放射金属组学：以α核素靶向治疗药物为例

金属组学是综合研究生命体内(特别是细胞内)自由或络合的全部金属和类金属的含量、分布、形态、结构及功能的一门学科。作为金属组学的一个分支，放射金属组学重点研究放射性核素的制备和应用，特别是其在环境和生物体内的含量、分布、化学种态及功能等。靶向α治疗(Targeted alpha therapy, TAT)是一种利用发射α粒子的放射性核素与肿瘤选择性载体分子结合实现靶向癌细胞，进而对肿瘤组织造成杀伤作用的一种医疗方法，是放射金属组学在癌症治疗领域的重要应用方向。α粒子凭借高线性能量传递、短组织射程和较强的相对生物学效应，在放射性免疫和肿瘤治疗方面有着广阔的应用前景。以TAT药物为例，就常用α核素、TAT药物螯合剂及其标记的靶向载体、几种重要α放射性核素靶向治疗进展予以综述，并分析TAT药物研发的挑战和发展前景，从而展示放射金属组学在核医学领域特别是癌症治疗领域的研究进展。随着更多α核素的制备和更多靶向标记方法的建立，TAT药物有望用于多种疾病，这也需要新的放射金属组学方法的建立和应用。因此，放射金属组学在核医学领域具有良好应用前景。     

基于大科学装置的空间金属组学和单细胞/单颗粒金属组学

金属组学是综合研究生命体内（(特别是细胞内）)自由或络合的全部金属原子的分布、含量、化学种态及其功能的一门学科,而大科学装置为金属组学研究提供了强有力的工具。本综述本文首先介绍了金属组学发展简史,然后介绍了基于大科学装置的同步辐射技术、中子技术、质子技术及缪子技术等,最后概述了基于大科学装置的空间金属组学、单细胞/单颗粒金属组学的应用示例。基于大科学装置的中子活化技术（NAA）NAA、X-射线荧光光谱（XRF）以及质子激发X射线谱（PIXE ）等技术是开展非原位空间金属组学研究的有力手段,而XRF、PIXE以及缪子X射线荧光谱（MXA）为开展原位空间金属组学提供了有力工具,特别是基于XRF的技术,其空间分辨率可低至10 nm级别,是开展原位单细胞/单颗粒金属组学的利器。 新一代同步辐射光源、质子源及缪子源将为空间金属组学、特别是时空金属组学研究提供更强有力工具。     

金属组学——元素生命科学发展的新纪元

对金属组学的概念、研究内容及研究的技术路线和分析技术研究进展进行了综述，主要介绍了对金属蛋白组学研究的相关技术方法，指出了金属组学的发展前景。     

金属组学：高通量分析技术进展与展望

金属组学是系统研究一种细胞、组织或完整生物体内全部金属原子的分布、含量、化学种态及其功能的新兴综合学科,它的提出受到人们越来越多的关注。本文综述了金属组学的研究方法,并对各种方法的特点和局限性做了比较说明．ICP-MS与NAA技术可实现多元素同时定量分析,同步辐射微束CT及μRF,EDX,PIXE,SIMS及LA-ICP—MS亦可实现金属组分布研究．金属组学研究目前正处于发展初期,仍有许多困难特别是分析仪器及方法方面的问题有待解决．已有的金属组形态及结构分析工作大多数采用的是较低效率的分析方法,一些正在发展中的关键技术平台,如HTXAS可真正实现高通量的形态或结构分析．此外,生物信息学有望成为金属组学研究的重要工具之一．     

金属组学：研究生命体系中金属离子的前沿交叉学科

金属组学是一门新兴的前沿交叉学科,是对若干涉及金属相关生命过程的分子机制以及对细胞与组织内全部金属离子和金属配合物进行综合研究的学科．在金属组学中,生命体系中所有的金属蛋白质、金属酶以及其他含金属的生物分子统称为金属组,这个概念与基因组学中的基因组和蛋白质组学中的蛋白质组相类似．本文对金属组学中涉及的若干概念进行阐述,并将着重介绍金属组学中的研究技术和方法,特别是“组和技术”,即把一种高分辨率分离技术如凝胶电泳／激光切除、色谱或者毛细管电泳与一项高灵敏度检测方法,如电感耦合等离子体质谱、电喷雾电离质谱、基质辅助激光解吸附质谱或者X射线荧光／吸收光谱联合起来．并重点分析了这些方法的优缺点以及在分离鉴别金属蛋白、磷酸化蛋白以及硒蛋白、确定金属蛋白的结构与功能的关系和医药中的金属药物活性抗药性方面的研究中的应用．     

