Candidate gene and mechanism investigations in congenital obstructive nephropathy based on bioinformatics analysis
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Abstract
Introduction
Congenital obstructive nephropathy (CON) is a main cause of kidney insufficiency in child and infant (1). It is associated with various diseases, such as prune belly syndrome (2). As a result, CON generates a huge social burden especially in the morbidity and mortality (2). The different challenges associated with CON in areas like diagnose and therapy highlight the importance of the molecular mechanism of CON (3). Thus, the emerging theories of the biology of CON suggest new targets for therapeutic interventions (4).
Identification of novel biomarkers provides prognostic value for this process remains a major goal in the study of kidney disease (5). In renal and urinary tract, previous study showed that disruption of angiotensin type 2 receptor (AGTR2) induced a huge scale of anomaly (6). Meanwhile, the Monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP-1) as well as the Epidermal growth factor (EGF) seem to be involved in the pathogenesis of tubulointerstitial damage of CON, and their urine excretion may serve as a powerful prognostic marker for this form renal disease (7). Not only gene, but also pathways enriched by differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are closed related with CON. Previous study demonstrated that TGF-β signaling pathway plays an important role in regulating kidney injury process following by obstruction (8). In a rat model, Hermens et al (9) show that there is an age-dependent role of Wnt signaling pathway in the pathophysiology of CON. Despite of revealing the potential genes or pathways, understanding the molecular mechanism of CON also brings a breakthrough for the novel treatment of CON (10). The development of biomarkers contribute to molecular therapies of CON (11). However, the molecular mechanisms underlying these histologic changes are still poorly defined.
To better understand the pathophysiology of CON, Brian Becknell and his colleagues evaluated the global transcription in kidneys with graded hydronephrosis in the megabladder (mgb2/2) mouse (12). Based on normal, mild, moderate, and severe mouse models, they prove that the development of progressive hydronephrosis can result in renal adaptation, including significant changes in the morphology and potential functionality of the renal urothelium. However, the co-regulated gene in all models, transcription factor (TF) associated with DEGs, gene expression in severe disease status, as well as the potential chemicals for CON treatment are still unclear. In the current study, a bioinformatics research was designed based on the gene expression profile provided by Becknell et al (12). Then, investigations of DEGs, function and pathway enrichment, protein-protein interaction network (PPI) analyses, as well as TF-target gene regulatory network were performed in all disease status. Furthermore, the chemical-gene interaction network in severe models were also investigated. We aimed to explore the potential pathoenesis of CON and provided information about novel gene targets, as well as chemicals for CON treatment.
Materials and methods
Microarray data
Expression data of GSE48041 (12), sequenced on the platform of GPL10787 Agilent-028005 SurePrint G3 Mouse GE 8×60K Microarray, were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/). A total of 24 kidney tissue samples from control and megabladder (mgb−/−) mouse aged 23–30 days were included in this dataset, and hydronephrosis was induced by renal ultrasound as previously reported (13). According to the hydronephrosis degrees (www.sfu-urology.org/sfu_hydrone_grading.cfm), animals were divided into 4 groups: Control (n=6), mild (n=7), moderate (n=5) and severe (n=6) according to their disease stages.
Data preprocessing
The preprocessing were performed based on robust multi-array average (RMA) method (14) in Affy package (15) in R (v.3.10.3, bioconductor.org/biocLite.R). Contents of processing included background correct microarray expression intensities, normalize the expression within each array, and expression calculation. The probe ID was convert to the gene symbol based on the chip platform annotation files.
DEGs analysis
Classical Bayes method in Linear Models for Microarray Data (limma) package (16) of R was used to reveal DEGs by comparing expression value among samples from three comparisons: Mild vs. control, moderate vs. control, and severe vs. control. P-value <0.05 and |log2 log fold change (FC)|≥1 were selected as the cut-off criteria for DEG screening.
VennPlot analysis of DEGs
VENNY (v.2.1) (17) is an online tool used for Venn diagram analysis based on gene expression value. The number of up-regulated, down-regulated, and contra-regulated genes can be marked by VennPlex. In the present study, VennPlex software was used to investigate the difference of DEGs among 3 comparative groups. Then, the co-regulated DEGs (Set 1) and severe group DEGs (Set 2) were selected for further investigation.
