{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Nath M"],"funding":["British Heart Foundation","Medical Research Council","European Commission"],"pagination":["1009-1019"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9546237"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["24(6)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Aims</h4>Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a systemic syndrome with a poor prognosis and a need for novel therapies. We investigated whether whole blood transcriptomic profiling can provide new mechanistic insights into cardiovascular (CV) mortality in CHF.<h4>Methods and results</h4>Transcriptome profiles were generated at baseline from 944 CHF patients from the BIOSTAT-CHF study, of whom 626 survived and 318 died from a CV cause during a follow-up of 21 months. Multivariable analysis, including adjustment for cell count, identified 1153 genes (6.5%) that were differentially expressed between those that survived or died and strongly related to a validated clinical risk score for adverse prognosis. The differentially expressed genes mainly belonged to five non-redundant pathways: adaptive immune response, proteasome-mediated ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process, T-cell co-stimulation, positive regulation of T-cell proliferation, and erythrocyte development. These five pathways were selectively related (RV coefficients >0.20) with seven circulating protein biomarkers of CV mortality (fibroblast growth factor 23, soluble ST2, adrenomedullin, hepcidin, pentraxin-3, WAP 4-disulfide core domain 2, and interleukin-6) revealing an intricate relationship between immune and iron homeostasis. The pattern of survival-associated gene expression matched with 29 perturbagen-induced transcriptome signatures in the iLINCS drug-repurposing database, identifying drugs, approved for other clinical indications, that were able to reverse in vitro the molecular changes associated with adverse prognosis in CHF.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Systematic modelling of the whole blood protein-coding transcriptome defined molecular pathways that provide a link between clinical risk factors and adverse CV prognosis in CHF, identifying both established and new potential therapeutic targets."],"journal":["European journal of heart failure"],"pubmed_title":["Whole blood transcriptomic profiling identifies molecular pathways related to cardiovascular mortality in heart failure."],"pmcid":["PMC9546237"],"funding_grant_id":["G1100015","FP7‐242209‐BIOSTAT‐CHF"],"pubmed_authors":["Papakonstantinou M","Zannad F","Timmons JA","Cleland JG","Metra M","Hamby S","Nelson CP","Marelli-Berg F","Lang CC","May ST","Samani NJ","Nath M","Voors AA","Romaine SPR","Anker SD","Filippatos G","Webb TR","Castellanos-Uribe M","Koekemoer A","Ng LL","van Veldhuisen DJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Whole blood transcriptomic profiling identifies molecular pathways related to cardiovascular mortality in heart failure.","description":"<h4>Aims</h4>Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a systemic syndrome with a poor prognosis and a need for novel therapies. We investigated whether whole blood transcriptomic profiling can provide new mechanistic insights into cardiovascular (CV) mortality in CHF.<h4>Methods and results</h4>Transcriptome profiles were generated at baseline from 944 CHF patients from the BIOSTAT-CHF study, of whom 626 survived and 318 died from a CV cause during a follow-up of 21 months. Multivariable analysis, including adjustment for cell count, identified 1153 genes (6.5%) that were differentially expressed between those that survived or died and strongly related to a validated clinical risk score for adverse prognosis. The differentially expressed genes mainly belonged to five non-redundant pathways: adaptive immune response, proteasome-mediated ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process, T-cell co-stimulation, positive regulation of T-cell proliferation, and erythrocyte development. These five pathways were selectively related (RV coefficients >0.20) with seven circulating protein biomarkers of CV mortality (fibroblast growth factor 23, soluble ST2, adrenomedullin, hepcidin, pentraxin-3, WAP 4-disulfide core domain 2, and interleukin-6) revealing an intricate relationship between immune and iron homeostasis. The pattern of survival-associated gene expression matched with 29 perturbagen-induced transcriptome signatures in the iLINCS drug-repurposing database, identifying drugs, approved for other clinical indications, that were able to reverse in vitro the molecular changes associated with adverse prognosis in CHF.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Systematic modelling of the whole blood protein-coding transcriptome defined molecular pathways that provide a link between clinical risk factors and adverse CV prognosis in CHF, identifying both established and new potential therapeutic targets.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Jun","modification":"2025-04-19T04:47:54.794Z","creation":"2025-04-19T04:47:54.794Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9546237","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35570197"],"doi":["10.1002/ejhf.2540"]}}