Small molecule metabolites: discovery of biomarkers and therapeutic targets

S Qiu, Y Cai, H Yao, C Lin, Y Xie, S Tang… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic abnormalities lead to the dysfunction of metabolic pathways and metabolite
accumulation or deficiency which is well-recognized hallmarks of diseases. Metabolite …

Pathways to engineering the phyllosphere microbiome for sustainable crop production

C Zhan, H Matsumoto, Y Liu, M Wang - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Current disease resistance breeding, which is largely dependent on the exploitation of
resistance genes in host plants, faces the serious challenges of rapidly evolving …

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 …

Metabolite annotation from knowns to unknowns through knowledge-guided multi-layer metabolic networking

Z Zhou, M Luo, H Zhang, Y Yin, Y Cai, ZJ Zhu - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based untargeted metabolomics allows
to measure both known and unknown metabolites in the metabolome. However, unknown …

Microbiome epidemiology and association studies in human health

H VanEvery, EA Franzosa, LH Nguyen… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Studies of the human microbiome share both technical and conceptual similarities with
genome-wide association studies and genetic epidemiology. However, the microbiome has …

Visualization of metabolites and microbes at high spatial resolution using MALDI mass spectrometry imaging and in situ fluorescence labeling

P Bourceau, B Geier, V Suerdieck, T Bien… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Label-free molecular imaging techniques such as matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization
mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) enable the direct and simultaneous mapping of …

Biochar drives humus formation during composting by regulating the specialized metabolic features of microbiome

Q Liu, X He, K Wang, D Li - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Humus formation of composting is crucial for improving organic fertilizer quality. Biochar has
been found to be a low-cost, eco-friendly and effective promoter for humus formation, while …

Anti-Alzheimers molecular mechanism of icariin: insights from gut microbiota, metabolomics, and network pharmacology

Y Liu, H Li, X Wang, J Huang, D Zhao, Y Tan… - Journal of translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background Icariin (ICA), an active ingredient extracted from Epimedium species, has
shown promising results in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD), although its potential …

Seed biopriming for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem restoration

P Singh, A Vaishnav, H Liu, C Xiong… - Microbial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The utilization of microbial inoculants in the realm of sustainable agricultural and ecosystem
restoration has witnessed a surge in recent decades. This rise is largely attributed to …

The emerging roles of bacterial proteases in intestinal diseases

A Caminero, M Guzman, J Libertucci, AE Lomax - Gut Microbes, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Proteases are an evolutionarily conserved family of enzymes that degrade peptide bonds
and have been implicated in several common gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. Although …