金属有机配体分析方法及金属组学研究

环境和生物样品中金属与有机酸、氨基酸、多糖、蛋白质、DNA等形成的金属有机物是一系列生物金属。生物金属中参与金属离子配位的有机配基主要是含氧、硫、氮及磷的功能团。金属组学是整合生物金属中金属有机配体的结合形态及其生理功能活性的新概念。文中介绍了目前常用的金属有机配体的分析方法以及金属组学领域的研究技术,并展望了重金属富集和超积累植物的研究前景。     

聚电解质复合物

本文介绍了聚电解质复合物的研究及发展状况，包括聚电解质复合物的形成、结构以及影响形成聚电解质复合物的各种因素，还介绍了近年来以聚电解质复合物为材料 质的渗透汽化膜的应用和在生物医药方面的研究成果。     

金属组学、代谢组学及其它

对生命科学方面新近发展起来的两个重要领域,金属组学和代谢组学作了比较深入浅出的介绍,并对这两个领域的主要研究课题和研究方法作了探讨,指出了分析化学家在这两个领域研究中所能够和应该发挥的作用。     

必需金属的生物信息学研究现状与展望

金属元素在整个生物界被广泛利用。生物体所必需的金属中除了钾、钙、钠和镁以外均属于微量元素。它们虽然在体内含量很少,但在各种生命活动中发挥着重要的作用。一直以来关于必需金属的研究工作主要集中在金属蛋白和相关代谢机制的实验研究上。随着近年来基因组、蛋白质组等组学数据的不断积累,为开展金属、金属组和金属蛋白质组等相关的生物信息学研究工作提供了重要的条件,让我们可以从系统的角度去进一步认识必需金属的利用、代谢及其生物学功能。本文将分别对若干必需金属(包括铜、钼、镍、钴、锌、铁和硒等)相关的生物信息学研究进展进行介绍,并结合当前离子组学相关的技术方法和研究现状。希望本文有助于我们进一步认识必需金属研究领域的重要问题和未来的发展方向。     

核糖核酸-蛋白质复合物规模化富集与鉴定技术的研究进展

核糖核酸(RNA)在细胞中并非单独存在,从它们产生到被降解的过程中与大量蛋白质发生相互作用,RNA结合蛋白(RNA-binding proteins, RBPs)能与RNA结合形成RNA-蛋白质复合物(RP复合物),并以这种复合物的形式发挥生理功能。RNAs或RBPs任一组分的异常与缺失都会影响RP复合物的正常生理功能,从而导致疾病的发生,如代谢异常、肌肉萎缩症、自身免疫性疾病和癌症。因此,定性定量分析RBPs及其在正常细胞和肿瘤细胞中与RNAs靶标之间的复杂相互作用网络有助于挖掘RP复合物在肿瘤发生发展中的作用,开发肿瘤生物标志物和新的治疗方式。要深入研究和理解RNAs与RBPs的相互作用网络,须依赖组学技术对RP复合物进行大规模鉴定。而作为在组学层面系统性解析RP复合物组成、含量和功能的第一步,大规模富集RP复合物极具挑战性。为了解决这一难题,研究者们发展了各种富集鉴定策略。该文针对RP复合物富集策略的最新进展进行了综述,包括紫外光交联和免疫沉淀(crosslinking and immunoprecipitation, CLIP)及其衍生技术、基于“点击化学”的富集策略和基于相分离的富集策略,比较分析了它们的技术原理、优缺点,以方便研究者们选择合适的策略来解决感兴趣的生物学问题。该文最后总结了当前的RP复合物富集方法仍然存在富集效率低和操作繁琐等亟需解决的技术挑战,为富集策略的发展提供了研究方向。     

Trends in single-cell analysis by use of ICP-MS

The analysis of single cells is a growing research field in many disciplines such as toxicology, medical diagnosis, drug and cancer research or metallomics, and different methods based on microscopic, mass spectrometric, and spectroscopic techniques are under investigation. This review focuses on the most recent trends in which inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and ICP optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) are applied for single-cell analysis using metal atoms being intrinsically present in cells, taken up by cells (e.g., nanoparticles), or which are artificially bound to a cell. For the latter, especially element tagged antibodies are of high interest and are discussed in the review. The application of different sample introduction systems for liquid analysis (pneumatic nebulization, droplet generation) and elemental imaging by laser ablation ICP-MS (LA-ICP-MS) of single cells are highlighted. Because of the high complexity of biological systems and for a better understanding of processes and dynamics of biologically or medically relevant cells, the authors discuss the idea of “multimodal spectroscopies.”     

