scholarly journals Analysis of immune cell components and immune-related gene expression profiles in peripheral blood of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Author(s):  
Jian Lin ◽  
Yuanhua Lu ◽  
Bizhou Wang ◽  
Ping Jiao ◽  
Jie Ma

Abstract Background Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic autoimmune disease caused by severe loss of pancreatic β cells. Immune cells are key mediators of β cell destruction. This study attempted to investigate the role of immune cells and immune-related genes in the occurrence and development of T1DM. Methods The raw gene expression profile of the samples from 12 T1DM patients and 10 normal controls was obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified by Limma package in R. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) - support vector machines (SVM) were used to screen the hub genes. CIBERSORT algorithm was used to identify the different immune cells in distribution between T1DM and normal samples. Correlation of the hub genes and immune cells was analyzed by Spearman, and gene-GO-BP and gene-pathway interaction networks were constructed by Cytoscape plug-in ClueGO. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to assess diagnostic value of genes in T1DM. Results The 50 immune-related DEGs were obtained between the T1DM and normal samples. Then, the 50 immune-related DEGs were further screened to obtain the 5 hub genes. CIBERSORT analysis revealed that the distribution of plasma cells, resting mast cells, resting NK cells and neutrophils had significant difference between T1DM and normal samples. Natural cytotoxicity triggering receptor 3 (NCR3) was significantly related to the activated NK cells, M0 macrophages, monocytes, resting NK cells, and resting memory CD4+ T cells. Moreover, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) was significantly associated with naive B cell and naive CD4+ T cell. NCR3 [Area under curve (AUC) = 0.918] possessed a higher accuracy than TNF (AUC = 0.763) in diagnosis of T1DM. Conclusions The immune-related genes (NCR3 and TNF) and immune cells (NK cells) may play a vital regulatory role in the occurrence and development of T1DM, which possibly provide new ideas and potential targets for the immunotherapy of diabetes mellitus (DM).

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Lin ◽  
Yuanhua Lu ◽  
Bizhou Wang ◽  
Ping Jiao ◽  
Jie Ma

Abstract Background Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic autoimmune disease caused by severe loss of pancreatic β cells. Immune cells are key mediators of β cell destruction. This study attempted to investigate the role of immune cells and immune-related genes in the occurrence and development of T1DM. Methods The raw gene expression profile of the samples from 12 T1DM patients and 10 normal controls was obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified by Limma package in R. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO)—support vector machines (SVM) were used to screen the hub genes. CIBERSORT algorithm was used to identify the different immune cells in distribution between T1DM and normal samples. Correlation of the hub genes and immune cells was analyzed by Spearman, and gene-GO-BP and gene-pathway interaction networks were constructed by Cytoscape plug-in ClueGO. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to assess diagnostic value of genes in T1DM. Results The 50 immune-related DEGs were obtained between the T1DM and normal samples. Then, the 50 immune-related DEGs were further screened to obtain the 5 hub genes. CIBERSORT analysis revealed that the distribution of plasma cells, resting mast cells, resting NK cells and neutrophils had significant difference between T1DM and normal samples. Natural cytotoxicity triggering receptor 3 (NCR3) was significantly related to the activated NK cells, M0 macrophages, monocytes, resting NK cells, and resting memory CD4+ T cells. Moreover, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) was significantly associated with naive B cell and naive CD4+ T cell. NCR3 [Area under curve (AUC) = 0.918] possessed a higher accuracy than TNF (AUC = 0.763) in diagnosis of T1DM. Conclusions The immune-related genes (NCR3 and TNF) and immune cells (NK cells) may play a vital regulatory role in the occurrence and development of T1DM, which possibly provide new ideas and potential targets for the immunotherapy of diabetes mellitus (DM).


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1742
Author(s):  
Ignacio Rodríguez-Rodríguez ◽  
José-Víctor Rodríguez ◽  
Wai Lok Woo ◽  
Bo Wei ◽  
Domingo-Javier Pardo-Quiles

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) is a metabolic disease derived from falls in pancreatic insulin production resulting in chronic hyperglycemia. DM1 subjects usually have to undertake a number of assessments of blood glucose levels every day, employing capillary glucometers for the monitoring of blood glucose dynamics. In recent years, advances in technology have allowed for the creation of revolutionary biosensors and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) techniques. This has enabled the monitoring of a subject’s blood glucose level in real time. On the other hand, few attempts have been made to apply machine learning techniques to predicting glycaemia levels, but dealing with a database containing such a high level of variables is problematic. In this sense, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the issues of proper feature selection (FS)—the stage before applying predictive algorithms—have not been subject to in-depth discussion and comparison in past research when it comes to forecasting glycaemia. Therefore, in order to assess how a proper FS stage could improve the accuracy of the glycaemia forecasted, this work has developed six FS techniques alongside four predictive algorithms, applying them to a full dataset of biomedical features related to glycaemia. These were harvested through a wide-ranging passive monitoring process involving 25 patients with DM1 in practical real-life scenarios. From the obtained results, we affirm that Random Forest (RF) as both predictive algorithm and FS strategy offers the best average performance (Root Median Square Error, RMSE = 18.54 mg/dL) throughout the 12 considered predictive horizons (up to 60 min in steps of 5 min), showing Support Vector Machines (SVM) to have the best accuracy as a forecasting algorithm when considering, in turn, the average of the six FS techniques applied (RMSE = 20.58 mg/dL).


2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tihamer Orban ◽  
Janos Kis ◽  
Laszlo Szereday ◽  
Peter Engelmann ◽  
Klara Farkas ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. S26-S27
Author(s):  
Tihamer Orban ◽  
Janos Kis ◽  
Laszlo Szereday ◽  
Klara Farkas ◽  
Peter Engelmann ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 457 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. Novoselova ◽  
M. O. Khrenov ◽  
S. B. Parfenyuk ◽  
T. V. Novoselova ◽  
S. M. Lunin ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 635-640
Author(s):  
L. M. Hovsepyan ◽  
G. S. Kazaryan ◽  
A. V. Zanginyan ◽  
A. A. Akopdzhanyan ◽  
G. V. Zakharyan ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Bayat ◽  
Zivar Salehi ◽  
Setila Dalili ◽  
Farbod Bahreini

Abstract BackgroundMicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules that play a pivotal role in the central dogma of molecular biology by regulating gene expression. Alterations in the expression pattern of miRNAs are seen to be linked with several human diseases including autoimmune diseases such as pediatric type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the miRNAs coding genes can influence pancreatic development and insulin secretion. We contemplated a relation between miR-21 expression level as well as miR-21 rs1292037 SNP and pediatric T1DM.ResultsThe heterozygous T/C genotype was seen to be more common amongst T1DM patients than amongst controls (OR = 2.74 (1.78-4.27), P<0.0001). The C allele was more frequent in patients than in control subjects (OR = 1.36 (1.03-0.8), P = 0.02). miR-21 expression was seen to be upregulated in patients compared to the controls by more than twofold (p<0.0001). In the study population, miR-21 was found to be significantly upregulated when carrying the T/C genotype. ConclusionsWe report that the miR-21 rs1292037 variant is related to T1DM. Our study also suggests that the miR-21 expression level is upregulated in T1DM patients compared to the control subjects.


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