Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Global stable-isotope tracing metabolomics reveals system-wide metabolic alternations in aging Drosophila

  • Ruohong Wang,
  • Yandong Yin,
  • Jingshu Li,
  • Hongmiao Wang,
  • Wanting Lv,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Tangci Wang,
  • Yedan Zhong,
  • Zhiwei Zhou,
  • Yuping Cai,
  • Xiaoyang Su,
  • Nan Liu,
  • Zheng-Jiang Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31268-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Stable-isotope tracing allows quantifying metabolic activity by measuring isotopically labeled metabolites, but its metabolome coverage has been limited. Here, the authors develop a global isotope tracing approach with metabolome-wide coverage and use it to characterize metabolic activities in aging Drosophila.