Circulating miRNAs : Potential diagnostic role for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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Nowadays, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) represents a major global health problem. Intensive efforts are being employed to better understand this pathology and develop strategies enabling its early diagnosis and efficient treatment. In this study, we compared the signature of circulating miRNAs in plasma of COVID-19 patients versus healthy donors. MiRCURY LNA miRNA miRNome qPCR Panels were performed for miRNA signature characterization. Individual quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) was carried out to validate miRNome qPCR results. Receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was applied to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the most significantly deregulated miRNA(s) as potential diagnostic biomarker(s). Eight miRNAs were identified to be differentially expressed with miR-17-5p and miR-142-5p being down-regulated whilst miR-15a-5p, miR-19a-3p, miR-19b-3p, miR-23a-3p, miR-92a-3p and miR-320a being up-regulated in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients. ROC curve analyses revealed an AUC (Areas Under the ROC Curve) of 0.815 (P = 0.031), 0.875 (P = 0.012), and 0.850 (P = 0.025) for miR-19a-3p, miR-19b-3p, and miR-92a-3p, respectively. Combined ROC analyses using these 3 miRNAs showed a greater AUC of 0.917 (P = 0.0001) indicating a robust diagnostic value of these 3 miRNAs. These results suggest that plasma miR-19a-3p, miR-19b-3p, and miR-92a-3p expression levels could serve as potential diagnostic biomarker and/or a putative therapeutic target during SARS-CoV-2-infection.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:94

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Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 94(2021) vom: 15. Okt., Seite 105020

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fayyad-Kazan, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]
Makki, Rawan [VerfasserIn]
Skafi, Najwa [VerfasserIn]
El Homsi, Mahmoud [VerfasserIn]
Hamade, Aline [VerfasserIn]
El Majzoub, Rania [VerfasserIn]
Hamade, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Fayyad-Kazan, Hussein [VerfasserIn]
Badran, Bassam [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers
Circulating MicroRNA
Coronavirus
Journal Article
MiRNAs
Plasma
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Severe acute respiratory syndrome

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Date Completed 13.09.2021

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.meegid.2021.105020

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM328881899