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Integrated analysis of plasma and urine reveals unique metabolomic profiles in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies subtypes

Journal

JOURNAL OF CACHEXIA SARCOPENIA AND MUSCLE
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 2456-2472

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.13045

Keywords

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies; Machine learning algorithm; Metabolomics; Biomarkers

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [82101880]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2020JJ8056]

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In this study, plasma and urine samples from newly diagnosed IIM patients were analyzed using untargeted metabolomics. The results showed that IIM subtypes have specific metabolic signatures and pathways in both plasma and urine. This study provides valuable insights for understanding the molecular mechanisms, identifying potential diagnosis biomarkers, and finding therapeutic targets for IIM.
Objectives Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a class of autoimmune diseases with high heterogeneity that can be divided into different subtypes based on clinical manifestations and myositis-specific autoantibodies (MSAs). However, even in each IIM subtype, the clinical symptoms and prognoses of patients are very different. Thus, the identification of more potential biomarkers associated with IIM classification, clinical symptoms, and prognosis is urgently needed. Methods Plasma and urine samples from 79 newly diagnosed IIM patients (mean disease duration 4 months) and 52 normal control (NC) samples were analysed by high-performance liquid chromatography of quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (HPLC-Q-TOF-MS)/MS-based untargeted metabolomics. Orthogonal partial least-squares discriminate analysis (OPLS-DA) were performed to measure the significance of metabolites. Pathway enrichment analysis was conducted based on the KEGG human metabolic pathways. Ten machine learning (ML) algorithms [linear support vector machine (SVM), radial basis function SVM, random forest, nearest neighbour, Gaussian processes, decision trees, neural networks, adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), Gaussian naive Bayes and quadratic discriminant analysis] were used to classify each IIM subtype and select the most important metabolites as potential biomarkers. Results OPLS-DA showed a clear separation between NC and IIM subtypes in plasma and urine metabolic profiles. KEGG pathway enrichment analysis revealed multiple unique and shared disturbed metabolic pathways in IIM main [dermatomyositis (DM), anti-synthetase syndrome (ASS), and immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM)] and MSA-defined subtypes (anti-Mi2+, anti-MDA5+, anti-TIF1 gamma+, anti-Jo1+, anti-PL7+, anti-PL12+, anti-EJ+, and anti-SRP+), such that fatty acid biosynthesis was significantly altered in both plasma and urine in all main IIM subtypes (enrichment ratio > 1). Random forest and AdaBoost performed best in classifying each IIM subtype among the 10 ML models. Using the feature selection methods in ML models, we identified 9 plasma and 10 urine metabolites that contributed most to separate IIM main subtypes and MSA-defined subtypes, such as plasma creatine (fold change = 3.344, P = 0.024) in IMNM subtype and urine tiglylcarnitine (fold change = 0.351, P = 0.037) in anti-EJ+ ASS subtype. Sixteen common metabolites were found in both the plasma and urine samples of IIM subtypes. Among them, some were correlated with clinical features, such as plasma hypogeic acid (r = -0.416, P = 0.005) and urine malonyl carnitine (r = -0.374, P = 0.042), which were negatively correlated with the prevalence of interstitial lung disease. Conclusions In both plasma and urine samples, IIM main and MSA-defined subtypes have specific metabolic signatures and pathways. This study provides useful clues for understanding the molecular mechanisms, searching potential diagnosis biomarkers and therapeutic targets for IIM.

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