COVID-19 and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease : Biological insights from multi-omics data

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We explored the shared pathophysiological mechanisms between COVID-19 and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) by integrating multi-omics data. We studied common genetic risk factors and underlying biological processes using functional enrichment analysis. To understand the sex-specific pathways involved in the clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infection, we processed sex-stratified data from COVID-19 genome-wide association datasets. We further explored the transcriptional signature of the liver cells in healthy and COVID-19 tissue specimens. We also integrated genetic and metabolomic information. We found that COVID-19 and NAFLD share biological disease mechanisms, including pathways that regulate the inflammatory and lipopolysaccharide response. Single-cell transcriptomics revealed enrichment of complement-related pathways in Kupffer cells, syndecan-mediated signalling in plasma cells, and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in hepatic stellate cells. The strategy of pathway-level analysis of genomic and metabolomic data uncovered l-lactic acid, Krebs cycle intermediate compounds, arachidonic acid and cortisol among the most prominent shared metabolites.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 43(2023), 3 vom: 20. März, Seite 580-587

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pirola, Carlos J [VerfasserIn]
Sookoian, Silvia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Fibrosis
Genetics
Journal Article
Metabolomics
NAFLD
NASH
OMICS
PNPLA3
Proteomics
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Single cell transcriptomics

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Date Completed 24.02.2023

Date Revised 09.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/liv.15509

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351048820