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 …

Fighting antibiotic resistance—strategies and (pre) clinical developments to find new antibacterials

S Walesch, J Birkelbach, G Jézéquel, FPJ Haeckl… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Antibacterial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. The development of
new therapeutics against bacterial pathogens has slowed drastically since the approvals of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics

M Miethke, M Pieroni, T Weber, M Brönstrup… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
An ever-increasing demand for novel antimicrobials to treat life-threatening infections
caused by the global spread of multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens stands in stark …

Systematic classification of unknown metabolites using high-resolution fragmentation mass spectra

K Dührkop, LF Nothias, M Fleischauer, R Reher… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Metabolomics using nontargeted tandem mass spectrometry can detect thousands of
molecules in a biological sample. However, structural molecule annotation is limited to …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Ecology and genomics of Actinobacteria: new concepts for natural product discovery

DA van Bergeijk, BR Terlouw, MH Medema… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Actinobacteria constitute a highly diverse bacterial phylum with an unrivalled metabolic
versatility. They produce most of the clinically used antibiotics and a plethora of other natural …

Strategies to access biosynthetic novelty in bacterial genomes for drug discovery

F Hemmerling, J Piel - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Bacteria provide a rich source of natural products with potential therapeutic applications,
such as novel antibiotic classes or anticancer drugs. Bioactivity-guided screening of …

[HTML][HTML] Human gut bacterial metabolism drives Th17 activation and colitis

M Alexander, QY Ang, RR Nayak, AE Bustion… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Bacterial activation of T helper 17 (Th17) cells exacerbates mouse models of autoimmunity,
but how human-associated bacteria impact Th17-driven disease remains elusive. We show …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in decomposing complex metabolite mixtures using substructure-and network-based computational metabolomics approaches

MA Beniddir, KB Kang, G Genta-Jouve, F Huber… - Natural product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the end of 2020 Recently introduced computational metabolome mining
tools have started to positively impact the chemical and biological interpretation of …