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

Abstract 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..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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ResearchSquare.com - (2022) vom: 28. Juli Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

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]
Liu, Xiaoqing [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Nanshan [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Wenju [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.21203/rs.3.rs-52433/v1

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XRA034230351