Search results for " metabolomic"
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Perturbation of metabolic pathways mediates the association of air pollutants with asthma and cardiovascular diseases.
2018
Background: Epidemiologic evidence indicates common risk factors, including air pollution exposure, for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, suggesting the involvement of common altered molecular pathways. Objectives: The goal was to find intermediate metabolites or metabolic pathways that could be associated with both air pollutants and health outcomes (“meeting-in-the-middle”), thus shedding light on mechanisms and reinforcing causality. Methods: We applied a statistical approach named ‘meet-in-the-middle’ to untargeted metabolomics in two independent case-control studies nested in cohorts on adult-onset asthma (AOA) and cardio-cerebrovascular diseases (CCVD). We compared the results …
Gluten-free flours from cereals, pseudocereals and legumes: Phenolic fingerprints and in vitro antioxidant properties.
2018
The interest in gluten-free (GF) products increases together with the increase in gluten-sensitive people. However, GF foods might have decreased nutritional quality as compared to the gluten containing counterparts. In this work, an investigation of the phenolic and antioxidant profile in 18 GF flours belonging to legumes, cereals and pseudocereals was achieved. Significant differences could be observed across samples. Total phenolic content was highest in violet rice flours, whereas total anthocyanins were highest in violet, nerone, and black rice flours. FRAP and ORAC antioxidant activities were correlated to phenolic contents and found to be higher in violet rice flours. Metabolomics hi…
Metabolomic Analysis Of Durum Wheat Roots In Response to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculation in Field Conditions
2014
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are commonly occurring fungi that live in an obligate symbiotic status with the majority of land plants. The objective of the present work was to gain insight into the root metabolism changes (primary and secondary metabolism) of durum wheat in response to solely AM fungi inoculation or to combination of AM fungi with plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) (Bacillus spp.). Field trial was performed in 2010–2011 in a typical semi-arid Mediterranean area (inner land of Sicily) in absence of fertilization. The untarget metabolomics analysis using the Agilent GC–quadrupole MS identified metabolites playing a key role in symbiosis as well as in root physiol…
Influence of regionality and maturation time on the chemical fingerprint of whisky.
2020
International audience; Understanding the chemical composition of whisky and the impact of each step in the manufacturing process provides a basis for responding to the challenges of producing high quality spirits. In this study, the objective was to discriminate whiskies according to their geographical origin and authenticate the maturation time in cask based on the non-volatile profiles. The combination of FT-ICR-MS and chemometrics allowed the distinction of whiskies from four geographical origins in Scotland (Highlands, Lowlands, Speyside and Islay). Statistical modeling was also used to discriminate whiskies according to the maturation time in cask and reveal chemical markers associate…
Multiscale modeling on biological systems
2018
Effects of irrigation on fruit ripening behavior and metabolic changes in olive
2012
Olive (Olea europaea, cv Leccino) fruits grown under different water regimes were analyzed by metabolomics and specific transcript accumulation analyses. The fruit from non-irrigated (rain-fed) and irrigated trees cultivated under field conditions, with a seasonal water amount equivalent to the calculated crop evapotranspiration (ETc) was compared in the last developmental phase and, in particular, at commercial harvest. Metabolomics (GC-MS) analysis identified several hundred metabolites in ripe mesocarp, 46 of which showed significantly different contents in the rain-fed and irrigated samples. Some compounds involved in primary metabolism (carbohydrates, amino acids, organic acids) and se…
MOLECULAR AND METABOLIC ANALYSES IN DEVELOPING OLIVE FRUIT IN RELATION TO DIFFERENT WATER REGIMES
2011
Despite the global economic importance of olive (Olea europaea L.), little is known about the molecular and metabolic changes during fruit development and the modulation of quality-related metabolic pathways during drought stress. In this work, we report the expression pattern of genes involved in important pathways of secondary metabolism (polyphenols, terpenoids) during fruit development in rainfed or fully irrigated olive plants. Phenolic compounds represent a complex mixture in both olive fruits and oil. The interest on these compounds is due to their demonstrated anti-atherogenic and anti-cancerogenic effects providing to the olive oil important nutraceutical properties. Several parame…
The metabolic profile of lemon juice by proton HR-MAS NMR: the case of the PGI Interdonato Lemon of Messina
2015
We have studied by means of High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (HR-MAS NMR) the metabolic profile of the famous Sicilian lemon known as 'Interdonato Lemon of Messina PGI'. The PGI Interdonato Lemon of Messina possesses high organoleptic and healthy properties and is recognised as one of the most nutrient fruits. In particular, some of its constituents are actively studied for their chemo-preventive and therapeutic properties. In this paper, we have determined by means of HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy the molar concentration of the main metabolites constituent the juice of PGI Interdonato Lemon of Messina in comparison with that of the not-PGI Interdonato Lemon of Turk…
Transcriptome and metabolome analysis of citrus fruit to elucidate puffing disorder.
2014
a b s t r a c t A systems-level analysis reveals details of molecular mechanisms underlying puffing disorder in Citrus fruit. Flavedo, albedo and juice sac tissues of normal fruits and fruits displaying symptoms of puffing disorder were studied using metabolomics at three developmental stages. Microarrays were used to compare normal and puffed fruits for each of the three tissues. A protein-protein interaction network inferred from previous work on Arabidopsis identified hub proteins whose transcripts show significant changes in expression. Glycolysis, the backbone of primary metabolism, appeared to be severely affected by the disorder, based on both transcriptomic and metabolomic results. …
Supplemental Table 1. Spearman rank order correlations between individual analysis methods. Significant (p<0.05) coefficients (rs) are indicated i…
2019
Supplemental Table 1. Spearman rank order correlations between individual analysis methods. Significant (p<0.05) coefficients (rs) are indicated in bold. Supplemental Table 2. Impact of amount of starting DNA on telomere lengths (n=3) calculated using 4 different analysis methods and applying 2 different equations.