2. Materials and Methods
The study was a double-blind, randomized, and sham-controlled crossover design in 14 male US Navy-trained diver subjects. The mean ± SD age and weight were 33.1 ± 7.5 years and 84.3 ± 11.8 kg, respectively. Each subject completed two dry resting dives within the hyperbaric chamber located at the Pressurized Submarine Escape Trainer, Naval Submarine School, Groton, CT. One dive exposed the subjects for 6.5 h to 100% O
2 at 2 ATA (HBO2). Based upon pulmonary oxygen toxicity model predictions of decrements in the vital capacity [
5] and previous long-duration dives conducted at the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, this dive profile was expected to elicit a mild but reversible level of pulmonary oxygen toxicity in at least half of the subjects while at the same time keeping the risk of a seizure from central nervous system oxygen toxicity to a minimum.
The control or sham comparison dive was an enhanced air nitrox (EAN) dive in which the subjects breathed a 30.6% O2 balance nitrogen mixture at the same depth for the same duration. A 30.6% nitrox mixture rather than compressed air is breathed to maintain a square wave dive profile and avoid staged decompression on either air or oxygen. Avoiding staged decompression phases supported the intent to keep the subjects and investigative team blinded to the two gas conditions. Diving on a 30.6% FiO2 nitrox mixture and decompressing in accordance with the depth time profile of an air decompression table (without recalculating the equivalent air depth) will reduce the decompression stress of the dive and likely result in lower levels of VGE than if the same dive profile had been performed breathing air. However, in our calculation of the No-Decompression limit (in accordance with the U.S. Navy dive manual), we took into account the equivalent air depth based on the nitrogen content of the breathing mixture. During the sham dive in which the subjects will breathe 0.309 ATA 02 nitrox gas mix at 2 ATA, the partial pressure of nitrogen that they will be breathing will be 1.382 ATA which is equivalent to an air depth of 25 fsw. Breathing air at 2 ATA for the same duration is an exceptional exposure dive according to the US. Navy Dive (Rev 7 manual) requires a significant period of decompression at 20 fsw.
The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory institutional review board. All subjects were informed of the risks of the study and signed an informed consent. As one of the primary risks of the study was oxygen toxicity, they were briefed on the signs and symptoms of both CNS as well as pulmonary oxygen toxicity and asked to report any onset of symptoms to the inside dive tender. Additionally, each subject was debriefed after each dive by the principal investigator for any signs or symptoms relating to pulmonary oxygen toxicity that they currently had or had experienced during the dive.
Subjects were instructed to avoid drinking alcohol and conduct heavy exercise 24 h before each dive. They were also instructed to avoid any additional hypo or hyperbaric exposures during the study period. During each dive, subjects were allowed 15 min approximately mid-way through the dive to eat a low nitrate-containing lunch. During this lunch period, the subjects remained at depth in the chamber and were allowed to take off their oral nasal mask to breathe chamber air. Thus, the total bottom time for the HBO2 and EAN dive including the air break was 6 h and 45 min. The two dives were conducted at the same time of day (dive start times ranged from 08:18 to 10:10) and were separated by a minimum of one week apart.
Venous blood samples were drawn from the antecubital veins of the subjects’ arm within 30 min of the start of each dive (PRE) and approximately 30–45 min after the subjects had surfaced from each dive (POST). The blood samples were collected and processed according to manufacturer instructions for the BD
TM P100 Blood Collection System (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA). This collection system supports the collection and preservation of plasma protein with filtration to ensure the best sample preservation and storage prior to proteomics assays. Protein extraction and depletion (High Select™ Top14 Abundant Protein Depletion Mini Spin Columns, ThermoFisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) were conducted prior to trypsin digestion and evaluation by mass spectrometry on Q Exactive HF Mass Spectrometer (2 h per sample, Thermo Scientific, Inc.). MaxQuant was searched with a fragment ion mass tolerance of 20 PPM and a parent ion tolerance of Unknown. Carbamidomethyl (C) of cysteine was specified in MaxQuant as a fixed modification. Gln->pyro-Glu of the n-terminus, deamidation (NQ) of asparagine and glutamine, oxidation (M) of methionine, and acetyl (Protein N-term) of the n-terminus were specified in MaxQuant as variable modifications. Uniprot IDs (MaxQuant: Majority protein IDs) were matched to a list of 346 unfiltered proteins detected (0.0% minimum, 10.8% Decoy False Discovery Rate (FDR) for 381,213 spectra (0.0% minimum, minimum of 2 peptides, 0.0% Decoy FDR) across all samples. Scaffold Q + S (v.5.3.0, proteomesoftware.com (accessed 1 February 2023) was used to quantify proteins. Scaffold was used to conduct ANOVA to compare all conditions in one analysis and comparison of independent conditions by two-tailed paired t-tests (significance at
p < 0.05 (uncorrected
p-value)) in average precursor intensity (fold-change relative to control or alternate condition for each comparison). Protein identifications were accepted if they contained at least two identified peptides. Proteins that contained similar peptides and could not be differentiated based on MS/MS analysis alone were grouped to satisfy the principles of parsimony. Proteins sharing significant peptide evidence were grouped into clusters. Scaffold analysis workflow uses a pipeline of several peptide and protein validation methods following an initial database-search engine analysis [
6,
7,
8]. Pathway analysis and functional annotation analyses were conducted using String v11.5 (string-db.org (accessed 1 February 2023).
4. Discussion
This pilot study of plasma proteome responses to prolonged diving in a dry hyperbaric environment breathing nitrox or hyperbaric oxygen revealed potential future directions for biomarker research for decompression and pulmonary oxygen toxicity stress. The main finding of this study is that 6.5 h breathing a nitrox mixture containing 30.6% O2 and 69.4% N2 at 2 ATA (10 msw) resulted in the presence of proteins that may be associated with hemostasis and coagulation pathways, while 6.5 h of hyperbaric oxygen exposure (100% O2) at 2 ATA results in activation of general pathways associated with innate immunity and immune signaling. One potential future target of interest that differed between EANPOST and O2POST was APOD. Future studies should determine whether APOD is a specific target for biomarker validation to physiological and respiratory clinical responses to pulmonary oxygen toxicity. Future work should also explore correlational analyses between plasma proteomics and clinical symptoms in protocols inducing robust clinical symptomology data.
Our findings might also have relevance to lung injury mechanisms. The cellular response to EAN and hyperoxic O
2 type exposures related to increased reactive oxygen species are well-characterized. Local responses to ROS-induced damage in the lungs induce cytokine and chemokine signaling [
12] that contributes to pulmonary edema if the oxygen exposures are prolonged. Among the immune responses that occur during acute lung injury, are alterations in coagulation and fibrin-signaling pathways. Animal models have demonstrated that pulmonary fibrin deposition, platelet accumulation, and lung-specific coagulation factors are upregulated during acute lung injury [
13]. Anticoagulant treatments including antithrombin and heparin have successfully reduced the severity of inflammation during acute lung injury [
14]. Lung epithelial cell-specific coagulation signaling mediates multiple aspects of acute lung injury pathophysiology, including traditional fibrinolysis [
15,
16,
17]. Our observations regarding plasma proteins related to coagulation pathways are not confirmatory that acute lung injury or tissue damage that triggers pulmonary coagulation and fibrin deposition pathways are systemic in EAN, but it does provide some evidence for future directions in plasma biomarkers related to known mechanisms of lung or epithelium injury immune response.
