| خلاصه مقاله | Background: Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the cause of adult T-cell
leukemia-lymphomas (ATL) and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis
(HAM/TSP). The goal of present study was to investigating the gene expression analysis of gene
expression pattern for ATL HAM/TSP.
Materials and methods: Microarray gene expression profiling of T lymphocytes from HTLV-1
associated disease and healthy control were obtained from Gene Expression. Bioinformatics tools
(GEO accession: GSE19080) were performed to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs).
Among the generated DEGs, we constructed protein-protein interaction (PPI) of HAM/TSM and
ATL in comparison to asymptomatic carriers (ACs). Subsequently, gene ontology and PPI analysis
were performed. Topological properties of each PPI were measured using Network-Analyzer, a
network analysis plug-in of Cytoscape, to identify the most important functional hub genes within
the networks.
Results: We found that the majority of DEGs in ATL and HAM/TSP were importantly implicated
in immune response categories. The nodes and edges number of normal-AC, AC-ATL and ATLHAM/TSP PPIs were 168 and 145, 116 and 97, and 275 and 327, respectively. Based on the
topological analysis of protein-protein interaction networks, APP (Amyloid Beta Precursor
Protein) was detected as the critical player of HTLV-1 disease progression. The expression of APP
had a significant negative correlation in ATL (down-regulated) and HAM/TSP (up-regulated)
samples. PTK2, PIK3R1, COPS5, CALM1 and HLA-B associated with disease progression.
Conclusion: Dysregulation of immune response associated transcripts play a critical role in
HTLV-1 disease progression. Immune response associated genes may be biomarker for prognosis
in cancer development and therapeutic targets. |