Identification of Novel Biomarkers With Diagnostic Value and Immune Infiltration in Burn Injury
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- DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.829841
Identification of Novel Biomarkers With Diagnostic Value and Immune Infiltration in Burn Injury
Abstract
Burn injury is an intractable problem in the field of surgery where screening relevant target genes and exploring pathological mechanisms through bioinformatic methods has become a necessity. Herein, we integrated three burn injury mRNA microarray datasets from the Gene Expression Omnibus database to analyze the hub differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between burn injury patient samples and healthy human samples; we conducted multiple functional enrichment analyses and constructed the protein-protein interaction (PPI) network. Finally, we evaluated the immune infiltration in the burn injury microenvironment. A total of 84 intersection DEGs (32 upregulated and 52 downregulated) were screened in burn injury patients via integrated analyses. Upregulated genes were primarily enriched in regulation of T cell activation, regulation of response to DNA damage stimulus, positive regulation of innate immune response, positive regulation of defense response. We also identified 10 hub genes from the PPI network (CCNB2, MYO10, TTK, POLQ, VASP, TIMP1, CDK16, MMP1, ZYX, and PKMYT1). Next, we found that 22 immune cells were substantially changed during the burn injury by CIBERSORT. In addition, we verified that VASP and POLQ are two novel diagnostic markers in burn processes with high diagnostic efficacy via immunohistochemistry. In summary, we identified several key genes involved in burn injury and provided a favorable basis for elucidating the molecular mechanisms of burn injury through comprehensive bioinformatic analysis.
Keywords: CIBERSORT; burn injury; functional enrichment analysis; immune infiltration; inflammation.
Copyright © 2022 Zhou, Wang, Wang, He, Zheng, Long, Chen and Yang.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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