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Norenhag J, Edfeldt G, Stålberg K, Garcia F, Hugerth LW, Engstrand L, Fransson E, Du J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Olovsson M. Compositional and functional differences of the vaginal microbiota of women with and without cervical dysplasia. Sci Rep 2024; 14:11183. [PMID: 38755259 PMCID: PMC11099171 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61942-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/12/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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Alterations in the vaginal microbiota, including both species composition and functional pathways, have been associated with HPV infection and progression of dysplasia to cervical cancer. To further explore this, shotgun metagenomic sequencing was used to taxonomically and functionally characterize the vaginal microbiota of women with and without cervical dysplasia. Women with histologically verified dysplasia (n = 177; low grade dysplasia (LSIL) n = 81, high-grade dysplasia (HSIL) n = 94, cancer n = 2) were compared with healthy controls recruited from the cervical screening programme (n = 177). Women with dysplasia had a higher vaginal microbial diversity, and higher abundances of Gardnerella vaginalis, Aerococcus christensenii, Peptoniphilus lacrimalis and Fannyhessea vaginae, while healthy controls had higher relative abundance of Lactobacillus crispatus. Genes involved in e.g. nucleotide biosynthesis and peptidoglycan biosynthesis were more abundant in women with dysplasia. Healthy controls showed higher abundance of genes important for e.g. amino acid biosynthesis, (especially L-lysine) and sugar degradation. These findings suggest that the microbiota may have a role in creating a pro-oncogenic environment in women with dysplasia. Its role and potential interactions with other components in the microenvironment deserve further exploration.
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- Johanna Norenhag
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Kiasat A, Prast-Nielsen S, Rautiainen S, Engstrand L, Andersson F, Lindberg J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Löf Granström A, Gustafsson UO. Plasma bile acids in association with Crohn's disease. Scand J Gastroenterol 2024:1-9. [PMID: 38505982 DOI: 10.1080/00365521.2024.2328592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
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BACKGROUND In addition to facilitating lipid digestions, bile acids (BA) are signalling molecules acting on receptors on immune cells and along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The aim of this study was to assess if altered bile acid profiles in plasma are associated with Crohn's disease (CD). METHOD This cross-sectional study included individuals (aged ≥18 years) referred for colonoscopy at a tertiary centre in Stockholm between 2016 and 2019. All participants received bowel preparation, completed a lifestyle questionnaire and provided blood samples for analysis. During colonoscopy, severity of disease was graded, and biopsies were taken from colonic mucosa. In the current substudy, 88 individuals with CD and 88 age-matched controls were selected for analysis of BA in plasma with ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC). Linear regression models were then used to compare mean bile acid concentrations and concentration ratios between CD and controls. RESULTS Individuals with CD had lower plasma concentrations of the majority of secondary BA compared to controls, in total CD/CC ratio 0.60 (SE 0.12), p = 0.001. The most prominent observations were lower levels of deoxycolic acid derivates and lithocolic acid derivates among participants with CD. Moreover, plasma concentration for secondary BA among participants with active CD was significantly lower compared to those with CD in remission, CD active/CD remission ratio 0.65 (SE 0.11), p < 0.002. CONCLUSION Crohn's disease may be associated with altered plasma bile acid composition. The significance of colonic bacterial diversity in this context needs to be investigated in further studies.
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- Ali Kiasat
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of Pelvic Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Global and Sexual Health Research Group, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Safety, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Sweden
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Safety, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of Pelvic Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Mubanga M, Ploner A, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Magnusson PKE, Boulund F, Debelius JW, Almqvist C. The gut microbiome and asthma in a Swedish twin study. Clin Exp Allergy 2023; 53:1212-1215. [PMID: 37549655 DOI: 10.1111/cea.14379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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- Mwenya Mubanga
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Center for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Center for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Center for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kiasat A, Rautiainen S, Prast-Nielsen S, Engstrand L, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Gustafsson UO, Löf Granström A. Evaluation of plasma Short chain fatty acid levels as markers for Inflammatory bowel disease. Scand J Gastroenterol 2023; 58:1246-1252. [PMID: 37272725 DOI: 10.1080/00365521.2023.2219357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Specific variations of short chain fatty acids in fecal samples have been shown for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. The aim of this study was to assess if Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are associated with altered concentrations of short chain fatty acids also in blood plasma. METHOD Between 2016-2019, Swedish adults referred to a tertiary center for colonoscopy were asked to participate in a cross-sectional study. Individuals with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis as well as individuals with no findings on the colonoscopy (defined as clean colon) were included in the study. Data on colonoscopy findings, blood samples (including haemoglobin, C-reactive protein and short chain fatty acid analysis) as well as a validated lifestyle questionnaire including 277 questions were collected from all participants. Linear regression was used to compare mean concentrations of short chain fatty acids between Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and clean colon. RESULTS The cohort consisted of 132 individuals with Crohn's disease, 119 with ulcerative colitis and 205 with clean colon. In the crude model, succinic acid was significantly lower (p < 0.05) among patients with Crohn's disease (mean 3.00 µM SE 0.10) and ulcerative colitis (mean 3.13 µM SE 0.10) in comparison to clean colon (mean 3.41 µM SE 0.08), however when adjusting for sex, age and diet the results did not remain statistically significant. No differences in plasma concentration of the other measured short chain fatty acids were detected. CONCLUSION Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are not associated with altered short chain fatty acid concentrations in plasma. Further research is needed to confirm or refute our findings.
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- Ali Kiasat
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of Pelvic Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Global and Sexual Health Research Group, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of Pelvic Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Gudnadottir U, Du J, Hugerth LW, Engstrand L, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Wiberg Itzel E, Fransson E, Brusselaers N. Pre-pregnancy complications - associated factors and wellbeing in early pregnancy: a Swedish cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2023; 23:153. [PMID: 36890460 PMCID: PMC9993650 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-023-05479-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/10/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Many couples experience difficulties to become pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term due to unknown causes. Here we define pre-pregnancy complications as having prior recurrent pregnancy loss, prior late miscarriages, time to pregnancy more than one year, or the use of artificial reproductive technologies. We aim to identify factors associated with pre-pregnancy complications and poor well-being in early pregnancy. METHODS Online questionnaire data from 5330 unique pregnancies in Sweden were collected from November 2017 - February 2021. Multivariable logistic regression modelling was used to investigate potential risk factors for pre-pregnancy complications and differences in early pregnancy symptoms. RESULTS Pre-pregnancy complications were identified in 1142 participants (21%). Risk factors included diagnosed endometriosis, thyroid medication, opioids and other strong pain medication, body mass index > 25 kg/m2 and age over 35 years. Different subgroups of pre-pregnancy complications had unique risk factors. The groups also experienced different pregnancy symptoms in early pregnancy, where women that had experienced recurrent pregnancy loss were at higher risk of depression in their current pregnancy. CONCLUSION We report one of the largest pregnancy cohorts with high frequency of pre-pregnancy complications compared to the Swedish population. Prescribed drug use and body weight were the top potentially modifiable risk factors in all groups. Participants that experienced pre-pregnancy complications also had higher risk of depression and pregnancy problems in early pregnancy.
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- Unnur Gudnadottir
- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Solna, Sweden.
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Solna, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Solna, Sweden.,Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Solna, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Solna, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, 171 65, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Solna, Sweden.,Department of Women's and Children's health, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Solna, Sweden.,Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerp, Belgium.,Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Kallner A, Debelius J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Pereira M, Engstrand L. Effects of Consuming Fermented Fish (Surströmming) on the Fecal Microflora in Healthy Individuals. J Med Food 2023; 26:185-192. [PMID: 36920238 DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2021.0195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
Abstract
Surströmming, a Swedish fermented fish, loved by some and avoided by others, occurs in many reports on improved or cured gastrointestinal problems even by a single meal. We tested the hypothesis that the microbes of the fermented food might have a potency to modify the gut microbiome. Two groups of voluntary participants (11 male, 8 female; aged 20-80 years) were exposed to a single meal containing the fish. A 7-day dietary intervention was carried out comprising the fish as the main source of protein in a single adult. The microbiome was characterized using 16S rRNA and metagenomic sequencing. Individual community-level changes in the microbiome were compared, as well as the presence of bacteria associated with the fermented fish. We focused on Shannon alpha and UniFrac beta diversity. We did not detect any global changes in the gut microbiome in response to Surströmming, nor were we able to recover and identify any members of Halanaerobium, which were associated with and abundant in the ingested fish, in the stool samples of the participants. Our results suggest that Surströmming consumption does not alter the microbiome of healthy individuals. However, beneficial effects on a diseased gut, impaired gut microbiome, or other effects in disease remain to be studied.
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- Anders Kallner
- Department Clinical Chemistry, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Fransson E, Gudnadottir U, Hugerth LW, Itzel EW, Hamsten M, Boulund F, Pennhag A, Du J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Brusselaers N, Engstrand L. Cohort profile: the Swedish Maternal Microbiome project (SweMaMi) - assessing the dynamic associations between the microbiome and maternal and neonatal adverse events. BMJ Open 2022; 12:e065825. [PMID: 36288838 PMCID: PMC9615996 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The Swedish Maternal Microbiome (SweMaMi) project was initiated to better understand the dynamics of the microbiome in pregnancy, with longitudinal microbiome sampling, shotgun metagenomics, extensive questionnaires and health registry linkage. PARTICIPANTS Pregnant women were recruited before the 20th gestational week during 2017-2021 in Sweden. In total, 5439 pregnancies (5193 unique women) were included. For 3973 pregnancies (73%), samples were provided at baseline, and for 3141 (58%) at all three timepoints (second and third trimester and postpartum). In total, 38 591 maternal microbiome samples (vaginal, faecal and saliva) and 3109 infant faecal samples were collected. Questionnaires were used to collect information on general, reproductive and mental health, diet and lifestyle, complemented by linkage to the nationwide health registries, also used to follow up the health of the offspring (up to age 10). FINDINGS TO DATE The cohort is fairly representative for the total Swedish pregnant population (data from 2019), with 41% first-time mothers. Women with university level education, born in Sweden, with normal body mass index, not using tobacco-products and aged 30-34 years were slightly over-represented. FUTURE PLANS The sample and data collection were finalised in November 2021. The next steps are the characterisation of the microbial DNA and linkage to the health and demographic information from the questionnaires and registries. The role of the microbiome on maternal and neonatal outcomes and early-childhood diseases will be explored (including preterm birth, miscarriage) and the role and interaction of other risk factors and confounders (including endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, diet, drug use). This is currently among the largest pregnancy cohorts in the world with longitudinal design and detailed and standardised microbiome sampling enabling follow-up of both mothers and children. The findings are expected to contribute greatly to the field of reproductive health focusing on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes.
