Affiliation:
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2. Proteome Research Cente, Shanghai Applied Protein Technology, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Abstract
Background
Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is a common orbital inflammatory disease, but the abnormal expression of proteins in tears of TAO patients has not been systematically studied. The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the total tear protein profile of TAO patients and to provide protein cues for TAO pathogenesis.
Methods
Tear samples were isolated from 30 TAO patients with obvious ocular surface damage and 30 healthy control subjects. Tear samples from 30 individuals were mixed and divided into three sample pools. Easy nano-scale LC-MS/MS based on labeling-free quantitative technology was utilized to profile tear proteome.
Results
Here, electrospray ionization mass spectra and SDS-PAGE results confirmed the good parallelisms among samples. A total of 313 proteins were obtained from six tear pools, among them, 103 differential abundance proteins (DAPs) were identified, including 99 up-regulated DAPs (including APOA1, HV103, IGH, and Transferrin variant) and four down-regulated DAPs (including FABA, VCC1, NUCB2, and E-cadherin) in the TAO group compared with the control group. GO analysis showed that up-regulated DAPs were mainly enriched in lipid metabolism and platelet molecular function, and down-regulated DAPs were involved in binding, cell junction, and cellular process. KEGG results indicated that DAPs were involved in 117 kinds of signal transduction pathways, among which the immune-related pathway of complement and coagulation cascades had the greatest relevance.
Conclusion
In conclusion, label-free LC-MS/MS is an effective strategy for profiling tear proteins component. Our study provides proteins and pathways altered in TAO and provides protein cues for further study on the precise mechanism of TAO pathogenesis.
Funder
Changzheng Hospital Youth Fund, Shanghai, China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience
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