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Table 2 Pathways affected in COPD patients compared to smokers with normal lung function

From: Proteomic profiling of lung immune cells reveals dysregulation of phagocytotic pathways in female-dominated molecular COPD phenotype

 

Female Smoker vs COPD

Male Smoker vs COPD

Joint Smoker vs COPD

Pathways (background No.)

Hits

p-value

pFDRb

Hits

p-value

pFDRb

Hits

p-value

pFDRb

Oxidative phosphorylationa (211)

12

6.0 × 10−6

3.3 × 10−4

   

3

0.06

0.21

Citrate (TCA) cycle (64)

6

1.1 × 10−4

2.9 × 10−3

   

3

1.7 × 10−3

0.02

Glutathione metabolism (89)

6

5.7 × 10−4

0.01

   

1

0.30

0.50

FcγR-mediated phagocytosis (165)

7

2.6 × 10−3

0.03

   

5

5.0 × 10−4

8.8 × 10−3

Lysosomea (222)

8

5.6 × 10−3

0.04

   

5

1.3 × 10−3

0.02

Regulation of actin cytoskeleton (387)

11

4.1 × 10−3

0.04

   

8

1.1 × 10−4

4.5 × 10−3

Phagosome (287)

8

1.5 × 10−2

0.10

   

5

4.3 × 10−3

0.04

Fatty acid metabolism (94)

4

2.1 × 10−2

0.13

2

7.8 × 10−3

0.29

3

5.4 × 10−3

0.05

Focal adhesion (310)

   

3

2.7 × 10−2

0.29

5

0.01

0.09

Proteasome

      

4

3.1 × 10−4

8.2 × 10−3

Endocytosis

      

7

1.9 × 10−3

0.03

  1. Pathway enrichment analysis for female, male and joint gender comparisons of Smoker vs COPD groups were based on 145, 24 and 116 proteins driving the respective OPLS-DA models,. aThis pathway was detected in female COPD patients by two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis (2D–DIGE) analysis [15]; More significant pathways were found in female COPD patients for iTRAQ-based proteomics is a platform with higher resolution and more sensitiveness than 2D–DIGE. bFDR corrected p-value by Benjamini and Hochberg’s method; COPDs, smokers with COPD