Table 1.
Significant metabolites obtained by Welch’s two-sample t-test followed by FDR (q-values ≤ 0.05), and fold-change heatmap, which indicates the ratio of the mean scaled intensity for each metabolite for the comparisons AA vs. Control (C), CRC vs. C, AA + CRC vs. C, CRC vs. AA, and C + AA vs. CRC. Red cells indicate that the mean values are significantly higher (upregulated) and green cells indicate the mean values are significantly lower (downregulated). MSI indicates the identification confidence level and C is the abbreviation of control group.
| Pathway | Biochemical Name | AA vs. C | CRC vs. C | AA + CRC vs. C | CRC vs. AA | C + AA vs. CRC | MSI | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fold Change | q-Value | Fold Change | q-Value | Fold Change | q-Value | Fold Change | q-Value | Fold Change | q-Value | |||
| AMINO ACID | ||||||||||||
| Histidine Metabolism | formiminoglutamate | 0.92 | 0.709 | 2.02 | 0.0817 | 1.47 | 0.5331 | 2.21 | 0.0089 | 2.11 | 0.0064 | 1 |
| PEPTIDE | ||||||||||||
| Polypeptide | val-val-ala | 0.51 | 0.731 | 2.02 | 0.0705 | 1.27 | 0.4626 | 3.96 | 0.0076 | 2.68 | 0.0064 | 1 |
| STVLT | 0.46 | 0.8245 | 11.83 | 0.0065 | 6.14 | 0.241 | 25.98 | 0.0019 | 16.26 | 0.0022 | 1 | |
| LIPID | ||||||||||||
| Fatty Acid, Dicarboxylate | 3-carboxy-4-methyl-5-propyl-2-furanpropanoate | 1.3 | 0.7987 | 2.78 | 0.0339 | 2.04 | 0.2488 | 2.13 | 0.1472 | 2.42 | 0.0233 | 1 |
| Fatty Acid Metabolism | eicosenoylcarnitine (C20:1) | 0.73 | 0.6723 | 0.41 | 0.0063 | 0.57 | 0.241 | 0.57 | 0.7251 | 0.48 | 0.0274 | 2 |
| Diacylglycerol | oleoyl-arachidonoyl-glycerol (18:1/20:4) [2] (DAG 38:5) | 0.75 | 0.8245 | 4.11 | 0.0065 | 2.43 | 0.241 | 5.5 | 0.0017 | 4.7 | 0.0015 | 2 |
| Ceramide | ceramide (d18:2/24:1, d18:1/24:2) | 0.65 | 0.7016 | 1.92 | 0.0771 | 1.28 | 0.5331 | 2.94 | 0.0004 | 2.32 | 0.001 | 2 |
| LacCer | lactosyl-N-palmitoyl-sphingosine (d18:1/16:0) (LacCer 34:1) | 0.53 | 0.731 | 3.06 | 0.0631 | 1.8 | 0.4776 | 5.78 | 0.0013 | 4,00 | 0.0016 | 1 |
| lactosyl-N-nervonoyl-sphingosine (d18:1/24:1) (LacCer 42:3) | 0.42 | 0.6788 | 3.13 | 0.1213 | 1.78 | 0.5463 | 7.39 | 0.0016 | 4.4 | 0.0041 | 2 | |
| Sphingomyelin (SM) | palmitoyl sphingomyelin (d18:1/16:0) (SM 34:1) | 0.59 | 0.7225 | 2.3 | 0.0309 | 1.45 | 0.4556 | 3.89 | 0.001 | 2.9 | 0.001 | 1 |
| behenoyl sphingomyelin (d18:1/22:0) (SM 40:1) | 0.56 | 0.6788 | 2.04 | 0.1068 | 1.3 | 0.5332 | 3.64 | 0.0021 | 2.61 | 0.005 | 2 | |
| SM (d17:1/16:0, d18:1/15:0, d16:1/17:0) | 0.52 | 0.6965 | 1.89 | 0.1643 | 1.2 | 0.5332 | 3.67 | 0.008 | 2.49 | 0.0233 | 2 | |
| SM (d18:2/16:0, d18:1/16:1) (SM 34:2) | 0.64 | 0.7359 | 5.16 | 0.0017 | 2.9 | 0.241 | 8.01 | 0.0001 | 6.28 | 0.0002 | 2 | |
| SM (d18:1/20:0, d16:1/22:0) (SM 38:1) | 0.45 | 0.7339 | 1.63 | 0.0779 | 1.04 | 0.461 | 3.61 | 0.0033 | 2.25 | 0.0064 | 2 | |
| SM (d18:1/24:1, d18:2/24:0) (SM 42:2) | 0.5 | 0.7186 | 4.1 | 0.0039 | 2.3 | 0.3232 | 8.19 | 0.00007 | 5.46 | 0.00008 | 2 | |
| SM (d18:2/24:1, d18:1/24:2) (SM 42:3) | 0.59 | 0.7359 | 6.55 | 0.0017 | 3.57 | 0.241 | 11.19 | 0.0001 | 8.26 | 0.0002 | 2 | |
| Secondary Bile Acid Metabolism | glycolithocholate sulfate | 2.05 | 0.731 | 0.28 | 0.1213 | 1.17 | 0.5439 | 0.14 | 0.0332 | 0.19 | 0.0071 | 2 |
| glycocholenate sulfate | 0.4 | 0.8598 | 0.1 | 0.1643 | 0.25 | 0.472 | 0.24 | 0.2052 | 0.14 | 0.0398 | 2 | |
| NUCLEOTIDE | ||||||||||||
| Pyrimidine Metabolism | cytidine | 0.93 | 0.7359 | 0.46 | 0.0417 | 0.7 | 0.2488 | 0.5 | 0.3399 | 0.48 | 0.0398 | 1 |
| COFACTOR AND VITAMINS | ||||||||||||
| Hemoglobin and Porphyrin Metabolism | heme | 0.33 | 0.7604 | 8.44 | 0.0088 | 4.38 | 0.2885 | 25.62 | 0.0008 | 12.69 | 0.0011 | 1 |
| bilirubin (Z,Z) | 0.52 | 0.7484 | 0.16 | 0.0813 | 0.34 | 0.3114 | 0.31 | 0.3557 | 0.21 | 0.0457 | 1 | |
| bilirubin (E,E) | 0.77 | 0.7849 | 0.19 | 0.1589 | 0.48 | 0.5331 | 0.25 | 0.0497 | 0.21 | 0.0105 | 2 | |
| XENOBIOTICS | ||||||||||||
| Xanthine Metabolism | 3,7-dimethylurate | 1.18 | 0.8245 | 0.42 | 0.125 | 0.8 | 0.461 | 0.36 | 0.1135 | 0.39 | 0.0398 | 1 |
| PARTIALLY CHARACTERIZED MOLECULES (PCM) | ||||||||||||
| PCM | bilirubin degradation product, C16H18N2O5 (2) | 0.91 | 0.7329 | 0.31 | 0.0219 | 0.61 | 0.2488 | 0.34 | 0.2451 | 0.32 | 0.0064 | 3 |
| UN NAMED | ||||||||||||
| N/A | X-11787 | 1.28 | 0.8318 | 3.57 | 0.0065 | 2.43 | 0.241 | 2.78 | 0.0127 | 3.13 | 0.0027 | 4 |