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- Emma Fransson
- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Södersjukhuset AB, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Stockholm, Sweden
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Gudnadottir U, Debelius JW, Du J, Hugerth LW, Danielsson H, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Fransson E, Brusselaers N. The vaginal microbiome and the risk of preterm birth: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Sci Rep 2022; 12:7926. [PMID: 35562576 PMCID: PMC9106729 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12007-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Preterm birth is a major cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Increasing evidence links the vaginal microbiome to the risk of spontaneous preterm labour that leads to preterm birth. The aim of this systematic review and network meta-analysis was to investigate the association between the vaginal microbiome, defined as community state types (CSTs, i.e. dominance of specific lactobacilli spp, or not (low-lactobacilli)), and the risk of preterm birth. Systematic review using PubMed, Web of Science, Embase and Cochrane library was performed. Longitudinal studies using culture-independent methods categorizing the vaginal microbiome in at least three different CSTs to assess the risk of preterm birth were included. A (network) meta-analysis was conducted, presenting pooled odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI); and weighted proportions and 95% CI. All 17 studies were published between 2014 and 2021 and included 38-539 pregnancies and 8-107 preterm births. Women presenting with "low-lactobacilli" vaginal microbiome were at increased risk (OR 1.69, 95% CI 1.15-2.49) for delivering preterm compared to Lactobacillus crispatus dominant women. Our network meta-analysis supports the microbiome being predictive of preterm birth, where low abundance of lactobacilli is associated with the highest risk, and L. crispatus dominance the lowest.
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- Unnur Gudnadottir
- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 16, 171 65, SolnaStockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 16, 171 65, SolnaStockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 16, 171 65, SolnaStockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 16, 171 65, SolnaStockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, 171 65, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 16, 171 65, SolnaStockholm, Sweden.,Sach's Children's and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 16, 171 65, SolnaStockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, 171 65, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 16, 171 65, SolnaStockholm, Sweden.,Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 16, 171 65, SolnaStockholm, Sweden.,Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerp, Belgium.,Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Wu S, Hugerth LW, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Du J. The right bug in the right place: opportunities for bacterial vaginosis treatment. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes 2022; 8:34. [PMID: 35501321 PMCID: PMC9061781 DOI: 10.1038/s41522-022-00295-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a condition in which the vaginal microbiome presents an overgrowth of obligate and facultative anaerobes, which disturbs the vaginal microbiome balance. BV is a common and recurring vaginal infection among women of reproductive age and is associated with adverse health outcomes and a decreased quality of life. The current recommended first-line treatment for BV is antibiotics, despite the high recurrence rate. Live biopharmaceutical products/probiotics and vaginal microbiome transplantation (VMT) have also been tested in clinical trials for BV. In this review, we discuss the advantages and challenges of current BV treatments and interventions. Furthermore, we provide our understanding of why current clinical trials with probiotics have had mixed results, which is mainly due to not administering the correct bacteria to the correct body site. Here, we propose a great opportunity for large clinical trials with probiotic strains isolated from the vaginal tract (e.g., Lactobacillus crispatus) and administered directly into the vagina after pretreatment.
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Krog MC, Madsen ME, Bliddal S, Bashir Z, Vexø LE, Hartwell D, Hugerth LW, Fransson E, Hamsten M, Boulund F, Wannerberger K, Engstrand L, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Nielsen HS. OUP accepted manuscript. Hum Reprod Open 2022; 2022:hoac015. [PMID: 35441092 PMCID: PMC9014536 DOI: 10.1093/hropen/hoac015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
STUDY QUESTION What is the microbiome profile across different body sites in relation to the normal menstrual cycle (with and without hormonal contraception), recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) (before and during pregnancy, pregnancy loss or birth) and endometriosis (before, during and after surgery)? How do these profiles interact with genetics, environmental exposures, immunological and endocrine biomarkers? WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY The microbiome is a key factor influencing human health and disease in areas as diverse as immune functioning, gastrointestinal disease and mental and metabolic disorders. There is mounting evidence to suggest that the reproductive microbiome may be influential in general and reproductive health, fertility and pregnancy outcomes. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION This is a prospective, longitudinal, observational study using a systems biology approach in three cohorts totalling 920 participants. Since microbiome profiles by shot-gun sequencing have never been investigated in healthy controls during varying phases of the menstrual cycle, patients with RPL and patients with endometriosis, no formal sample size calculation can be performed. The study period is from 2017 to 2024 and allows for longitudinal profiling of study participants to enable deeper understanding of the role of the microbiome and of host–microbe interactions in reproductive health. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS Participants in each cohort are as follows: Part 1 MiMens—150 healthy women with or without hormonal contraception; Part 2 MiRPL—200 couples with RPL, 50 healthy couples with prior uncomplicated pregnancy and 150 newborns; Part 3 MiEndo—120 patients with endometriosis requiring surgery with or without hormonal treatment. Microbiome profiles from saliva, faeces, rectal mucosa, vaginal fluid and endometrium will be studied, as well as the Omics profile, endocrine disrupting chemicals and endocrine and immune factors in blood, hair, saliva and urine. Pregnancy loss products, seminal microbiome, HLA types, endometriotic tissue and genetic risk and comprehensive questionnaire data will also be studied, where appropriate. Correlations with mental and physical health will be evaluated. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S) This work is supported by funding from Ferring Pharmaceuticals ([#MiHSN01] to H.S.N., M.C.K., M.E.M., L.E.V., L.E., I.S.-K., F.B., L.W.H., E.F. and M.H.), Rigshospitalet’s Research Funds ([#E-22614-01 and #E-22614-02] to M.C.K. and [#E-22222-06] to S.B.), Niels and Desiree Yde’s Foundation (S.B., endocrine analyses [#2015-2784]), the Musikforlæggerne Agnes and Knut Mørk’s Foundation (S.B., endocrine and immune analyses [#35108-001]) and Oda and Hans Svenningsen’s Foundation ([#F-22614-08] to H.S.N.). Medical writing assistance with this manuscript was provided by Caroline Loat, PhD, and funded by Ferring Pharmaceuticals. H.S.N. reports personal fees from Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Merck Denmark A/S, Ibsa Nordic, Astra Zeneca and Cook Medical outside the submitted work. K.W. is a full-time employee of Ferring Pharmaceuticals. No other conflicts are reported. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER N/A TRIAL REGISTRATION DATE N/A DATE OF FIRST PATIENT’S ENROLMENT N/A
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- Maria Christine Krog
- Correspondence address. The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Unit, The Fertility Clinic 4071, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. E-mail:
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- The Department of Medical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Institute for Inflammation Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Unit, The Capital Region, The Fertility Clinic, Copenhagen University Hospitals Rigshospitalet and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Slagelse Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark
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- The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Unit, The Capital Region, The Fertility Clinic, Copenhagen University Hospitals Rigshospitalet and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Gynecology, The Endometriosis Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Gynecology, The Endometriosis Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Unit, The Capital Region, The Fertility Clinic, Copenhagen University Hospitals Rigshospitalet and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Krog MC, Hugerth LW, Fransson E, Bashir Z, Nyboe Andersen A, Edfeldt G, Engstrand L, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Nielsen HS. OUP accepted manuscript. Hum Reprod 2022; 37:1525-1543. [PMID: 35553675 PMCID: PMC9247429 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deac094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Unit, The Capital Region, Rigshospitalet and Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Zealand, Slagelse Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark
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- The Fertility Department Section 4071, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Unit, The Capital Region, Rigshospitalet and Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Bostanci N, Krog MC, Hugerth LW, Bashir Z, Fransson E, Boulund F, Belibasakis GN, Wannerberger K, Engstrand L, Nielsen HS, Schuppe-Koistinen I. Dysbiosis of the Human Oral Microbiome During the Menstrual Cycle and Vulnerability to the External Exposures of Smoking and Dietary Sugar. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2021; 11:625229. [PMID: 33816334 PMCID: PMC8018275 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.625229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 02/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Physiological hormonal fluctuations exert endogenous pressures on the structure and function of the human microbiome. As such, the menstrual cycle may selectively disrupt the homeostasis of the resident oral microbiome, thus compromising oral health. Hence, the aim of the present study was to structurally and functionally profile the salivary microbiome of 103 women in reproductive age with regular menstrual cycle, while evaluating the modifying influences of hormonal contraceptives, sex hormones, diet, and smoking. Whole saliva was sampled during the menstrual, follicular, and luteal phases (n = 309) of the cycle, and the participants reported questionnaire-based data concerning their life habits and oral or systemic health. No significant differences in alpha-diversity or phase-specific clustering of the overall microbiome were observed. Nevertheless, the salivary abundances of genera Campylobacter, Haemophilus, Prevotella, and Oribacterium varied throughout the cycle, and a higher species-richness was observed during the luteal phase. While the overall community structure maintained relatively intact, its functional properties were drastically affected. In particular, 11 functional modules were differentially abundant throughout the menstrual cycle, including pentose phosphate metabolism, and biosynthesis of cobalamin and neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid. The menstrual cycle phase, but not oral contraceptive usage, was accountable for greater variations in the metabolic pathways of the salivary microbiome. Further co-risk factor analysis demonstrated that Prevotella and Veillonella were increased in current smokers, whereas high dietary sugar consumption modified the richness and diversity of the microbiome during the cycle. This is the first large study to systematically address dysbiotic variations of the oral microbiome during the course of menstrual cycle, and document the additive effect of smoking and sugar consumption as environmental risk factors. It reveals the structural resilience and functional adaptability of the oral microbiome to the endogenous hormonal pressures of the menstrual cycle, while revealing its vulnerability to the exogenous exposures of diet and smoking.
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- Nagihan Bostanci
- Division of Oral Diseases, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Units, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Rigshospitalet and Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Units, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Rigshospitalet and Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Holbæk Hospital, Holbæk, Denmark
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Oral Diseases, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Units, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Rigshospitalet and Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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Cheng L, Norenhag J, Hu YOO, Brusselaers N, Fransson E, Ährlund-Richter A, Guðnadóttir U, Angelidou P, Zha Y, Hamsten M, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Olovsson M, Engstrand L, Du J. Vaginal microbiota and human papillomavirus infection among young Swedish women. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes 2020; 6:39. [PMID: 33046723 PMCID: PMC7552401 DOI: 10.1038/s41522-020-00146-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases. To define the HPV-associated microbial community among a high vaccination coverage population, we carried out a cross-sectional study with 345 young Swedish women. The microbial composition and its association with HPV infection, including 27 HPV types, were analyzed. Microbial alpha-diversity was found significantly higher in the HPV-infected group (especially with oncogenic HPV types and multiple HPV types), compared with the HPV negative group. The vaginal microbiota among HPV-infected women was characterized by a larger number of bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria (BVAB), Sneathia, Prevotella, and Megasphaera. In addition, the correlation analysis demonstrated that twice as many women with non-Lactobacillus-dominant vaginal microbiota were infected with oncogenic HPV types, compared with L. crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota. The data suggest that HPV infection, especially oncogenic HPV types, is strongly associated with a non-Lactobacillus-dominant vaginal microbiota, regardless of age and vaccination status.
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- Liqin Cheng
- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Dodig-Crnković T, Hong MG, Thomas CE, Häussler RS, Bendes A, Dale M, Edfors F, Forsström B, Magnusson PKE, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Odeberg J, Fagerberg L, Gummesson A, Bergström G, Uhlén M, Schwenk JM. Facets of individual-specific health signatures determined from longitudinal plasma proteome profiling. EBioMedicine 2020; 57:102854. [PMID: 32629387 PMCID: PMC7334812 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.102854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Precision medicine approaches aim to tackle diseases on an individual level through molecular profiling. Despite the growing knowledge about diseases and the reported diversity of molecular phenotypes, the descriptions of human health on an individual level have been far less elaborate. METHODS To provide insights into the longitudinal protein signatures of well-being, we profiled blood plasma collected over one year from 101 clinically healthy individuals using multiplexed antibody assays. After applying an antibody validation scheme, we utilized > 700 protein profiles for in-depth analyses of the individuals' short-term health trajectories. FINDINGS We found signatures of circulating proteomes to be highly individual-specific. Considering technical and longitudinal variability, we observed that 49% of the protein profiles were stable over one year. We also identified eight networks of proteins in which 11-242 proteins covaried over time. For each participant, there were unique protein profiles of which some could be explained by associations to genetic variants. INTERPRETATION This observational and non-interventional study identifyed noticeable diversity among clinically healthy subjects, and facets of individual-specific signatures emerged by monitoring the variability of the circulating proteomes over time. To enable more personal hence precise assessments of health states, longitudinal profiling of circulating proteomes can provide a valuable component for precision medicine approaches. FUNDING This work was supported by the Erling Persson Foundation, the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Science for Life Laboratory, and the Swedish Research Council.
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- Tea Dodig-Crnković
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden; Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 12A, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden; Center for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden; Department of Clinical Medicine, K.G. Jebsen Thrombosis Research and Expertise Center (TREC), UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 9010, Norway; Coagulation unit, Department of Hematology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm 171 76, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg 413 45, Sweden; Region Västra Götaland, Department of Clinical Genetics and Genomics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg 413 45, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg 413 45, Sweden; Region Västra Götaland, Department of Clinical Physiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg 413 45, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden.
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García-Velasco JA, Budding D, Campe H, Malfertheiner SF, Hamamah S, Santjohanser C, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Nielsen HS, Vieira-Silva S, Laven J. The reproductive microbiome - clinical practice recommendations for fertility specialists. Reprod Biomed Online 2020; 41:443-453. [PMID: 32753361 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Revised: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
The interest in and understanding of the human microbiome has grown remarkably over recent years. Advances in molecular techniques have allowed researchers to identify and study the microbiota and also use this information to develop therapeutic solutions for a spectrum of conditions. Alongside the growing interest in the microbiome, societal changes have resulted in many couples looking to start families later in life, therefore increasing the demand for assisted reproductive technologies. Combining these trends, it makes sense that clinicians are eager to understand and exploit the microbiome of their patients, i.e. the reproductive microbiome, in order to help them achieve their goal of becoming parents. This paper aims to provide an overview of the current and future research into the reproductive microbiome in relation to fertility and also share clinical practice recommendations for physicians who are new to this field or unsure about how they can utilise what is known to help their patients.
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- Juan A García-Velasco
- Department of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, IVI Madrid, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid 28023, Spain.
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, Service Biologie de la Reproduction, 34295 Montpellier, Inserm U1203, France
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre 2650, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium; Center for Microbiology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium
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- Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Division of Reproductive Medicine, Rotterdam 3015 GD, the Netherlands
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Neiman M, Hellström C, Just D, Mattsson C, Fagerberg L, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Gummesson A, Bergström G, Kallioniemi O, Achour A, Sallinen R, Uhlén M, Nilsson P. Individual and stable autoantibody repertoires in healthy individuals. Autoimmunity 2019; 52:1-11. [PMID: 30835561 DOI: 10.1080/08916934.2019.1581774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
In the era towards precision medicine, we here present the individual specific autoantibody signatures of 193 healthy individuals. The self-reactive IgG signatures are stable over time in a way that each individual profile is recognized in longitudinal sampling. The IgG autoantibody reactivity towards an antigen array comprising 335 protein fragments, representing 204 human proteins with potential relevance to autoimmune disorders, was measured in longitudinal plasma samples from 193 healthy individuals. This analysis resulted in unique autoantibody barcodes for each individual that were maintained over one year's time. The reactivity profiles, or signatures, are person specific in regards to the number of reactivities and antigen specificity. Two independent data sets were consistent in that each healthy individual displayed reactivity towards 0-16 antigens, with a median of six. Subsequently, four selected individuals were profiled on in-house produced high-density protein arrays containing 23,000 protein fragments representing 14,000 unique protein coding genes. Based on a unique, broad and deep longitudinal profiling of autoantibody reactivities, our results demonstrate a unique autoreactive profile in each analyzed healthy individual. The need and interest for broad-ranged and high-resolution molecular profiling of healthy individuals is rising. We have here generated and assessed an initial perspective on the global distribution of the self-reactive IgG repertoire in healthy individuals, by investigating 193 well-characterized healthy individuals. Highlights A unique longitudinal profiling of autoantibody repertoires in healthy individuals Autoantibody profiles are highly individual and stable over time All individuals display IgG binding to human protein fragments The specificity of disease associated autoantigens needs to be thoroughly characterized The identification of a small set of highly reactive autoantigens Importance of stringent antigen and sample specific cut-offs for defining reactivity.
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- Maja Neiman
- a SciLifeLab, Division of Affinity Proteomics, Department of Protein Science , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden
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- a SciLifeLab, Division of Affinity Proteomics, Department of Protein Science , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden
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- a SciLifeLab, Division of Affinity Proteomics, Department of Protein Science , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden
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- a SciLifeLab, Division of Affinity Proteomics, Department of Protein Science , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden
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- b SciLifeLab, Division of Systems Biology, Department of Protein Science , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden
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- b SciLifeLab, Division of Systems Biology, Department of Protein Science , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden
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- c Department of Clinical Pathology and Genetics , Sahlgrenska University Hospital , Gothenburg , Sweden
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- d Department of Clinical Physiology , Sahlgrenska University Hospital , Gothenburg , Sweden
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- e Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM , University of Helsinki , Helsinki , Finland.,f SciLifeLab, Department of Oncology and Pathology , Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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- g SciLifeLab, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institute & Division of Infectious Diseases , Karolinska University Hospital , Stockholm , Sweden
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- e Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM , University of Helsinki , Helsinki , Finland.,f SciLifeLab, Department of Oncology and Pathology , Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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- b SciLifeLab, Division of Systems Biology, Department of Protein Science , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden
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- a SciLifeLab, Division of Affinity Proteomics, Department of Protein Science , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden
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Church RJ, Kullak-Ublick GA, Aubrecht J, Bonkovsky HL, Chalasani N, Fontana RJ, Goepfert JC, Hackman F, King NMP, Kirby S, Kirby P, Marcinak J, Ormarsdottir S, Schomaker SJ, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Wolenski F, Arber N, Merz M, Sauer JM, Andrade RJ, van Bömmel F, Poynard T, Watkins PB. Candidate biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of drug-induced liver injury: An international collaborative effort. Hepatology 2019; 69:760-773. [PMID: 29357190 PMCID: PMC6054900 DOI: 10.1002/hep.29802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Current blood biomarkers are suboptimal in detecting drug-induced liver injury (DILI) and predicting its outcome. We sought to characterize the natural variabilty and performance characteristics of 14 promising DILI biomarker candidates. Serum or plasma from multiple cohorts of healthy volunteers (n = 192 and n = 81), subjects who safely took potentially hepatotoxic drugs without adverse effects (n = 55 and n = 92) and DILI patients (n = 98, n = 28, and n = 143) were assayed for microRNA-122 (miR-122), glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH), total cytokeratin 18 (K18), caspase cleaved K18, glutathione S-transferase α, alpha-fetoprotein, arginase-1, osteopontin (OPN), sorbitol dehydrogenase, fatty acid binding protein, cadherin-5, macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor (MCSFR), paraoxonase 1 (normalized to prothrombin protein), and leukocyte cell-derived chemotaxin-2. Most candidate biomarkers were significantly altered in DILI cases compared with healthy volunteers. GLDH correlated more closely with gold standard alanine aminotransferase than miR-122, and there was a surprisingly wide inter- and intra-individual variability of miR-122 levels among healthy volunteers. Serum K18, OPN, and MCSFR levels were most strongly associated with liver-related death or transplantation within 6 months of DILI onset. Prediction of prognosis among DILI patients using the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease was improved by incorporation of K18 and MCSFR levels. Conclusion: GLDH appears to be more useful than miR-122 in identifying DILI patients, and K18, OPN, and MCSFR are promising candidates for prediction of prognosis during an acute DILI event. Serial assessment of these biomarkers in large prospective studies will help further delineate their role in DILI diagnosis and management.
