基于 TOXcms 软件的剂量-反应代谢组学:了解生化机制和非靶标药物效应

Dose-Response Metabolomics To Understand Biochemical Mechanisms and Off-Target Drug Effects with the TOXcms Software.

机构信息

Department of Mathematics and Statistics , University of North Carolina at Charlotte , Charlotte , North Carolina 28223 , United States.

出版信息

Anal Chem. 2020 Jan 21;92(2):1856-1864. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03811. Epub 2020 Jan 7.

Abstract

Small-molecule drugs and toxicants commonly interact with more than a single protein target, each of which may have unique effects on cellular phenotype. Although untargeted metabolomics is often applied to understand the mode of action of these chemicals, simple pairwise comparisons of treated and untreated samples are insufficient to resolve the effects of disrupting two or more independent protein targets. Here, we introduce a workflow for dose-response metabolomics to evaluate chemicals that potentially affect multiple proteins with different potencies. Our approach relies on treating samples with various concentrations of compound prior to analysis with mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. Data are then processed with software we developed called TOXcms, which statistically evaluates dose-response trends for each metabolomic signal according to user-defined tolerances and subsequently groups those that follow the same pattern. Although TOXcms was built upon the XCMS framework, it is compatible with any metabolomic data-processing software. Additionally, to enable correlation of dose responses beyond those that can be measured by metabolomics, TOXcms also accepts data from respirometry, cell death assays, other omic platforms, etc. In this work, we primarily focus on applying dose-response metabolomics to find off-target effects of drugs. Using metformin and etomoxir as examples, we demonstrate that each group of dose-response patterns identified by TOXcms signifies a metabolic response to a different protein target with a unique drug binding affinity. TOXcms is freely available on our laboratory website at http://pattilab.wustl.edu/software/toxcms .

摘要

小分子药物和毒物通常与不止一个蛋白质靶标相互作用,每个靶标可能对细胞表型有独特的影响。尽管非靶向代谢组学常用于理解这些化学物质的作用模式,但简单地比较处理和未处理的样品不足以解决两种或多种独立蛋白质靶标被破坏的影响。在这里,我们介绍了一种剂量反应代谢组学的工作流程,用于评估可能以不同效力影响多种蛋白质的化学物质。我们的方法依赖于用各种浓度的化合物处理样品,然后用基于质谱的代谢组学进行分析。然后,我们使用我们开发的名为 TOXcms 的软件处理数据,该软件根据用户定义的容差对每个代谢组学信号的剂量反应趋势进行统计评估,并随后将遵循相同模式的信号进行分组。尽管 TOXcms 是基于 XCMS 框架构建的,但它与任何代谢组学数据处理软件都兼容。此外,为了能够关联超出代谢组学可测量范围的剂量反应,TOXcms 还接受来自呼吸计、细胞死亡测定、其他组学平台等的数据。在这项工作中,我们主要专注于应用剂量反应代谢组学来发现药物的非靶标效应。使用二甲双胍和 etomoxir 作为示例,我们证明了 TOXcms 识别的每组剂量反应模式都表示对不同蛋白质靶标具有独特药物结合亲和力的代谢反应。TOXcms 可在我们的实验室网站 http://pattilab.wustl.edu/software/toxcms 上免费获得。

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