Enrichment analysis of DEGs
The Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery (DAVID; v.6.8) (18) provides a synthetic set of functional annotation tools for users for revealing the biological significances among huge scale of genes. Gene Ontology (GO) function enrichment analysis and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways enrichment analysis were performed using DAVID online tool (19). GO functional categories including molecular function (MF), biological process (BP), and cellular component (CC) (20). In the present study, GO functions assembled by DEGs in severe group, as well as KEGG pathways enriched by the co-regulated DEGs were investigated. P-value <0.05 and enriched gene numbers (count) ≥2 were considered as cut-off values.
PPI network investigation
Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins (STRING; v.10.0) is an online tool for the predication of PPI based on a large scale of biological database (21). In the present study, STRING was used to predict the interaction relations between DEGs corresponding coding proteins. PPI were revealed based on the STRING database with score (median confidence)=0.4, and nodes represent DEGs in the PPI interaction. The degree was defined as the number of the connections for the target proteins. Cytoscape software (v.3.2.0) (22,23) was used for the visualization of PPI network obtained above. Then, the CytoNCA software (v.2.1.6, apps.cytoscape.org/apps/cytonca) (24) was used for the nodes topological analysis (Parameter: Without weight). Furthermore, the sub-networks with score >4.5 were identified by MOCDE (v.1.4.2; apps.cytoscape.org/apps/MCODE) (23) plugin in Cytoscape software.
TF-target gene regulatory network construction
TF is an important class of participators in the regulation of gene expression. Analysis of TF binding sites is of great significance for the study of gene regulation system. In the current research, the TFs-co-regulated DEGs network was constructed with iRegulon (25) (v.1.3, apps.cytoscape.org/apps/iRegulon). The Parameters of this analysis were set as: Minimum identity between orthologous genes=0.05, and maximum false discovery rate (FDR) on motif similarity=0.001. TF-target gene relations with normalized enrichment score (NES) >4 were considered as the meaningful results.
Chemical-DEGs interaction network construction
Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) provides relationships, such as chemical-gene/protein interactions, chemical-disease as well as gene-disease (26). Relationship between disease (Nephrosis, congenital) associated chemical-gene or interactions was revealed by CDT. Then Chemical-DEGs interaction network was constructed by Cytoscape software.
Results
DEGs investigation in mild, moderate and severe groups
Considering a huge amount of calculation in gene expression profile, the original data was analyzed and filtered. The results revealed that totally 220 up-regulated DEGs and 225 down-regulated DEGs were obtained in the mild group. In the moderate group, there were 375 up-regulated DEGs and 142 down-regulated DEGs screened out. Furthermore, a total of 484 up-regulated DEGs and 280 down-regulated DEGs uncovered in the severe group.
VennPlot analysis
VennPlot for DEGs in the mild, moderate, and severe groups were investigated in the present study (Fig. 1). The results revealed 187 co-regulated DEGs in Set 1, including 87 up-regulated DEGs and 100 down-regulated DEGs. In Set 1, Serpina6, Hpd, and Nr4a1 were the 3 most outstanding up-regulated genes, while Proz, 4122401K19Rik, and Nudt19 were the 3 most outstanding down-regulated genes. Meanwhile, there were 139 DEGs in Set 2, including 121 up-regulated DEGs and 18 down-regulated DEGs. In Set 2, Sprr2f, Lcn2 and Saa2 were the 3 most outstanding up-regulated gene, while Symbol, Vps8 and Ang2 were the 3 most down-regulated gene.
KEGG and GO enrichment analysis
The KEGG analysis of DEGs in Set 1 showed that a total of 16 pathways were significantly enriched (Table I). The up-regulated DEGs were mostly enriched in TNF signaling pathway (mmu04668, P=3.59×10−4), while the down-regulated DEGs were mainly assembled in Retinol metabolism (mmu00830, P=1.36×10−7). Among these pathways, Chemical carcinogenesis (mmu05204, Gene: CBR1, UGT2B38, GSTA2, UGT2B37 and UGT2B36) was the common pathway in all 3 group of Set 1. The detail pathway map of Chemical carcinogenesis was showed in Fig. 2.
