MAPK14 as a key gene for regulating inflammatory response and macrophage M1 polarization induced by ferroptotic keratinocyte in psoriasis

AbstractPsoriasis is a prevalent condition characterized by chronic inflammation, immune dysregulation, and genetic alterations, significantly impacting the well-being of affected individuals. Recently, a novel aspect of programmed cell death, ferroptosis, linked to iron metabolism, has come to light. This research endeavors to unveil novel diagnostic genes associated with ferroptosis in psoriasis, employing bioinformatic methods and experimental validation. Diverse analytical strategies, including"limma," Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA), Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO), Support Vector Machine Recursive Feature Elimination (SVM-RFE), and Random Forest (RF), were employed to pinpoint pivotal ferroptosis-related diagnostic genes (FRDGs) in the training datasets GSE30999, testing dataset GSE41662 and GSE14905. The discriminative potential of FRDGs in distinguishing between normal and psoriatic patients was gauged using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves, while the functional pathways of FRDGs were scrutinized through Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA). Spearman correlation and ssGSEA analysis were applied to explore correlations between FRDGs and immune cell infiltration or oxidative stress-related pathways. The study identified six robust FRDGs — PPARD, MAPK14, PARP9, POR, CDCA3, and PDK4 — which collectively formed a model boasting an exceptional AUC value of 0.994. GSEA analysis uncovered their active inv...
Source: Inflammation - Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research