A comparative proteomic study of plasma in Colombian childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

PLoS One. 2019 Aug 22;14(8):e0221509. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221509. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Owing to the incorporation of risk-adapted therapy and the arrival of new directed agents, the cure rate and survival of patients with ALL have improved dramatically, get near to 90%. In Latin American countries, the mortality rates of ALL are high, for example in Colombia, during the last decade, ALL has been the most prevalent cancer among children between 0-14 years of age. In the face of this public health problem and coupled with the fact that the knowledge of the proteome of the child population is little, our investigation proposes the study of the plasma proteome of Colombian children diagnosed with B-cell ALL (B-ALL) to determine potential disease markers that could reflect processes altered by the presence of the disease or in response to it. A proteomic study by LC-MS/MS and quantification by label-free methods were performed in search of proteins differentially expressed between healthy children and those diagnosed with B-ALL. We quantified a total of 472 proteins in depleted blood plasma, and 25 of these proteins were differentially expressed (fold change >2, Bonferroni-adjusted P-values <0.05). Plasma Aggrecan core protein, alpha-2-HS-glycoprotein, coagulation factor XIII A chain and gelsolin protein were examined by ELISA assay and compared to shotgun proteomics results. Our data provide new information on the plasma proteome of Colombian children. Additionally, these proteins may also have certain potential as illness markers or as therapeutic targets in subsequent investigations.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Blood Proteins / metabolism*
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Colombia
  • Female
  • Gene Ontology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / blood*
  • Protein Interaction Maps
  • Proteomics*

Substances

  • Blood Proteins

Grants and funding

This study was funded by the program Colombia Corre por la investigación en cáncer (Contract number 2012-15116), the National University of Colombia Research Council (DIB 15116) and Colciencias (Founding 2012-567).