t6A and ms2t6A Modified Nucleosides in Serum and Urine as Strong Candidate Biomarkers of COVID-19 Infection and Severity

Autor: Yu Nagayoshi, Kayo Nishiguchi, Ryosuke Yamamura, Takeshi Chujo, Hiroyuki Oshiumi, Hiroko Nagata, Hitomi Kaneko, Keiichi Yamamoto, Hirotomo Nakata, Korin Sakakida, Akihiro Kunisawa, Masataka Adachi, Yutaka Kakizoe, Takanori Mizobe, Jun-ichi Kuratsu, Shinya Shimada, Yasushi Nakamori, Masao Matsuoka, Masashi Mukoyama, Fan-Yan Wei, Kazuhito Tomizawa
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Biomolecules, Vol 12, Iss 9, p 1233 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2218-273X
DOI: 10.3390/biom12091233
Popis: SARS-CoV-2 infection alters cellular RNA content. Cellular RNAs are chemically modified and eventually degraded, depositing modified nucleosides into extracellular fluids such as serum and urine. Here we searched for COVID-19-specific changes in modified nucleoside levels contained in serum and urine of 308 COVID-19 patients using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). We found that two modified nucleosides, N6-threonylcarbamoyladenosine (t6A) and 2-methylthio-N6-threonylcarbamoyladenosine (ms2t6A), were elevated in serum and urine of COVID-19 patients. Moreover, these levels were associated with symptom severity and decreased upon recovery from COVID-19. In addition, the elevation of similarly modified nucleosides was observed regardless of COVID-19 variants. These findings illuminate specific modified RNA nucleosides in the extracellular fluids as biomarkers for COVID-19 infection and severity.
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