Amino acid profiling as a screening and prognostic biomarker in active tuberculosis patients

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BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's most deadly chronic infectious diseases; early diagnosis contributes to reducing disease transmission among populations. However, discovering novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers is still an important topic in the field of TB. Amino acid is the basic unit of protein composition, and its structure and physicochemical characteristics are more stable. Therefore, it is a potential target for TB diagnosis and the prediction of TB development.

METHODS: In this study, the blood of healthy people (HC), TB patients (TB), cured TB (RxTB), and other non-TB pneumonia patients (PN) were collected to detect the levels of amino acids in whole blood and plasma using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry.

RESULTS: We detected that the amino acid levels correlated with participants status (TB, HC, RxTB, or PN) and the degree of lung damage. The results showed that phenylalanine had a good effect on the screening of TB (AUC = 0.924). We then built a TB prediction model. The model, which was based on the ratio of plasma amino acid content to whole blood amino acid content, showed good performance for the screening of TB, with 84% (95% CI = 60-97) sensitivity and 97% (95% CI = 83-100) specificity. The result of correlation between the HRCT score and amino acid level indicated that the glutamine content of plasma was significantly inversely associated with disease severity. Additionally, ornithine levels in the plasma of RxTB group reduced and four amino acids of which the ratio in plasma to whole blood showed significantly changed.

CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, amino acid profiling can be used for TB screening, and a multiparameter profiling model is better. The profiling can also reflect the severity of lung damage. Moreover, the amino acid profile is useful for reflecting the efficacy of TB treatment.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:548

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Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 548(2023) vom: 01. Aug., Seite 117523

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sun, Yunmei [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Yunli [VerfasserIn]
Xiong, Nating [VerfasserIn]
He, Xing [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Huihua [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xiaomin [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Guohui [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhaoqin [VerfasserIn]
Rao, Weiqiao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Guoliang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

0RH81L854J
Amino Acids
Amino acids
Biomarkers
Glutamine
Journal Article
Plasma
Screening
Tuberculosis
Whole blood

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Date Completed 11.09.2023

Date Revised 11.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cca.2023.117523

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361237103