The proteomic characteristics of airway mucus from critical ill COVID-19 patients

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BACKGROUND: The pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought a global public health crisis. However, the pathogenesis underlying COVID-19 are barely understood.

METHODS: In this study, we performed proteomic analyses of airway mucus obtained by bronchoscopy from severe COVID-19 patients. In total, 2351 and 2073 proteins were identified and quantified in COVID-19 patients and healthy controls, respectively.

RESULTS: Among them, 92 differentiated expressed proteins (DEPs) (46 up-regulated and 46 down-regulated) were found with a fold change >1.5 or <0.67 and a p-value <0.05, and 375 proteins were uniquely present in airway mucus from COVID-19 patients. Pathway and network enrichment analyses revealed that the 92 DEPs were mostly associated with metabolic, complement and coagulation cascades, lysosome, and cholesterol metabolism pathways, and the 375 COVID-19 only proteins were mainly enriched in amino acid degradation (Valine, Leucine and Isoleucine degradation), amino acid metabolism (beta-Alanine, Tryptophan, Cysteine and Methionine metabolism), oxidative phosphorylation, phagosome, and cholesterol metabolism pathways.

CONCLUSIONS: This study aims to provide fundamental data for elucidating proteomic changes of COVID-19, which may implicate further investigation of molecular targets directing at specific therapy.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:269

Enthalten in:

Life sciences - 269(2021) vom: 15. März, Seite 119046

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Zili [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Airu [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Guoping [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Jieping [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Jingyi [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Jincun [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yiming [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yuanyuan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaoqing [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Nanshan [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Wenju [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

97C5T2UQ7J
Airway mucus
Amino Acids
COVID-19
Cholesterol
Critical ill patients
Journal Article
Proteins
Proteomic

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Date Completed 15.02.2021

Date Revised 05.09.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.lfs.2021.119046

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NLM320160637