ArticleMetabolites2024
Impact of Phenylketonuria on the Serum Metabolome and Plasma Lipidome: A Study in Early-Treated Patients.
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- Pushing the Boundaries of Biomarker Discovery in Phenylketonuria: Metabolomic Profiling Reveals Novel Biomarkers and Their Associations with Phenylalanine.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Emerging Role of N-Lactoyl-Phenylalanine (Lac-Phe) in Metabolic Regulation and Disease: From Exercise-Induced Metabolite to Therapeutic Candidate.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Beyond exercise and appetite: The expanding biology and therapeutic potential of N-lactoyl-phenylalanine.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2026Review
- Untargeted Metabolomics for Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Understanding the Pathophysiology of Inherited Metabolic Disorders.Journal of inherited metabolic disease · 2026Review
- Untargeted Metabolomic Study for Urinary Characterization of Adult Patients with Phenylketonuria.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Metabolomics and Lipidomics Explore Phenotype-Specific Molecular Signatures for Phenylketonuria.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Multimodal Metabolomic Analysis Reveals Novel Metabolic Disturbances in Adults With Early Treated Phenylketonuria.JIMD reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundData suggest that metabolites, other than blood phenylalanine (Phe), better and independently predict clinical outcomes in patients with phenylketonuria (PKU).
methodsTo find new biomarkers, we compared the results of untargeted lipidomics and metabolomics in treated adult PKU patients to those of matched controls. Samples (lipidomics in EDTA-plasma (22 PKU and 22 controls) and metabolomics in serum (35 PKU and 20 controls)) were analyzed using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Data were subjected to multivariate (PCA, OPLS-DA) and univariate (Mann-Whitney U test,
resultsLevels of 33 (of 20,443) lipid features and 56 (of 5885) metabolite features differed statistically between PKU patients and controls. For lipidomics, findings include higher glycerolipids, glycerophospholipids, and sphingolipids species. Significantly lower values were found for sterols and glycerophospholipids species. Seven features had unknown identities. Total triglyceride content was higher. Higher Phe and Phe catabolites, tryptophan derivatives, pantothenic acid, and dipeptides were observed for metabolomics. Ornithine levels were lower. Twenty-six metabolite features were not annotated.
conclusionsThis study provides insight into the metabolic phenotype of PKU patients. Additional studies are required to establish whether the observed changes result from PKU itself, diet, and/or an unknown reason.
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