Metabolomic profiling and stable isotope labelling of Trichomonas vaginalis and Tritrichomonas foetus reveal major differences in amino acid metabolism including the production of 2-hydroxyisocaproic acid, cystathionine and S-methylcysteine

• Gareth D. Westrop ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gareth.westrop@strath.ac.uk

  Affiliation Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8011-6219

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• Lijie Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Gavin J. Blackburn,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Glasgow Polyomics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Tong Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Liang Zheng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Pediatric Translational Medicine Institute, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Shanghai, China

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• David G. Watson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Graham H. Coombs

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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