Profiling of Homocysteine Metabolic Pathway Related Metabolites in Plasma of Diabetic Mellitus Based on LC-QTOF-MS.

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Department of Regenerative Medicine, School of Medicine, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China.

Published: January 2023

Background: Homocysteine (Hcy) has been found to be closely related to the occurrence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and is considered as one of the risk factors of DM. However, Hcy alone is not enough as a factor to predict DM, and our study analyzed and determined the relationship between the main metabolites involved in the Hcy metabolic pathway and DM. Methods: A total of 48 clinical samples were collected, including 18 health control samples and 30 DM samples. All standards and samples were detected by LC-QTOF-MS. Multivariate statistical analysis and k-means cluster analysis were performed to screen and confirm the metabolites significantly correlated with DM. Results: A total of 13 metabolites of the Hcy metabolic pathway were detected in the samples. The content of Hcy, cysteine, taurine, pyridoxamine, methionine, and choline were significantly increased in the DM group (p < 0.05). Hcy, choline, cystathionine, methionine, and taurine contributed significantly to the probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) model. The odds ratios (OR) of Hcy, cysteine, taurine, methionine, and choline were all greater than one. K-means cluster analysis showed that the Hcy, taurine, methionine, and choline were significantly correlated with the distribution of glucose values (divided into four levels: 10.5−11.7 mmol/L, 7.7−9.7 mmol/L, 6.0−6.9 mmol/L, and 5.0−5.9 mmol/L, respectively). Conclusion: Hcy, taurine, methionine, and choline can be used as risk factors for diabetes diagnosis and are expected to be used for the assessment of diabetes severity.

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