Table I.Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analysis for common DEGs in the mild, moderate and severe groups. |
GO functional analysis was performed in the severe group DEGs. With count number >10, the top 10 of BP, CC, and MF functions were revealed, respectively. The DEGs in the severe group was mainly assembled in functions like inflammatory response (BP, GO: 0006954, P=1.43×10−3), cellular response to interleukin-1 (BP, GO: 0071347, P=8.87×10−3), cellular response to tumor necrosis (BP, GO: 0071356, P=6.34×10−4), extracellular region (CC, GO: 0005576, P=3.53×10−7), and cytokine activity (MF, GO: 0005125, P=7.63×10−5). The detail information was showed in Fig. 3.
PPI network and modules analysis
To dig out the potential interactions of the DEGs, PPI network and related modules were constructed based on the protein interactions of DEGs. A total of 102 nodes (Jun, Fos, Ptgs2, Ugt2b37, Junb, Atf3, Cyp4a12a, Adh1, Ugt2b5, Egr1, etc.) and 320 interactions were identified in the PPI network of Set 1. With score >4.5, 2 modules were further obtained from the Set 1 PPI network. There were 13 nodes (Jun, Fos, Ptgs2, Junb, Atf3, Egr1, Dusp1, Nr4a1, Zfp36, Btg2, etc.) and 60 interactions in module a (score=10), while 8 nodes (Ugt2b5, Cyp2j13, Acsm3, Cyp4a12b, Cyp4a14, Cyp4b1 Slc22a30 and Slc7a13) and 20 interactions contained in module b (score=5.714) (Fig. 4). Furthermore, there were a total of 73 nodes (Ccl2, Timp1, Acta2, Spp1, Actg2, Thbs1, Edn1, Aldh1a1, Mmp3, Aldh1a7, etc.) and 143 interactions included in the PPI network of Set 2. With score >4.5, one module was further obtained from the Set 2 PPI network. A total of 5 nodes (Aldh1a1, Aldh1a7, Aifm3, Hbb-b1 and Acad9) and 9 interactions were revealed in the module of Set 2 (Fig. 5).
TF-target gene regulatory network analysis
By using the iRegulon software, 2 TFs (Polr2a and Srf) were obtained from the Set 1 PPI network. To further investigate the relationship between TFs and their target genes, the TF-target gene network was visualized by cytoscape software. With NES >4, the results showed that there were totally 52 regulatory relations contained in this network. Some genes like FOS were co-regulated by both Polr2a and Srf. The detail information was showed in Fig. 6.
Chemical-gene interaction network analysis
The present study revealed totally 12012 chemical-gene interactions related to Nephrosis or congenital. Among these interactions, totally 60 interactions were matched with the 139 DEGs in Set 2. The results showed that Cyclosporine was the most important chemical that target with either the most number of up-regulated or down-regulated DEGs in Set 2. Detailed information was listed in Table II.
Discussion
CON is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease in child. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying disease progression are still poorly defined. To reveal the potential genes or pathways associated with CON, the present bioinformatics study was performed on mild, moderate, and severe CONs. The results showed that totally 187 and 139 co-regulated DEGs were obtained in Set 1 and Set 2, respectively. KEGG analysis for Set 1 showed that DEGs were mainly enriched in pathways like chemical carcinogenesis. Meanwhile, the GO analysis for Set 2 showed that DEGs were mainly assembled in functions like cellular response to interleukin-1 and cellular response to tumor necrosis. Two modules in Set 1 and one module in Set 2 were revealed based on PPI network analysis. Furthermore, the genes like FOS were co-regulated by TFs like Polr2a and Srf. Cyclosporine was the most important chemical that target with DEGs in Set 2.
