Analysis of Disease-Associated Protein Expression Using Quantitative Proteomics-Fibulin-5 Is Expressed in Association with Hepatic Fibrosis

作者：Bracht Thilo^*; Schwein**erg Vincent; Trippler Martin; Kohl Michael; Ahrens Maike; Padden Juliet; Naboulsi Wael; Barkovits Katalin; Megger Dominik A; Eisenacher Martin; Borchers Christoph H; Schlaak Joerg F; Hoffmann Andreas Claudius; Weber Frank; Baba Hideo A; Meyer Helmut E; Sitek Barbara

来源：Journal of Proteome Research, 2015, 14(5): 2278-2286.

DOI：10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00053

• liver
• fibrosis
• hepatic fibrosis
• cirrhosis
• fibulin-5
• label-free proteomics
• multiple reaction monitoring
• selected reaction monitoring
• MFAP4
• lumican

Hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis are major health problems worldwide. Until now, highly invasive biopsy remains the diagnostic gold standard despite many disadvantages. To develop noninvasive diagnostic assays for the assessment flyer fibrosis, it is urgently necessary to identify molecules that are robustly expressed in association with the disease. We analyzed biopsied tissue samples from 95 patients with HBV/HCV-associated hepatic fibrosis using three different quantification methods. We performed a label-free proteomics discovery study to identify novel disease-associated proteins using a subset of the cohort (n = 27). Subsequently, gene expression data from all available clinical samples were analyzed (n = 77). Finally, we performed a targeted proteomics approach, multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), to verify the disease-associated expression in samples independent from the discovery approach (n = 68). We identified fibulin-5 (FBLN5) as a novel protein expressed in relation to hepatic fibrosis. Furthermore, we confirmed the altered expression of microfibril-associated glycoprotein 4 (MFAP4), lumican (LUM), and collagen alpha-1(XIV) chain (COL14A1) in association to hepatic fibrosis. To our knowledge, no tissue-based quantitative proteomics study for hepatic fibrosis has been performed using a cohort of comparable size. By this means, we add substantial evidence for the disease-related expression of the proteins examined in this study:

• 出版日期2015-5