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- Rachel J. Church
- Institute for Drug Safety Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park, NC,Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland,Mechanistic Safety, Novartis Global Drug Development, Basel, Switzerland
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- School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland,Discovery and Investigative Safety, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Aparato Digestivo, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga-IBIMA, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Universidad de Málaga, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Málaga, Spain
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- Section of Hepatology, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Hepatology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpêtrière, University Pierre et Marie Curie, INSERM UMR 938, Paris, France
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- Institute for Drug Safety Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park, NC,Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Peta V, Tse C, Perazzo H, Munteanu M, Ngo Y, Ngo A, Ramanujam N, Verglas L, Mallet M, Ratziu V, Thabut D, Rudler M, Thibault V, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Bonnefont-Rousselot D, Hainque B, Imbert-Bismut F, Merz M, Kullak-Ublick G, Andrade R, van Boemmel F, Schott E, Poynard T. Serum apolipoprotein A1 and haptoglobin, in patients with suspected drug-induced liver injury (DILI) as biomarkers of recovery. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0189436. [PMID: 29287080 PMCID: PMC5747433 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 11/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is a clear need for better biomarkers of drug-induced-liver-injury (DILI). AIMS We aimed to evaluate the possible prognostic value of ActiTest and FibroTest proteins apoliprotein-A1, haptoglobin and alpha-2-macroglobulin, in patients with DILI. METHODS We analyzed cases and controls included in the IMI-SAFE-T-DILI European project, from which serum samples had been stored in a dedicated biobank. The analyses of ActiTest and FibroTest had been prospectively scheduled. The primary objective was to analyze the performance (AUROC) of ActiTest components as predictors of recovery outcome defined as an ALT <2x the upper limit of normal (ULN), and BILI <2x ULN. RESULTS After adjudication, 154 patients were considered to have DILI and 22 were considered to have acute liver injury without DILI. A multivariate regression analysis (ActiTest-DILI patent pending) combining the ActiTest components without BILI and ALT (used as references), apolipoprotein-A1, haptoglobin, alpha-2-macroglobulin and GGT, age and gender, resulted in a significant prediction of recovery with 67.0% accuracy (77/115) and an AUROC of 0.724 (P<0.001 vs. no prediction 0.500). Repeated apolipoprotein-A1 and haptoglobin remained significantly higher in the DILI cases that recovered (n = 65) versus those that did not (n = 16), at inclusion, at 4-8 weeks and at 8-12 weeks. The same results were observed after stratification on APAP cases and non-APAP cases. CONCLUSIONS We identified that apolipoprotein-A1 and haptoglobin had significant predictive values for the prediction of recovery at 12 weeks in DILI, enabling the construction of a new prognostic panel, the DILI-ActiTest, which needs to be independently validated.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Hepatology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Research, Biopredictive, Paris, France
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- Department of Research, Biopredictive, Paris, France
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- Department of Research, Biopredictive, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Hepatology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Hepatology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
- University Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR 938, Paris, France
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- Department of Hepatology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
- University Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR 938, Paris, France
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- Department of Hepatology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Virology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Mechanistic Safety, Novartis Global Drug Development, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Mechanistic Safety, Novartis Global Drug Development, Basel, Switzerland
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- Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Aparato Digestivo, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Universidad de Málaga, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Málaga, Spain
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- Clinic for Hepatology and Rheumatology, Hepatology Section, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Clinic for Hepatology and Rheumatology, Hepatology Section, University Hospital Charité, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Hepatology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
- University Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR 938, Paris, France
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Petros Z, Lee MTM, Takahashi A, Zhang Y, Yimer G, Habtewold A, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Mushiroda T, Makonnen E, Kubo M, Aklillu E. Genome-Wide Association and Replication Study of Hepatotoxicity Induced by Antiretrovirals Alone or with Concomitant Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs. OMICS 2017; 21:207-216. [PMID: 28388302 DOI: 10.1089/omi.2017.0019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Drug-induced hepatotoxicity (DIH) is a common adverse event that is associated with both antiretroviral (ARV) and anti-tuberculosis drugs (ATD). Moreover, the genetic variations predisposing ARV- and ARV-ATD-induced liver toxicity in African populations are not well investigated, despite the two diseases being the major global health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and replication study to identify the genetic variants linked to the risk of developing DIH due to ARV drugs alone, and ARV-ATD co-treatment in Ethiopian HIV-positive patients. Treatment-naïve newly diagnosed HIV patients (n = 719) with or without tuberculosis (TB) co-infection were enrolled prospectively and received efavirenz-based ARV therapy with or without rifampicin-based short course ATD, respectively. Whole-genome genotyping was performed by using the Illumina Omni Express Exome Bead Chip genotyping array with 951,117 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on a total of 41 cases of DIH, and 452 people without DIH (treatment tolerants). The replication study was carried out for 100 SNPs with the lowest p-values (top SNPs) by using an independent cohort consisting of 18 DIH cases and 208 treatment tolerants. We identified a missense SNP rs199650082 (2756G→A, R919Q, p = 1.4 × 10-6, odds ratio [OR] = 18.2, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 7.1-46.9) in an endoplasmic reticulum to the nucleus signaling-1 (ERN1) gene on chromosome 17 to be associated with DIH in the ARV-only cohort. In the ARV-ATD co-treatment groups, rs4842407, a long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) transcript variant on chromosome 12, was associated with DIH (p = 5.3 × 10-7, OR = 5.4, 95% CI = 2.8-10.3). These genetic variants that are putatively associated with DIH due to ARV drugs alone and ARV-ATD co-treatment establish a foundation for future personalized medicine in people with HIV and TB and call for larger studies in independent populations.
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- Zelalem Petros
- 1 Laboratory for International Alliance on Genomic Research, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences , Yokohama, Japan .,2 Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- 1 Laboratory for International Alliance on Genomic Research, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences , Yokohama, Japan
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- 3 Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences , Yokohama, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory for International Alliance on Genomic Research, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences , Yokohama, Japan
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- 2 Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- 2 Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- 4 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 5 Laboratory for Pharmacogenomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences , Yokohama, Japan
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- 2 Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- 6 Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences , Yokohama, Japan
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- 7 Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge C1:68 , KarolinskaInstitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kegel ME, Johansson V, Wetterberg L, Bhat M, Schwieler L, Cannon TD, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Engberg G, Landén M, Hultman CM, Erhardt S. Kynurenic acid and psychotic symptoms and personality traits in twins with psychiatric morbidity. Psychiatry Res 2017; 247:105-112. [PMID: 27886578 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Revised: 10/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Increased cytokines and kynurenic acid (KYNA) levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been reported in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The aim of the present study was to investigate cytokines and kynurenines in the CSF of twin pairs discordant for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and to study these CSF markers in relation to psychotic symptoms and personality traits. CSF levels of tryptophan (TRP), KYNA, quinolinic acid (QUIN), interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) were analyzed in 23 twins with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and in their not affected co-twins. Ratings of psychotic symptoms and personality traits were made using the Scales for Assessment of Negative and Positive symptoms, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV - Axis II Disorders, and the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire - Brief. A total score for psychotic symptoms and personality traits was constructed for analysis. CSF KYNA was associated with the score for psychotic symptom and personality traits. TNF-α and IL-8 were associated, and the intra-pair differences scores of TNF-α and IL-8 were highly correlated. Intraclass correlations indicated genetic influences on CSF KYNA, TRP, IL-8 and TNF-α. The association between KYNA and psychotic symptoms further supports a role of KYNA in psychotic disorders.
