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ArticleInvestigative ophthalmology & visual science2012

Immunoproteomic analysis of potential serum biomarker candidates in human glaucoma.

Gülgün Tezel, Ivey L Thornton, Melissa G Tong, Cheng Luo, Xiangjun Yang, Jian Cai, David W Powell, Joern B Soltau, Jeffrey M Liebmann, Robert Ritch

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Article in Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gülgün TezelDepartment of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA. gulgun.tezel@louisville.edu
Ivey L Thornton
Melissa G Tong
Cheng Luo
Xiangjun Yang
Jian Cai
David W Powell
Joern B Soltau
Jeffrey M Liebmann
Robert Ritch
Louisville VA Medical Center · USNew York Eye and Ear Infirmary · USUniversity of Louisville · US

Funding

TNF-alpha in Cell Death & Neuroprotection in GlaucomaR01EY013813 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI TEZEL, GULGUN · 2003 to 2011
$2.7M
Proteomic Analysis of Retinal Ganglion Cell Death in GlaucomaR01EY017131 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI TEZEL, GULGUN · 2008 to 2010
$1.1M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY013813NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017131
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeEvidence supporting the immune system involvement in glaucoma includes increased titers of serum antibodies to retina and optic nerve proteins, although their pathogenic importance remains unclear. This study using an antibody-based proteomics approach aimed to identify disease-related antigens as candidate biomarkers of glaucoma.

methodsSerum samples were collected from 111 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and an age-matched control group of 49 healthy subjects without glaucoma. For high-throughput characterization of antigens, serum IgG was eluted from five randomly selected glaucomatous samples and analyzed by linear ion trap mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Serum titers of selected biomarker candidates were then measured by specific ELISAs in the whole sample pool (including an additional control group of diabetic retinopathy).

resultsLC-MS/MS analysis of IgG elutes revealed a complex panel of proteins, including those detectable only in glaucomatous samples. Interestingly, many of these antigens corresponded to upregulated retinal proteins previously identified in glaucomatous donors (or that exhibited increased methionine oxidation). Moreover, additional analysis detected a greater immunoreactivity of the patient sera to glaucomatous retinal proteins (or to oxidatively stressed cell culture proteins), thereby suggesting the importance of disease-related protein modifications in autoantibody production/reactivity. As a narrowing-down strategy for selection of initial biomarker candidates, we determined the serum proteins overlapping with the retinal proteins known to be up-regulated in glaucoma. Four of the selected 10 candidates (AIF, cyclic AMP-responsive element binding protein, ephrin type-A receptor, and huntingtin) exhibited higher ELISA titers in the glaucomatous sera.

conclusionsA number of serum proteins identified by this immunoproteomic study of human glaucoma may represent diseased tissue-related antigens and serve as candidate biomarkers of glaucoma.

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AgedAnimalsAutoantibodiesAutoantigensBiomarkersBlood ProteinsChromatography, LiquidCoculture TechniquesElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayEye ProteinsGlaucoma, Open-AngleHumansImmunoblottingImmunoglobulin GIntraocular PressureAutoantibodiesAutoantigensBiomarkersBlood ProteinsEye ProteinsImmunoglobulin G

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PMID23150628
PMCPMC3522442
OpenAlexW2008093939

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