhibited Vibrio sp. growth via disruption of central carbon metabolism.

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AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsMetabolomeSuccinatesVibrioWater MicrobiologyAnti-Bacterial Agentsitaconic acidSuccinates

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PMID30976014
PMCPMC6459830
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