BACKGROUND: Asthma is a heterogeneous disease characterized by abnormal airway pathophysiology and susceptibility to different stimuli, as exemplified by a subset of patients with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Induced sputum provides a noninvasive method to sample airway biofluids that are enriched in proteins. OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that novel mechanisms in the pathogenesis of asthma might be revealed by studying the patterns of protein expression in induced sputum. METHODS: We used shotgun proteomics to analyze induced sputum from 5 healthy subjects and 10 asthmatic patients, including 5 with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Differential protein expression among asthmatic patients, asthma subphenotypes, and control subjects was determined by using spectral counting and computational methods. RESULTS: Using Gene Ontology analysis, we defined the functional landscape of the induced sputum proteome and applied network analysis to construct a protein interaction map for this airway compartment. Shotgun proteomics analysis identified a number of proteins the differential enrichment or depletion of which robustly distinguished asthmatic patients from healthy control subjects and captured the effects of exercise on induced sputum proteome. Functional and network analysis identified key processes, including proteolytic activity, that are known contributors to airway remodeling. Importantly, this approach highlighted previously unrecognized roles for differentially expressed proteins in pathways implicated in asthma, such as modulation of phospholipase A(2) by secretoglobin, a putative role for S100A8/9 in human asthma, and selective upregulation of complement component 3a in response to exercise in asthmatic patients. CONCLUSION: Computationally intensive analysis of induced sputum proteome is a powerful approach to understanding the pathophysiology of asthma and a promising methodology to investigating other diseases of the airways.
BACKGROUND:Asthma is a heterogeneous disease characterized by abnormal airway pathophysiology and susceptibility to different stimuli, as exemplified by a subset of patients with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Induced sputum provides a noninvasive method to sample airway biofluids that are enriched in proteins. OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that novel mechanisms in the pathogenesis of asthma might be revealed by studying the patterns of protein expression in induced sputum. METHODS: We used shotgun proteomics to analyze induced sputum from 5 healthy subjects and 10 asthmatic patients, including 5 with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Differential protein expression among asthmatic patients, asthma subphenotypes, and control subjects was determined by using spectral counting and computational methods. RESULTS: Using Gene Ontology analysis, we defined the functional landscape of the induced sputum proteome and applied network analysis to construct a protein interaction map for this airway compartment. Shotgun proteomics analysis identified a number of proteins the differential enrichment or depletion of which robustly distinguished asthmatic patients from healthy control subjects and captured the effects of exercise on induced sputum proteome. Functional and network analysis identified key processes, including proteolytic activity, that are known contributors to airway remodeling. Importantly, this approach highlighted previously unrecognized roles for differentially expressed proteins in pathways implicated in asthma, such as modulation of phospholipase A(2) by secretoglobin, a putative role for S100A8/9 in humanasthma, and selective upregulation of complement component 3a in response to exercise in asthmatic patients. CONCLUSION: Computationally intensive analysis of induced sputum proteome is a powerful approach to understanding the pathophysiology of asthma and a promising methodology to investigating other diseases of the airways.
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