Quantification of human plasma metalloproteins in multiple sclerosis, ischemic stroke and healthy controls reveals an association of haptoglobin-hemoglobin complexes with age

Advanced analytical methods play an important role in quantifying serum disease biomarkers. The problem of separating thousands of proteins can be reduced by analyzing for a 'sub-proteome', such as the 'metalloproteome', defined as all proteins that contain bound metals. We employed size exclusion chromatography (SEC) coupled to an inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AES) to analyze plasma from multiple sclerosis (MS) participants (n = 21), acute ischemic stroke (AIS) participants (n = 17) and healthy controls (n = 21) for Fe, Cu and Zn-metalloproteins. Using ANOVA analysis to compare the mean peak areas among the groups revealed no statistically significant differences for ceruloplasmin (p = 0.31), α2macroglobulin (p = 0.51) and transferrin (p = 0.31). However, a statistically significant difference was observed for the haptoglobin-hemoglobin (Hp-Hb) complex (p = 0.04), being driven by the difference between the control group and AIS (p = 0.012), but not with the MS group (p = 0.13), based on Dunnes test. A linear regression model for Hp-Hb complex with the groups now adjusted for age found no statistically significant differences between the groups (p = 0.95), but was suggestive for age (p = 0.057). To measure the strength of association between the Hp-Hb complex and age without possible modifications due to disease, we calculated the Spearman rank correlation in the healthy controls. The latter revealed a positive association (r = 0.39, 95% Confidence Interval = (-0.05, 0.83), which suggests that either the removal of Hp-Hb complexes from the blood circulation slows with age or that the release of Hb from red blood cells increases with age. We also observed that the Fe-peak corresponding to the Hp-Hb complex eluted ~100 s later in ~14% of all study samples, which was not correlated with age or disease diagnosis, but is consistent with the presence of the smaller Hp (1-1) isoform in 15% of the population.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

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PloS one - 17(2022), 1 vom: 01., Seite e0262160

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sarpong-Kumankomah, Sophia [VerfasserIn]
Knox, Katherine B [VerfasserIn]
Kelly, Michael E [VerfasserIn]
Hunter, Gary [VerfasserIn]
Popescu, Bogdan [VerfasserIn]
Nichol, Helen [VerfasserIn]
Kopciuk, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Ntanda, Henry [VerfasserIn]
Gailer, Jürgen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

789U1901C5
Ceruloplasmin
Copper
E1UOL152H7
EC 1.16.3.1
Haptoglobin-hemoglobin complex
Haptoglobins
Hemoglobins
Iron
Journal Article
Metalloproteins
Pregnancy-Associated alpha 2-Macroglobulins
Transferrin

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Date Completed 22.02.2022

Date Revised 22.02.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0262160

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM335556647