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Wu J, Wang W, Chen Z, Xu F, Zheng Y. Proteomics applications in biomarker discovery and pathogenesis for abdominal aortic aneurysm. Expert Rev Proteomics 2021; 18:305-314. [PMID: 33840337 DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2021.1916473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Introduction: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a common, complex, and life-threatening disease. Currently, the pathogenesis of AAA is not well understood. No biomarkers or specific drugs are available for AAA in clinical applications. Proteomics is a powerful tool in biomarker discovery, exploration of pathogenesis, and drug target identification.Areas covered: We review the application of mass spectrometry-based proteome analysis in AAA patients within the last ten years. Differentially expressed proteins associated with AAA were identified in multiple sample sources, including vascular tissue, intraluminal thrombus, tissue secretome, blood, and cells. Some potential disease biomarkers, pathogenic mechanisms, or therapeutic targets for AAA were discovered using proteome analysis. The challenges and prospects of proteomics applied to AAA are also discussed.Expert opinion: Since most of the previous proteomic studies used relatively small sample sizes, some promising biomarkers need to be validated in multicenter cohorts to accelerate their clinical application. With the rapid development of mass spectrometry technology, modification-specific proteomics and multi-omics research in the future will enhance our understanding of the pathogenesis of AAA and promote biomarker discovery and drug development for clinical translation.
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- Jianqiang Wu
- Department of Vascular Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Medical Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Medical Health Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Identification of Potential Plasma Biomarkers for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using Tandem Mass Tag Quantitative Proteomics. Proteomes 2018; 6:proteomes6040043. [PMID: 30340394 PMCID: PMC6313917 DOI: 10.3390/proteomes6040043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2018] [Revised: 10/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Plasma biomarkers that identify abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture risk would greatly assist in stratifying patients with small aneurysms. Identification of such biomarkers has hitherto been unsuccessful over a range of studies using different methods. The present study used an alternative proteomic approach to find new, potential plasma AAA biomarker candidates. Pre-fractionated plasma samples from twelve patients with AAA and eight matched controls without aneurysm were analyzed by mass spectrometry applying a tandem mass tag (TMT) technique. Eight proteins were differentially regulated in patients compared to controls, including decreased levels of the enzyme bleomycin hydrolase. The down-regulation of this enzyme was confirmed in an extended validation study using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The TMT-based proteomic approach thus identified novel potential plasma biomarkers for AAA.
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Molina-Sánchez P, Jorge I, Martinez-Pinna R, Blanco-Colio LM, Tarin C, Torres-Fonseca MM, Esteban M, Laustsen J, Ramos-Mozo P, Calvo E, Lopez JA, Ceniga MVD, Michel JB, Egido J, Andrés V, Vazquéz J, Meilhac O, Burillo E, Lindholt JS, Martin-Ventura JL. ApoA-I/HDL-C levels are inversely associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm progression. Thromb Haemost 2017; 113:1335-46. [DOI: 10.1160/th14-10-0874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Accepted: 01/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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SummaryAbdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) evolution is unpredictable, and there is no therapy except surgery for patients with an aortic size > 5 cm (large AAA). We aimed to identify new potential biomarkers that could facilitate prognosis and treatment of patients with AAA. A differential quantitative proteomic analysis of plasma proteins was performed in AAA patients at different stages of evolution [small AAA (aortic size=3�5cm) vs large AAA] using iTRAQ labelling, highthroughput nano-LC-MS/MS and a novel multi-layered statistical model. Among the proteins identified, ApoA-I was decreased in patients with large AAA compared to those with small AAA. These results were validated by ELISA on plasma samples from small (n=90) and large AAA (n=26) patients (150 ± 3 vs 133 ± 5 mg/dl, respectively, p< 0.001). ApoA-I levels strongly correlated with HDL-Cholesterol (HDL-C) concentration (r=0.9, p< 0.001) and showed a negative correlation with aortic size (r=-0.4, p< 0.01) and thrombus volume (r=-0.3, p< 0.01), which remained significant after adjusting for traditional risk factors. In a prospective study, HDL-C independently predicted aneurysmal growth rate in multiple linear regression analysis (n=122, p=0.008) and was inversely associated with need for surgical repair (Adjusted hazard ratio: 0.18, 95 % confidence interval: 0.04�0.74, p=0.018). In a nation-wide Danish registry, we found lower mean HDL-C concentration in large AAA patients (n=6,560) compared with patients with aorto-iliac occlusive disease (n=23,496) (0.89 ± 2.99 vs 1.59 ± 5.74 mmol/l, p< 0.001). Finally, reduced mean aortic AAA diameter was observed in AngII-infused mice treated with ApoA-I mimetic peptide compared with saline-injected controls. In conclusion, ApoAI/ HDL-C systemic levels are negatively associated with AAA evolution. Therapies targeting HDL functionality could halt AAA formation.
