Amino acids, post-translational modifications, nitric oxide, and oxidative stress in serum and urine of long COVID and ex COVID human subjects.

ABSTRACT: In this study, we investigated the status of amino acids, their post-translational modifications (PTM), major nitric oxide (NO) metabolites and of malondialdehyde (MDA) as a biomarker of oxidative stress in serum and urine samples of long COVID (LoCo, n = 124) and ex COVID (ExCo, n = 24) human subjects collected in 2022. Amino acids and metabolites were measured by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) methods using stable-isotope labelled analogs as internal standards. There were no differences with respect to circulating and excretory arginine and asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA). LoCo participants excreted higher amounts of guanidino acetate than ExCo participants (17.8 ± 10.4 µM/mM vs. 12.6 ± 8.86 µM/mM, P = 0.005). By contrast, LoCo participants excreted lower amounts of the

SUBMITTER: Mikuteit M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10564820 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature