Frontiers in Medicine (May 2022)

Serum Metabolomics Benefits Discrimination Kidney Disease Development in Type 2 Diabetes Patients

  • Xiaofeng Peng,
  • Xiaofeng Peng,
  • Xiaofeng Peng,
  • Xiaofeng Peng,
  • Xiaoyi Wang,
  • Xiaoyi Wang,
  • Xiaoyi Wang,
  • Xiaoyi Wang,
  • Xiaoyi Wang,
  • Xue Shao,
  • Xue Shao,
  • Xue Shao,
  • Xue Shao,
  • Yucheng Wang,
  • Yucheng Wang,
  • Yucheng Wang,
  • Yucheng Wang,
  • Shi Feng,
  • Shi Feng,
  • Shi Feng,
  • Shi Feng,
  • Cuili Wang,
  • Cuili Wang,
  • Cuili Wang,
  • Cuili Wang,
  • Cunqi Ye,
  • Cunqi Ye,
  • Cunqi Ye,
  • Cunqi Ye,
  • Cunqi Ye,
  • Jianghua Chen,
  • Jianghua Chen,
  • Jianghua Chen,
  • Jianghua Chen,
  • Hong Jiang,
  • Hong Jiang,
  • Hong Jiang,
  • Hong Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.819311
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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BackgroundDiabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the primary cause of end-stage renal disease, raising a considerable burden worldwide. Recognizing novel biomarkers by metabolomics can shed light on new biochemical insight to benefit DKD diagnostics and therapeutics. We hypothesized that serum metabolites can serve as biomarkers in the progression of DKD.MethodsA cross-sectional study of 1,043 plasma metabolites by untargeted LC/MS among 89 participants identified associations between proteinuria severity and metabolites difference. Pathway analysis from differently expressed metabolites was used to determine perturbed metabolism pathways. The results were replicated in an independent, cross-sectional cohort of 83 individuals. Correlation and prediction values were used to examine the association between plasma metabolites level and proteinuria amount.ResultsDiabetes, and diabetic kidney disease with different ranges of proteinuria have shown different metabolites patterns. Cysteine and methionine metabolism pathway, and Taurine and hypotaurine metabolism pathway were distinguishable in the existence of DKD in DC (diabetes controls without kidney disease), and DKD with different ranges of proteinuria. Two interesting tetrapeptides (Asn-Met-Cys-Ser and Asn-Cys-Pro-Pro) circulating levels were elevated with the DKD proteinuria progression.ConclusionsThese findings underscore that serum metabolomics provide us biochemical perspectives to identify some clinically relevant physiopathologic biomarkers of DKD progression.

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