Identification of Potential Diagnoses Based on Immune Infiltration and Autophagy Characteristics in Major Depressive Disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious mental illness characterized by mood changes and high suicide rates. However, no studies are available to support a blood test method for MDD diagnosis. The objective of this research was to identify potential peripheral blood biomarkers for MDD and chara...
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Published in | Frontiers in genetics Vol. 13; p. 702366 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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26.04.2022
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Summary: | Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious mental illness characterized by mood changes and high suicide rates. However, no studies are available to support a blood test method for MDD diagnosis. The objective of this research was to identify potential peripheral blood biomarkers for MDD and characterize the novel pathophysiology.
We accessed whole blood microarray sequencing data for MDD and control samples from public databases. Biological functions were analysed by GO and KEGG pathway enrichment analyses using the clusterprofile R package. Infiltrated immune cell (IIC) proportions were identified using the CIBERSORT algorithm. Clustering was performed using the ConsensusClusterPlus R package. Protein-protein interactions (PPI) were assessed by constructing a PPI network using STRING and visualized using Cytoscape software. Rats were exposed to chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) for 6 weeks to induce stress behaviour. Stress behaviour was evaluated by open field experiments and forced swimming tests. Flow cytometry was used to analyse the proportion of CD8
T cells. The expression of the corresponding key genes was detected by qRT-PCR.
We divided MDD patients into CD8H and CD8L clusters. The functional enrichment of marker genes in the CD8H cluster indicated that autophagy-related terms and pathways were significantly enriched. Furthermore, we obtained 110 autophagy-related marker genes (ARMGs) in the CD8H cluster through intersection analysis. GO and KEGG analyses further showed that these ARMGs may regulate a variety of autophagy processes and be involved in the onset and advancement of MDD. Finally, 10 key ARMGs were identified through PPI analysis: RAB1A, GNAI3, VAMP7, RAB33B, MYC, LAMP2, RAB11A, HIF1A, KIF5B, and PTEN. In the CUMS model, flow cytometric analysis confirmed the above findings. qRT-PCR revealed significant decreases in the mRNA levels of Gnai3, Rab33b, Lamp2, and Kif5b in the CUMS groups.
In this study, MDD was divided into two subtypes. We combined immune infiltrating CD8
T cells with autophagy-related genes and screened a total of 10 ARMG genes. In particular, RAB1A, GNAI3, RAB33B, LAMP2, and KIF5B were first reported in MDD. These genes may offer new hope for the clinical diagnosis of MDD. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Reviewed by: Jian Zhou, Chongqing Medical University, China Edited by: Brad Verhulst, Texas A&M University, United States This article was submitted to Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Genetics These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship Kyle Lyman, Stanford University, United States |
ISSN: | 1664-8021 1664-8021 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fgene.2022.702366 |