Multi-omics-based label-free metabolic flux inference reveals obesity-associated dysregulatory mechanisms in liver glucose metabolism

Glucose homeostasis is maintained by modulation of metabolic flux. Enzymes and metabolites regulate the involved metabolic pathways. Dysregulation of glucose homeostasis is a pathological event in obesity. Analyzing metabolic pathways and the mechanisms contributing to obesity-associated dysregulati...

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Published in:iScience 2022-02, Vol.25 (2), p.103787-103787, Article 103787
Main Authors: Uematsu, Saori, Ohno, Satoshi, Tanaka, Kaori Y., Hatano, Atsushi, Kokaji, Toshiya, Ito, Yuki, Kubota, Hiroyuki, Hironaka, Ken-ichi, Suzuki, Yutaka, Matsumoto, Masaki, Nakayama, Keiichi I., Hirayama, Akiyoshi, Soga, Tomoyoshi, Kuroda, Shinya
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Language:English
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Metabolomics
Proteomics
Systems biology
Transcriptomics
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Summary:Glucose homeostasis is maintained by modulation of metabolic flux. Enzymes and metabolites regulate the involved metabolic pathways. Dysregulation of glucose homeostasis is a pathological event in obesity. Analyzing metabolic pathways and the mechanisms contributing to obesity-associated dysregulation in vivo is challenging. Here, we introduce OMELET: Omics-Based Metabolic Flux Estimation without Labeling for Extended Trans-omic Analysis. OMELET uses metabolomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic data to identify relative changes in metabolic flux, and to calculate contributions of metabolites, enzymes, and transcripts to the changes in metabolic flux. By evaluating the livers of fasting ob/ob mice, we found that increased metabolic flux through gluconeogenesis resulted primarily from increased transcripts, whereas that through the pyruvate cycle resulted from both increased transcripts and changes in substrates of metabolic enzymes. With OMELET, we identified mechanisms underlying the obesity-associated dysregulation of metabolic flux in the liver. [Display omitted] •We developed OMELET to infer metabolic flux from label-free multi-omic data•Contributions of metabolites, enzymes, and transcripts for flux were inferred•Gluconeogenic flux increased in fasting ob/ob mice by increased transcripts•Increased pyruvate cycle fluxes were led by increased transcripts and substrates Systems biology; Proteomics; Metabolomics; Transcriptomics
ISSN:2589-0042
2589-0042
DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2022.103787