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ArticleIranian journal of pathology2024

Bioinformatic-based Study to Investigate the Structure and Function of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines TNFα and IL-6 Involved in the Pathogenesis of COVID-19.

Seyedeh Elham Norollahi, Kosar Babaei, Vida Balooei, Seyed Masoud Hashemi Karouei, Mohammad Taghi Ashoobi, Elahe Asghari Gharakhyli, Ali Akbar Samadani

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Seyedeh Elham NorollahiCancer Research Center and Department of Immunology, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
Kosar BabaeiNoncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran.
Vida BalooeiDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran.
Seyed Masoud Hashemi KaroueiDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran.
Mohammad Taghi AshoobiDepartment of Surgery, School of Medicine, Razi Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Elahe Asghari GharakhyliDepartment of Biology, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran.
Ali Akbar SamadaniGuilan Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.

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Background & Objective: Besides the clinical and laboratory research on the COVID-19 virus, the bioinformatics study in the field of genetics of immunity to COVID-19 is of particular importance. In this account, studies show that in patients with COVID-19, the level of tumor necrosis alpha (TNFα) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) is high and in severe cases of COVID-19, the production of IL-6, TNF-α, and other cytokines increases profoundly. On the other hand, investigating the molecular structure and receptors of IL-6 and TNFα and the structural analysis of the receptor proteins may potentially help to develop new therapeutic plans for COVID-19 infection. Methods: To identify genes with significant and different expressions in patients with COVID-19 in a microarray data set containing transcriptional profiles from GEO as a functional genomic database the GEO query package version 2.64.2 in a programming language R version 4.2.1 was downloaded. In this way, functional enrichment analysis for DEGs, WikiPathways, REGO, gene ontology, and STRING database was also investigated and employed. Results: The structure and function of pro-inflammatory cytokines TNFα and IL-6 involved in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 were investigated, and in general, after performing various analyses in this study and extracting A series of genes with different expressions from the KEGG database, the final 5 DEGs include CXCL14, CXCL6, CCL8, CXCR1, TNFRSF10, and the relationship and expression effects of them were observed in different pathways. Conclusion: IL-6 and TNFα were involved in immunological processes that had a direct and indirect relationship with the activation of cytokines, including IL6 and TNF-a, and cytokine storm, and this indicates their role in the formation of problems and complications, including ARDS, in COVID-19 patients. Of course, determining the effectiveness of each of these genes requires more specialized and clinical studies.

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