Our findings could also aid in the understanding of the metabolomic responses to venous gas emboli. During the EAN dive the body will uptake nitrogen leading to supersaturation of the tissues which will be subsequently off-gassed during decompression with the potential generation of venous gas emboli (VGE). VGE can induce a variety of biological effects through their interactions with blood [
18] and has been associated with complement activation and decompression sickness susceptibility [
19,
20,
21]. Although we did not verify that VGE were present following the EAN dive, our dive profile using the 30.6% O
2 EAN breathing mixture was close to the edge of the no-decompression limit and it is therefore possible that VGE were generated in some of our subjects. Thus, the observation of plasma proteins related to coagulation pathways in EAN may be a response to microparticle generation during the dive [
22] and/or VGE following decompression from nitrox gas [
23] and not necessarily related to any lung hyperoxic stress from the EAN gas mixture. The lack of such response in O
2POST is likely due to fact that during the HBO exposure the body will slowly denitrogenate without generating VGE and then on gas nitrogen following decompression to the surface.
The singular protein uniquely expressed in O
2 vs. EAN at POST, APOD, is one of many apolipoproteins secreted and expressed in many tissues including respiratory epithelial cells (i.e., bronchus); it is a multi-ligand protein that supports many functions including those in oxidative stress and inflammation [
24]. APOD has been well-studied [
25] as an antioxidant with known structural mechanisms. The fact that APOD was uniquely expressed O
2POST vs. EAN may reflect a difference in the nature of stress experienced in each condition. In a recently published study that investigated changes in the exhaled condensate of these same subjects, it was found that many of the compounds evident following the HBO dive were lipids or lipid-like molecules that are found in cell membranes and commonly serve to act as a membrane stabilizer [
26]. The authors speculate that “the increased presence of many of these lipid-like molecules in the EBC of symptomatic subjects following the HBO dive may have resulted from tissue/cell damage in the lungs caused by the oxidative stress from reactive oxygen species overcoming antioxidative capacity leading to lipid peroxidation and the release of these compounds”.
The oxygen dose used in the current study during the O2 dive was greater than typically used during conventional hyperbaric oxygen therapy in order to induce noticeable stress on the pulmonary system. Our results show that there are wide inter-individual differences in the pulmonary stress responses to hyperbaric oxygen exposure that range from severe symptoms of pulmonary oxygen toxicity early on into the O2 dive to no symptoms at all during or after the O2 dive. It is unclear from our results if there is a direct link between pulmonary O2 toxicity symptomology and lung injury, as the oxygen exposures were only sufficient to induce the initial stages of pulmonary oxygen toxicity (i.e., tracheobronchitis) in approximately 71% of our diver subject population.
A medical follow-up on the day after the dive indicated that the pulmonary O
2 toxicity symptoms had quickly resolved in most subjects. Four subjects did however indicate that they still had some mild irritation or “dryness” in their chest or upper airway that may have been associated with an inflammatory reaction of the pulmonary system to the hyperoxic stress from the dive. The timing of the post-dive blood draws in the current study was designed to ascertain if there are any early/acute biomarkers that would be associated with prolonged exposure to the nitrox or hyperbaric oxygen breathing mixtures. An analysis of the pulmonary function responses of the individual who experienced severe pulmonary oxygen toxicity symptoms following the O
2 dive [
27] suggests that the early onset of symptoms in this subject were likely neuronal in nature. As suggested by previous researchers, oxygen poisoning responses reflect a composite of both direct (i.e., neural effects) and indirect effects (i.e., inflammation, etc.) that will depend on the oxygen dosage received and the susceptibility of the organ system [
28,
29].
As the subject population in the current study were all males, we caution that susceptibility to pulmonary PO2tox and the resulting proteomic response to the different gas mixtures may be different in females than in males since there is some evidence in the literature that sex-specific hormones may play a role in modulating susceptibility to prolonged oxidative stress in males and females [
30,
31,
32,
33,
34].
5. Conclusions
Our EAN data suggest that inflammatory/immune responses and coagulation pathways are prominent features of a systemic injury response following a prolonged nitrox dive and that future treatments or diving strategies that target these pathways may be promising directions for reducing hyperbaric decompression stress.
