Persistence of HCV in acutely-infected patients depletes C24-ceramide and upregulates sphingosine and sphinganine serum levels

  • Hepatitis C virus (HCV) substantially affects lipid metabolism, and remodeling of sphingolipids appears to be essential for HCV persistence in vitro. The aim of the current study is the evaluation of serum sphingolipid variations during acute HCV infection. We enrolled prospectively 60 consecutive patients with acute HCV infection, most of them already infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and serum was collected at the time of diagnosis and longitudinally over a six-month period until initiation of antiviral therapy or confirmed spontaneous clearance. Quantification of serum sphingolipids was performed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Spontaneous clearance was observed in 11 out of 60 patients (18.3%), a sustained viral response (SVR) in 43 out of 45 patients (95.5%) receiving an antiviral treatment after follow-up, whereas persistence of HCV occurred in six out of 60 patients (10%). C24-ceramide (C24-Cer)-levels increased at follow-up in patients with spontaneous HCV eradication (p < 0.01), as compared to baseline. Sphingosine and sphinganine values were significantly upregulated in patients unable to clear HCV over time compared to patients with spontaneous clearance of HCV infection on follow-up (p = 0.013 and 0.006, respectively). In summary, the persistence of HCV after acute infection induces a downregulation of C24Cer and a simultaneous elevation of serum sphingosine and sphinganine concentrations.

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Author:Georgios Grammatikos, Julia DietzORCiDGND, Nerea Ferreirós BouzasORCiDGND, Alexander Koch, Georg DultzORCiDGND, Dimitra Bon, Ioannis Karakasiliotis, Thomas Lutz, Gaby Knecht, Peter Gute, Eva HerrmannORCiDGND, Stefan ZeuzemORCiDGND, Penelope Mavromara, Christoph SarrazinGND, Josef PfeilschifterGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-422706
URL:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4926455
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms17060922
ISSN:1661-6596
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27304952
Parent Title (English):International journal of molecular sciences
Publisher:Molecular Diversity Preservation International
Place of publication:Basel
Contributor(s):Johannes Haybäck
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2016/11/28
Date of first Publication:2016/06/13
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2016/11/28
Tag:HIV; angiopoietin-like 3 (ANGPTL3); biomarker; hepatitis C; sphingolipid
Volume:17
Issue:6, 922
Page Number:12
First Page:1
Last Page:12
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© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
HeBIS-PPN:421369523
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0