Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Large scale enzyme based xenobiotic identification for exposomics

  • Ken H. Liu,
  • Choon M. Lee,
  • Grant Singer,
  • Preeti Bais,
  • Francisco Castellanos,
  • Michael H. Woodworth,
  • Thomas R. Ziegler,
  • Colleen S. Kraft,
  • Gary W. Miller,
  • Shuzhao Li,
  • Young-Mi Go,
  • Edward T. Morgan,
  • Dean P. Jones

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25698-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Humans are exposed to many xenobiotic chemicals, but identification of low abundance xenobiotic exposures is limited by a lack of authentic standards for xenobiotic metabolites. Here the authors develop methods for enzymatic generation of diverse xenobiotic metabolites for use with high-resolution mass spectrometry for biology-based chemical identification.