NMR-based Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics in systems biochemistry

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Abstract

Metabolism is the basic activity of live cells, and monitoring the metabolic state provides a dynamic picture of the cells or tissues, and how they respond to external changes, for in disease or treatment with drugs. NMR is an extremely versatile analytical tool that can be applied to a wide range of biochemical problems. Despite its modest sensitivity its versatility make it an ideal tool for analyzing biochemical dynamics both in vitro and in vivo, especially when coupled with its isotope editing capabilities, from which isotope distributions can be readily determined. These are critical for any analyses of flux in live organisms. This review focuses on the utility of NMR spectroscopy in metabolomics, with an emphasis on NMR applications in stable isotope-enriched tracer research for elucidating biochemical pathways and networks with examples from nucleotide biochemistry. The knowledge gained from this area of research provides a ready link to genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic information to achieve systems biochemical understanding of living cells and organisms.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)123-131
Number of pages9
JournalArchives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Volume628
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 15 2017

Bibliographical note

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© 2017 Elsevier Inc.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers 5P01CA163223, U24DK097215, 5R01ES022191].

FundersFunder number
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesU24DK097215
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China0447479
National Childhood Cancer Registry – National Cancer InstituteP30CA177558, P01CA163223
National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health SciencesR01ES022191

    Keywords

    • Isotope editing
    • Isotopomer distribution analysis
    • Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics (SIRM)

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Biophysics
    • Biochemistry
    • Molecular Biology

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