Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• TGF-β-dependent reprogramming of amino acid metabolism induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition in non-small cell lung cancers.

  PMID 34168290 · PMC8225889 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β induces reprogramming of intracellular amino acid metabolism that is necessary to promote EMT in NSCLC cells

  a549 metabolomics real-time western

• Histone deacetylase SIRT6 regulates tryptophan catabolism and prevents metabolite imbalance associated with neurodegeneration.

  PMID 41345108 · PMC12789597 · Nature communications · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 93

  SIRT6 regulates tryptophan catabolism by balancing usage between the kynurenine pathway and the serotonin/melatonin pathway, conserved from Drosophila to mouse and human cells.

  embryonic sh-sy5y arpe19 brain metabolomics targeted untargeted

• Lamin A/C-regulated cysteine catabolic flux modulates stem cell fate through epigenome reprogramming.

  PMID 41606307 · PMC12945694 · Nature metabolism · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lamin A/C represses cysteine biosynthesis and catabolism in naive mES cells by suppressing CTH and CBS

  mes metabolomics atac-seq chip-qpcr

• l-2-Hydroxyglutarate impairs neuronal differentiation through epigenetic activation of MYC expression.

  PMID 41842973 · PMC13132370 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  L2HGDH deficiency causes L-2HG (not D-2HG) accumulation in patient plasma, fibroblasts, iPSCs, and NPCs

  plasma patient-derived unedited day-14 metabolomics crispr proliferation

• Metabolomics: what's happening downstream of DNA.

  PMID 15159214 · PMC1242000 · Environmental health perspectives · 2004 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Metabolomics studies the full set of metabolites in biological samples (urine, saliva, blood plasma) and could offer a cheap, rapid, effective way to diagnose illness and monitor therapy.

  rats animal animals urine nmr metabolomics

• Apoptotic brown adipocytes enhance energy expenditure via extracellular inosine.

  PMID 35790189 · PMC9452294 · Nature · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 57

  Apoptotic brown adipocytes release a specific secretome enriched in purine metabolites (including inosine, AMP, hypoxanthine, ATP)

  brown mice population untargeted targeted camp

• Developing a thyroid cancer differentiation state classification system using deep residual networks and metabolic signature profiling.

  PMID 40993300 · PMC12460824 · NPJ digital medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  Metabolic status is closely tied to tumor differentiation state, with distinct metabolic reprogramming occurring during thyroid cancer dedifferentiation

  thyroid fuscc gse193581 aggregated untargeted whole-exome transcriptomics

• Chromatin accessibility directly governs flavonoid biosynthesis and indirectly orchestrates cannabinoid production in Cannabis.

  PMID 41635698 · PMC12861918 · Frontiers in plant science · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Increased chromatin accessibility at promoters of flavonoid-biosynthetic genes up-regulates their expression, driving flavonoid accumulation in the H cultivar.

  inflorescences rna-seq untargeted bulk atac-seq

• Metabolic profiling during malaria reveals the role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in regulating kidney injury.

  PMID 33021470 · PMC7538157 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 62

  Plasma AHR ligands derived from heme metabolism (biliverdin, bilirubin) and tryptophan/kynurenine pathway metabolites increase during acute Pc malaria in mice and acute cerebral malaria in humans

  c57bl pediatric littermate untargeted targeted bilirubin

• Dioxin-elicited decrease in cobalamin redirects propionyl-CoA metabolism to the β-oxidation-like pathway resulting in acrylyl-CoA conjugate buildup.

  PMID 35931118 · PMC9418907 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 73

  TCDD dose-dependently decreases cobalamin (Cbl) levels, compromising MUT activity and redirecting propionyl-CoA metabolism from the canonical Cbl-dependent carboxylation pathway to the alternate Cbl-independent β-oxidation-like pathway.

  liver hepatic intestinal serum targeted untargeted chip-seq

• Genetics meets metabolomics: a genome-wide association study of metabolite profiles in human serum.

  PMID 19043545 · PMC2581785 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A GWA study using serum metabolomics identifies SNPs associated with metabolite concentrations, explaining up to 12% of variance for single metabolites

  kora fasting genome-wide targeted metabolite

• Microbiota-derived IPA protects against colitis by regulating intestinal HMGCS2-mediated ketogenesis to facilitate mucosal healing.

  PMID 41651833 · PMC12988232 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  IPA is consistently depleted in IBD/colitis patients and in murine colitis models relative to healthy controls

  fecal c57bl germ-free mice quasi-targeted dss-induced tnbs-induced

• Dopamine enhances surface glial glycolysis via acetylcholine and insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling in the honeybee.

  PMID 41797926 · PMC12964235 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Bromocriptine (dopamine receptor agonist) increases glycolytic flux in forager bee brains

  forager targeted qpcr single-cell

• Integrated Analysis of Transcriptome and Metabolome Reveals Metabolite Biosynthesis in Pigmented Potatoes.

  PMID 41898740 · PMC13026113 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Pigmented potato cultivars (DG26, DJ247) accumulate higher levels of flavonoids and linoleic acid derivatives than the white-fleshed cultivar (AG594)

  potato bioinformatic untargeted rna-seq rt-qpcr

• Sexual dimorphism shapes renal metabolic adaptation to a ketogenic diet.

  PMID 41904948 · PMC13197013 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Only female kidneys activate ketogenesis and gluconeogenesis in response to a ketogenic diet

  kidney arterial bladder mice untargeted kidney-specific urine

• Correlations between gut microbiota and serum metabolomics in patients with neurogenic rosacea.

  PMID 40676500 · PMC12272963 · BMC microbiology · 2025 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Patients with neurogenic rosacea exhibit significant gut microbiota dysbiosis compared to healthy controls

  serum fecal paired lc-ms 16s spearman

• Causes of early-onset type 1 diabetes: toward data-driven environmental approaches.

  PMID 19075294 · PMC2605242 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 1 setups

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  Serum metabolite profiling reveals metabolic changes that precede islet autoantibody appearance and predict which children will develop T1D

  children serum

• BCAT1-dependent HIF-1α stabilization is a targetable metabolic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 42061407 · PMC13198305 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BCAT1 depletes α-KG to inhibit PHD and stabilize HIF-1α under hypoxic conditions in HCC

  mhcc97l capillary western bulk

• Itaconate and derivatives reduce interferon responses and inflammation in influenza A virus infection.

  PMID 35025971 · PMC8846506 · PLoS pathogens · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Acod1 expression and itaconate synthesis are induced in mouse lung during IAV infection and correlate with inflammation and disease severity

  lung c57bl pbmcs macrophages bulk metabolomics histopathology

• Immune profiling in a living human recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney.

  PMID 41507576 · PMC12823403 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Xenograft experienced early T cell-mediated rejection (Banff grade 2A) within 1 week post-transplant despite profound circulating T cell depletion, likely driven by subtherapeutic immunosuppression and residual CD8+ T cells in lymph nodes.

  xenotransplant recipient kidney integrative single-cell flow