IMR Press / FBL / Volume 27 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.31083/j.fbl2703090
Open Access Original Research
Comparative Proteomic and Metabolomic Analyses of Plasma Reveal the Novel Biomarker Panels for Thyroid Dysfunction
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1 The Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), Institute of Basic Medicine and Cancer (IBMC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 310002 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2 College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, 310027 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
3 Phase I Clinical Research Center, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, 310014 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
4 School of Pharmacy, Zhejiang University of Technology, 310014 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
5 School of Pharmacy, Hangzhou Medical College, 310059 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
*Correspondence: zhuwei@ibmc.ac.cn (Wei Zhu); nancywangying@163.com (Ying Wang)
Academic Editor: François Chevalier
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2022, 27(3), 90; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2703090
Submitted: 22 December 2021 | Revised: 13 February 2022 | Accepted: 23 February 2022 | Published: 8 March 2022
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Thyroid dysfunction, including hypothyroidism (THO) and hyperthyroidism (THE), commonly arise from pathological processes in the thyroid gland. The current diagnosis of thyroid dysfunction varies because of the age and sex of the patients. The aim of this study was to explore novel candidate biomarker panels for hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism screening with mass spectrometry and bioinformatics. Methods: Plasma samples were collected from 15 THE patients, 9 THO patients, and 15 healthy controls. Data Independent Acquisition(DIA)-based proteomic and untargeted metabolomic analyses were performed to identify novel biomarker panels for THO and THE patients. Finally, three candidate biomarkers were verified by ELISA in 34 samples. Results: A total of 2738 proteins and 6103 metabolites were identified, and 173 proteins and 2487 metabolites were found to be differentially expressed among the THE, THO and control groups. The results of the ensemble feature selection, K-means clustering and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression model showed that two proteins (C4-A and C3/C5 convertase) combined with two metabolites (L-arginine and L-proline), and proteins (APOL1 and ITIH4) combined with metabolites (cortisol, and cortisone) identified by plasma proteomics and metabolomics could help distinguish THO and THE patients from healthy controls, respectively. Conclusions: This study identified and verified two pairs of biomarker panels that can be used to distinguish THE and THO patients regardless of age and sex. Consequently, our findings represent a comprehensive analysis of thyroid dysfunction plasma, which is significant for clinical diagnosis.

Keywords
hypothyroidism
hyperthyroidism
plasma proteomics
plasma metabolomics
biomarkers
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