Summary of Study ST002544
This data is available at the NIH Common Fund's National Metabolomics Data Repository (NMDR) website, the Metabolomics Workbench, https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org, where it has been assigned Project ID PR001639. The data can be accessed directly via it's Project DOI: 10.21228/M8V41D This work is supported by NIH grant, U2C- DK119886.
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This study contains a large results data set and is not available in the mwTab file. It is only available for download via FTP as data file(s) here.
| Study ID | ST002544 |
| Study Title | Metabolomic study on the chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection in mice. |
| Study Summary | Cachexia is a life-threatening disease characterized by chronic, inflammatory muscle wasting and systemic metabolic impairment. Despite its high prevalence, there are no efficacious therapies for cachexia. Mice chronically infected with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii represent a novel animal model recapitulating the chronic kinetics of cachexia. To understand how perturbations to metabolic tissue homeostasis influence circulating metabolite availability we used mass spectrometry analysis. Despite the significant reduction in circulating triacylglycerides, nonesterified fatty acids, and glycerol, sphingolipid long-chain bases and a subset of phosphatidylcholines (PCs) were significantly increased in the sera of mice with T. gondii infection-induced cachexia. In addition, the TCA cycle intermediates -ketoglutarate, 2- hydroxyglutarate, succinate, fumarate, and malate were highly depleted in cachectic mouse sera. Sphingolipids and their de novo synthesis precursors PCs are the major components of the mitochondrial membrane and regulate mitochondrial function consistent with a causal relationship in the energy imbalance driving T. gondii-induced chronic cachexia. |
| Institute | University of Virginia |
| Last Name | Feng |
| First Name | Tzu-Yu |
| Address | 345 Crispell DR. |
| ttf4ye@virginia.edu | |
| Phone | 70221744554 |
| Submit Date | 2023-04-05 |
| Raw Data Available | Yes |
| Raw Data File Type(s) | cdf |
| Analysis Type Detail | GC-MS |
| Release Date | 2023-04-20 |
| Release Version | 1 |
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Sample Preparation:
| Sampleprep ID: | SP002650 |
| Sampleprep Summary: | At 7 weeks post-infection, isoflurane-anesthetized mice were retro-orbitally bled and sera was flash frozen and sent to the National Institute of Health (NIH) West Coast Metabolomics Center (UC Davis) for untargeted mass spectrometry analysisusing the primary metabolism assay (ALEXCIS GCTOF-MS) or the complex lipids (CSH-QTOF MS) assay. Detected meatbolites were identified based on retention time and mass spectra from MassBank of North America, curated by the NIH West Coast Metabolomics Center , and reported as raw peak heights. The raw peak heights from each analytical platform were normalized to the average peak heights of the identified metabolites in uninfected group. The resulting data were analyzed for fold-change and multiple unpaired t-test and visualized using volcano plots to identify the differential expression of metabolites in response to T. gondii-induced cachexia |
