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Title

Characteristics of serum metabolites in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients based on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Authors

Jia, Rui; Chen, Qiaoyi; Zhou, Qingqing; Zhang, Ronghua; Jin, Jiaoting; Hu, Fangfang; Liu, Xiao; Qin, Xing; Kang, Li; Zhao, Songzhen; Dang, Yonghui; Dang, Jingxia

Abstract

To identify differential metabolites and metabolic pathways and provide guidance for the novel biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ALS patients and people without nervous diseases were recruited. Metabolomic analysis was performed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The orthogonal projections to latent structures discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) were used to identify differential metabolites. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes and MetaboAnalyst were used to identify metabolic pathways. 75 metabolites were detected and aligned. The OPLS-DA showed the metabolomic profile of ALS patients and those in the fast-progression and slow-progression ALS groups differed from that of CTRL (p < 0.05). The levels of maltose, glyceric acid, lactic acid, beta-alanine, phosphoric acid, glutamic acid, ethanolamine and glycine in ALS were significantly higher, while 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylbenzenethiol was lower. Glycine, serine and threonine metabolism, D-glutamine and D-glutamate metabolism, alanine, aspartate, and glutamate metabolism, beta-alanine metabolism, and pyruvate metabolism were significantly altered metabolic pathways in ALS. ROC was used to discriminate ALS from CTRL with an AUC of 0.898 (p < 0.001) using 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylbenzenethiol, beta-alanine, glycine, and ethanolamine. The serum metabolites and metabolic pathways in ALS patients are significantly altered compared with CTRL. These findings may contribute to the early diagnosis of ALS.

Subjects

AMYOTROPHIC lateral sclerosis; METABOLITES; LATENT structure analysis; GLUTAMIC acid; ORTHOGRAPHIC projection; MALTOSE

Publication

Scientific Reports, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1

ISSN

2045-2322

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1038/s41598-021-00312-8

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