While this study involved oxygen exposures that induced symptoms reflecting the early stages of pulmonary oxygen toxicity in some of our subjects (i.e., tracheobronchitis), the HBO exposure was not designed to induce lung injury that can occur with more prolonged oxygen exposures. However, it is possible that the proteomic responses found in our O
2POST dive blood samples while reflecting an early antioxidant response may have been too early to detect an inflammatory reaction of the pulmonary tissues in the systemic circulation that may be evident one to two days following the hyperbaric oxygen exposure. Thus, future research should examine the proteome responses one to three days after the dive during the recovery phase to better define the metabolic profile and pathways that are ultimately affected by oxygen exposure. It will be critical in future work to not only characterize the clinical symptomology but also to appropriately measure stress-specific outcome variables defining the magnitude and type of oxidative stress and antioxidant response [
35]. Additionally, studies permitting correlational or predictive analyses of proteomics results to clinical symptomology will support the translational aims of our -omics work.
Table 1.
Significantly expressed proteins (p < 0.05) when comparing EANPRE and O2PRE and related publications in hyperbaria, hyperoxygen, or pulmonary oxygen toxicity for relevant protein results. Significantly expressed proteins that are associated with published literature relevant to hyperbaria, hyperoxygen, or pulmonary oxygen toxicity are marked with a, b, and/or c, respectively.
Accession (_HUMAN) | Ensembl ID (ENSG-) | Protein Name | Function | Relevant to Hyperbaria a, Hyperoxygen b, or Pulmonary O2 Toxicity c? |
---|
EANPRE |
O2PRE |
FBLN1 | 00000077942 | Fibulin-1 | cell adhesion and migration along protein fibers within the extracellular matrix—haemostasis and thrombosis—owing to its ability to bind fibrinogen and incorporate into clots | - |
TSP1 | 00000137801 | Thrombospondin-1 | adhesive glycoprotein mediating cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix interactions, binds heparin, plays a role in ER stress response, via its interaction with the activating transcription factor 6 alpha (ATF6) producing adaptive ER stress response factors | a [36,37] |
KVD11 | 00000211632 | Immunoglobulin kappa variable 3D-11 | V region of the variable domain of immunoglobulin light chains that participates in the antigen recognition | - |
PLF4 | 00000163737 | Platelet factor 4 | released during platelet aggregation, neutralizes the anticoagulant effect of heparin, chemotactic for neutrophils and monocytes, and inhibits endothelial cell proliferation | - |
CXCL7 | 00000163736 | Platelet basic protein | stimulates DNA synthesis, mitosis, glycolysis, intracellular cAMP accumulation, prostaglandin E2 secretion, and synthesis of hyaluronic acid, and sulfated glycosaminoglycan | - |
Table 2.
Gene ontology terms significantly associated to molecular functions and biological processes for differential protein results from EANPRE and O2PRE.
ID | Term Description | FDR | Matching Proteins in Your Network (Labels) |
---|
GO:0070051 | Fibrinogen binding | 0.0015 | THBS1,FBLN1 |
GO:0045236 | CXCR chemokine receptor binding | 0.0096 | PPBP,PF4 |
GO:0001968 | Fibronectin binding | 0.0137 | THBS1,FBLN1 |
GO:0002576 | Platelet degranulation | 0.0153 | THBS1,PPBP,PF4 |
GO:0005102 | Signaling receptor binding | 0.031 | THBS1,PPBP,PF4,FBLN1 |
GO:0008009 | Chemokine activity | 0.031 | PPBP,PF4 |
Table 3.
Gene ontology terms significantly associated to reactome pathways for differential protein results from EANPRE and O2PRE.
ID | Term Description | FDR | Matching Proteins in Your Network (Labels) |
---|
HSA-114608 | Platelet degranulation | 0.0025 | THBS1,PPBP,PF4 |
HSA-380108 | Chemokine receptors bind chemokines | 0.029 | PPBP,PF4 |
HSA-8936459 | RUNX1 regulates genes involved in megakaryocyte differentiation and platelet function | 0.0309 | THBS1,PF4 |
Table 4.
