Shared Molecular Mechanisms between Atherosclerosis and Periodontitis by Analyzing the Transcriptomic Alterations of Peripheral Blood Monocytes
Autor: | Wanchen Ning, Yihong Ma, Simin Li, Xin Wang, Hongying Pan, Chenxuan Wei, Shaochuan Zhang, Dongying Bai, Xiangqiong Liu, Yupei Deng, Aneesha Acharya, George Pelekos, Vuk Savkovic, Hanluo Li, Sebastian Gaus, Rainer Haak, Gerhard Schmalz, Dirk Ziebolz, Yanbo Ma, Yuzhen Xu |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Genetic Markers
Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex Article Subject Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics SUMO-1 Protein R858-859.7 Monocytes General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology R-SNARE Proteins Databases Genetic Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors Humans Gene Regulatory Networks Protein Interaction Maps HMGB1 Protein Periodontitis Membrane Glycoproteins General Immunology and Microbiology Gene Expression Profiling Applied Mathematics Computational Biology Membrane Proteins General Medicine Atherosclerosis Modeling and Simulation Carrier Proteins Transcriptome SEC Translocation Channels Signal Transduction Research Article |
Zdroj: | Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Vol 2021 (2021) |
ISSN: | 1748-670X |
DOI: | 10.1155/2021/1498431 |
Popis: | Objective. This study investigated the nature of shared transcriptomic alterations in PBMs from periodontitis and atherosclerosis to unravel molecular mechanisms underpinning their association. Methods. Gene expression data from PBMs from patients with periodontitis and those with atherosclerosis were each downloaded from the GEO database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in periodontitis and atherosclerosis were identified through differential gene expression analysis. The disease-related known genes related to periodontitis and atherosclerosis each were downloaded from the DisGeNET database. A Venn diagram was constructed to identify crosstalk genes from four categories: DEGs expressed in periodontitis, periodontitis-related known genes, DEGs expressed in atherosclerosis, and atherosclerosis-related known genes. A weighted gene coexpression network analysis (WGCNA) was performed to identify significant coexpression modules, and then, coexpressed gene interaction networks belonging to each significant module were constructed to identify the core crosstalk genes. Results. Functional enrichment analysis of significant modules obtained by WGCNA analysis showed that several pathways might play the critical crosstalk role in linking both diseases, including bacterial invasion of epithelial cells, platelet activation, and Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases (MAPK) signaling. By constructing the gene interaction network of significant modules, the core crosstalk genes in each module were identified and included: for GSE23746 dataset, RASGRP2 in the blue module and VAMP7 and SNX3 in the green module, as well as HMGB1 and SUMO1 in the turquoise module were identified; for GSE61490 dataset, SEC61G, PSMB2, SELPLG, and FIBP in the turquoise module were identified. Conclusion. Exploration of available transcriptomic datasets revealed core crosstalk genes (RASGRP2, VAMP7, SNX3, HMGB1, SUMO1, SEC61G, PSMB2, SELPLG, and FIBP) and significant pathways (bacterial invasion of epithelial cells, platelet activation, and MAPK signaling) as top candidate molecular linkage mechanisms between atherosclerosis and periodontitis. |
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