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Disrupted epithelial permeability as a predictor of severe COVID-19 development

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Çağan, Eren
Kızmaz, Muhammed Ali
Bozkurt, Tuğçe

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Yazıcı, Duygu
Çağan, Eren
Tan, Ge
Li, Manru
Do, Evan
Küçükkase, Ozan C.
Şimşek, Abdurrahman
Kızmaz, Muhammed Ali
Bozkurt, Tuğçe
Aydın, Tamer

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Background: An impaired epithelial barrier integrity in the gastrointestinal tract is important to the pathogenesis of many inflammatory diseases. Accordingly, we assessed the potential of biomarkers of epithelial barrier dysfunction as predictive of severe COVID-19.Methods: Levels of bacterial DNA and zonulin family peptides (ZFP) as markers of bacterial translocation and intestinal permeability and a total of 180 immune and inflammatory proteins were analyzed from the sera of 328 COVID-19 patients and 49 healthy controls.Results: Significantly high levels of circulating bacterial DNA were detected in severe COVID-19 cases. In mild COVID-19 cases, serum bacterial DNA levels were significantly lower than in healthy controls suggesting epithelial barrier tightness as a predictor of a mild disease course. COVID-19 patients were characterized by significantly elevated levels of circulating ZFP. We identified 36 proteins as potential early biomarkers of COVID-19, and six of them (AREG, AXIN1, CLEC4C, CXCL10, CXCL11, and TRANCE) correlated strongly with bacterial translocation and can be used to predict and discriminate severe cases from healthy controls and mild cases (area under the curve (AUC): 1 and 0.88, respectively). Proteomic analysis of the serum of 21 patients with moderate disease at admission which progressed to severe disease revealed 10 proteins associated with disease progression and mortality (AUC: 0.88), including CLEC7A, EIF4EBP1, TRANCE, CXCL10, HGF, KRT19, LAMP3, CKAP4, CXADR, and ITGB6.Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that biomarkers of intact or defective epithelial barriers are associated with disease severity and can provide early information on the prediction at the time of hospital admission.

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Zonulin, Sars-cov-2, Modulator, Bacterial dna, Biomarker, Covid-19, Epithelial barrier, Zonulin family peptides, Allergy, Immunology

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