ArticleBiochemical genetics2025
Identification and Analysis of Potential Biomarkers Associated with Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Cervicitis.
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- Neutrophil extracellular traps in diseases of the female reproductive organs.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Early diagnosis of cervicitis is important. Previous studies have found that neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) play pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory roles in many diseases, suggesting that they may be involved in the inflammation of the uterine cervix and NETs-related genes may serve as biomarkers of cervicitis. However, what NETs-related genes are associated with cervicitis remains to be determined. Transcriptome analysis was performed using samples of exfoliated cervical cells from 15 patients with cervicitis and 15 patients without cervicitis as the control group. First, the intersection of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and neutrophil extracellular trap-related genes (NETRGs) were taken to obtain genes, followed by functional enrichment analysis. We obtained hub genes through two machine learning algorithms. We then performed Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and nomogram construction, confusion matrix, receiver operating characteristic (ROC), gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA), and immune cell infiltration analysis. Moreover, we constructed ceRNA network, mRNA-transcription factor (TF) network, and hub genes-drug network. We obtained 19 intersecting genes by intersecting 1398 DEGs and 136 NETRGs. 5 hub genes were obtained through 2 machine learning algorithms, namely PKM, ATG7, CTSG, RIPK3, and ENO1. Confusion matrix and ROC curve evaluation ANN model showed high accuracy and stability. A nomogram containing the 5 hub genes was established to assess the disease rate in patients. The correlation analysis revealed that the expression of ATG7 was synergistic with RIPK3. The GSEA showed that most of the hub genes were related to ECM receptor interactions. It was predicted that the ceRNA network contained 2 hub genes, 3 targeted miRNAs, and 27 targeted lnRNAs, and that 5 mRNAs were regulated by 28 TFs. In addition, 36 small molecule drugs that target hub genes may improve the treatment of cervicitis. In this study, five hub genes (PKM, ATG7, CTSG, RIPK3, ENO1) provided new directions for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cervicitis.
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