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ArticleFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2020

Who Is Metabolizing What? Discovering Novel Biomolecules in the Microbiome and the Organisms Who Make Them.

Sneha P Couvillion, Neha Agrawal, Sean M Colby, Kristoffer R Brandvold, Thomas O Metz

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Article in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. ReducingAnalytical chemistry · 2023
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sneha P CouvillionBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States.
Neha AgrawalBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States.
Sean M ColbyBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States.
Kristoffer R BrandvoldBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States.
Thomas O MetzBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory · USGeorgia Highlands College · US

Funding

Pacific Northwest Advanced Compound Identification CoreU2CES030170 · NIEHS · BATTELLE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORIES · PI SMITH, RICHARD D · 2018 to 2021
$4.6M
Mammary and milk microbiomes and metabolomes - Understanding early variation and impacts on risk for mammary inflammation and mastitisR01HD092297 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI MCGUIRE, MICHELLE KAY · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD092297NIEHS NIH HHS U2C ES030170
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Even as the field of microbiome research has made huge strides in mapping microbial community composition in a variety of environments and organisms, explaining the phenotypic influences on the host by microbial taxa-both known and unknown-and their specific functions still remain major challenges. A pressing need is the ability to assign specific functions in terms of enzymes and small molecules to specific taxa or groups of taxa in the community. This knowledge will be crucial for advancing personalized therapies based on the targeted modulation of microbes or metabolites that have predictable outcomes to benefit the human host. This perspective article advocates for the combined use of standards-free metabolomics and activity-based protein profiling strategies to address this gap in functional knowledge in microbiome research via the identification of novel biomolecules and the attribution of their production to specific microbial taxa.

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MicrobiotaHumansMetabolomicsABPPfunctionhuman healthmicrobiomestandards-free metabolomics

Identifiers

PMID32850487
PMCPMC7410922
OpenAlexW3046566812

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