Published ahead of print on November 17, 2005, doi:10.1164/rccm.200505-740OC Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 173, Number 4, February 2006, 370-378 A more recent version of this article appeared on February 15, 2006
Submitted on May 11, 2005 Complement C3a and C4a Increased in Plasma of Patients with Aspirin-induced AsthmaSeung-Ha Lee1,1 Genome Research Center for Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of, 2 Department of Chemistry, Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Choongchungnam-do, Korea, Republic of, 3 Yonsei Proteome Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mdcspark{at}unitel.co.kr.
Rationale: Aspirin-induced asthma (AIA) is a distinct clinical syndrome that affects up to 10% of asthmatic adults. Although eicosanoid metabolites appear to play an important role in AIA, the exact pathogenic mechanism for the syndrome remains obscure. In addition, the proposed mechanism fails to explain why aspirin does not cause bronchoconstriction in all individuals. Objectives: We aimed to identify proteins which were differently expressed in between AIA and ATA plasma. Methods and Main Results: By using a proteomics approach, six proteins were found to be differentially expressed in plasma between AIA and ATA patients at baseline, and eight proteins were significantly up- or down-regulated following aspirin challenge in AIA patients. These proteins, which were identified by MALDI-TOF MS, can be classified into four groups: complement components, apolipoproteins, modified albumin, and unknown proteins. Among them, the complement component levels in plasma were validated by using ELISA. Plasma concentrations of C3a and C4a were higher in patients with AIA (n = 30) than in patients with ATA (n = 24). After the aspirin challenge, C3 decreased in both AIA and ATA patients, but the C3a concentration increased in the AIA patient group (p = 0.019). Moreover, C3a and C4a levels and the ratios of C3a/C3 and C4a/C4 were correlated with the changes of FEV1 values after aspirin challenge. Conclusions: Aspirin intolerance may be related to alterations in the levels of complements, as well as those of lipoprotein and other proteins. Key words: asthma, proteomics, complement C3a and C4a, aspirin induced asthma, 2-dimensional electrophoresis
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