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ArticleScientific reports2025

To establish and validate autophagy related biomarkers for the diagnosis of IgA nephropathy.

Sijia Ma, Chao Wang, Jing Liu, Hangyu Duan, Xiaoxin Tian, Shijie Xu, Yu Zhang

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Sijia Ma *Institute of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100010, China.
Chao Wang *Institute of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100010, China.
Jing LiuDepartment of Nephrology, Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100091, China.
Hangyu DuanDepartment of Nephrology, Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100091, China.
Xiaoxin TianInstitute of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100010, China.
Shijie XuInstitute of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100010, China. xushijie6666@sohu.com.
Yu ZhangDepartment of Nephrology, Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100091, China. zhangyu8225@126.com.

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Abstract

IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is one of the most common immune-related primary glomerular diseases. The pathological mechanism of this disease is complex, and the specific pathogenesis is still unclear. To obtain a comprehensive understanding of its molecular mechanism and to provide new perspectives regarding the detection and treatment of the disease, this study investigated the role of immune cells in IgAN, as well as the role of autophagy-related biomarkers in IgAN development. The original datasets GSE93798, GSE35487, GSE58539, GSE116626 and GSE115857 were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and were further integrated and analyzed. The differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between IgAN and healthy control (HC) group were identified by the "limma" R package. The gene ontology (GO) function, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genome (KEGG) pathway, GeneSet Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) and DisGeNet enrichment were adopted to analyze the genes from the intersection of DEGs. The hub genes were screened by the square least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and cross validation. Immune cell infiltration was analyzed using CIBERSORT. The correlation between hub genes and infiltrating immune cells was calculated by R software. For the purpose of exploring the value of hub genes for diagnosing IgAN, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was constructed. Finally, Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was used to verify the relative mRNA level of the AT-DEGs. 12 DEGs were screened out. Enrichment analysis revealed that autophagy-related DEGs (AT-DEGs) were mainly related to intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway, cellular response to external stimulus, transcription repressor complex and other cellular functions, KEGG pathways enriched by AT-DEGs mainly included biological metabolic pathways related to autophagy, while DisGeNET analysis showed that these AT-DEGs were mainly related to immunological diseases. The optimal six hub genes were obtained by lasso analysis as potential biomarkers for IgAN. ROC curve analysis showed that 4 of the 6 HUB genes had great diagnostic value. Immune infiltration results showed B cells memory, macrophages M2, NK cells activated, T cells CD4

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AutophagyBiomarkersGlomerulonephritis, IGAComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGene OntologyGene Regulatory NetworksHumansProtein Interaction MapsROC CurveBiomarkersAutophagyDiagnostic biomarkersIgA nephropathyImmune cell infiltrationIntegrated bioinformatics

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