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Mass spectrometry searches using MASST

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Wang, Mingxun, Jarmusch, Alan K., Vargas, Fernando, Aksenov, Alexander A., Gauglitz, Julia M., Weldon, Kelly, Petras, Daniel, da Silva, Ricardo +28 more·2020·Nature Biotechnology

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  • MASST revealed that a metabolite differentially expressed in two cohorts of mice is also differentially expressed in healthy and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in humans, even without knowing the molecule's chemical structure.

    “The authors demonstrated an example of a metabolite differentially expressed within two cohorts of mice and utilized MASST to reveal that this metabolite is also differentially expressed in healthy and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in humans – even without knowing the molecule's chemical structure.”

    From Connecting metabolome and phenotype: recent advances in functional metabolomics tools for the identification of bioactive natural products (2024) · cites this paper as [155]

    The main text says MASST can search public MS/MS data for unknown or unannotated molecules and suggests translating findings from model organisms to humans (page unavailable). It does not describe the claimed example of a metabolite differentially expressed in two mouse cohorts and in healthy versus non-alcoholic fatty liver disease human groups. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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  • The Mass Spectrometry Search Tool (MASST) can be utilized to add context to molecules detected in a bioactivity experiment.

    “The Mass Spectrometry Search Tool (MASST)155 can be utilized to add context to molecules detected in a bioactivity experiment.”
  • MASST finds all occurrences of a query MS/MS spectrum across all public metabolomics experiments.

    “The MASST tool finds all occurrences of a query MS/MS spectrum across all public metabolomics experiments.”
  • The bacterial enzymes responsible for producing amino acid bile acid amidates are unknown.

    “The enzymes responsible for these conjugation reactions are unknown.”

    From Bile Acids Are Substrates for Amine N-Acyl Transferase Activity by Bile Salt Hydrolase (2022) · cites this paper as [17]

    The paper’s main text describes MASST as a tool for searching mass-spectrometry data; it does not address which enzymes produce amino acid bile acid amidates. Searches for the conjugation reactions, bile acids, and their bacterial enzymes found no relevant passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  • Recent studies demonstrated that bacteria have bile acid amine N-acyltransferase activity, with dozens of bacterially conjugated amino acid amidates identified.

    “Recent studies demonstrated that bacteria, in addition to the host, have bile acid amine N-acyltransferase activity, with dozens of bacterially conjugated amino acid amidates identified1–4,6,17.”

    From Bile Acids Are Substrates for Amine N-Acyl Transferase Activity by Bile Salt Hydrolase (2022) · cites this paper as [17]

    The main text describes MASST searches of public mass-spectrometry data, not bacterial bile-acid conjugation. Searches for bile acids, amine N-acyltransferase activity, and amino-acid amidates found no passage addressing the claimed activity or the identification of dozens of amidates. (LLM, conf=0.75)

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  1. [8]Aksenov AA Nat. Rev. Chem 1, 0054 (2017)
  2. [9]Perez-Riverol Y Nat Biotechnol. 35, 406– 409 (2017). 28486464 PMC5831141
  3. [10]Rocca-Serra P Metabolomics 12, 14 (2016). 26612985 PMC4648992
  4. [27]Jarmusch AK Preprint at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/750471v1 · DOI

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Wang, M., Jarmusch, A. K., Vargas, F., Aksenov, A. A., Gauglitz, J. M., Weldon, K., Petras, D., da Silva, R., Quinn, R., Melnik, A. V., van der Hooft, J. J. J., Caraballo-Rodríguez, A. M., Nothias, L. F., Aceves, C. M., Panitchpakdi, M., Brown, E., Di Ottavio, F., Sikora, N., Elijah, E. O., Labarta-Bajo, L., Gentry, E. C., Shalapour, S., Kyle, K. E., Puckett, S. P., Watrous, J. D., Carpenter, C. S., Bouslimani, A., Ernst, M., Swafford, A. D., Zúñiga, E. I., Balunas, M. J., Klassen, J. L., Loomba, R., Knight, R., Bandeira, N., & Dorrestein, P. C.
Affiliations
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • University of Connecticut (US)
Corresponding author
Dorrestein, Pieter C.
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2020-01
Volume
38
Issue
1
Pages
23-26
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2997345427
Cited by
281
References
26
Citations by year
2026: 40 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 57 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 1
FWCI
11.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion, public-domain)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Netherlands eScience Center ASDI eScience grant
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF7622)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (N/A)
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (CA211211, P41 GM103484)
  • United States Department of Defense | United States Navy | Office of Naval Research (N00014-15-1-2809)
  • United States Department of Justice | National Institute of Justice (2015-DN-BX-K047)
  • National Science Foundation (IOS-1656475)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
Keywords
spectral library search, metabolite annotation, unknown metabolites, cold pressor test, multi-omics, metabolic networks, medicinal plants, traditional East Asian medicine
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Mass Spectrometry, Reproducibility of Results, Knowledge Bases, Search Engine

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