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Functional proteomic profiling links deficient DNA clearance to mortality in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia (preprint)
medrxiv; 2022.
Preprint
in English
| medRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2022.01.25.22269616
ABSTRACT
Hyperinflammation, coagulopathy and immune dysfunction are prominent in patients with severe infections. Extracellular chromatin clearance by plasma DNases suppresses such pathologies in mice but whether severe infection interferes with these pathways is unclear. Here, we show that patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection or microbial sepsis exhibit low extracellular DNA clearance capacity associated with the release of the DNase inhibitor actin. Unlike naked DNA degradation (DNase), neutrophil extracellular trap degradation (NETase) was insensitive to G-actin, indicating distinct underlying mechanisms. Functional proteomic profiling of severely ill SARS-CoV-2 patient plasma revealed that patients with high NETase and DNase activities exhibited 18-fold higher survival compared to patients with low activity proteomic profiles. Remarkably, low DNA clearance capacity was also prominent in healthy individuals with chronic inflammation, suggesting that pre-existing inflammatory conditions may increase the risk for mortality upon infection. Hence, functional proteomic profiling illustrates that non-redundant DNA clearance activities protect critically ill patients from mortality, uncovering protein combinations that can accurately predict mortality in critically ill patients.
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Preprints
Database:
medRxiv
Main subject:
Pneumonia
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Critical Illness
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Sepsis
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Blood Coagulation Disorders, Inherited
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COVID-19
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Inflammation
Language:
English
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Preprint
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