Nucleoside Analogs: A Review of Its Source and Separation Processes

P Wang, T Cheng, J Pan - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nucleoside analogs play a crucial role in the production of high-value antitumor and
antimicrobial drugs. Currently, nucleoside analogs are mainly obtained through nucleic acid …

Challenges and possibilities for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of phosphate metabolites

P Zhang, M Gao, Z Zhang, F Xu - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Phosphate metabolites (PMs) are endogenous substances that contain phosphate groups,
constituting over half of the small molecules in the body. They play crucial roles in various …

MTAP deficiency creates an exploitable target for antifolate therapy in 9p21-loss cancers

O Alhalabi, J Chen, Y Zhang, Y Lu, Q Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Methylthioadenosine phosphorylase, an essential enzyme for the adenine salvage pathway,
is often deficient (MTAPdef) in tumors with 9p21 loss and hypothetically renders tumors …

Phytotherapy using blueberry leaf polyphenols to alleviate non-alcoholic fatty liver disease through improving mitochondrial function and oxidative defense

Z Li, H Zhang, Y Li, H Chen, C Wang, VKW Wong… - Phytomedicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Since non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) pathogenesis is multi-factorial,
pharmacotherapy with a specific target commonly exhibits limited efficacy. Phytotherapy …

Chemical tagging assisted mass spectrometry analysis enables sensitive determination of phosphorylated compounds in a single cell

FL Liu, TT Ye, JH Ding, XM Yin, XK Yang… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polar phosphorylated metabolites are involved in a variety of biological processes and play
vital roles in energetic metabolism, cofactor regeneration, and nucleic acid synthesis …

Challenges in analysis of hydrophilic metabolites using chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry

Q Hu, H Tang, Y Wang - Journal of Analysis and Testing, 2020 - Springer
Hydrophilic metabolites play important roles in cellular energy metabolism, signal
transduction, immunity. However, there are challenges in both identification and …

Diazo reagent labeling with mass spectrometry analysis for sensitive determination of ribonucleotides in living organisms

FL Liu, CB Qi, QY Cheng, JH Ding, BF Yuan… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ribonucleotide analogues and their related phosphorylated metabolites play critical roles in
tumor metabolism. However, determination of the endogenous ribonucleotides from the …

Analyzing RNA posttranscriptional modifications to decipher the epitranscriptomic code

L Deng, J Kumar, R Rose, W McIntyre… - Mass Spectrometry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of RNA silencing has revealed that non‐protein‐coding sequences (ncRNAs)
can cover essential roles in regulatory networks and their malfunction may result in severe …

New perspectives in cancer biology from a study of canonical and non-canonical functions of base excision repair proteins with a focus on early steps

MC Malfatti, G Antoniali, M Codrich, S Burra… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Alterations of DNA repair enzymes and consequential triggering of aberrant DNA damage
response (DDR) pathways are thought to play a pivotal role in genomic instabilities …

Novel sampling and gas-phase derivatization strategy: Proof-of-concept by profiling ionic polar metabolites using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

K Kawamura, E Fukusaki - Journal of bioscience and bioengineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Gas–solid phase derivatization (GSPD) as a novel gas-phase derivatization for
GC-MS-based metabolomics was proposed.•GSPD methods for organic acids and sugar …