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Software Supporting a Workflow of Quantitative Dynamic Flux Maps Estimation in Central Metabolism from SIRM Experimental Data

  • Vitaly A. SelivanovEmail author
  • Silvia Marin
  • Josep Tarragó-Celada
  • Andrew N. Lane
  • Richard M. Higashi
  • Teresa W.-M. Fan
  • Pedro de Atauri
  • Marta CascanteEmail author
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Part of the Methods in Molecular Biology book series (MIMB, volume 2088)

Abstract

Stable isotope-resolved metabolomics (SIRM), based on the analysis of biological samples from living cells incubated with artificial isotope enriched substrates, enables mapping the rates of biochemical reactions (metabolic fluxes). We developed software supporting a workflow of analysis of SIRM data obtained with mass spectrometry (MS). The evaluation of fluxes starting from raw MS recordings requires at least three steps of computer support: first, extraction of mass spectra of metabolites of interest, then correction of the spectra for natural isotope abundance, and finally, evaluation of fluxes by simulation of the corrected spectra using a corresponding mathematical model. A kinetic model based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for isotopomers of metabolites of the corresponding biochemical network supports the final part of the analysis, which provides a dynamic flux map.

Key words

Mass spectrometry Stable isotope tracing Isotopolog distribution Central energy metabolism Metabolic fluxes Computational analysis Kinetic models of metabolism Stable isotope-resolved metabolomics 

Abbreviations

ala

Alanine

cit

Citrate

e4p

Erythrose-4-phosphate

f6p

Fructose-6-phosphate

FBA

Flux balance analysis

fbp

Fructose bisphosphate

fum

Fumarate

g6p

Glucose-6-phosphate

GC-MS

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

glc

Glucose

gln

Glutamine

glu

Glutamate

gly

Glycine

kg

Alpha-ketoglutarate

mal

Malate

MS

Mass spectrometry

NMR

Nuclear magnetic resonance

oaa

Oxaloacetate

ODEs

Ordinary differential equations

ppp

Pentose phosphate pathways

pro

Proline

pyr

Pyruvate

r5p

Ribose-5-phosphate

s7p

Sedoheptulose-7- phosphate

ser

Serine

SIM

Selected ion monitoring

SIRM

Stable isotope resolved metabolomics

t3p

Triose-3-phosphate

UHR-FTMS

Ultrahigh resolution Fourier transformed mass spectrometry

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Notes

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the European Commission (PhenoMeNal EC-654241), MINECO-European Commission FEDER funds—“Una manera de hacer Europa” (SAF2017-89673-R and SAF2015-70270-REDT), Instituto de Salud Carlos III and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD, CB17/04/00023 and INB-Bioinformatics Platform, of the ISCIII, PT17/0009/0018), Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca—Generalitat de Catalunya (2017SGR-1033), and Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional (FPU14-05992); and by the Redox Metabolism Shared Resource of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center (P30CA177558). M.C. also acknowledges the prize “ICREA Academia” for the excellence in research, funded by ICREA foundation—Generalitat de Catalunya.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Vitaly A. Selivanov
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    Email author
  • Silvia Marin
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
  • Josep Tarragó-Celada
    • 1
    • 2
  • Andrew N. Lane
    • 5
    • 6
    • 7
  • Richard M. Higashi
    • 5
    • 6
    • 7
  • Teresa W.-M. Fan
    • 5
    • 6
    • 7
  • Pedro de Atauri
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
  • Marta Cascante
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    Email author
  1. 1.Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine, Faculty of BiologyUniversitat de BarcelonaBarcelonaSpain
  2. 2.Institute of Biomedicine of Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB)BarcelonaSpain
  3. 3.Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD)Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)MadridSpain
  4. 4.INB-Bioinformatics Platform Metabolomics NodeInstituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)MadridSpain
  5. 5.Markey Cancer CenterUniversity of KentuckyLexingtonUSA
  6. 6.Center for Environment and Systems Biochemistry and the Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved MetabolomicsUniversity of KentuckyLexingtonUSA
  7. 7.Department of Toxicology and Cancer BiologyUniversity of KentuckyLexingtonUSA

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