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ArticleMetabolites2020

Biological Filtering and Substrate Promiscuity Prediction for Annotating Untargeted Metabolomics.

Neda Hassanpour, Nicholas Alden, Rani Menon, Arul Jayaraman, Kyongbum Lee, Soha Hassoun

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Article in Metabolites, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Neda HassanpourDepartment of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02421, USA.
Nicholas AldenDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02421, USA.
Rani MenonDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Arul JayaramanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Kyongbum LeeDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02421, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0699-8057
Soha HassounDepartment of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02421, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9477-2199
Tufts University · USTexas A&M University · US

Funding

Computational Techniques for Advancing Untargeted Metabolomics AnalysisR01GM132391 · NIGMS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI HASSOUN, SOHA · 2019 to 2022
$1.5M
National Science Foundation 1909536NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132391
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mass spectrometry coupled with chromatography separation techniques provides a powerful platform for untargeted metabolomics. Determining the chemical identities of detected compounds however remains a major challenge. Here, we present a novel computational workflow, termed extended metabolic model filtering (EMMF), that aims to engineer a candidate set, a listing of putative chemical identities to be used during annotation, through an extended metabolic model (EMM). An EMM includes not only canonical substrates and products of enzymes already cataloged in a database through a reference metabolic model, but also metabolites that can form due to substrate promiscuity. EMMF aims to strike a balance between discovering previously uncharacterized metabolites and the computational burden of annotation. EMMF was applied to untargeted LC-MS data collected from cultures of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells and murine cecal microbiota. EMM metabolites matched, on average, to 23.92% of measured masses, providing a > 7-fold increase in the candidate set size when compared to a reference metabolic model. Many metabolites suggested by EMMF are not catalogued in PubChem. For the CHO cell, we experimentally confirmed the presence of 4-hydroxyphenyllactate, a metabolite predicted by EMMF that has not been previously documented as part of the CHO cell metabolic model.

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enzyme promiscuityextended metabolic modelsmetabolite annotationmetabolomics

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PMID32326153
PMCPMC7241244
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