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- Magdalena E Kegel
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Protein Biomarkers, Personalized Healthcare & Biomarker Laboratories, Innovative Medicines, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; AstraZeneca, Research & Development, Innovative Medicines, Personalized Healthcare & Biomarkers, Translational Science Centre, Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Thulin P, Hornby RJ, Auli M, Nordahl G, Antoine DJ, Starkey Lewis P, Goldring CE, Park BK, Prats N, Glinghammar B, Schuppe-Koistinen I. A longitudinal assessment of miR-122 and GLDH as biomarkers of drug-induced liver injury in the rat. Biomarkers 2016; 22:461-469. [PMID: 27978773 DOI: 10.1080/1354750x.2016.1269131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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CONTEXT There is an ongoing search for specific and translational biomarkers of drug-induced liver injury (DILI). MicroRNA-122 (miR-122) has previously shown potential as a sensitive, specific, and translational biomarker of DILI in both rodent, and human studies. OBJECTIVE To build on previous work within the field, we examined biomarker kinetics in a rat model of acetaminophen (APAP)-induced liver injury to confirm the sensitivity, and specificity of miR-122 and glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH). MATERIALS AND METHODS qRT-PCR and a standard enzymatic assay were used for biomarker analysis. RESULTS Both miR-122 and GLDH were demonstrated to be more readily-detectable biomarkers of APAP-DILI than alanine aminotransferase (ALT). Peak levels for all biomarkers were detected at 2 days after APAP. At day 3, miR-122 had returned to baseline; however, other biomarkers remained elevated between 3 and 4 days. We were also able to demonstrate that, although miR-122 is present in greater quantities in exosome-free form, both exosome-bound and non-vesicle bound miR-122 are released in a similar profile throughout the course of DILI. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Together, this study demonstrates that both GLDH and miR-122 could be used during preclinical drug-development as complementary biomarkers to ALT to increase the chance of early detection of hepatotoxicity.
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- Petra Thulin
- a Drug Safety & Metabolism , Discovery Safety, AstraZeneca , Mölndal , Sweden
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- b MRC Centre for Drug Safety Science , University of Liverpool , Liverpool, UK
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- c Pathology and Predictive Toxicology Section , Almirall , Barcelona , Spain
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- b MRC Centre for Drug Safety Science , University of Liverpool , Liverpool, UK
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- e MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine , University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , UK
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- e MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine , University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , UK
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- c Pathology and Predictive Toxicology Section , Almirall , Barcelona , Spain
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- f Swedish Toxicology Sciences Research Center (Swetox) , Karolinska Institutet , Södertälje , Sweden
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- g Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Science for Life Laboratory , Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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Petros Z, Lee MTM, Takahashi A, Zhang Y, Yimer G, Habtewold A, Amogne W, Aderaye G, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Mushiroda T, Makonnen E, Kubo M, Aklillu E. Genome-wide association and replication study of anti-tuberculosis drugs-induced liver toxicity. BMC Genomics 2016; 17:755. [PMID: 27671213 PMCID: PMC5037629 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3078-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Background Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a well-recognized adverse event of anti tuberculosis drugs (ATD) possibly associated with genetic variations. The objective of this study was to perform genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify genetic variants associated with the risk for ATD induced liver toxicity in Ethiopian patients. Result Treatment-naïve newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients (n = 646) were enrolled prospectively and treated with rifampicin based short course anti-tuberculosis therapy. Whole genome genotyping was done using Illumina Omni Express Exome Bead Chip genotyping array with 951,117 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on 48 DILI cases and 354 ATD tolerants. Replication study was carried out for 50 SNPs with the lowest P-values (top SNPs) using an independent cohort consisting of 27 DILI cases and 217 ATD tolerants. In the combined analysis, the top SNP identified was rs10946737 (P = 4.4 × 10−6, OR = 3.4, 95 % confidence interval = 2.2–5.3) in the intron of FAM65B in chromosome 6. In addition, we identified a cluster of SNPs with suggestive genome-wide significance in the intron of ATP/GTP binding protein-like 4 (AGBL4). Conclusion We identified genetic variants that are potentially associated with ATD induced liver toxicity. Further studies with larger sample sizes are essential to confirm the findings. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3078-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Zelalem Petros
- Laboratory for International Alliance on Genomic Research, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.,Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Laboratory for International Alliance on Genomic Research, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for International Alliance on Genomic Research, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- AstraZeneca R&D, Innovative Medicines Personalised Healthcare & Biomarkers, SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratory for Pharmacogenomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge C1:68, Karolinska Institutet, SE-141 86, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Schwieler L, Samuelsson M, Frye MA, Bhat M, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Jungholm O, Johansson AG, Landén M, Sellgren CM, Erhardt S. Electroconvulsive therapy suppresses the neurotoxic branch of the kynurenine pathway in treatment-resistant depressed patients. J Neuroinflammation 2016; 13:51. [PMID: 26925576 PMCID: PMC4772340 DOI: 10.1186/s12974-016-0517-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 02/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Neuroinflammation is increasingly recognized as contributing to the pathogenesis of depression. Key inflammatory markers as well as kynurenic acid (KYNA) and quinolinic acid (QUIN), both tryptophan metabolites, have been associated with depressive symptoms and suicidality. The aim of the present study is to investigate the peripheral concentration of cytokines and tryptophan and kynurenine metabolites in patients with unipolar treatment-resistant depression before and after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the most effective treatment for depression. METHODS Cytokines in plasma from patients with major depressive disorder (MDD; n = 19) and healthy volunteers (n = 14) were analyzed with electrochemiluminescence detection. Tryptophan and kynurenine metabolites were detected with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and LC/MS. KYNA was analyzed in a second healthy control cohort (n = 22). RESULTS Patients with MDD had increased plasma levels of interleukin (IL)-6 compared to healthy volunteers (P < 0.05). We also found an altered kynurenine metabolism in these patients displayed by decreased plasma levels of KYNA (P < 0.0001) as well as a significantly increased QUIN/KYNA ratio (P < 0.001). Plasma levels of tryptophan, kynurenine, and QUIN did not differ between patients and controls. Treatment with ECT was associated with a significant decrease in the plasma levels of tryptophan (P < 0.05), kynurenine (P < 0.01), and QUIN (P < 0.001), whereas plasma levels of KYNA did not change. The QUIN/KYNA ratio was found to significantly decrease in ECT-treated patients (P < 0.05). There was a significant inverse correlation between symptom severity and kynurenine levels at baseline (r = -0.67, P = 0.002). CONCLUSIONS This study confirms an imbalanced kynurenine pathway in MDD supporting the hypothesis of a netstimulation of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptors in the disorder. Treatment with ECT profoundly decreased QUIN, an NMDA-receptor agonist previously suggested to be implicated in the pathogenesis of depression, an effect that might have bearing for the good clinical outcome of ECT.
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- Lilly Schwieler
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Protein Biomarkers, Personalized Healthcare & Biomarker Laboratories, Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.,Science for Life Laboratory, Proteomics & Nanobiotechn, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
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Schwieler L, Larsson MK, Skogh E, Kegel ME, Orhan F, Abdelmoaty S, Finn A, Bhat M, Samuelsson M, Lundberg K, Dahl ML, Sellgren C, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Svensson CI, Erhardt S, Engberg G. Increased levels of IL-6 in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with chronic schizophrenia--significance for activation of the kynurenine pathway. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2015; 40:126-33. [PMID: 25455350 PMCID: PMC4354818 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.140126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Accumulating evidence indicates that schizophrenia is associated with brain immune activation. While a number of reports suggest increased cytokine levels in patients with schizophrenia, many of these studies have been limited by their focus on peripheral cytokines or confounded by various antipsychotic treatments. Here, well-characterized patients with schizophrenia, all receiving olanzapine treatment, and healthy volunteers were analyzed with regard to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of cytokines. We correlated the CSF cytokine levels to previously analyzed metabolites of the kynurenine (KYN) pathway. METHODS We analyzed the CSF from patients and controls using electrochemiluminescence detection with regard to cytokines. Cell culture media from human cortical astrocytes were analyzed for KYN and kynurenic acid (KYNA) using high-pressure liquid chromatography or liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. RESULTS We included 23 patients and 37 controls in our study. Patients with schizophrenia had increased CSF levels of interleukin (IL)-6 compared with healthy volunteers. In patients, we also observed a positive correlation between IL-6 and the tryptophan:KYNA ratio, indicating that IL-6 activates the KYN pathway. In line with this, application of IL-6 to cultured human astrocytes increased cell medium concentration of KYNA. LIMITATIONS The CSF samples had been frozen and thawed twice before analysis of cytokines. Median age differed between patients and controls. When appropriate, all present analyses were adjusted for age. CONCLUSION We have shown that IL-6, KYN and KYNA are elevated in patients with chronic schizophrenia, strengthening the idea of brain immune activation in patients with this disease. Our concurrent cell culture and clinical findings suggest that IL-6 induces the KYN pathway, leading to increased production of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist KYNA in patients with schizophrenia.
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- Correspondence to: G. Engberg, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Kegel ME, Bhat M, Skogh E, Samuelsson M, Lundberg K, Dahl ML, Sellgren C, Schwieler L, Engberg G, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Erhardt S. Imbalanced kynurenine pathway in schizophrenia. Int J Tryptophan Res 2014; 7:15-22. [PMID: 25288889 PMCID: PMC4179604 DOI: 10.4137/ijtr.s16800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2014] [Revised: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Several studies suggest a role for kynurenic acid (KYNA) in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. It has been proposed that increased brain KYNA levels in schizophrenia result from a pathological shift in the kynurenine pathway toward enhanced KYNA formation, away from the other branch of the pathway leading to quinolinic acid (QUIN). Here we investigate the levels of QUIN in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls, and relate those to CSF levels of KYNA and other kynurenine metabolites from the same individuals. CSF QUIN levels from stable outpatients treated with olanzapine (n = 22) and those of controls (n = 26) were analyzed using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. No difference in CSF QUIN levels between patients and controls was observed (20.6 ± 1.5 nM vs. 18.2 ± 1.1 nM, P = 0.36). CSF QUIN was positively correlated to CSF kynurenine and CSF KYNA in patients but not in controls. The CSF QUIN/KYNA ratio was lower in patients than in controls (P = 0.027). In summary, the present study offers support for an over-activated and imbalanced kynurenine pathway, favoring the production of KYNA over QUIN in patients with schizophrenia.
