Tuberculosis (TB) is a major comorbidity in HIV patients as well as a serious co-epidemic. Traditional detection methods are not effective or sensitive for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the early stage. TB has become a major cause of lethal on HIV patients. We employed isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) technology to identify the different host responses in HIV-noTB and HIV-TB patients' sera. Given the diversity of HIV subtypes, which results in a variety of host responses in different human populations, we focused on the Chinese patients. Of the 25 proteins identified, 7 were increased and 18 were decreased in HIV-TB co-infected patients. These proteins were found to be involved in host immune response processes. We identified a candidate protein, endoglin (ENG), which showed an 4.9 times increase by iTRAQ and 11.5 times increase by ELISA. ENG demonstrated the diagnostic efficacy and presented a novel molecular biomarker for TB in HIV-infected Chinese patients. This study provides new insight into the challenges in the diagnosis and effective management of patients with HIV-TB.
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Chen, C., Yan, T., Liu, L., Wang, J., & Jin, Q. (2018). Identification of a novel serum biomarker for tuberculosis infection in Chinese HIV patients by iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomics. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9(FEB). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00330
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