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Spadaccio C, Nappi F, Al-Attar N, Coccia R, Perluigi M, Di Domenico F. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN DRUG ELUTING DEVICES: Introductory Editorial: Drug-Eluting Stents or Drug-Eluting Grafts? Insights from Proteomic Analysis. Drug Target Insights 2017; 10:15-19. [PMID: 28096649 PMCID: PMC5215111 DOI: 10.4137/dti.s41240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Cristiano Spadaccio
- University of Glasgow Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Glasgow, UK
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- Cardiac Surgery Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Burillo E, Jorge I, Martínez-López D, Camafeita E, Blanco-Colio LM, Trevisan-Herraz M, Ezkurdia I, Egido J, Michel JB, Meilhac O, Vázquez J, Martin-Ventura JL. Quantitative HDL Proteomics Identifies Peroxiredoxin-6 as a Biomarker of Human Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. Sci Rep 2016; 6:38477. [PMID: 27934969 PMCID: PMC5146935 DOI: 10.1038/srep38477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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High-density lipoproteins (HDLs) are complex protein and lipid assemblies whose composition is known to change in diverse pathological situations. Analysis of the HDL proteome can thus provide insight into the main mechanisms underlying abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and potentially detect novel systemic biomarkers. We performed a multiplexed quantitative proteomics analysis of HDLs isolated from plasma of AAA patients (N = 14) and control study participants (N = 7). Validation was performed by western-blot (HDL), immunohistochemistry (tissue), and ELISA (plasma). HDL from AAA patients showed elevated expression of peroxiredoxin-6 (PRDX6), HLA class I histocompatibility antigen (HLA-I), retinol-binding protein 4, and paraoxonase/arylesterase 1 (PON1), whereas α-2 macroglobulin and C4b-binding protein were decreased. The main pathways associated with HDL alterations in AAA were oxidative stress and immune-inflammatory responses. In AAA tissue, PRDX6 colocalized with neutrophils, vascular smooth muscle cells, and lipid oxidation. Moreover, plasma PRDX6 was higher in AAA (N = 47) than in controls (N = 27), reflecting increased systemic oxidative stress. Finally, a positive correlation was recorded between PRDX6 and AAA diameter. The analysis of the HDL proteome demonstrates that redox imbalance is a major mechanism in AAA, identifying the antioxidant PRDX6 as a novel systemic biomarker of AAA.
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- Elena Burillo
- Vascular Research Lab, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz-Autonoma University, Madrid, Spain
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- Cardiovascular Proteomics Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Vascular Research Lab, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz-Autonoma University, Madrid, Spain
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- Cardiovascular Proteomics Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Cardiovascular Proteomics Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Cardiovascular Proteomics Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Spain
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- Diabète athérothrombose Thérapies Réunion Océan Indien (UMR DéTROI U1188) - Université de La Réunion-CYROI- 2, rue Maxime Rivière 97490 Sainte Clotilde - La Réunion - France
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- Cardiovascular Proteomics Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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Paraoxonase-1 overexpression prevents experimental abdominal aortic aneurysm progression. Clin Sci (Lond) 2016; 130:1027-38. [DOI: 10.1042/cs20160185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/16/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Decreased paraoxonase-1 (PON1) activity is associated with human and experimental abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Overexpression of PON1 protected mice from AAA development induced by elastase, decreasing oxidative stress, apoptosis and inflammation. PON1 may provide a novel therapeutic target for AAA prevention.
