Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: High-coverage metabolomics uncovers microbiota-driven biochemical landscape of interorgan transport and gut-brain communication in mice
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26209-8
Figure Lengend Snippet: a Variable importance plot of top 50 serum metabolites ( y -axis) ranked by contribution to mean decrease accuracy of Gini coefficient ( x -axis) in the random forest model for discerning group difference. b Diagram summary of perturbed serum pathways of phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis and metabolism. c, d MetaMapp metabolomic networks of 88 metabolite pairs altered in feces ( c ) and serum ( d ), with nodes representing individual metabolites, edges for biochemical (KEGG reactant pairs) and chemical (Tanimoto coefficient > 0.7) relationships, and lower transparency for lower adjusted p values (<0.05, two-sided Welch’s t -test). TMAO trimethylamine N-oxide, PS phosphatidylserine, Phe L-phenylalanine, Tyr L-tyrosine, Trp L-tryptophan, Kyn L-kynurenine, AA anthranilate, IAA indole-3-acetate, IPA indole-3-propionate, ILA indole-3-lactate, IArcA indole-3-acrylate, I3A indole-3-carboxaldehyde, Shikimate 3-P shikimate 3-phosphate, DHICA 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylate, AKG α-ketoglutarate, L-DOPA L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, SULT sulfotransferase, CYP450 cytochrome 450, TCA cycle tricarboxylic acid cycle.
Article Snippet: Stable-isotope-labeling internal standards for a range of classical neurotransmitters and tryptophan catabolites, including acetylcholine-d13 (N,N,N-trimethyl-d9; 1,1,2,2-d4) (d13-ACh; catalog #D-1780), γ-aminobutyric acid-d2 (d2-GABA; catalog #D-1731), L-glutamine-2,3,3,4,4-d5 (d5-Gln; catalog #D-2532), L-tryptophan-2,3,3-d3 (d3-Trp; catalog #D-7419), serotonin-α,α,β,β-d4 (d4-5HT; catalog #D-1550), L-kynurenine (ring-d4, 3,3-d2) (d6-Kyn; catalog #DLM-7842), indole-3-acetic-2,2-d2 acid (d2-IAA; catalog #D-1709) and indole-3-propionic-2,2-d2 acid (d2-IPA; catalog #D-7686) were obtained from CDN Isotopes (Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada) and Cambridge Isotopes (Tewksbury, MA, USA).
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