Integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis of the hippocampus reveals altered neuroinflammation, downregulated metabolism and synapse in sepsis-associated encephalopathy
机构:[1]Department of Anesthesiology and Hongqiao International Institute of Medicine, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China[2]Department of Anesthesiology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China[3]Department of Neurology, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China[4]Connect Biopharma Ltd, Taicang, China
Sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE) is an intricated complication of sepsis that brings abnormal emotional and memory dysfunction and increases patients' mortality. Patients' alterations and abnormal function seen in SAE occur in the hippocampus, the primary brain region responsible for memory and emotional control, but the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms remain unclear. In the current study, we employed an integrative analysis combining the RNA-seq-based transcriptomics and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based metabolomics to comprehensively obtain the enriched genes and metabolites and their core network pathways in the endotoxin (LPS)-injected SAE mice model. As a result, SAE mice exhibited behavioral changes, and their hippocampus showed upregulated inflammatory cytokines and morphological alterations. The omics analysis identified 81 differentially expressed metabolites (variable importance in projection [VIP] > 1 and p < 0.05) and 1747 differentially expressed genes (Foldchange > 2 and p < 0.05) were detected in SAE-grouped hippocampus. Moreover, 31 compounds and 100 potential target genes were employed for the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) Markup Language (KGML) network analysis to explore the core signaling pathways for the progression of SAE. The integrative pathway analysis showed that various dysregulated metabolism pathways, including lipids metabolism, amino acids, glucose and nucleotides, inflammation-related pathways, and deregulated synapses, were tightly associated with hippocampus dysfunction at early SAE. These findings provide a landscape for understanding the pathophysiological mechanisms of the hippocampus in the progression of SAE and pave the way to identify therapeutic targets in future studies.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China; Shanghai Key Medical Specialty Program [82072205]; Changning Medical Specialty Plan [ZK2019B14]; Research Fund of Changning district committee of science and technology [YXMZK010]; Research Fund of Medicine and Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University [CNKW 2020Y04, CNKW 2020Y12]; "Nuoyang Cup" scientific research fund of Shanghai Association of Chinese Integrative Medicine [YG2021QN144]; [Mt20-02]
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Anesthesiology and Hongqiao International Institute of Medicine, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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通讯机构:[1]Department of Anesthesiology and Hongqiao International Institute of Medicine, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China[2]Department of Anesthesiology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Kejia Xu,Hui Li,Bing Zhang,et al.Integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis of the hippocampus reveals altered neuroinflammation, downregulated metabolism and synapse in sepsis-associated encephalopathy[J].FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY.2022,13:doi:10.3389/fphar.2022.1004745.
APA:
Kejia Xu,Hui Li,Bing Zhang,Meini Le,Qiong Huang...&Yinzhong Lu.(2022).Integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis of the hippocampus reveals altered neuroinflammation, downregulated metabolism and synapse in sepsis-associated encephalopathy.FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY,13,
MLA:
Kejia Xu,et al."Integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis of the hippocampus reveals altered neuroinflammation, downregulated metabolism and synapse in sepsis-associated encephalopathy".FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY 13.(2022)