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Di Domenico F, Perluigi M, Butterfield DA. Redox Proteomics in Human Biofluids: Sample Preparation, Separation and Immunochemical Tagging for Analysis of Protein Oxidation. Methods Mol Biol 2016; 1303:391-403. [PMID: 26235080 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2627-5_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Proteomics offers the simultaneous detection of a large number of proteins in a single experiment and can provide important information regarding crucial aspects of specific proteins, particularly post-translational modifications (PTMs). Investigations of oxidative PTMs are currently performed using focused redox proteomics techniques, which rely on gel electrophoresis separations of intact proteins with the final detection of oxidative PTMs being performed by mass spectrometry (MS) analysis. The application of this technique to human biofluids is being subject of increasing investigation and is expected to provide new insights on the oxidative status of the peripheral proteome in neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, towards purposes of early diagnosis and prognosis. This chapter describes all the experimental steps to perform redox proteomics analysis of cerebrospinal fluid and plasma/serum samples.
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- Fabio Di Domenico
- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Advances in mass spectrometry technology and bioinformatics using clinical human samples have expanded quantitative proteomics in cardiovascular research. There are two major proteomic strategies: namely, "gel-based" or "gel-free" proteomics coupled with either "top-down" or "bottom-up" mass spectrometry. Both are introduced into the proteomic analysis using plasma or serum sample targeting 'biomarker" searches of aortic aneurysm and tissue samples, such as from the aneurysmal wall, calcific aortic valve, or myocardial tissue, investigating pathophysiological protein interactions and post-translational modifications. We summarize the proteomic studies that analyzed human samples taken during cardiovascular surgery to investigate disease processes, in order to better understand the system-wide changes behind known molecular factors and specific signaling pathways.
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- Teiji Oda
- Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo, Shimane, 693-8501, Japan.
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- Department of Biosignaling and Radioisotope Experiment, Interdisciplinary Center for Science Research, Organization for Research, Shimane University, Izumo, Shimane, Japan
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Spadaccio C, Coccia R, Perluigi M, Pupo G, Schininà ME, Giorgi A, Blarzino C, Nappi F, Sutherland FW, Chello M, Di Domenico F. Redox proteomic analysis of serum from aortic anerurysm patients: insights on oxidation of specific protein target. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2016; 12:2168-77. [PMID: 27122311 DOI: 10.1039/c6mb00152a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Oxidative stress is undoubtedly one of the main players in abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) pathophysiology.
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- Cristiano Spadaccio
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre
- Golden Jubilee National Hospital
- Glasgow G81 4DY
- UK
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Italy
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- Cardiac Surgery Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis
- Paris
- France
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre
- Golden Jubilee National Hospital
- Glasgow G81 4DY
- UK
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
- University Campus Bio Medico of Rome
- Italy
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Abdulkareem N, Skroblin P, Jahangiri M, Mayr M. Proteomics in aortic aneurysm - What have we learnt so far? Proteomics Clin Appl 2013; 7:504-15. [DOI: 10.1002/prca.201300016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2012] [Revised: 02/07/2013] [Accepted: 02/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Nada Abdulkareem
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery; St. George's Hospital University of London; London UK
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- King's British Heart Foundation Centre; King's College London; London UK
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery; St. George's Hospital University of London; London UK
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- King's British Heart Foundation Centre; King's College London; London UK
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Molacek J, Mares J, Treska V, Houdek K, Baxa J. Proteomic analysis of the abdominal aortic aneurysm wall. Surg Today 2013; 44:142-51. [PMID: 23519648 PMCID: PMC3898145 DOI: 10.1007/s00595-012-0480-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2012] [Accepted: 10/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PURPOSES A ruptured AAA (rAAA) is a common cause of death in males over 60 years of age, and the global mortality from rAAA exceeds 80 %. The pathological processes occurring in the wall of the developing AAA are still unclear. The potential pathophysiological mechanisms underlying aortic aneurysms have been examined by many studies using immunohistochemistry and were, therefore, targeted at specific, preselected protein antigens. METHODS We collected samples of tissue from anterior wall of an aneurysm sac from 15 patients indicated for AAA resection (group A) during the period from 2010 to 2011. These samples were subjected to a proteomic analysis. In addition, we collected control samples of identical aortic tissue from 10 heart-beating deceased organ donors (group B). RESULTS A total of 417 differentially expressed protein fractions were identified, 18 of which were only detected in the healthy controls, while 85 were specific for aneurysm tissue and 314 were detectable in both groups. In 175 protein fractions, the gel-derived spot volumes differed significantly between aneurismal and healthy aortic tissue. CONCLUSIONS We found a significant difference in the proteome of the AAA tissue and non-dilated aortic tissue. We demonstrated that the AAA proteome is considerably richer and more varied than the healthy and atherosclerotic aorta. We believe that our results clearly demonstrate a completely different etiopathogenesis of atherosclerosis and aneurismal disease.
