Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Zaragoza, Spain.
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain.
Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 20;13(1):6497. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33682-2.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection is highly heterogeneous, ranging from asymptomatic to severe and fatal cases. COVID-19 has been characterized by an increase of serum pro-inflammatory cytokine levels which seems to be associated with fatal cases. By contrast, the role of pro-resolving lipid mediators (SPMs), involved in the attenuation of inflammatory responses, has been scarcely investigated, so further studies are needed to understand SPMs metabolism in COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Our aim was to analyse the lipid mediator metabolome, quantifying pro- and anti-inflammatory serum bioactive lipids by LC-MS/MS in 7 non-infected subjects and 24 COVID-19 patients divided into mild, moderate, and severe groups according to the pulmonary involvement, to better understand the disease outcome and the severity of the pulmonary manifestations. Statistical analysis was performed with the R programming language (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria). All COVID-19 patients had increased levels of Prostaglandin E. Severe patients showed a significant increase versus controls, mild- and moderate-affected patients, expressed as median (interquartile range), in resolvin E1 [112.6 (502.7) vs 0.0 (0.0) pg/ml in the other groups], as well as in maresin 2 [14.5 (7.0) vs 8.1 (4.2), 5.5 (4.3), and 3.0 (4.0) pg/ml, respectively]. Moreover, 14-hydroxy docosahexaenoic acid (14-HDHA) levels were also increased in severe vs control and mild-affected patients [24.7 (38.2) vs 2.4 (2.2) and 3.7 (6.4) ng/mL, respectively]. Resolvin D5 was also significantly elevated in both moderate [15.0 (22.4) pg/ml] and severe patients [24.0 (24.1) pg/ml] versus controls [0.0 (0.0) pg/ml]. These results were confirmed by sparse partial least squares discriminant analysis which highlighted the contribution of these mediators to the separation between each of the groups. In conclusion, the potent inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 infection involves not only pro- but also anti-inflammatory lipid mediators that can be quantified in easily accessible serum samples, suggesting the need to perform future research on their generation pathways that will help us to discover new therapeutic targets.
由 SARS-CoV-2 感染引起的 2019 年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)高度异质,从无症状到严重和致命病例不等。COVID-19 的特点是血清促炎细胞因子水平升高,似乎与致命病例有关。相比之下,参与炎症反应衰减的促解决脂质介质(SPMs)的作用尚未得到充分研究,因此需要进一步研究来了解 COVID-19 和其他传染病中的 SPMs 代谢。我们的目的是分析脂质介质代谢组,通过 LC-MS/MS 定量非感染受试者的 7 名和 COVID-19 患者的 24 名血清生物活性脂质,根据肺部受累情况将 COVID-19 患者分为轻症、中度和重症组,以更好地了解疾病结局和肺部表现的严重程度。统计分析使用 R 编程语言(R 基金会用于统计计算,维也纳,奥地利)进行。所有 COVID-19 患者的前列腺素 E 水平均升高。重症患者与对照组、轻症和中度患者相比,表达为中位数(四分位距),在 resolvin E1 中显著升高[112.6(502.7)与 0.0(0.0)pg/ml 相比,其他组],maresin 2 也升高[14.5(7.0)与 8.1(4.2)、5.5(4.3)和 3.0(4.0)pg/ml]。此外,14-羟基二十二碳六烯酸(14-HDHA)水平在重症患者与对照组和轻症患者相比也升高[24.7(38.2)与 2.4(2.2)和 3.7(6.4)ng/ml]。resolvin D5 在中度[15.0(22.4)pg/ml]和重症患者[24.0(24.1)pg/ml]中也明显升高,与对照组[0.0(0.0)pg/ml]相比。稀疏偏最小二乘判别分析也证实了这一结果,该分析突出了这些介质对每组之间分离的贡献。总之,SARS-CoV-2 感染引起的强烈炎症反应不仅涉及促炎脂质介质,还涉及抗炎脂质介质,这些介质可以在易于获得的血清样本中定量,这表明需要对其生成途径进行进一步研究,以帮助我们发现新的治疗靶点。