Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Food & Function. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2019 Varied doses and chemical forms of selenium supplementation differentially affect mouse intestinal physiology Qixiao Zhai 1,2,4#, Yue Xiao1,2#, Peng Li 2,3, Fengwei Tian 1,2,4, Jianxin Zhao 1,2, Hao Zhang 1,2,3, Wei Chen 1,2,3,5* 1 State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, P. R. China 2 School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, P. R. China 3 National Engineering Research Center for Functional Food, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, P. R. China 4 International Joint Research Laboratory for Probiotics at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122 China 5 Beijing Innovation Center of Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, P. R. China # These authors contributed equally to this work. * Correspondence: Wei Chen. Tel: 86-510-85912155; Fax: 86-510-85912155 E-mail address:
[email protected] Postal address: No 1800 Lihu Avenue, Binhu District, Wuxi, Jiangsu, 214122, P.R. China Supplementary materials Materials and Methods Fecal metabolomic analysis Sample collection and metabolite extraction Fresh fecal samples were collected in a 1.5-ml tube, immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, and then stored at −80 °C. The fecal samples (60 mg) were mixed with 600-μL pre-cooled mixture of methanol and ultra-pure water (4:1, v/v) and subjected to ice-based sonication (500 W; 6 s on, 6 s off) for 10 min to extract metabolites.