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- Jiri Molacek
- School of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Husova 3, 306 05, Pilsen, Czech Republic,
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Cocciolo A, Di Domenico F, Coccia R, Fiorini A, Cai J, Pierce WM, Mecocci P, Butterfield DA, Perluigi M. Decreased expression and increased oxidation of plasma haptoglobin in Alzheimer disease: Insights from redox proteomics. Free Radic Biol Med 2012; 53:1868-76. [PMID: 23000119 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2012.08.596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2012] [Revised: 08/09/2012] [Accepted: 08/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Alzheimer disease (AD) is one of the most disabling disorders of the elderly and the number of people worldwide facing dementia is expected to dramatically increase in the near future. Thus, one of the major concerns of modern society is to identify putative biomarkers that serve as a valuable early diagnostic tool to identify a subset of patients with increased risk to develop AD. An ideal biomarker should be present in blood before dementia is clinically confirmed, have high sensitivity and specificity, and be reproducible. Proteomics platforms offer a powerful strategy to reach these goals and recently have been demonstrated to be promising approaches. However, the high variability of technologies and studied populations has led to contrasting results. To increase specificity, we analyzed both protein expression profiles and oxidative modifications (carbonylation) of plasma proteins in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD subjects compared with age-matched controls. Most of the proteins found to have differential levels in MCI and AD confirmed results already obtained in other cohort studies. Interestingly, we applied for the first time in MCI a redox proteomics approach to specifically identify oxidized proteins. Among them, haptoglobin, one of the most abundantly secreted glycoproteins with chaperone function, was found to be either increasingly downregulated or increasingly oxidized in AD and MCI compared with controls. We also demonstrated that in vitro oxidation of haptoglobin affects the formation of amyloid-β fibrils, thus suggesting that oxidized haptoglobin is not able to act as an extracellular chaperone to prevent or slow formation of amyloid-β aggregates. Another chaperone protein, α2-macroglobulin, was found to be selectively oxidized in AD patients compared with controls. Our findings suggest that alterations in proteins acting as extracellular chaperones may contribute to exacerbating amyloid-β toxicity in the peripheral system and may be considered a putative marker of disease progression.
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- A Cocciolo
- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Muirhead LJ, Kinross J, FitzMaurice TS, Takats Z, Darzi A, Nicholson JK. Surgical systems biology and personalized longitudinal phenotyping in critical care. Per Med 2012; 9:593-608. [PMID: 29768802 DOI: 10.2217/pme.12.70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Systems-wide molecular analysis of the metabolic, inflammatory and immune response to surgical trauma has yet to be translated into the operating room. Surgical patients are exposed to a large number of heterogeneous environmental insults that cannot only be quantified by genome-orientated 'omics platforms. Furthermore, surgery demands rapid or near real-time analysis. Systems-level metabolic phenotyping provides a novel 'global' perspective of an organism's metabolic response to surgical injury and, therefore, serves as an ideal platform for the development of personalized therapies in surgery. This article reviews current personalized approaches to healthcare in surgery and explores future directions for personalized surgical biomarker discovery and therapeutics. In particular, this article discusses our vision of 'personalized metabolic phenotyping' in surgery, and outlines next-generation technologies that will make this approach a reality.
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- Laura J Muirhead
- Section of Biosurgery & Surgical Technology, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Building, St Mary's Hospital, London, W2 1NY, UK
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- Section of Biosurgery & Surgical Technology, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Building, St Mary's Hospital, London, W2 1NY, UK
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- Section of Biosurgery & Surgical Technology, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Building, St Mary's Hospital, London, W2 1NY, UK
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- Section of Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, The Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Section of Biosurgery & Surgical Technology, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Building, St Mary's Hospital, London, W2 1NY, UK
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- Section of Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, The Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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