IMR Press / FBL / Volume 28 / Issue 10 / DOI: 10.31083/j.fbl2810251
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Serum Metabolomic Profile in Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension Mice after C75 Treatment
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1 Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Children’s Hospital, School of medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200025 Shanghai, China
2 NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Embryogenesis and Developmental Molecular Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Embryo and Reproduction Engineering, 200040 Shanghai, China
3 Department of Pediatrics, JinShan Hospital, Fudan University, 200540 Shanghai, China
*Correspondence: ttxiao2017@163.com (Tingting Xiao); houcl88@sina.cn (Cuilan Hou); naijileix@aliyun.com (Lijian Xie)
These authors contributed equally.
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2023, 28(10), 251; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2810251
Submitted: 10 February 2023 | Revised: 12 April 2023 | Accepted: 30 May 2023 | Published: 20 October 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lipids and lipid metabolism in cardiovascular disease)
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Inhibition of fatty acid synthase (FAS) plays a crucial protective role in pulmonary hypertension (PH). Our aim was to identify novel metabolites in mice with hypoxia-induced PH after treatment with C75 (FAS inhibitor) and to confirm the presence of these metabolites in paediatric patients with PH. Methods: The PH mouse model was built by chronic hypoxia and ovalbumin (OVA) assistance. Untargeted metabolomics was used to analyse mouse serum. Six children with PH and six relative controls (patients without lung and heart disease) were selected in Shanghai Children’s Hospital and they all performed blood tandem mass spectrometry during hospitalization. Results: First, a total of 29 differential metabolites, including lipid metabolites, polyamine, and glutamine were identified as differential metabolites in the hypoxia group compared with the control group. After C75 treatment, symptoms were partially relieved in the PH mouse, and 15 differential metabolites, including lipid metabolites, polyamine, and glutamine were identified in the hypoxia + C75 group compared with the hypoxia group. These differential metabolites were enriched in arginine and glycerolipid metabolism through metabolite set enrichment analyses and were involved in excessive cell proliferation, which was a characteristic of PH. Second, glutamine and caproyl carnitine levels were increased in paediatric patients with PH. Conclusions: FAS may be a potential PH therapeutic target. Lipid metabolites, polyamine, and glutamine, are closely related to PH. Putrescine and glutamine might be biomarkers for PH.

Keywords
metabolomics
pulmonary hypertension
C75
biomarkers
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Funding
YG2021ZD26/Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical Technology Crossing Project
82170518/National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
81900437/National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
2019YQ006/Shanghai Children’s Hospital
2020YGZQ10/Shanghai Children’s Hospital
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