TY - JOUR
T1 - Elucidating Novel Serum Biomarkers Associated with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment
AU - De Groote, Mary A.
AU - Nahid, Payam
AU - Jarlsberg, Leah
AU - Johnson, John L.
AU - Weiner, Marc
AU - Muzanyi, Grace
AU - Janjic, Nebojsa
AU - Sterling, David G.
AU - Ochsner, Urs A.
N1 - Funding Information:
NJ, DS and UO are employees and shareholders of SomaLogic, Inc. MAD is a Consultant to SomaLogic, Inc. The entire sample analysis was funded by SomaLogic, Inc. A provisional patent has been filed by SomaLogic. The patent name is “Tuberculosis Biomarkers and Uses Thereof”, and the application number is 61/623,732. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
PY - 2013/4/18
Y1 - 2013/4/18
N2 - In an unbiased approach to biomarker discovery, we applied a highly multiplexed proteomic technology (SOMAscan, SomaLogic, Inc, Boulder, CO) to understand changes in proteins from paired serum samples at enrollment and after 8 weeks of TB treatment from 39 patients with pulmonary TB from Kampala, Uganda enrolled in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC) Study 29. This work represents the first large-scale proteomic analysis employing modified DNA aptamers in a study of active tuberculosis (TB). We identified multiple proteins that exhibit significant expression differences during the intensive phase of TB therapy. There was enrichment for proteins in conserved networks of biological processes and function including antimicrobial defense, tissue healing and remodeling, acute phase response, pattern recognition, protease/anti-proteases, complement and coagulation cascade, apoptosis, immunity and inflammation pathways. Members of cytokine pathways such as interferon-gamma, while present, were not as highly represented as might have been predicted. The top proteins that changed between baseline and 8 weeks of therapy were TSP4, TIMP-2, SEPR, MRC-2, Antithrombin III, SAA, CRP, NPS-PLA2, LEAP-1, and LBP. The novel proteins elucidated in this work may provide new insights for understanding TB disease, its treatment and subsequent healing processes that occur in response to effective therapy.
AB - In an unbiased approach to biomarker discovery, we applied a highly multiplexed proteomic technology (SOMAscan, SomaLogic, Inc, Boulder, CO) to understand changes in proteins from paired serum samples at enrollment and after 8 weeks of TB treatment from 39 patients with pulmonary TB from Kampala, Uganda enrolled in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC) Study 29. This work represents the first large-scale proteomic analysis employing modified DNA aptamers in a study of active tuberculosis (TB). We identified multiple proteins that exhibit significant expression differences during the intensive phase of TB therapy. There was enrichment for proteins in conserved networks of biological processes and function including antimicrobial defense, tissue healing and remodeling, acute phase response, pattern recognition, protease/anti-proteases, complement and coagulation cascade, apoptosis, immunity and inflammation pathways. Members of cytokine pathways such as interferon-gamma, while present, were not as highly represented as might have been predicted. The top proteins that changed between baseline and 8 weeks of therapy were TSP4, TIMP-2, SEPR, MRC-2, Antithrombin III, SAA, CRP, NPS-PLA2, LEAP-1, and LBP. The novel proteins elucidated in this work may provide new insights for understanding TB disease, its treatment and subsequent healing processes that occur in response to effective therapy.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0061002
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0061002
M3 - Article
C2 - 23637781
AN - SCOPUS:84876301737
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 8
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
IS - 4
M1 - e61002
ER -