Abstract
2/2025
vol. 76
Original paper
Identification of metabolism regulators as diagnostic markers for ulcerative colitis and their correlation with immune infiltration
- Shandong Medical College, Jinan, China
- Department of Gastroenterology, Jining No. 1 People’s Hospital, Jining, China
Pol J Pathol 2025; 76 (2): 110-119
Online publish date: 2025/09/22
This study determined novel metabolism-related diagnostic biomarkers for ulcerative colitis (UC) and assessed their correlation with immune cell infiltration levels. Transcriptome data of UC was downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, metabolism-related genes were summarised from the Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) database. A total of 537 metabolism-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in UC were applied to functional enrichment analysis. We processed least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression analysis and support vector machine-recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE). We obtained 6 potential metabolism-related diagnostic biomarkers (CHST13, ETNK1, LPCAT1, PDE6A, PLA2G2A, and UGT2A3). Expression patterns and diagnostic ROC curves were depicted in both the training and testing cohorts to verify their diagnostic value. Immune infiltration analysis indicated that UC samples have more abundant infiltration levels of immune cells. Furthermore, the upregulated diagnostic biomarkers significantly positively correlated with B cell memory, T cell CD4 memory activated, dendritic cells activated, etc., while the downregulated ones mainly significantly positively correlated with mast cells resting, NK cells activated, and macrophages M2. Our study primarily identified 6 metabolism regulators (CHST13, ETNK1, LPCAT1, PDE6A, PLA2G2A, and UGT2A3) as potential diagnostic biomarkers for UC and determined their correlation with immune infiltration.
Keywords
ulcerative colitis, gene expression omnibus, machine learning, diagnostic markers, bioinformatics, immune infiltration
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