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- Magdalena E Kegel
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- AstraZeneca, Research and Development, Innovative Medicines, Personalised Healthcare and Biomarkers, Translational Science Centre, Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden. ; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- AstraZeneca, Research and Development, Innovative Medicines, Personalised Healthcare and Biomarkers, Translational Science Centre, Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden. ; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Agudelo L, Femenía T, Orhan F, Porsmyr-Palmertz M, Goiny M, Martinez-Redondo V, Correia J, Izadi M, Bhat M, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Pettersson A, Ferreira D, Krook A, Barres R, Zierath J, Erhardt S, Lindskog M, Ruas J. Skeletal Muscle PGC-1α1 Modulates Kynurenine Metabolism and Mediates Resilience to Stress-Induced Depression. Cell 2014; 159:33-45. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.07.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 443] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Revised: 06/27/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Yimer G, Gry M, Amogne W, Makonnen E, Habtewold A, Petros Z, Aderaye G, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Lindquist L, Aklillu E. Evaluation of patterns of liver toxicity in patients on antiretroviral and anti-tuberculosis drugs: a prospective four arm observational study in ethiopian patients. PLoS One 2014; 9:e94271. [PMID: 24714066 PMCID: PMC3979833 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2013] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Objectives To evaluate the incidence, type, severity and predictors of antiretroviral and/or anti-tuberculosis drugs induced liver injury (DILI). Methods A total of 1,060 treatment naive patients were prospectively enrolled into four treatment groups: HIV patients receiving efavirenz based HAART alone (Arm-1); TB-HIV co-infected patients with CD4≤200 cells/μL, receiving concomitant rifampicin based anti-TB and efavirenz based HAART (Arm-2); TB-HIV co-infected patients with CD4>200 cells/μL, receiving anti-TB alone (Arm-3); TB patients taking rifampicin based anti-TB alone (Arm-4). Liver enzyme levels were monitored at baseline, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th, 12th and 24th weeks during treatment. CD4 and HIV viral load was measured at baseline, 24th and 48th weeks. Data were analyzed using multivariate Cox Proportional Hazards Model. Results A total of 159 patients (15%) developed DILI with severity grades 1, 2, 3 and 4 of 53.5%, 32.7%, 11.3% and 2.5% respectively. The incidence of cholestatic, hepatocellular or mixed pattern was 61%, 15% and 24%, respectively. Incidence of DILI was highest in Arm-2 (24.2%)>Arm-3 (10.8%)>Arm-1 (8.8%)>Arm-4 (2.9%). Concomitant anti-TB-HIV therapy increased the risk of DILI by 10-fold than anti-TB alone (p<0.0001). HIV co-infection increased the risk of anti-TB DILI by 4-fold (p = 0.004). HAART associated DILI was 3-fold higher than anti-TB alone, (p = 0.02). HAART was associated with cholestatic and grade 1 DILI whereas anti-TB therapy was associated with hepatocellular and grade ≥ 2. Treatment type, lower CD4, platelet, hemoglobin, higher serum AST and direct bilirubin levels at baseline were significant DILI predictors. There was no effect of DILI on immunologic recovery or virologic suppression rate of HAART. Conclusion HAART associated DILI is mainly cholestatic and mild whereas hepatocellular or mixed pattern with high severity grade is more common in anti-tuberculosis DILI. TB-HIV co-infection, disease severity and concomitant treatment exacerbates the risk of DILI.
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- Getnet Yimer
- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge C1:68, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Former AstraZeneca R&D, Global Safety Assessment, Molecular Toxicology, Södertälje, Sweden
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge I:73, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge C1:68, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- AstraZeneca Innovative Medicines Personalised Healthcare & Biomarkers, Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge I:73, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge C1:68, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Thulin P, Nordahl G, Gry M, Yimer G, Aklillu E, Makonnen E, Aderaye G, Lindquist L, Mattsson CM, Ekblom B, Antoine DJ, Park BK, Linder S, Harrill AH, Watkins PB, Glinghammar B, Schuppe-Koistinen I. Keratin-18 and microRNA-122 complement alanine aminotransferase as novel safety biomarkers for drug-induced liver injury in two human cohorts. Liver Int 2014; 34:367-78. [PMID: 24118944 DOI: 10.1111/liv.12322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Accepted: 08/31/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS There is a demand for more sensitive, specific and predictive biomarkers for drug-induced liver injury (DILI) than the gold standard used today, alanine aminotransferase (ALT). The aim of this study was to qualify novel DILI biomarkers (keratin-18 markers M65/M30, microRNA-122, glutamate dehydrogenase and alpha-foetoprotein) in human DILI. METHODS Levels of the novel biomarkers were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay or real-time quantitative reverse-transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) in two human DILI cohorts: a human volunteer study with acetaminophen and a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/tuberculosis (TB) study. RESULTS In the acetaminophen study, serum M65 and microRNA-122 levels were significantly increased at an earlier time point than ALT. Furthermore, the maximal elevation of M65 and microRNA-122 exceeded the increase in ALT. In the HIV/TB study, all the analysed novel biomarkers increased after 1 week of treatment. In contrast to ALT, the novel biomarkers remained stable in a human cohort with exercise-induced muscular injury. CONCLUSIONS M65 and microRNA-122 are potential biomarkers of DILI superior to ALT with respect to sensitivity and specificity.
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- Petra Thulin
- AstraZeneca R&D, Innovative Medicines Personalised Healthcare & Biomarkers, Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden
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Rafter I, Gråberg T, Kotronen A, Strömmer L, Mattson CM, Kim RW, Ehrenborg E, Andersson HB, Yki-Järvinen H, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Ekblom B, Cotgreave I, Glinghammar B. Isoform-specific alanine aminotransferase measurement can distinguish hepatic from extrahepatic injury in humans. Int J Mol Med 2012; 30:1241-9. [PMID: 22922605 DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2012.1106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2012] [Accepted: 06/13/2012] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is used as a clinical marker to detect hepatic damage and hepatoxicity. Two isoforms of ALT have been identified, ALT1 and ALT2, which have identical enzymatic capacities and are detected simultaneously in human serum/plasma using classical clinical chemical assays. Differences exist in the expression patterns of the ALT1 and ALT2 proteins in different organs which suggest that changes in the proportion of ALT1 and ALT2 in plasma may arise and reflect damage to different human organs. However, this has not been previously studied due to the lack of a selective methodology that can quantify both ALT1 and ALT2 isoforms in the total ALT activity normally measured in clinical samples. To the best of our knowledge, our current study reveals for the first time, that under 3 different conditions of liver damage (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatitis C and during liver surgery) the leakage of ALT1 activity into plasma greatly exceeds that of ALT2, and that the measurement of ALT1 during liver damage is equal to the measurement of total ALT activity. By contrast, during skeletal muscle injury, induced in volunteers by physical exertion, the leakage of ALT2 exceeds that of ALT1 and the proportion of circulating ALT isoforms changes accordingly. The ALT isoform changes occurring in plasma reflect previously demonstrated relative contents of ALT1 and ALT2 activities in human liver and skeletal muscle. These data suggest that assessing the percentage contribution of ALT1 and ALT2 activities to total ALT activity in plasma may distinguish hepatic from extrahepatic injury using the same standard analytical platform.
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Boekelheide K, Schuppe-Koistinen I. SOT/EUROTOX Debate: Biomarkers From Blood and Urine Will Replace Traditional Histopathological Evaluation to Determine Adverse Responses. Toxicol Sci 2012; 129:249-55. [DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfs200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Thulin P, Gry M, Nordahl G, Yimer G, Linder S, Aklillu E, Glinghammar B, Schuppe-Koistinen I. Qualification of new biomarkers for drug-induced liver injury in a human cohort. Toxicol Lett 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.03.195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Glinghammar B, Rafter I, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Cotgreave I. Isoform specific ALT measurement during liver and skeletal muscle damage. Toxicol Lett 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.03.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Faulkner L, Martinsson K, Santoyo-Castelazo A, Cederbrant K, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Powell H, Tugwood J, Naisbitt DJ, Park BK. The development of in vitro culture methods to characterize primary T-cell responses to drugs. Toxicol Sci 2012; 127:150-8. [PMID: 22331489 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfs080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Adverse drug reactions represent a major stumbling block to drug development and those with an immune etiology are the most difficult to predict. We have developed an in vitro T-cell priming culture method using peripheral blood from healthy volunteers to assess the allergenic potential of drugs. The drug metabolite nitroso sulfamethoxazole (SMX-NO) was used as a model drug allergen to establish optimum assay conditions. Naive T cells were cocultured with monocyte-derived dendritic cells at a ratio of 25:1 in the presence of the drug for a period of 8 days, to expand the number of drug-responsive T cells. The T cells were then incubated with fresh dendritic cells, and drug and their antigen responsiveness analyzed using readouts for proliferation, cytokine secretion, and cell phenotype. All five volunteers showed dose-dependent proliferation as measured by 5-(and 6)-carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester content and by (3)H-thymidine uptake. CD4 T cells that had divided in the presence of SMX-NO had changed from a naive phenotype (CD45RA+) to a memory phenotype (CD45RO+). These memory T cells expressed the chemokine receptors CCR2, CCR4, and CXCR3 suggesting a mixture of T(H)1 and T(H)2 cells in the responding population, with a propensity for homing to the skin. Drug stimulation was also associated with the secretion of a mixture of T(H)1 cytokines (interferon γ) and T(H)2 cytokines (interleukin [IL]-5 and IL-13) as detected by ELISpot. We are currently developing this approach to investigate the allergenic potential of other drugs, including those where an association between specific human leucocyte antigen alleles and susceptibility to an immunological reaction has been established.
