Departamento de Agroquímica y Bioquímica, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Metabolomics. 2023 Jan 24;19(2):7. doi: 10.1007/s11306-023-01971-6.
Analysis of urine samples from COVID-19 patients by H NMR reveals important metabolic alterations due to SAR-CoV-2 infection. Previous studies have identified biomarkers in urine that reflect metabolic alterations in COVID-19 patients. We have used H NMR to better define these metabolic alterations since this technique allows us to obtain a broad profile of the metabolites present in urine. This technique offers the advantage that sample preparation is very simple and gives us very complete information on the metabolites present. To detect these alterations, we have compared urine samples from COVID-19 patients (n = 35) with healthy people (n = 18). We used unsupervised (Robust PCA) and supervised (PLS-LDA) multivariate analysis methods to evaluate the differences between the two groups: COVID-19 and healthy controls. The differences focus on a group of metabolites related to energy metabolism (glucose, ketone bodies, glycine, creatinine, and citrate) and other processes related to bacterial flora (TMAO and formic acid) and detoxification (hippuric acid). The alterations in the urinary metabolome shown in this work indicate that SARS-CoV-2 causes a metabolic change from a normal situation of glucose consumption towards a gluconeogenic situation and possible insulin resistance.
通过 H NMR 对 COVID-19 患者的尿液样本进行分析,揭示了由于 SAR-CoV-2 感染导致的重要代谢改变。先前的研究已经确定了尿液中的生物标志物,反映了 COVID-19 患者的代谢改变。我们使用 H NMR 来更好地定义这些代谢改变,因为这项技术可以让我们获得尿液中存在的代谢物的广泛图谱。这种技术的优点是样品制备非常简单,并且可以为我们提供有关存在的代谢物的非常完整的信息。为了检测这些改变,我们比较了 COVID-19 患者(n=35)和健康人的尿液样本(n=18)。我们使用无监督(Robust PCA)和有监督(PLS-LDA)多元分析方法来评估两组之间的差异:COVID-19 和健康对照组。差异主要集中在一组与能量代谢(葡萄糖、酮体、甘氨酸、肌酐和柠檬酸)和其他与细菌菌群(TMAO 和甲酸)和解毒(马尿酸)有关的代谢物上。这项工作中显示的尿液代谢组学的改变表明,SARS-CoV-2 导致代谢从正常的葡萄糖消耗状态转变为糖异生状态,并可能导致胰岛素抵抗。