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    Serum Proteomic Changes in Dogs with Different Stages of Chronic Heart Failure
    (MDPI, 2022-01-01) Saril, Ahmet; Kocaturk, Meric; Shimada, Kazumi; Uemura, Akiko; Akgun, Emel; Levent, Pinar; Baykal, Ahmet Tarik; Prieto, Alberto Munoz; Agudelo, Carlos Fernando; Tanaka, Ryou; Ceron, Jose Joaquin; Koch, Jorgen; Yilmaz, Zeki
    Simple Summary Canine MMVD is a progressive chronic disease with variable clinical signs, with some patients remaining completely asymptomatic while others develop CHF. Here, the aims of the pilot study were to evaluate serum proteins by proteomic analysis in dogs at different stages of chronic heart failure (CHF) due to degenerative mitral valve disease (MMVD), and how these proteins can change after a conventional treatment. Study revealed 157 different proteins
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    Platelet proteome changes in dogs with congestive heart failure
    (BMC, 2020-01-01) Levent, Pinar; Kocaturk, Meric; Akgun, Emel; Saril, Ahmet; Cevik, Ozge; Baykal, Ahmet Tarik; Tanaka, Ryou; Ceron, Jose Joaquin; Yilmaz, Zeki
    BackgroundPlatelets play a central role in the development of cardiovascular diseases and changes in their proteins are involved in the pathophysiology of heart diseases in humans. There is lack of knowledge about the possible role of platelets in congestive heart failure (CHF) in dogs. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the changes in global platelet proteomes in dogs with CHF, to clarify the possible role of platelets in the physiopathology of this disease. Healthy-dogs (n =10) and dogs with acute CHF due to myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD, n=10) were used. Acute CHF was defined based on the clinical (increased respiratory rate or difficulty breathing) and radiographic findings of pulmonary edema. Dogs Blood samples were collected into tubes with acid-citrate-dextrose, and platelet-pellets were obtained by centrifuge and washing steps. Platelet-proteomes were identified using LC-MS based label-free differential proteome expression analysis method and matched according to protein database for Canis lupus familiaris.ResultsTotally 104 different proteins were identified in the platelets of the dogs being 4 out of them were significantly up-regulated and 6 down-regulated in acute CHF dogs. Guanine-nucleotide-binding protein, apolipoproteins (A-II and C-III) and clusterin levels increased, but CXC-motif-chemokine-10, cytochrome-C-oxidase-subunit-2, cathepsin-D, serine/threonine-protein-phosphatase-PP1-gamma-catalytic-subunit, creatine-kinase-B-type and myotrophin levels decreased in acute CHF dogs. These proteins are associated with several molecular functions, biological processes, signaling systems and immune-inflammatory responses.ConclusionThis study describes by first time the changes in the protein composition in platelets of dogs with acute CHF due to MMVD. Our findings provide a resource for increase the knowledge about the proteome of canine platelets and their roles in CHF caused by MMVD and could be a tool for further investigations about the prevention and treatment of this disease.
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    Proteins associated with neutrophil degranulation are upregulated in nasopharyngeal swabs from SARS-CoV-2 patients
    (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2020-01-01) Akgun, Emel; Tuzuner, Mete Bora; Sahin, Betul; Kilercik, Meltem; Kulah, Canan; Cakiroglu, Hacer Nur; Serteser, Mustafa; Unsal, Ibrahim; Baykal, Ahmet Tarik
    COVID-19 or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) appeared throughout the World and currently affected more than 9 million people and caused the death of around 470,000 patients. The novel strain of the coronavirus disease is transmittable at a devastating rate with a high rate of severe hospitalization even more so for the elderly population. Naso-oro-pharyngeal swab samples as the first step towards detecting suspected infection of SARS-CoV-2 provides a non-invasive method for PCR testing at a high confidence rate. Furthermore, proteomics analysis of PCR positive and negative naso-oropharyngeal samples provides information on the molecular level which highlights disease pathology. Samples from 15 PCR positive cases and 15 PCR negative cases were analyzed with nanoLC-MS/MS to identify the differentially expressed proteins. Proteomic analyses identified 207 proteins across the sample set and 17 of them were statistically significant. Protein-protein interaction analyses emphasized pathways like Neutrophil degranulation, Innate Immune System, Antimicrobial Peptides. Neutrophil Elastase (ELANE), Azurocidin (AZU1), Myeloperoxidase (MPO), Myeloblastin (PRTN3), Cathepsin G (CTSG) and Transcobalamine-1 (TCN1) were found to be significantly altered in naso-oropharyngeal samples of SARS-CoV-2 patients. The identified proteins are linked to alteration in the innate immune system specifically via neutrophil degranulation and NETosis.