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  1. Article ; Online: Monocyte state 1 (MS1) cells in critically ill patients with sepsis or non-infectious conditions: association with disease course and host response.

    Leite, Giuseppe G F / de Brabander, Justin / Michels, Erik H A / Butler, Joe M / Cremer, Olaf L / Scicluna, Brendon P / Sweeney, Timothy E / Reyes, Miguel / Salomao, Reinaldo / Peters-Sengers, Hessel / van der Poll, Tom

    Critical care (London, England)

    2024  Volume 28, Issue 1, Page(s) 88

    Abstract: Background: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition arising from an aberrant host response to infection. Recent single-cell RNA sequencing investigations identified an immature bone-marrow-derived CD14: Methods: We used the transcriptome deconvolution ...

    Abstract Background: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition arising from an aberrant host response to infection. Recent single-cell RNA sequencing investigations identified an immature bone-marrow-derived CD14
    Methods: We used the transcriptome deconvolution method (CIBERSORTx) to estimate the percentage of MS1 cells from blood RNA profiles of patients with sepsis admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). We compared these profiles to ICU patients without infection and to healthy controls. Host response dysregulation was further studied by gene co-expression network and gene set enrichment analyses of blood leukocytes, and measurement of 15 plasma biomarkers indicative of pathways implicated in sepsis pathogenesis.
    Results: Sepsis patients (n = 332) were divided into three equally-sized groups based on their MS1 cell levels (low, intermediate, and high). MS1 groups did not differ in demographics or comorbidities. The intermediate and high MS1 groups presented with higher disease severity and more often had shock. MS1 cell abundance did not differ between survivors and non-survivors, or between patients who did or did not acquire a secondary infection. Higher MS1 cell percentages were associated with downregulation of lymphocyte-related and interferon response genes in blood leukocytes, with concurrent upregulation of inflammatory response pathways, including tumor necrosis factor signaling via nuclear factor-κB. Previously described sepsis host response transcriptomic subtypes showed different MS1 cell abundances, and MS1 cell percentages positively correlated with the "quantitative sepsis response signature" and "molecular degree of perturbation" scores. Plasma biomarker levels, indicative of inflammation, endothelial cell activation, and coagulation activation, were largely similar between MS1 groups. In ICU patients without infection (n = 215), MS1 cell percentages and their relation with disease severity, shock, and host response dysregulation were highly similar to those in sepsis patients.
    Conclusions: High MS1 cell percentages are associated with increased disease severity and shock in critically ill patients with sepsis or a non-infectious condition. High MS1 cell abundance likely indicates broad immune dysregulation, entailing not only immunosuppression but also anomalies reflecting exaggerated inflammatory responses.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Monocytes ; Critical Illness ; Sepsis/complications ; Biomarkers ; Leukocytes ; Intensive Care Units
    Chemical Substances Biomarkers
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-19
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2041406-7
    ISSN 1466-609X ; 1364-8535
    ISSN (online) 1466-609X
    ISSN 1364-8535
    DOI 10.1186/s13054-024-04868-5
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  2. Article ; Online: Patterns of Circulating Cytokines and Vascular Markers' Response in the Presence of COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients Compared with Non-Transplanted Patients.

    Brunialti, Milena Karina Coló / Leite, Giuseppe G F / Eburneo, Gabriela Strafolino / de Araujo, Orlei Ribeiro / Peçanha-Pietrobom, Paula M / Ferreira, Paulo Roberto Abrão / Bellei, Nancy C Junqueira / Arakaki, Jaquelina Sonoe Ota / Medina-Pestana, José / Requião-Moura, Lúcio / Salomao, Reinaldo

    Viruses

    2023  Volume 15, Issue 11

    Abstract: COVID-19's severity has been associated with a possible imbalance in the cross-regulation of cytokines and vascular mediators. Since the beginning of the pandemic, kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) have been identified as patients of high vulnerability ...