Significantly expressed proteins (p < 0.05) when comparing O2PRE and O2POST and related publications in hyperbaria, hyperoxygen, or pulmonary oxygen toxicity for relevant protein results. Significantly expressed proteins that are associated with published literature relevant to hyperbaria, hyperoxygen, or pulmonary oxygen toxicity are marked with a, b, and/or c, respectively.
Accession (_HUMAN) | Ensembl ID (ENSG-) | Protein Name | Function | Relevant to Hyperbaria a, Hyperoxygen b, or Pulmonary O2 Toxicity c? |
---|
O2PRE |
A0A087WTE4 | 00000149294 | Neural cell adhesion molecule 1 | a cell adhesion molecule involved in neuron–neuron adhesion, neurite fasciculation, outgrowth of neurites, etc. | - |
CATA | 00000121691 | Catalase | serves to protect cells from the toxic effects of hydrogen peroxide, promotes growth of cells including T-cells, B-cells, myeloid leukemia cells, melanoma cells, and mastocytoma cells | a, b, c [38,39,40,41,42,43,44] |
HBB | 00000244734 | Hemoglobin subunit beta | involved in oxygen transport from the lung to the various peripheral tissues | b, c [45,46,47] |
FBLN1 | 00000077942 | Fibulin-1 | cell adhesion and migration along protein fibers within the extracellular matrix. haemostasis and thrombosis—owing to its ability to bind fibrinogen and incorporate into clots | - |
C1QB | 00000173369 | Complement C1q subcomponent subunit B | C1q associates with the proenzymes C1r and C1s to yield C1, the first component of the serum complement system | - |
CO8B | 00000021852 | Complement component C8 beta chain | constituent of the membrane attack complex that plays a key role in the innate and adaptive immune response by forming pores in the plasma membrane of target cells | - |
F5GY80 | 00000021852 | Complement component C8 beta chain | constituent of the membrane attack complex that plays a key role in the innate and adaptive immune response by forming pores in the plasma membrane of target cells | - |
C9FPQ9 | 00000171557 | Fibrinogen gamma chain | binds through its gamma chains to cell surface receptors, growth factors, and coagulation factors to perform its key roles in fibrin clot formation, platelet aggregation, and wound healing | - |
A0A0C4DGZ8 | 00000185245 | Glycoprotein Ib (Platelet), alpha polypeptide | a receptor for von Willebrand disease (VWF) | - |
O2POST |
APOD | 00000189058 | Apolipoprotein D | occurs in the macromolecular complex with lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase, most likely involved in the transport and binding of bilin, able to transport a variety of ligands in several different contexts | c [14,48] |
Table 5.
Gene ontology terms significantly associated to biological processes for the 9 highly expressed proteins (p < 0.05) results in O2PRE (vs. O2POST).
ID | Term Description | FDR | Matching Proteins in Your Network (Labels) |
---|
GO:0072378 | Blood coagulation, fibrin clot formation | 0.0021 | GP1BA,FBLN1,FGG |
GO:0070527 | Platelet aggregation | 0.0027 | GP1BA,HBB,FGG |
GO:0006950 | Response to stress | 0.0033 | CAT,C1QB,GP1BA,FBLN1,HBB,FGG,C8B,NCAM1 |
GO:0007596 | Blood coagulation | 0.0085 | GP1BA,FBLN1,HBB,FGG |
GO:0042730 | Fibrinolysis | 0.036 | GP1BA,FGG |
Table 6.
Significantly expressed proteins (p < 0.05) when comparing EANPRE and EANPOST and related publications in hyperbaria, hyperoxygen, or pulmonary oxygen toxicity for relevant protein results. Significantly expressed proteins that are associated with published literature relevant to hyperbaria, hyperoxygen, or pulmonary oxygen toxicity are marked with a, b, and/or c, respectively.
