基于有机质谱流式的高血压大鼠心脏单细胞代谢组学研究

Single-Cell Metabolomic of Hypertensive Rats Heart Based on Organic Mass Cytometry

  • 摘要: 高血压导致的心肌代谢紊乱是心血管疾病的重要病理基础,但其单细胞水平的代谢特征尚未明确。本研究建立了基于有机质谱流式系统(CyESI-MS)的高血压大鼠心脏单细胞代谢组学方法。通过对大鼠心脏组织进行解离,制备高活性细胞悬液;采用CyESI-MS对自发性高血压大鼠(SHR)和正常大鼠的原代心脏细胞进行代谢组学分析。从单细胞层面共鉴定出70种内源性代谢物,其中34种呈显著差异(|log2FC|≥1,p<0.05)。通路富集分析结果表明,甘油磷脂代谢,苯丙氨酸、酪氨酸和色氨酸的生物合成,苯丙氨酸代谢,组氨酸代谢,牛磺酸和次牛磺酸代谢为核心紊乱通路。本研究在单细胞分辨率上证实了高血压大鼠心脏存在特征性代谢重编程,可为心血管疾病的机制研究提供依据。

     

    Abstract: Hypertension is a common chronic cardiovascular disease and one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular mortality and disability, with a global prevalence of approximately 15%. This high incidence not only leads to a substantial disease burden but also gives rise to long-term complications that affect the quality of life of millions worldwide. Surveys indicate that the prevalence of hypertension in China is 27.5% and exhibits an annual upward trend, a situation that poses significant challenges to socioeconomic development including increased healthcare costs and reduced workforce productivity, and imposes immense pressure on public health systems. Due to the high heterogeneity among different individual cells, where even cells of the same type can exhibit distinct functional and molecular profiles, and the involvement of multiple cell types in the synergistic regulation of hypertension pathogenesis, it is crucial to explore the regulatory mechanisms of hypertension at the single-cell level. Single-cell metabolomics, a cutting-edge analytical approach, reveals the metabolic characteristics of individual cells by systematically analyzing endogenous small molecules (metabolites) within cells. By capturing the unique metabolic fingerprints of each cell, single-cell metabolomics can directly reflect metabolic disturbances under pathological conditions, offering valuable insights into the early and subtle changes that precede overt disease manifestations. Hypertension-induced myocardial metabolic dysregulation represents a critical pathological basis for cardiovascular diseases, yet its single-cell metabolic signatures remain incompletely characterized. This study established a novel single-cell metabolomics approach for hypertensive hearts using organic mass cytometry (CyESI-MS), aiming to clarify the metabolic regulatory mechanism from a single-cell perspective. Through optimized tissue dissociation protocols, high-viability single-cell suspensions were prepared from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive controls, followed by metabolomics analysis via CyESI-MS. As a result, 70 endogenous metabolites are identified at the single-cell level, with 34 demonstrating significant alterations (|log2FC|≥1, p<0.05). Pathway enrichment analysis reveals five core dysregulated metabolic pathways, including glycerophospholipid metabolism, biosynthesis of phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan, phenylalanine metabolism, histidine metabolism, and taurine and hypotaurine metabolism. This study employed a single-cell metabolomics approach based on mass spectrometry to delve into metabolic changes in rat heart cells under hypertensive conditions, a phenomenon that is often overlooked in large-scale metabolomics studies based on bulk cells or tissue/organ samples. Furthermore, from the perspective of single-cell metabolomics, this research uncovers the metabolic characteristics of individual heart cells under hypertension, thereby providing important reference value for the early diagnosis of hypertension cardiovascular diseases. This study provides the first single-cell evidence of characteristic metabolic reprogramming in hypertensive hearts, offering new insights into cardiovascular disease mechanisms.

     

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