脂肪组织
DNA甲基化
减肥
肥胖
甲基化
内科学
医学
内分泌学
表观遗传学
外周血单个核细胞
基因表达
生物
基因
生物化学
体外
作者
Andrea G. Izquierdo,Marcos C. Carreira,Hatim Boughanem,José María Moreno‐Navarrete,Carolina Ferreira Nicoletti,Paula Oliver,Daniel Antonio de Luis,Carla Barbosa Nonino,María P. Portillo,Miguel Ángel Martínez Olmos,José Manuel Fernández‐Real,Francisco J. Tinahones,J. Alfredo Martínez,Manuel Macías‐González,Felipe F. Casanueva,Ana B. Crujeiras
摘要
Obesity was consistently associated with a poor prognosis in patients with COVID-19. Epigenetic mechanisms were proposed as the link between obesity and comorbidities risk.To evaluate the methylation levels of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) gene, the main entry receptor of SARS-CoV-2, in different depots of adipose tissue (AT) and leukocytes (PBMCs) in obesity and after weight loss therapy based on a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD), a balanced hypocaloric diet (HCD) or bariatric surgery (BS).DNA methylation levels of ACE2 were extracted from our data sets generated by the hybridization of subcutaneous (SAT) (n = 32) or visceral (VAT; n = 32) adipose tissue, and PBMCs (n = 34) samples in Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChips. Data were compared based on the degree of obesity and after 4-6 months of weight loss either by following a nutritional or surgical treatment and correlated with ACE2 transcript levels.As compared with normal weight, VAT from patients with obesity showed higher ACE2 methylation levels. These differences were mirrored in PBMCs but not in SAT. The observed obesity-associated methylation of ACE2 was reversed after VLCKD and HCD but not after BS. Among the studied CpG sites, cg16734967 and cg21598868, located at the promoter, were the most affected and correlated with BMI. The observed DNA methylation pattern was inversely correlated with ACE2 expression.Obesity-related VAT shows hypermethylation and downregulation of the ACE2 gene that is mirrored in PBMCs and is restored after nutritional weight reduction therapy. The results warrant the necessity to further evaluate its implication for COVID-19 pathogenesis.
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