Blurred lines: Crossing the boundaries between the chemical exposome and the metabolome
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Journal Article
Abstract
The aetiology of every human disease lies in a combination of genetic and environmental factors, each contributing in varying proportions. While genomics investigates the former, a comparable holistic paradigm was proposed for environmental exposures in 2005, marking the onset of exposome research. Since then, the exposome definition has broadened to include a wide array of physical, chemical, and psychosocial factors that interact with the human body and potentially alter the epigenome, the transcriptome, the proteome, and the metabolome. The chemical exposome, deeply intertwined with the metabolome, includes all small molecules originating from diet as well as pharmaceuticals, personal care and consumer products, or pollutants in air and water. The set of techniques to interrogate these exposures, primarily mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, are also extensively used in metabolomics. Recent advances in untargeted metabolomics using high resolution mass spectrometry have paved the way for the development of methods able to provide in depth characterisation of both the internal chemical exposome and the endogenous metabolome simultaneously. Herein we review the available tools, databases, and workflows currently available for such work, and discuss how these can bridge the gap between the study of the metabolome and the exposome.
Date Issued
2024-02-01
Date Acceptance
2023-11-09
Citation
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2024, 78
ISSN
1367-5931
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
Volume
78
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an
open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38086287
PII: S1367-5931(23)00145-X
Subjects
Environmental Exposure
Environmental Pollutants
Exposome
Humans
Metabolome
Metabolomics
Chemical exposome
Exposomics
HRMS
Mass spectrometry
Metabolomics
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Article Number
ARTN 102407
Date Publish Online
2023-12-11