Qiao Ying, Zhang Bo, Liu Ying
Department of Pediatrics, Tianjin Union Medical Center, Tianjin, China.
Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Front Pediatr. 2021 Mar 4;9:576585. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.576585. eCollection 2021.
To develop a comprehensive differential expression gene profile as well as a prediction model based on the expression analysis of pediatric sepsis specimens. In this study, compared with control specimens, a total of 708 differentially expressed genes in pediatric sepsis (case-control at a ratio of 1:3) were identified, including 507 up-regulated and 201 down-regulated ones. The Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes indicated the close interaction between neutrophil activation, neutrophil degranulation, hematopoietic cell lineage, infection, and periodontitis. Meanwhile, the results also suggested a significant difference for 16 kinds of immune cell compositions between two sample sets. The two potential selected biomarkers (MMP and MPO) had been validated in septic children patients by the ELISA method. This study identified two potential hub gene biomarkers and established a differentially expressed genes-based prediction model for pediatric sepsis, which provided a valuable reference for future clinical research.
基于小儿脓毒症标本的表达分析,开发一个全面的差异表达基因谱以及一个预测模型。在本研究中,与对照标本相比,共鉴定出小儿脓毒症中708个差异表达基因(病例与对照比例为1:3),其中507个上调,201个下调。对差异表达基因的基因本体论(GO)和京都基因与基因组百科全书(KEGG)富集分析表明,中性粒细胞活化、中性粒细胞脱颗粒、造血细胞谱系、感染和牙周炎之间存在密切相互作用。同时,结果还表明两个样本集之间16种免疫细胞组成存在显著差异。两种潜在的选定生物标志物(基质金属蛋白酶和髓过氧化物酶)已通过ELISA方法在脓毒症儿童患者中得到验证。本研究鉴定出两种潜在的核心基因生物标志物,并建立了基于差异表达基因的小儿脓毒症预测模型, 为未来的临床研究提供了有价值的参考。