Serum proteome profiling detects myelodysplastic syndromes and identifies CXC chemokine ligands 4 and 7 as markers for advanced disease

Manuel Aivado, Dimitrios Spentzos, Ulrich Germing, Gil Alterovitz, Xiao Ying Meng, Franck Grall, Aristoteles A.N. Giagounidis, Giannoula Klement, Ulrich Steidl, Hasan H. Otu, Akos Czibere, Wolf C. Prall, Christof Iking-Konert, Michelle Shayne, Marco F. Ramoni, Norbert Gattermann, Rainer Haas, Constantine S. Mitsiades, Eric T. Fung, Towia A. Libermann

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Abstract

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are among the most frequent hematologic malignancies. Patients have a short survival and often progress to acute myeloid leukemia. The diagnosis of MDS can be difficult; there is a paucity of molecular markers, and the pathophysiology is largely unknown. Therefore, we conducted a multicenter study investigating whether serum proteome profiling may serve as a noninvasive platform to discover novel molecular markers for MDS. We generated serum proteome profiles from 218 individuals by MS and identified a profile that distinguishes MDS from non-MDS cytopenias in a learning sample set. This profile was validated by testing its ability to predict MDS in a first independent validation set and a second, prospectively collected, independent validation set run 5 months apart. Accuracy was 80.5% in the first and 79.0% in the second validation set. Peptide mass fingerprinting and quadrupole TOF MS identified two differential proteins: CXC chemokine ligands 4 (CXCL4) and 7 (CXCL7), both of which had significantly decreased serum levels in MDS, as confirmed with independent antibody assays. Western blot analyses of platelet lysates for these two platelet-derived molecules revealed a lack of CXCL4 and CXCL7 in MDS. Subtype analyses revealed that these two proteins have decreased serum levels in advanced MDS, suggesting the possibility of a concerted disturbance of transcription or translation of these chemokines in advanced MDS.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1307-1312
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume104
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 23 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Biomarker
  • Chemokine
  • Hematologic malignancy
  • Proteomics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General

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