Prediction of immune factors and signaling pathways in lung injury induced by LPS based on network analysis.

OBJECTIVE

To construct a regulatory network involved in acute lung injury, so as to provide a new theoretical basis and research ideas for studying the relationship between inflammatory factors and immune proteins to collectively regulate the occurrence of acute lung injury.

METHOD: By using Meta-analysis, GO, KEGG and other methods notarized and constructed the regulatory network pathways of cytokine cascade and lung injury induced by LPS.

RESULTS

The result of Meta-analysis showed that the correlation between CD14, TNF-α, IL-6 gene and acute lung injury was statistically significant. GO analysis and KEGG analysis showed that acute lung injury contained CD14, TNF-α, IL-6 and other involved factors in the induced process of LPS, these inflammatory factors and immune proteins jointly regulate the process of disease development.

CONCLUSION

CD14 receptor is an important receptor involved in mediating LPS-activated cells, and is a high-affinity LPS receptor. LPS stimulates inflammatory effector cells to bind to LPS receptor- CD14 to activate intracellular signal cascade. Direct or indirect involvement of pathogenic factors enable cytokine caused by induction form a particularly complex network of cytokine regulatory pathways, of which the inflammatory factors TNF-α and IL-6 are simultaneously involved in LPS-mediated and CD14-mediated cytokine cascades.