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- Lee Faulkner
- Centre for Drug Safety Science, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GE, UK
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Bell C, Martinsson K, Faulkner L, Alfirevic A, French N, Tugwood J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Cederbrant K, Pirmohamed M, Naisbitt D, Park BK. Establishment of an HLA-typed cohort to elucidate the cellular and chemical basis of drug hypersensitivity reactions. Toxicology 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2011.09.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Neiman M, Hedberg JJ, Dönnes PR, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Hanschke S, Schindler R, Uhlén M, Schwenk JM, Nilsson P. Plasma Profiling Reveals Human Fibulin-1 as Candidate Marker for Renal Impairment. J Proteome Res 2011; 10:4925-34. [DOI: 10.1021/pr200286c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Maja Neiman
- Science for Life Laboratory Stockholm, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Box 1031, SE-17121 Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Toxicology, Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca R&D Södertälje, SE-15185 Södertälje, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Toxicology, Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca R&D Södertälje, SE-15185 Södertälje, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Toxicology, Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca R&D Södertälje, SE-15185 Södertälje, Sweden
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- Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-Virchow Clinic, Augustenburger Platz 1, DE-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-Virchow Clinic, Augustenburger Platz 1, DE-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Science for Life Laboratory Stockholm, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Box 1031, SE-17121 Solna, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory Stockholm, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Box 1031, SE-17121 Solna, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory Stockholm, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Box 1031, SE-17121 Solna, Sweden
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Matheis K, Laurie D, Andriamandroso C, Arber N, Badimon L, Benain X, Bendjama K, Clavier I, Colman P, Firat H, Goepfert J, Hall S, Joos T, Kraus S, Kretschmer A, Merz M, Padro T, Planatscher H, Rossi A, Schneiderhan-Marra N, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Thomann P, Vidal JM, Molac B. A generic operational strategy to qualify translational safety biomarkers. Drug Discov Today 2011; 16:600-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2011.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2010] [Revised: 03/21/2011] [Accepted: 04/27/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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M'Kada H, Munteanu M, Perazzo H, Ngo Y, Ramanujam N, Imbert-Bismut F, Ratziu V, Bonnefont-Rousselot D, Souberbielle B, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Poynard T. What are the best reference values for a normal serum alanine transaminase activity (ALT)? Impact on the presumed prevalence of drug induced liver injury (DILI). Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 2011; 60:290-5. [PMID: 21539883 DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2011.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2011] [Revised: 04/02/2011] [Accepted: 04/02/2011] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND In clinical research, the definition of the upper limit of normal (ULN) is rarely detailed. For alanine transaminase (ALT), there are several definitions of ULN-ALT but no recognized global reference. Furthermore the inter-laboratory variability of results expressed using ULN-ALT is higher than using the actual value of ULN expressed in IU/L. Regulatory agencies still use ULN-ALT for the definition of drug adverse events such as drug induced liver disease (DILI). METHODS We applied two extreme definitions of ULN-ALT (26 and 66 IU/L) in two populations with different liver disease risk: 7463 consecutive volunteers representative a low risk population, and 6865 consecutive patients hospitalized in a tertiary referral center. The same assay technique was used for both populations on fresh plasma in the same laboratory. RESULTS In the low risk population the liver disease estimates ranged from 0% to 1.99% according to ULN-ALT definition and gender; prevalence of liver disease as defined by Temple's criteria (3×ULN) decreased significantly with increased ULN-ALT threshold and prevalence of liver disease was lower in females compared to males (all P<0.001). In the high risk population the estimates of liver disease prevalence ranged from 0.78% to 15.85%; disease prevalence using both Temple's corollary and Hy's law criteria (3×ULN-ALT and bilirubin >34 μmol/L) decreased significantly with increased ULN-ALT threshold and females compared to males. In the low risk population the two major factors associated with ULN variability were gender and BMI. CONCLUSION Artificial statistical modifications of the procedures chosen for the ULN-ALT definition change dramatically the prevalence of DILI estimates. A consensus in liver disease definitions seems mandatory for DILI studies in order to prevent misleading conclusions.
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- Helmi M'Kada
- Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris UPMC Liver Center, Paris, France
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Sourial S, Searchfield L, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Betton GR, Riccardi D, Price SA. Application of Dolichos biflorus in immunoassay detection of kidney collecting duct biomarkers. Biomarkers 2010; 15:424-35. [PMID: 20491521 DOI: 10.3109/1354750x.2010.483526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Currently there are no biomarkers for detecting collecting duct damage in man. Antibodies to several collecting duct-specific antigens exist but sandwich assays have been difficult to establish due to the need for two different antibodies to the same protein. We hypothesized that a collecting duct-specific lectin could be used in combination with a collecting duct-specific antibody to negate the need for two different antibodies. The collecting duct specificity of selected antibodies (NiCa II 13C2, Pap XI 3C7, HuPaP VII 2B11 and aquaporin 2), was verified by immunohistochemistry. Aquaporin 2 and Pap XI 3C7 were used successfully in setting up assays with the lectin Dolichos biflorus, using the Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) platform. Antigen expression was highest in the papillae of rat and human kidney (corresponding to the greatest density of collecting ducts) and was also present in normal urine. We propose that further qualification and validation would lead to an assay for detecting collecting duct damage in man.
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- Samer Sourial
- Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK
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Goodsaid FM, Amur S, Aubrecht J, Burczynski ME, Carl K, Catalano J, Charlab R, Close S, Cornu-Artis C, Essioux L, Fornace AJ, Hinman L, Hong H, Hunt I, Jacobson-Kram D, Jawaid A, Laurie D, Lesko L, Li HH, Lindpaintner K, Mayne J, Morrow P, Papaluca-Amati M, Robison TW, Roth J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Shi L, Spleiss O, Tong W, Truter SL, Vonderscher J, Westelinck A, Zhang L, Zineh I. Voluntary exploratory data submissions to the US FDA and the EMA: experience and impact. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2010; 9:435-45. [DOI: 10.1038/nrd3116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Andersson U, Lindberg J, Wang S, Balasubramanian R, Marcusson-Ståhl M, Hannula M, Zeng C, Juhasz PJ, Kolmert J, Bäckström J, Nord L, Nilsson K, Martin S, Glinghammar B, Cederbrant K, Schuppe-Koistinen I. A systems biology approach to understanding elevated serum alanine transaminase levels in a clinical trial with ximelagatran. Biomarkers 2010; 14:572-86. [PMID: 19780643 DOI: 10.3109/13547500903261354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Ximelagatran was developed for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic conditions. However, in long-term clinical trials with ximelagatran, the liver injury marker, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) increased in some patients. Analysis of plasma samples from 134 patients was carried out using proteomic and metabolomic platforms, with the aim of finding predictive biomarkers to explain the ALT elevation. Analytes that were changed after ximelagatran treatment included 3-hydroxybutyrate, pyruvic acid, CSF1R, Gc-globulin, L-glutamine, protein S and alanine, etc. Two of these analytes (pyruvic acid and CSF1R) were studied further in human cell cultures in vitro with ximelagatran. A systems biology approach applied in this study proved to be successful in generating new hypotheses for an unknown mechanism of toxicity.
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- Ulf Andersson
- Safety Assessment, Molecular Toxicology, AstraZeneca R&D, Södertälje, Sweden.
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Alm E, Torgrip RJO, Åberg KM, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Lindberg J. Time-resolved biomarker discovery in 1H-NMR data using generalized fuzzy Hough transform alignment and parallel factor analysis. Anal Bioanal Chem 2010; 396:1681-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-3421-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2009] [Revised: 12/16/2009] [Accepted: 12/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Andersson U, Lindberg J, Wang S, Balasubramanian R, Marcusson-Ståhl M, Hannula M, Zeng C, Juhasz PJ, Kolmert J, Bäckström J, Nord L, Nilsson K, Martin S, Glinghammar B, Cederbrant K, Schuppe-Koistinen I. A systems biology approach to understanding elevated serum alanine transaminase levels in a clinical trial with ximelagatran. Biomarkers 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/13547500903261354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Alm E, Torgrip RJO, Aberg KM, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Lindberg J. A solution to the 1D NMR alignment problem using an extended generalized fuzzy Hough transform and mode support. Anal Bioanal Chem 2009; 395:213-23. [PMID: 19629457 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-2940-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2009] [Revised: 06/24/2009] [Accepted: 06/25/2009] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This paper approaches the problem of intersample peak correspondence in the context of later applying statistical data analysis techniques to 1D 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data. Any data analysis methodology will fail to produce meaningful results if the analyzed data table is not synchronized, i.e., each analyzed variable frequency (Hz) does not originate from the same chemical source throughout the entire dataset. This is typically the case when dealing with NMR data from biological samples. In this paper, we present a new state of the art for solving this problem using the generalized fuzzy Hough transform (GFHT). This paper describes significant improvements since the method was introduced for NMR datasets of plasma in Csenki et al. (Anal Bioanal Chem 389:875-885, 15) and is now capable of synchronizing peaks from more complex datasets such as urine as well as plasma data. We present a novel way of globally modeling peak shifts using principal component analysis, a new algorithm for calculating the transform and an effective peak detection algorithm. The algorithm is applied to two real metabonomic 1H-NMR datasets and the properties of the method are compared to bucketing. We implicitly prove that GFHT establishes the objectively true correspondence. Desirable features of the GFHT are: (1) intersample peak correspondence even if peaks change order on the frequency axis and (2) the method is symmetric with respect to the samples.
