Identification and Validation of Synapse-related Hub Genes after Spinal Cord Injury by Bioinformatics Analysis


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Background:Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a neurological disease with high morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have shown that abnormally expressed synapse-related genes are closely related to the occurrence and development of SCI. However, little is known about the interaction of these aberrantly expressed genes and the molecular mechanisms that play a role in the injury response. Therefore, deeply exploring the correlation between synapse-related genes and functional recovery after spinal cord injury and the molecular regulation mechanism is of great significance.

Methods:First, we selected the function GSE45006 dataset to construct three clinically meaningful gene modules by hierarchical clustering analysis in 4 normal samples and 20 SCI samples. Subsequently, we performed functional and pathway enrichment analyses of key modules.

Results:The results showed that related module genes were significantly enriched in synaptic structures and functions, such as the regulation of synaptic membranes and membrane potential. A protein-protein interaction network (PPI) was constructed to identify 10 hub genes of SCI, and the results showed that Snap25, Cplx1, Stxbp1, Syt1, Rims1, Rab3a, Syn2, Syn1, Cask, Lin7b were most associated with SCI. Finally, these hub genes were further verified by quantitative real-time fluorescence polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) in the spinal cord tissues of the blank group and SCI rats, and it was found that the expression of these hub genes was significantly decreased in the spinal cord injury compared with the blank group (P ≤ 0.05).

Conclusion:These results suggest that the structure and function of synapses play an important role after spinal cord injury. Our study helps to understand the underlying pathogenesis of SCI patients further and identify new targets for SCI treatment.

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Mengting Shi

Key Laboratory of Acupuncture and Neurology of Zhejiang Province, The Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine), Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

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Haipeng Xu

Key Laboratory of Acupuncture and Neurology of Zhejiang Province, The Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine),, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

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Rong Hu

Key Laboratory of Acupuncture and Neurology of Zhejiang Province, The Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine), Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

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Yi Chen

Key Laboratory of Acupuncture and Neurology of Zhejiang Province, The Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine), Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

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Xingying Wu

Key Laboratory of Acupuncture and Neurology of Zhejiang Province, The Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine), Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

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Bowen Chen

Key Laboratory of Acupuncture and Neurology of Zhejiang Province, The Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine), Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

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Ruijie Ma

Key Laboratory of Acupuncture and Neurology of Zhejiang Province, The Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine), Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

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