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Cuproptosis-Related Genes in Immune Infiltration and Diagnosis in Hepatitis B Virus-Related Acute Liver Failure.

Jingwen Deng, Tao Zhu, Yueyang Wang, Sitong Zhang, Hong Deng, Guilan Quan, Tingting Peng, Chuanbin Wu, Huiqiang Cai, Chao Lu and 1 more

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Jingwen DengDepartment of Medical Oncology Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital School of Medicine Zhejiang University Hangzhou China.
Tao ZhuDepartment of Pathology Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital School of Medicine Zhejiang University Hangzhou China.
Yueyang WangResearch Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Hangzhou China.
Sitong ZhangHepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery The Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine Hangzhou China.
Hong DengZhejiang Key Laboratory For Disease Proteomics Department of Pathology School of Medicine Zhejiang University Hangzhou China.
Guilan QuanState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Natural Bioactive Molecules and Discovery of Innovative Drugs College of Pharmacy Jinan University Guangzhou China.
Tingting PengState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Natural Bioactive Molecules and Discovery of Innovative Drugs College of Pharmacy Jinan University Guangzhou China.
Chuanbin WuState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Natural Bioactive Molecules and Discovery of Innovative Drugs College of Pharmacy Jinan University Guangzhou China.
Huiqiang CaiDepartment of Medical Oncology West German Cancer Center University Hospital Essen Essen Germany.
Chao LuState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Natural Bioactive Molecules and Discovery of Innovative Drugs College of Pharmacy Jinan University Guangzhou China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-8888
Xiaopeng CaiHepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery The Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine Hangzhou China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection poses a significant challenge to global health, particularly in developing countries such as China, where HBV-related acute liver failure (HBV-ALF) is a prominent cause of acute liver failure. This study investigated the effect of cuproptosis, a recently identified form of cell death, on immune infiltration in HBV-ALF. We mined the gene expression data of HBV-ALF from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Through enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), pathways related to the response to metal/copper ions and the acute inflammatory response were found to be enriched. We subsequently found that HBV-ALF tissues contained more copper ions and conducted an intersection analysis of DEGs and cuproptosis-related genes (CRGs), which resulted in the identification of 7 core cuproptosis-related DEGs (CR-DEGs) for further investigation with a diagnostic model. Immune infiltration analysis and unsupervised clustering analysis revealed distinct patterns in HBV-ALF and the possibility of crosstalk between ferroptosis and cuproptosis. Furthermore, we identified 17 transcription factors, 90 miRNAs, and 15 drugs that might interact with the 7 CR-DEGs. To validate our findings and their clinical significance, we verified the diagnostic value and immune infiltration patterns of the 7 CR-DEGs in both the testing dataset, cell line, and clinical samples. In conclusion, our findings indicated that these 7 CR-DEGs demonstrate promising diagnostic value and may represent viable therapeutic targets for individuals with HBV-ALF.

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acute liver failurebioinformaticscuproptosisferroptosishepatitis B virusimmune infiltration

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PMID42382686
PMCPMC13317792

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