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- Erik Alm
- Dept. of Analytical Chemistry, BioSysteMetrics Group, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Schuppe-Koistinen I, Moldéus P, Bergman T, Cotgreave IA. Reversible S-thiolation of Human Endothelial Cell Actin Accompanies a Structural Reorganisation of the Cytoskeleton. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.3109/10623329509024672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Butura A, Nilsson K, Morgan K, Morgan TR, French SW, Johansson I, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Ingelman-Sundberg M. The impact of CYP2E1 on the development of alcoholic liver disease as studied in a transgenic mouse model. J Hepatol 2009. [PMID: 19157621 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS CYP2E1 metabolizes ethanol, generates reactive oxygen species, and is suggested to be important for development of alcoholic liver disease. The present study aims to evaluate the role of CYP2E1 in combination with ethanol for development of alcoholic liver disease using mice transgenic for the human CYP2E1 gene. METHODS Changes in hepatic gene expression were monitored in controls and mice transgenic for human CYP2E1, treated with ethanol or isocaloric dextrose intragastrically for 4 weeks, and related to pathology using Affymetrix microarrays and TaqMan RealTime PCR. RESULTS Presence of the CYP2E1 transgene increased liver injury and increased expression of stress related genes. Microarray analyses revealed the expression of structural genes, particularly cytokeratin 8 and 18, to be highly related to pathology. CONCLUSIONS This in vivo study confirms several findings regarding CYP2E1 and alcohol previously found only in vitro. These results provide in vivo evidence that CYP2E1 overexpression aggravates hepatic injury, and suggest that expression of cytokeratins 8 and 18 can be considered as biomakers for the progression of alcoholic liver disease.
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- Angelica Butura
- Section of Pharmacogenetics, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Aberg KM, Torgrip RJO, Kolmert J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Lindberg J. Feature detection and alignment of hyphenated chromatographic-mass spectrometric data. Extraction of pure ion chromatograms using Kalman tracking. J Chromatogr A 2008; 1192:139-46. [PMID: 18378252 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2008.03.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2008] [Revised: 03/05/2008] [Accepted: 03/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In this paper we present a new method, called TracMass, for analyzing data obtained using hyphenated chromatography-mass spectrometry (XC/MS). The method uses a Kalman filter to extract pure, noise-free ion chromatograms by exploiting the latent second order structure in the XC/MS data. TracMass differs from current state-of-the-art methodologies, which extract chromatograms by binning along the m/z axis and further processes the data in various ways, e.g. by baseline correction, component detection algorithm, peak detection, and curve resolution to extract molecular features. The proposed method was validated by analyzing two plasma datasets: one derived from 99 quality control samples where TracMass extracted 8880 Pure Ion Chromatograms (PICs) present in > or =90 of the samples. The second dataset was spiked with two different internal standard mixtures to test differential expression analysis. Here TracMass found 20000 PICs present in 10 samples, all differentially expressed analytes, and also a previously unreported discriminating metabolite. Finding as many PICs as possible is in this context essential to ensure that even small differentiating features are found (if they exist). The resulting data representation from TracMass (PICs) can be used directly for statistical analysis, and the method is fast (approximately 5min/sample), with few adjustable parameters.
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- K Magnus Aberg
- Stockholm University, Department of Analytical Chemistry, BioSysteMetrics group, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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Adourian A, Jennings E, Balasubramanian R, Hines WM, Damian D, Plasterer TN, Clish CB, Stroobant P, McBurney R, Verheij ER, Bobeldijk I, van der Greef J, Lindberg J, Kenne K, Andersson U, Hellmold H, Nilsson K, Salter H, Schuppe-Koistinen I. Correlation network analysis for data integration and biomarker selection. Mol Biosyst 2008; 4:249-59. [PMID: 18437268 DOI: 10.1039/b708489g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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High-throughput biomolecular profiling techniques such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics are increasingly being used in in vivo studies to recognize and characterize effects of xenobiotics on organs and systems. Of particular interest are biomarkers of treatment-related effects which are detectable in easily accessible biological fluids such as blood. A fundamental challenge in such biomarker studies is selecting among the plethora of biomolecular changes induced by a compound and revealed by molecular profiling, to identify biomarkers which are exclusively or predominantly due to specific processes. In this work we present a cross-compartment correlation network approach, involving no a priori supervision or design, to integrate proteomic, metabolomic and transcriptomic data for selecting circulating biomarkers. The case study we present is the identification of biomarkers of drug-induced hepatic toxicity effects in a rodent model. Biomolecular profiling of both blood plasma and liver tissue from Wistar Hannover rats administered a toxic compound yielded many hundreds of statistically significant molecular changes. We exploited drug-induced correlations between blood plasma analytes and liver tissue molecules across study animals in order to nominate selected plasma molecules as biomarkers of drug-induced hepatic alterations of lipid metabolism and urea cycle processes.
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- Aram Adourian
- BG Medicine Inc., 610N Lincoln Street, Waltham, MA, USA.
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Skordi E, Yap IKS, Claus SP, Martin FPJ, Cloarec O, Lindberg J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Holmes E, Nicholson JK. Analysis of time-related metabolic fluctuations induced by ethionine in the rat. J Proteome Res 2007; 6:4572-81. [PMID: 17966971 DOI: 10.1021/pr070268q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The time-course of metabolic events following response to a model hepatotoxin ethionine (800 mg/kg) was investigated over a 7 day period in rats using high-resolution (1)H NMR spectroscopic analysis of urine and multivariate statistics. Complementary information was obtained by multivariate analysis of (1)H MAS NMR spectra of intact liver and by conventional histopathology and clinical chemistry of blood plasma. (1)H MAS NMR spectra of liver showed toxin-induced lipidosis 24 h postdose consistent with the steatosis observed by histopathology, while hypertaurinuria was suggestive of liver injury. Early biochemical changes in urine included elevation of guanidinoacetate, suggesting impaired methylation reactions. Urinary increases in 5-oxoproline and glycine suggested disruption of the gamma-glutamyl cycle. Signs of ATP depletion together with impairment of the energy metabolism were given from the decreased levels in tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates, the appearance of ketone bodies in urine, the depletion of hepatic glucose and glycogen, and also hypoglycemia. The observed increase in nicotinuric acid in urine could be an indication of an increase in NAD catabolism, a possible consequence of ATP depletion. Effects on the gut microbiota were suggested by the observed urinary reductions in the microbial metabolites 3-/4-hydroxyphenyl propionic acid, dimethylamine, and tryptamine. At later stages of toxicity, there was evidence of kidney damage, as indicated by the tubular damage observed by histopathology, supported by increased urinary excretion of lactic acid, amino acids, and glucose. These studies have given new insights into mechanisms of ethionine-induced toxicity and show the value of multisystem level data integration in the understanding of experimental models of toxicity or disease.
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- Eleni Skordi
- Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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Csenki L, Alm E, Torgrip RJO, Aberg KM, Nord LI, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Lindberg J. Proof of principle of a generalized fuzzy Hough transform approach to peak alignment of one-dimensional 1H NMR data. Anal Bioanal Chem 2007; 389:875-85. [PMID: 17701402 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-007-1475-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2007] [Revised: 05/29/2007] [Accepted: 06/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In metabolic profiling, multivariate data analysis techniques are used to interpret one-dimensional (1D) 1H NMR data. Multivariate data analysis techniques require that peaks are characterised by the same variables in every spectrum. This location constraint is essential for correct comparison of the intensities of several NMR spectra. However, variations in physicochemical factors can cause the locations of the peaks to shift. The location prerequisite may thus not be met, and so, to solve this problem, alignment methods have been developed. However, current state-of-the-art algorithms for data alignment cannot resolve the inherent problems encountered when analysing NMR data of biological origin, because they are unable to align peaks when the spatial order of the peaks changes-a commonly occurring phenomenon. In this paper a new algorithm is proposed, based on the Hough transform operating on an image representation of the NMR dataset that is capable of correctly aligning peaks when existing methods fail. The proposed algorithm was compared with current state-of-the-art algorithms operating on a selected plasma dataset to demonstrate its potential. A urine dataset was also processed using the algorithm as a further demonstration. The method is capable of successfully aligning the plasma data but further development is needed to address more challenging applications, for example urine data.
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- Leonard Csenki
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, BioSysteMetrics Group, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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Thysell E, Pohjanen E, Lindberg J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Moritz T, Jonsson P, Antti H. Reliable Profile Detection in Comparative Metabolomics. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology 2007; 11:209-24. [PMID: 17594239 DOI: 10.1089/omi.2007.0006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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A strategy for processing of metabolomic GC/MS data is presented. By considering the relationship between quantity and quality of detected profiles, representative data suitable for multiple sample comparisons and metabolite identification was generated. Design of experiments (DOE) and multivariate analysis was used to relate the changes in settings of the hierarchical multivariate curve resolution (H-MCR) method to quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the output data. These characteristics included number of resolved profiles, chromatographic quality in terms of reproducibility between analytical replicates, and spectral quality defined by purity and number of spectra containing structural information. The strategy was exemplified in two datasets: one containing 119 common metabolites, 18 of which were varied according to a DOE protocol; and one consisting of rat urine samples from control rats and rats exposed to a liver toxin. It was shown that the performance of the data processing could be optimized to produce metabolite data of high quality that allowed reliable sample comparisons and metabolite identification. This is a general approach applicable to any type of data processing where the important processing parameters are known and relevant output data characteristics can be defined. The results imply that this type of data quality optimization should be carried out as an integral step of data processing to ensure high quality data for further modeling and biological evaluation. Within metabolomics, this degree of optimization will be of high importance to generate models and extract biomarkers or biomarker patterns of biological or clinical relevance.
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- Elin Thysell
- Research Group for Chemometrics, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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