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FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.02138
Keywords
metabolomics; autoimmune disease; biomarkers; systemic lupus erythematosus; GC-MS
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC2000500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81570512, 81790631, 81790634]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ19H030007]
- Special Project of Medical Innovation Team in Jiangsu Province [CXTDA2017047]
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Gut metabolites are products of the crosstalk between microbes and their host and play an important role in the occurrence, development, diagnosis, and treatment of autoimmune diseases. This work profiled the fecal metabolome of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and analyzed the potential roles of metabolites in the diagnosis and development of SLE. Fecal sample from 29 SLE patients without any other diseases and 30 healthy controls (HCs) were analyzed by metabolomics profiling. All participants took no antibiotics in the month before sampling and clinical data collecting. The metabolome profiles of patients with SLE and HCs were significantly different. Thirty fecal metabolites, such as deoxycholic acid, erucamide, L-tryptophan and putrescine, were significantly enriched, while nine metabolites, such as glyceric acid, gamma-tocopherol, (Z)-13-octadecenoic acid and 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol, were depleted in SLE patients vs. HCs. The areas under the curve (AUCs) of L-valine, pyrimidine, erucamide, and L-leucine during ROC analysis were 0.886, 0.833, 0.829, and 0.803, indicating their good diagnostic potential. Moreover, the combination of L-valine, erucamide and 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol gave an AUC of 0.959. SLE-altered metabolites were significantly located in 28 pathways, such as ABC transporters (p= 3.40E-13) and aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis (p= 2.11E-12). Furthermore, SLE-altered fecal metabolites were closely correlated with SLE indicators, e.g., L-tryptophan was positively correlated with the SLEDAI-2K (p= 0.007). Our results suggest that the SLE fecal metabolome is closely associated with the occurrence and development of SLE and is of great diagnostic value.
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