Identification of biomarkers associated with macrophage infiltration in non-obstructive azoospermia using single-cell transcriptomic and microarray data
机构:[1]Department of Reproductive Medicine, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China门急诊片生殖医学科云南省第一人民医院[2]Reproductive Medical Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China门急诊片生殖医学科云南省第一人民医院[3]NHC Key Laboratory of Periconception Health Birth in Western China, Kunming, China[4]Faculty of Life science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China[5]Medical school, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China
Background: Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) is a common clinical cause of male infertility. Research suggests that macrophages are linked to testicular function; however, their involvement in NOA remains unknown.Methods: To evaluate the importance of macrophages infiltration in NOA and identify the macrophage related biomarkers, the gene-expression microarray data GSE45885 and the single-cell transcriptomic data GSE149512 were utilized from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). A single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) was conducted to investigate immune cell proliferation. The Seurat package was used for the single-cell data analysis, and the limma package was used to identify the differentially expressed genes between the NOA and normal samples. Moreover, we conducted a weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) to identify the macrophage-related key modules and genes, and conducted Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) and Gene Ontology (GO) analyses for the functional exploration. To identify the macrophage-related biomarkers, we conducted least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and support vector machine-recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) analyses. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to verify the marker genes present in NOA.Results: We confirmed that open reading frame 72 gene on chromosome 9 (C9orf72) [area under the curve (AUC) =0.861] and cartilage-associated protein (CRTAP) (AUC =0.917) were the hub genes of NOA, and the RT-qPCR analysis revealed the critical expression of both genes in NOA.Conclusions: Through the combination of tissue transcriptomic and single-cell RNA-sequencing analyses, we concluded that macrophage infiltration is significant in different subtypes of NOA, and we hypothesized that C9orf72 and CRTAP play critical roles in NOA due to their high expression in macrophages.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China [82060282, 82260292]; Yunnan Provincial Reproductive andObstetrics and Gynecology Clinical Medicine Center [zx2019-01-01]; Open Project of Yunnan Provincial Key Specialty of Gynecology [2022FKZDZK-13]; Open Project of Yunnan Provincial Reproductive and Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinical Medicine Center [2022LCZXKF-SZ21, 2022LCZXKF-SZ16, 2020LCZXKF-SZ14, 2020LCZXKF-SZ11, 2020LCZXKF-SZ06]; Program of Application and Fundamental Research of Joint Special project of Yunnan Provincial Science Technology Department and Kunming Medical University [202001AY070001-295]
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Reproductive Medicine, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China[2]Reproductive Medical Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China[3]NHC Key Laboratory of Periconception Health Birth in Western China, Kunming, China[4]Faculty of Life science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China[5]Medical school, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China[*1]Department of Reproductive Medicine, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, 157 Jinbi Road, Kunming, China
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通讯机构:[1]Department of Reproductive Medicine, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China[2]Reproductive Medical Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China[3]NHC Key Laboratory of Periconception Health Birth in Western China, Kunming, China[4]Faculty of Life science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China[5]Medical school, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China[*1]Department of Reproductive Medicine, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, 157 Jinbi Road, Kunming, China
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Luo Xi,Zheng Haishan,Nai Zhen,et al.Identification of biomarkers associated with macrophage infiltration in non-obstructive azoospermia using single-cell transcriptomic and microarray data[J].ANNALS OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE.2023,doi:10.21037/atm-22-5601.
APA:
Luo, Xi,Zheng, Haishan,Nai , Zhen,Li, Mingying,Li, Yonggang...&Wu, Ze.(2023).Identification of biomarkers associated with macrophage infiltration in non-obstructive azoospermia using single-cell transcriptomic and microarray data.ANNALS OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE,,
MLA:
Luo, Xi,et al."Identification of biomarkers associated with macrophage infiltration in non-obstructive azoospermia using single-cell transcriptomic and microarray data".ANNALS OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE .(2023)