Epigenetics: an important challenge for ICP-MS in metallomics studies

Trace metal analysis has been long regarded as one of the principle tasks in areas of chemical analysis. At the early stage of instrumental development, total concentration was assessed in a variety of samples, yielding results, among others, for environmental, biological, and clinical samples. With the power of newer analytical techniques, such as inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), accurate quantitative results can now be obtained at ultra-trace levels not only for metals, but also for metalloids and several non-metals. Even though the importance of trace elements in many biological processes is widely accepted, the elucidation of their biological pathways, understanding specific biological functions, or possible toxicological aspects is still a challenge and a driving force to further develop analytical methodology. Over the past decades, the scientific interest has moved from total element determination to include speciation analysis, which provides quantitative information of one or more individual element species in a sample. More recently, metallomics has been introduced as a more expanded concept, in which the global role of all metal/metalloids in a given system is considered. Owing to the multi-elemental focus of metallomics research, the use of ICP-MS becomes indispensable. Furthermore, considering the biological role of metals/metalloids and the use of elements as internal or external molecular tags, epigenetics should be considered as an important emerging application for metallomics studies and approaches. Among a variety of epigenetic factors, essential nutrients, but also environmental toxins, have been shown to affect DNA methylation, modification of histone proteins, and RNA interference, all of them being implicated in cancer, cardiovascular disease, and several inherited conditions. Recent studies suggest that epigenetics may be a critical pathway by which metals produce health effects. In this Trends article, the basic epigenetic concepts are introduced, followed by the early applications of ICP-MS classified as: (i) detection of ³¹P as a natural element tag for DNA, (ii) analysis of DNA adducts with metal-based drugs, (iii) element species as epigenetic factors.     

金属组学方法识别水中络合态重金属形态及其吸附净化技术研究进展

Cu²⁺、Pb²⁺和Ni²⁺等重金属离子可与水中乙二胺四乙酸、柠檬酸、酒石酸等有机分子形成络合态重金属。相比于游离态离子，络合态重金属具有更高的水溶性和环境毒性，在广泛的pH值范围内稳定存在且形态复杂，难以通过化学沉淀等常规方法高效去除。对近年来基于金属组学方法的水中络合态重金属复杂形态分析方法进行总结，对吸附净化技术在络合态重金属废水处理中的研究进展进行综述，并对上述领域需要解决的问题进行了探讨和展望。     

Metallomics: An integrated biometal science

Metallomics is an emerging scientific area integrating the research fields related to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of metal-associated life processes and the entirety of metal and metalloid species within a cell or tissue type. In metallomics, metalloproteins, metalloenzymes and other metal-containing biomolecules in a biological system are referred to as metallomes, similar to genomes and proteomes in genomics and proteomics, respectively. This review discusses the concept of metallomics with a focus on analytical techniques and methods, particularly the so-called hyphenated techniques which combine a high-resolution separation technique (gel electrophoresis/laser ablation, chromatography or capillary electrophoresis) with a highly sensitive detection method such as elemental (inductively coupled plasma, ICP) or molecular (electron spray ionization (ESI) or matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)) mass spectrometry, or nuclear X-ray fluorescence/absorption spectrometry. The applications of these advanced analytical methods in the identification of metallo-/phospho-/seleno-proteins, probing of relationships between structure and function of metalloproteins, and study of clinically used metallodrugs will be selectively outlined, along with their advantages and limitations.     

Metabolomics of arsenic based on speciation studies

Biomedical research on arsenic can be divided into three steps, i.e., speciation of the entirety of arsenic in a biological system (metallome), examination of the metabolism of arsenic based on the speciation of metallome (metabolomics), and examination of the metallomics underlying the mechanism that triggers biological/physiological/toxicological effects based on the metabolomics. In the present communication, the metabolic pathway for inorganic arsenic, a known human carcinogen, was explained based on current results of speciation. In addition to the consecutive reduction and oxidative methylation reactions converting inorganic arsenicals to the major urinary metabolite dimethylarsinic acid, the role of the conjugation reaction involving glutathione resulting in excretion from the liver was discussed. Furthermore, sulfur-containing arsenicals (thioarsenicals) identified as new metabolites in the livers of rats were characterized chemically and metabolically.     

Infrared spectroscopy provides a green analytical chemistry tool for direct diagnosis of cancer

Diagnosis of cancer is one of the most important aspects of medical research and has become the main aim of biomedical investigations. Misdiagnosis is the main drawback in most of the diagnostic routes introduced, while some of these methods are invasive and expensive.Recently, infrared spectroscopy (IR) was proposed as a rapid, accurate and sensitive technique in biomedical research, especially for detection of patterns of illness. We discuss research into cancer detection by IR, the role of data processing in quality assurance of the results obtained and novel proposals, such as bio-fluid analysis for diagnosis. We conclude that IR provides a novel green analytical chemistry approach to clinical oncology and cancer research.