Beatrice Dufrusine, Silvia Valentinuzzi, Sandra Bibbò, Verena Damiani, Paola Lanuti, Damiana Pieragostino, Piero Del Boccio, Ersilia D'Alessandro, Alberto Rabottini, Alessandro Berghella, Nerino Allocati, Katia Falasca, Claudio Ucciferri, Francesco Mucedola, Marco Di Perna, Laura Martino, Jacopo Vecchiet, Vincenzo De Laurenzi, Enrico Dainese
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is characterized by a broad spectrum of clinical symptoms. After acute infection, some subjects develop a post-COVID-19 syndrome known as long-COVID. This study aims to recognize the molecular and functional mechanisms that occur in COVID-19 and long-COVID patients and identify useful biomarkers for the management of patients with COVID-19 and long-COVID. Here, we profiled the response to COVID-19 by performing a proteomic analysis of lymphocytes isolated from patients. We identified significant changes in proteins involved in iron metabolism using different biochemical analyses, considering ceruloplasmin (Cp), transferrin (Tf), hemopexin (HPX), lipocalin 2 (LCN2), and superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1)...
December 20, 2022: International Journal of Molecular Sciences