Bile acids and the gut microbiota: metabolic interactions and impacts on disease

SL Collins, JG Stine, JE Bisanz, CD Okafor… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite decades of bile acid research, diverse biological roles for bile acids have been
discovered recently due to developments in understanding the human microbiota. As …

Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics in microbiome investigations

A Bauermeister, H Mannochio-Russo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbiotas are a malleable part of ecosystems, including the human ecosystem.
Microorganisms affect not only the chemistry of their specific niche, such as the human gut …

Gut microbial metabolism of 5-ASA diminishes its clinical efficacy in inflammatory bowel disease

RS Mehta, JR Mayers, Y Zhang, A Bhosle… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
For decades, variability in clinical efficacy of the widely used inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD) drug 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) has been attributed, in part, to its acetylation and …

High-confidence structural annotation of metabolites absent from spectral libraries

MA Hoffmann, LF Nothias, M Ludwig… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Untargeted metabolomics experiments rely on spectral libraries for structure annotation, but,
typically, only a small fraction of spectra can be matched. Previous in silico methods search …

Feature-based molecular networking in the GNPS analysis environment

LF Nothias, D Petras, R Schmid, K Dührkop, J Rainer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular networking has become a key method to visualize and annotate the chemical
space in non-targeted mass spectrometry data. We present feature-based molecular …

Bile salt hydrolases shape the bile acid landscape and restrict Clostridioides difficile growth in the murine gut

MH Foley, ME Walker, AK Stewart, S O'Flaherty… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bile acids (BAs) mediate the crosstalk between human and microbial cells and influence
diseases including Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). While bile salt hydrolases (BSHs) …

microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data

S Zuffa, R Schmid, A Bauermeister, PW P. Gomes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract microbeMASST, a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry (MS) search tool,
tackles limited microbial metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics experiments …

Global chemical effects of the microbiome include new bile-acid conjugations

RA Quinn, AV Melnik, A Vrbanac, T Fu, KA Patras… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A mosaic of cross-phylum chemical interactions occurs between all metazoans and their
microbiomes. A number of molecular families that are known to be produced by the …

Ion mobility collision cross-section atlas for known and unknown metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics

Z Zhou, M Luo, X Chen, Y Yin, X **ong, R Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The metabolome includes not just known but also unknown metabolites; however,
metabolite annotation remains the bottleneck in untargeted metabolomics. Ion mobility …

Reverse metabolomics for the discovery of chemical structures from humans

EC Gentry, SL Collins, M Panitchpakdi, P Belda-Ferre… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Determining the structure and phenotypic context of molecules detected in untargeted
metabolomics experiments remains challenging. Here we present reverse metabolomics as …