Based on the Set 1 (including all disease status like mild, moderate and severe), KEGG pathway analysis, PPI network analysis, and TF-target investigation were carried out in this study to provide a potential mechanism understanding for the process of CON. Chemical carcinogenesis is a process that the cells need genetic and epigenetic variations based on elements including oncogenes and tumor suppressors (27,28). Carbonyl reductase 1 (CBR1) metabolized by the body many toxic environmental quinones and pharmacological relevant substrates, such as the anticancer doxorubicin (27). Previous study has shown that CBR1 is vital for the cell protection in functions like oxidative stress and apoptosis (29). Pathway analysis showed that the chemical carcinogenesis was the common pathway enriched by both up- and down-regulated DEGs (especially CBR1 in Set 1). Thus, we speculated that DEGs like CBR1 in chemical carcinogenesis pathway might be the potential pathogenesis of CON. However, the related study associated with chemical carcinogenesis pathway about CBR1 and CON is very rare. Furthermore, c-Fos (FOS) gene has been considered as the regulators of cell proliferation, differentiation, transformation, and apoptotic cell death (30,31). Otsuka et al (32) indicates that the expression of FOS is potentially an early indicator of late radiation damage to the kidney. In rats model, previous study indicated that the renoprotective effects of drugs partly through inhibiting the upregulation of FOS mRNA and protein in renal cortices (33). In the present study, the PPI network analysis showed that FOS was one of the most outstanding DEGs in Set 1. Interestingly, the TF-target gene network in this study showed that FOS was the co-target gene of Polr2a and Srf. Thus, we speculated that DEGs like FOS might play an important role in the process of CON via TFs like Polr2a and Srf. However, the related study associated with FOS and CON is very rare. Thus, an additional research with a wide scale of gene expression analysis is necessary to confirm this speculation.
Based on Set 2 (only severe group), GO function analysis and chemical-gene interaction network investigation in this study were performed and intended to provide a potential therapy strategy for CON. Interleukin-1 family plays a vital role in the immune and inflammatory responses regulation (34). Previous study showed that the protective effect of interleukin-1 in renal injury might be induced by reducing the induction of the nuclear factors (35). Actually, Pindjakova et al (36) indicate that the production of interleukin-1 based on the resident dendritic cells enhances the situation of acute kidney injury. Moreover, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a superfamily of cytokines that can lead to cell death, and it is a potent pyrogen that can be caused by stimulation of interleukin-1 secretion (37). Meldrum et al (38) prove that TNF-α mediates renal tubular cell apoptosis in the process of obstructive uropathy. Recent study indicates that the production of TNF-α by macrophages take part in the progression of renal injury (39). Actually, interleukin-1 and TNF-α gene polymorphism are associated with the susceptibility, disease activity and long-term outcome in human nephropathy (40). In the current research, the results of GO analysis showed that cellular response to interleukin-1 and cellular response to tumor necrosis is two of most outstanding function assembled by DEGs. Thus, we speculated that these two functions might be vital for the process of severe CON. The deteriorated or even canceration might take place in severe CON, which needed an early therapy intervention. Furthermore, cyclosporine, also spelled ciclosporin or cyclosporin, is an immunosuppressant medication and natural product (41). As an immunosuppressant with therapeutic indications in various immunological diseases, the use of cyclosporine is reported to be associated with chronic nephropathy (42). In the present study, cyclosporine was the most outstanding chemical associated with DEGs identified in severe CON. Thus, cyclosporine might still be the preferences for the therapy of CON. However, due to the negative effects of cyclosporine in CON clinical treatment, a more effective drug with less adverse reaction is needed.
However, there were still some limitations in this study. First, findings in the present study were all analyzed by bioinformatics methods, and experimental validations were deficient. Second, parameters used in in silico analyses were set manually, and some results might be missed or overemphasized. Therefore, further experimental validations in both in vivo and in vitro were required in the future.
In conclusion, the DEGs like CBR1 and FOS, TFs like Polr2a and Srf, as well as pathways like chemical carcinogenesis might play important roles in the process of CON. Interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis function were associated with the deteriorate of CON, and might be novel targets for CON treatment. Furthermore, a more effective drug with less adverse reaction for severe CON is needed.
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Authors' contributions
GX contributed to the conceptualization of the research. GX and RC acquired the data and performed the analysis. RC and XZ interpreted the data. GX wrote the manuscript, and XZ revised the manuscript for important intellectual content.
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