Systematic Analysis of Blood Cell Transcriptome in End-Stage Chronic Respiratory Diseases

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Abstract

Background

End-stage chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) have systemic consequences, such as weight loss and susceptibility to infection. However the mechanisms of such dysfunctions are as yet poorly explained. We hypothesized that the genes putatively involved in these mechanisms would emerge from a systematic analysis of blood mRNA profiles from pre-transplant patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), pulmonary hypertension (PAH), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Methods

Whole blood was first collected from 13 patients with PAH, 23 patients with CF, and 28 Healthy Controls (HC). Microarray results were validated by quantitative PCR on a second and independent group (7PAH, 9CF, and 11HC). Twelve pre-transplant COPD patients were added to validate the common signature shared by patients with CRD for all causes. To further clarify a role for hypoxia in the candidate gene dysregulation, peripheral blood mononuclear cells from HC were analysed for their mRNA profile under hypoxia.

Results

Unsupervised hierarchical clustering allowed the identification of 3 gene signatures related to CRD. One was common to CF and PAH, another specific to CF, and the final one was specific to PAH. With the common signature, we validated T-Cell Factor 7 ( TCF-7) and Interleukin 7 Receptor ( IL-7R), two genes related to T lymphocyte activation, as being under-expressed. We showed a strong impact of the hypoxia on modulation of TCF-7 and IL-7R expression in PBMCs from HC under hypoxia or PBMCs from CRD. In addition, we identified and validated genes upregulated in PAH or CF, including Lectin Galactoside-binding Soluble 3 and Toll Like Receptor 4, respectively.

Conclusions

Systematic analysis of blood cell transcriptome in CRD patients identified common and specific signatures relevant to the systemic pathologies. TCF-7 and IL-7R were downregulated whatever the cause of CRD and this could play a role in the higher susceptibility to infection of these patients.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One

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Title: PLoS ONE

Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )

ISSN (Electronic): 1932-6203

Publication date Collection: 2014

Publication date (Electronic): 20 October 2014

Volume: 9

Issue: 10

Electronic Location Identifier: e109291

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[1 ]UMR_S 1087 CNRS UMR_6291, l′Institut du Thorax, Université de Nantes, CHU de Nantes, Centre National de Référence Mucoviscidose Nantes-Roscoff, Nantes, France

[2 ]Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

[3 ]Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale INSERM U1064, and Institut de Transplantation Urologie Néphrologie du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hôtel Dieu, Nantes, France

[4 ]CHU de Marseille, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France

[5 ]Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue, Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, Vasculaire et Transplantation Cardiopulmonaire, Le Plessis Robinson, France

[6 ]Hôpital Foch, Suresnes, France

[7 ]Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

[8 ]Université de Lyon 1, Lyon, France

[9 ]INRA, UMR_S 754, Lyon, France

[10 ]Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France

[11 ]Clinique Universitaire Pneumologie, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

[12 ]Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

[13 ]Inserm U1055, Grenoble, France

[14 ]European Institute of Systems Biology and Medicine, Lyon, France

[15 ]CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

[16 ]CHU de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

[17 ]CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

[18 ]Hôpital Bichat, Service de Pneumologie B et Transplantation Pulmonaire, Paris, France

[19 ]Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

[20 ]AP-HP, Service de Pneumologie, DHU Thorax Innovation, Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

[21 ]INSERM U999, LabEx LERMIT, Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis Robinson, France

Helmholtz Zentrum München/Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

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* E-mail: antoine.magnan@ 123456univ-nantes.fr

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC RD KB AM SB. Performed the experiments: JC RD. Analyzed the data: JC RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC RD. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JC RD AM SB. Patient recruitment: KB MRG SM MS IDB JFM CP CD RK MD OB JLP FP MH CG.

¶ JC and RD are first authors on this work. SB and AM also contributed equally to this work and are senior authors on this work.

‡ Membership of the COLT Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109291

PMC ID: 4203719

PubMed ID: 25329529

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Date received : 9 May 2014

Date accepted : 30 August 2014

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Funding

This study was funded mainly by a grant from Vaincre La Mucoviscidose, the Programme National Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique, a CENTAURE foundation grant, an Agence de la Biomédecine Française (ABM) grant, and an ESOT grant. This work was realized in the context of the IHU-Cesti project thanks to French government financial support managed by the National Research Agency via the “Investment Into The Future” program ANR-10-IBHU-005. The IHU-Cesti project is also supported by Nantes Metropole and the Pays de la Loire Region. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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