SE47:/S01/M01

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ID SE47
Title Metabolomic correlation-network modules in Arabidopsis based on a graph-clustering approach
Description Deciphering the metabolome is essential for a better understanding of the cellular metabolism as a system. Typical metabolomics data show a few but significant correlations among metabolite levels when data sampling is repeated across individuals grown under strictly controlled conditions. Although several studies have assessed topologies in metabolomic correlation networks, it remains unclear whether highly connected metabolites in these networks have specific functions in known tissue- and/or genotype-dependent biochemical pathways. In our study of metabolite profiles we subjected root tissues to gas chromatography-time-of-flight/mass spectrometry (GC-TOF/MS) and used published information on the aerial parts of 3 Arabidopsis genotypes, Col-0 wild-type, methionine over-accumulation 1 (mto1), and transparent testa4 (tt4) to compare systematically the metabolomic correlations in samples of roots and aerial parts. We then applied graph clustering to the constructed correlation networks to extract densely connected metabolites and evaluated the clusters by biochemical-pathway enrichment analysis. We found that the number of significant correlations varied by tissue and genotype and that the obtained clusters were significantly enriched for metabolites included in biochemical pathways. We demonstrate that the graph-clustering approach identifies tissue- and/or genotype-dependent metabolomic clusters related to the biochemical pathway. Metabolomic correlations complement information about changes in mean metabolite levels and may help to elucidate the organization of metabolically functional modules.
Authors Atsushi Fukushima, Miyako Kusano, Henning Redestig, Masanori Arita, Kazuki Saito, RIKEN PSC
Reference Fukushima et al. (2011) BMC Syst Biol 5:1 (PMID: 21194489)
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ID S01
Title Arabidopsis thaliana
Organism - Scientific Name Arabidopsis thaliana
Organism - ID NCBI taxonomy:3702
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Preparation For metabolomic correlation analysis we sampled tissues from the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 wild-type (WT), methionine over-accumulation 1 (mto1) (Inaba et al. 1994), and transparent testa4 (tt4) (Shikazono et al. 2003). Data on the aerial part were from Kusano et al. 2007. The number of biological replicates in roots was 53 (17 x WT, 16 x mto1, and 20 x tt4). We pooled 3 root samples as a batch for metabolite profiling.
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Analytical Method Information

ID M01
Title GC-TOF/MS
Method Details ID MS01
Sample Amount 1 μl
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Analytical Method Details Information

ID MS01
Title GC-TOF/MS
Instrument GC Agilent 6890N gas chromatograph / MS Pegasus III TOF mass spectrometer
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Ionization EI
Ion Mode positive
Description As described in (Kusano et al. 2007), each sample was extracted, derivatized, and analyzed by GC-TOF/MS.
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