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Abstract Number: 582

Proteomic Analysis of Synovial Tissue: A Unique Tool to Predict Response to Anti-TNF Alpha Therapy in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis

Opeyemi S. Ademowo1, Emily S. Collins1, Cathy Rooney1, A. W van Kuijk2, Danielle M. Gerlag3, Paul P. Tak2, Oliver FitzGerald4 and Stephen R. Pennington1, 1UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland, 2Clinical Immunology / Rheumatology, Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4Department of Rheumatology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Meeting: 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

Keywords: anti-TNF therapy, inflammatory arthritis and proteomics

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Session Information

Title: Spondylarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis - Pathogenesis, Etiology

Session Type: Abstract Submissions (ACR)

Background/Purpose:

Inflammatory arthritis, which includes rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), is a leading cause of joint deformity, disability and reduced quality of life with a high economic cost [1]. A common target for therapeutic intervention is TNF-α, a key cytokine that drives the inflammatory and destructive processes of these diseases. However, due to common drug failure, diverse degree of response to therapy, cost of treatment as well as adverse drug events [2, 3] there is an urgent need for personalised medicine [4]. We hypothesized that there are distinct proteins or peptides within the synovial tissue that may predict the degree of response to anti TNF-α therapy in patients with inflammatory arthritis. Hence we aim to discover, develop and validate potential predictive biomarkers of treatment outcomes and map the protein changes to potential pathways.

Methods:

Baseline protein expressions were investigated and compared in the synovium of 20 PsA patients with diverse responses to adalimumab (a monoclonal antibody against TNF-α) [5]. The EULAR response criteria were used to classify patients’ treatment response categories at 3 months follow-up. Synovial proteins were extracted, subjected to digestion with trypsin and the resulting peptides were analysed by label free liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) on an Agilent 6520 QTOF with HPLC chip cube source attached. Progenesis LC-MS software (version 2.6) was used for the differential protein expression analysis. The potential biomarkers discovered were targeted by multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) technique in a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer for quantitative measurement with the aid of skyline software for instrument method optimization.

Results:

 The protein profile of the different response categories varied. 313 proteins were differentially expressed between responders and non-responders; a cut off p-value<0.05 and fold change>2 were used to select the biomarker panel.  The majority of these proteins have been found to be associated with inflammation. 54 proteins were successfully targeted with the MRM and quantified in synovial tissue. Of the 54 proteins, 25 were significantly over expressed in good responders and 30 were over expressed in non responders.

Conclusion:

Label-free LC-MS of synovial tissue is a robust approach to the discovery of differentially expressed proteins that might predict response to anti-TNF-α therapy in PsA patients. These proteins are potential candidate synovial biomarkers of response to anti-TNF-α therapy and will be validated on a larger cohort of patients. The possibility of detecting and measuring these candidate markers in the serum will be explored.

References

1. Heuber and Robinson Proteomics Clin. Appl.6, 4100-4105(2006)
2. FitzGerald and Winchester. Arthritis Res. Ther., 11(1), 214(2009)
3. Bennett et al; Rheumatology, 44(8), 1026(2005)
4. Liao et al. Arthr& Rheum.,50(12),3792-3803(2004)
5. van Kuijk et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 68(8), 1303-1309 (2009)


Disclosure:

O. S. Ademowo,
None;

E. S. Collins,
None;

C. Rooney,
None;

A. W. van Kuijk,
None;

D. M. Gerlag,
None;

P. P. Tak,
None;

O. FitzGerald,
None;

S. R. Pennington,
None.

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