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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Human metabolome variation along the upper intestinal tract

J Folz, RN Culver, JM Morales, J Grembi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most processing of the human diet occurs in the small intestine. Metabolites in the small
intestine originate from host secretions, plus the ingested exposome and microbial …

Bile salt hydrolase catalyses formation of amine-conjugated bile acids

B Rimal, SL Collins, CE Tanes, ER Rocha, MA Granda… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract produce amino acid bile acid amidates that can affect
host-mediated metabolic processes,,,,–; however, the bacterial gene (s) responsible for their …

Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery

MW Mullowney, KR Duncan, SS Elsayed… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Developments in computational omics technologies have provided new means to access
the hidden diversity of natural products, unearthing new potential for drug discovery. In …

MSNovelist: de novo structure generation from mass spectra

MA Stravs, K Dührkop, S Böcker, N Zamboni - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
Current methods for structure elucidation of small molecules rely on finding similarity with
spectra of known compounds, but do not predict structures de novo for unknown compound …