    Abstract COVID-19's severity has been associated with a possible imbalance in the cross-regulation of cytokines and vascular mediators. Since the beginning of the pandemic, kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) have been identified as patients of high vulnerability to more severe diseases. Thus, aiming to describe the patterns of cytokines and vascular mediators and to trace patients' differences according to their KTR status, this prospective study enrolled 67 COVID-19 patients (20 KTRs) and 29 non-COVID-19 controls before vaccination. A panel comprising 17 circulating cytokines and vascular mediators was run on samples collected at different time points. The cytokine and mediator patterns were investigated via principal component analysis (PCA) and correlation-based network (CBN). In both groups, compared to their respective controls, COVID-19 was associated with higher levels of cytokines and vascular mediators. Differentiating between the KTRs and non-KTRs, the number of correlations was much higher in the non-KTRs (44 vs. 14), and the node analysis showed the highest interactions of NGAL and sVCAM-1 in the non-KTRs and KTRs (9 vs. 4), respectively. In the PCA, while the non-KTRs with COVID-19 were differentiated from their controls in their IL-10, IFN-α, and TNF-α, this pattern was marked in the NGAL, sVCAM-1, and IL-8 of the KTRs.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; COVID-19 ; Kidney Transplantation ; Cytokines ; Prospective Studies ; Lipocalin-2 ; Transplant Recipients
    Chemical Substances Cytokines ; Lipocalin-2
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-28
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2516098-9
    ISSN 1999-4915 ; 1999-4915
    ISSN (online) 1999-4915
    ISSN 1999-4915
    DOI 10.3390/v15112166
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  3. Article ; Online: Production of rhamnolipids and diesel oil degradation by bacteria isolated from soil contaminated by petroleum.

    Leite, Giuseppe G F / Figueirôa, Juciane V / Almeida, Thiago C M / Valões, Jaqueline L / Marques, Walber F / Duarte, Maria D D C / Gorlach-Lira, Krystyna

    Biotechnology progress

    2016  Volume 32, Issue 2, Page(s) 262–270

    Abstract: Biosurfactants are microbial secondary metabolites. The most studied are rhamnolipids, which decrease the surface tension and have emulsifying capacity. In this study, the production of biosurfactants, with emphasis on rhamnolipids, and diesel oil ... ...

    Abstract Biosurfactants are microbial secondary metabolites. The most studied are rhamnolipids, which decrease the surface tension and have emulsifying capacity. In this study, the production of biosurfactants, with emphasis on rhamnolipids, and diesel oil degradation by 18 strains of bacteria isolated from waste landfill soil contaminated by petroleum was analyzed. Among the studied bacteria, gram-positive endospore forming rods (39%), gram positive rods without endospores (17%), and gram-negative rods (44%) were found. The following methods were used to test for biosurfactant production: oil spreading, emulsification, and hemolytic activity. All strains showed the ability to disperse the diesel oil, while 77% and 44% of the strains showed hemolysis and emulsification of diesel oil, respectively. Rhamnolipids production was observed in four strains that were classified on the basis of the 16S rRNA sequences as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Only those strains showed the rhlAB gene involved in rhamnolipids synthesis, and antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli, P. aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Erwinia carotovora, and Ralstonia solanacearum. The highest production of rhamnolipids was 565.7 mg/L observed in mineral medium containing olive oil (pH 8). With regard to the capacity to degrade diesel oil, it was observed that 7 strains were positive in reduction of the dye 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (2,6-DCPIP) while 16 had the gene alkane mono-oxygenase (alkB), and the producers of rhamnolipids were positive in both tests. Several bacterial strains have shown high potential to be explored further for bioremediation purposes due to their simultaneous ability to emulsify, disperse, and degrade diesel oil. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 32:262-270, 2016.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 165657-0
    ISSN 1520-6033 ; 8756-7938
    ISSN (online) 1520-6033
    ISSN 8756-7938
    DOI 10.1002/btpr.2208
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