Project description:Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a major source of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. A deeper insight into the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying RHD could provide opportunities for drug repurposing, guide recommendations for secondary penicillin prophylaxis, and/or inform development of near-patient diagnostics. We performed quantitative proteomics using Sequential Windowed Acquisition of All Theoretical Fragment Ion Mass Spectrometry (SWATH-MS) to screen protein expression in 215 African patients with severe RHD, and 230 controls. A machine learning (ML) approach was applied to feature selection among the 366 proteins quantifiable in at least 40% of samples, using the Boruta wrapper algorithm. The case-control differences and contribution to AUC of the ROC for each of the 56 proteins identified by the Boruta algorithm were calculated by Logistic Regression adjusted for age, sex and BMI. Adiponectin, complement component C7 and fibulin-1, a component of heart valve matrix, were each higher in cases when compared with controls. Ficolin-3, a protein with calcium-independent lectin activity that activates the complement pathway, was lower in cases than controls. The top six biomarkers from the Boruta analyses conferred an AUC of 0.90 indicating excellent discriminatory capacity between RHD cases and controls.

2022-04-04 | PXD030598 | Pride

RHD(X418Q)

Project description:Novel RHD gene variant resulting in the abolition of the stop codon

| PRJEB35430 | ENA

In vitro FAM134B RHD and UB RHD UB ubiquitination

Project description:FAM134B is a reticulon-homology domain (RHD)-containing protein that participates in membrane-shaping of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)8 13. It also functions as a mammalian ER-phagy receptor, mediating the fragmentation and selective degradation of ER sheets in multiple cell types8. However, little is known about the molecular and biophysical mechanisms that control and/or switch between these two FAM134B functions.

2023-06-19 | PXD039188 | Pride

Altered expression of transfer-RNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs) in human with rheumatic heart disease

Project description:Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a serious public health problem in developing countries. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a medical complication of RHD. Although the understanding of disease pathogenesis has advanced in recent years, the key questions need to be addressed. Transfer RNA–derived small RNAs (tsRNAs) are a novel type of short non-coding RNAs that have potential regulatory functions in various physiological and pathological processes. The present study used tsRNAs sequencing to investigate the relationship between RHD and atrial fibrillation (AF). Three paired myocardial papilla were taken from six rheumatic RHD patients with AF (3 cases) or without AF (3 cases) from January 2016 to January 2017 in Xiangya Hospital, Central South University. A total of 219 precisely matched tsRNAs were identified, and 77 tsRNAs (fold change > 2.0 and P < 0.05) were differently changed. Three tsRNAs (AS-tDR-001269, AS-tDR-001363, AS-tDR-006049) were randomly selected and verified by qRT-PCR. The results of qRT-PCR were consistent with tsRNAs sequencing, suggesting the tsRNAs sequencing was reliable. Then bioinformatics analysis indicated that the target genes were abundant in regulation of transcription, DNA binding, intracellular. Most of the genes were predicted to interplay with cytokine-cytokine receptor by KEGG analysis. Our findings uncover the pathological process of AF in RHD through tsRNAs sequencing. This study provides new ideas for future research on elucidating the mechanism of AF in RHD and offers potential new candidates for the treatment and diagnosis of RHD.

2021-12-23 | GSE185581 | GEO

RHD p.Y34N

Project description:Novel RHD mutation resulting in an amino acid substitution in the first extracellular loop of the Rhesus protein

| PRJEB35297 | ENA