Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Predicting disease course in ulcerative colitis using stool proteins identified through an aptamer-based screen

  • Sanam Soomro,
  • Suresh Venkateswaran,
  • Kamala Vanarsa,
  • Marwa Kharboutli,
  • Malavika Nidhi,
  • Ramya Susarla,
  • Ting Zhang,
  • Prashanth Sasidharan,
  • Kyung Hyun Lee,
  • Joel Rosh,
  • James Markowitz,
  • Claudia Pedroza,
  • Lee A. Denson,
  • Jeffrey Hyams,
  • Subra Kugathasan,
  • Chandra Mohan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24235-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Stool biomarkers hold promise for monitoring disease activity and predicting clinical course in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as they originate from the inflamed tissue. Here the authors report an aptamer-based proteomic screen, and discover several stool proteins that predict remission at four weeks.