Pannkuk Evan L, Laiakis Evagelia C, Girgis Michael, Dowd Sarah E, Dhungana Suraj, Nishita Denise, Bujold Kim, Bakke James, Gahagen Janet, Authier Simon, Chang Polly Y, Fornace Albert J
Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Metabolites. 2019 May 15;9(5):98. doi: 10.3390/metabo9050098.
Whole body exposure to ionizing radiation damages tissues leading to physical symptoms which contribute to acute radiation syndrome. Radiation biodosimetry aims to determine characteristic early biomarkers indicative of radiation exposure and is necessary for effective triage after an unanticipated radiological incident. Radiation metabolomics can address this aim by assessing metabolic perturbations following exposure. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a standardized platform ideal for compound identification. We performed GC time-of-flight MS for the global profiling of nonhuman primate urine and serum samples up to 60 d after a single 4 Gy γ-ray total body exposure. Multivariate statistical analysis showed higher group separation in urine vs. serum. We identified biofluid markers involved in amino acid, lipid, purine, and serotonin metabolism, some of which may indicate host microbiome dysbiosis. Sex differences were observed for amino acid fold changes in serum samples. Additionally, we explored mitochondrial dysfunction by tricarboxylic acid intermediate analysis in the first week with a GC tandem quadrupole MS platform. By adding this temporal component to our previous work exploring dose effects at 7 d, we observed the highest fold changes occurring at 3 d, returning closer to basal levels by 7 d. These results emphasize the utility of both MS-based metabolomics for biodosimetry and complementary analytical platforms for increased metabolome coverage.
全身暴露于电离辐射会损害组织,导致出现有助于诊断急性放射综合征的身体症状。辐射生物剂量测定旨在确定指示辐射暴露的特征性早期生物标志物,对于意外放射事件后的有效分诊至关重要。辐射代谢组学可以通过评估暴露后的代谢扰动来实现这一目标。气相色谱 - 质谱联用(GC-MS)是用于化合物鉴定的标准化平台。我们对单次4 Gy γ射线全身照射后长达60天的非人灵长类动物尿液和血清样本进行了GC飞行时间质谱分析,以进行全局分析。多变量统计分析表明,尿液中的组间分离度高于血清。我们鉴定出了参与氨基酸、脂质、嘌呤和血清素代谢的生物流体标志物,其中一些可能表明宿主微生物群失调。在血清样本中观察到了氨基酸倍数变化的性别差异。此外,我们在第一周使用GC串联四极杆质谱平台通过三羧酸中间体分析探索了线粒体功能障碍。通过在我们之前探索7天时剂量效应的工作中加入这个时间因素,我们观察到最高的倍数变化出现在3天,到7天时接近基础水平。这些结果强调了基于质谱的代谢组学在生物剂量测定中的实用性以及互补分析平台在增加代谢组覆盖范围方面的作用。