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ReviewMetabolites2020

Metabolomics in the Context of Plant Natural Products Research: From Sample Preparation to Metabolite Analysis.

Mohamed A Salem, Leonardo Perez de Souza, Ahmed Serag, Alisdair R Fernie, Mohamed A Farag, Shahira M Ezzat, Saleh Alseekh

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Review in Metabolites, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 111 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

111 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Phytochemical Diversity inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  15. Comparative Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Analysis ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  19. Metabolomic Analysis of Tomato Plants Treated With Garlic Extract,Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025
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51 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

7 authors.

Mohamed A SalemDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Menoufia University, Gamal Abd El Nasr st., Shibin Elkom, Menoufia 32511, Egypt.
Leonardo Perez de SouzaMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
Ahmed SeragPharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11751, Egypt.
Alisdair R FernieMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
Mohamed A FaragPharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
Shahira M EzzatPharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
Saleh AlseekhMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant-derived natural products have long been considered a valuable source of lead compounds for drug development. Natural extracts are usually composed of hundreds to thousands of metabolites, whereby the bioactivity of natural extracts can be represented by synergism between several metabolites. However, isolating every single compound from a natural extract is not always possible due to the complex chemistry and presence of most secondary metabolites at very low levels. Metabolomics has emerged in recent years as an indispensable tool for the analysis of thousands of metabolites from crude natural extracts, leading to a paradigm shift in natural products drug research. Analytical methods such as mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) are used to comprehensively annotate the constituents of plant natural products for screening, drug discovery as well as for quality control purposes such as those required for phytomedicine. In this review, the current advancements in plant sample preparation, sample measurements, and data analysis are presented alongside a few case studies of the successful applications of these processes in plant natural product drug discovery.

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drug discoverygas chromatographyliquid chromatographymass spectrometrymetabolite extractionmetabolomicsNMRplant natural products

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PMID31952212
PMCPMC7023240

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