Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented threat to humanity that has provoked global health concerns. Since the etiopathogenesis of this illness is not fully characterized, the prognostic factors enabling treatment decisions have not been well documented. Accurately predicting the progression of the disease would aid in appropriate patient categorization and thus help determine the best treatment option. Here, we have introduced a proteomic approach utilizing data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) to identify the serum proteins that are closely associated with COVID-19 prognosis. Twenty-seven proteins were differentially expressed between severely ill COVID-19 patients with an adverse or favorable prognosis. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis revealed that 15 of the 27 proteins might be regulated by cytokine signaling relevant to interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and their differential expression was implicated in the systemic inflammatory response and in cardiovascular disorders. We further evaluated practical predictors of the clinical prognosis of severe COVID-19 patients. Subsequent ELISA assays revealed that CHI3L1 and IGFALS may serve as highly sensitive prognostic markers. Our findings can help formulate a diagnostic approach for accurately identifying COVID-19 patients with severe disease and for providing appropriate treatment based on their predicted prognosis.

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Title
Identification of serum prognostic biomarkers of severe COVID-19 using a quantitative proteomic approach
Author
Kimura Yayoi 1 ; Nakai Yusuke 1 ; Shin Jihye 1 ; Hara Miyui 2 ; Takeda Yuriko 2 ; Kubo Sousuke 3 ; Jeremiah Sundararaj Stanleyraj 4 ; Ino Yoko 1 ; Akiyama Tomoko 1 ; Moriyama Kayano 1 ; Sakai Kazuya 5 ; Saji Ryo 5 ; Nishii Mototsugu 5 ; Kitamura Hideya 6 ; Murohashi Kota 7 ; Yamamoto Kouji 2 ; Kaneko Takeshi 8 ; Takeuchi Ichiro 5 ; Hagiwara Eri 6 ; Ogura Takashi 6 ; Hasegawa Hideki 9 ; Tamura Tomohiko 10 ; Yamanaka Takeharu 2 ; Akihide, Ryo 11 

 Yokohama City University, Advanced Medical Research Center, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139) 
 Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139) 
 Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139); Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Department of Pulmonology, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139) 
 Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139) 
 Yokohama City University, School of Medicine Medical Course Emergency Medicine, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139) 
 Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.419708.3) (ISNI:0000 0004 1775 0430) 
 Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Department of Pulmonology, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139); Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.419708.3) (ISNI:0000 0004 1775 0430) 
 Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Department of Pulmonology, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139) 
 National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Influenza Research Center, Musashimurayama, Japan (GRID:grid.410795.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 2220 1880) 
10  Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Department of Immunology, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139) 
11  Yokohama City University, Advanced Medical Research Center, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139); Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Yokohama, Japan (GRID:grid.268441.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 6139) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2583229195
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.