Author:
Liu Wei,Liu Xiao-Yan,Qian Yue-Tong,Zhou Dong-Dong,Liu Jia-Wei,Chen Tian,Sun Wei,Ma Dong-Lai
Abstract
AbstractUrinary metabolomics is a useful non-invasive tool for large-scale screening of disease-related metabolites. However, no comprehensive urinary metabolomic analysis of vitiligo is presently available. To investigate the urine metabolic pattern of vitiligo patients, we conducted a combined cross-sectional and prospective self-control cohort study and an untargeted urinary metabolomic analysis. In the cross-sectional study, 295 vitiligo patients and 192 age‐ and sex‐matched controls were enrolled, and 71 differential metabolites between two groups were identified. Pathway enrichment analysis revealed that drug metabolism-cytochrome P450, biopterin metabolism, vitamin B9 (folate) metabolism, selenoamino acid metabolism, and methionine and cysteine metabolism showed significant enrichment in vitiligo patients compared with the status in healthy controls. In the self-control cohort, 46 active vitiligo patients were recruited to analyse the urinary metabolic signatures after treatment. All of these patients were asked to undertake follow-up visits every 2 months three times after first consulting and the disease stage was evaluated compared with that at the last visit. Folate metabolism, linoleate metabolism, leukotriene metabolism, alkaloid biosynthesis, and tyrosine metabolism were predicted to be involved in vitiligo activity. Our study is the first attempt to reveal urinary metabolic signatures of vitiligo patients and provides new insights into the metabolic mechanisms of vitiligo.
Funder
National Key Research and Development Program of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Beijing Natural Science Foundation
Beijing Normal University
Beijing cooperative construction project
Beijing Science Program for the Top Young
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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