Accession (_HUMAN) | Ensembl ID (ENSG-) | Protein Name | Function | Relevant to Hyperbaria a, Hyperoxygen b, or Pulmonary O2 Toxicity c? |
---|
EANPRE |
CON__ENSEMBL:ENSBTAP00000024146 | unclassified | CON__ENSEMBL:ENSBTAP00000024146 | unknown, not in the protein database | - |
KV105 | 00000243466 | Immunoglobulin kappa variable 1–5 | V region of the variable domain of immunoglobulin light chains that participates in the antigen recognition | - |
HBD | 00000223609 | Hemoglobin subunit delta | involved in oxygen transport from the lung to the various peripheral tissues | - |
PZP | 00000126838 | Pregnancy zone protein | contains a ‘bait region’ which has specific cleavage sites for different proteinases that is able inhibit all four classes of proteinases by unique ‘trapping’ mechanism | - |
EANPOST |
A0A087WTE4 | 00000149294 | Neural cell adhesion molecule 1 | a cell adhesion molecule involved in neuron–neuron adhesion, neurite fasciculation, outgrowth of neurites, etc. | - |
CON_Q6T181 | unclassified | Sex hormone-binding globulin | contaminant protein from bovine | - |
APOH | 00000091583 | Beta-2-glycoprotein 1 | also known as apolipoprotein H, binds to various kinds of negatively charged substances such as heparin, phospholipids, and dextran sulfate; may prevent activation of the intrinsic blood coagulation cascade by binding to phospholipids on the surface of damaged cells | - |
G3XAK1 | 00000173531 | Hepatocyte growth factor-like protein | has a major role in embryonic organ development, specifically in myogenesis, in adult organ regeneration, and in wound healing | - |
AMBP | 00000106927 | Protein AMBP | inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor inhibits trypsin, plasmin, and lysosomal granulocytic elastase; inhibits calcium oxalate crystallization | - |
FA9 | 00000101981 | Coagulation factor IX | a vitamin K-dependent plasma protein that participates in the intrinsic pathway of blood coagulation by converting factor X to its active form in the presence of Ca2+ ions, phospholipids, and factor 8a | - |
FA11 | 00000088926 | Coagulation factor XI | triggers the middle phase of the intrinsic pathway of blood coagulation by activating coagulation factor IX | - |
HEP2 | 00000099937 | Heparin cofactor 2 | predominant thrombin inhibitor in place of antithrombin III, also inhibits chymotrypsin | - |
C9JV77 | 00000145192 | Alpha-2-HS-glycoprotein | promotes endocytosis, possesses opsonic properties, and influences the mineral phase of bone | - |
TTHY | 00000118271 | Transthyretin | thyroid hormone-binding protein, transports thyroxine from the bloodstream to the brain | a [49,50] |
HRG | 00000113905 | Histidine-rich glycoprotein | plasma glycoprotein that binds a number of ligands such as heparin, heparan sulfate, thrombospondin, plasminogen, and divalent metal ions | - |
S10A9 | 00000163220 | Protein S100-A9 | a calcium- and zinc-binding protein which plays a prominent role in the regulation of inflammatory processes and immune response; has oxidant-scavenging activities | - |
Table 7.
Gene ontology terms significantly associated with molecular functions and biological processes 12 highly expressed proteins (p < 0.05) results in EANPOST (vs. EANPRE).
ID | Term Description | FDR | Matching Proteins in Your Network (Labels) |
---|
GO:0007597 | Blood coagulation, intrinsic pathway | 0.0011 | APOH,F9,F11 |
GO:0051917 | Regulation of fibrinolysis | 0.0011 | APOH,HRG,F11 |
GO:0007596 | Blood coagulation | 0.0017 | APOH,SERPIND1,F9,HRG,F11 |
GO:0019538 | Protein metabolic process | 0.0031 | APOH,SERPIND1,F9,TTR,AMBP,S100A9,F11,AHSG,MST1,NCAM1 |
GO:0030195 | Negative regulation of blood coagulation | 0.0031 | APOH,HRG,F11 |
GO:0031638 | Zymogen activation | 0.0031 | APOH,F9,F11 |
GO:0052548 | Regulation of endopeptidase activity | 0.0031 | SERPIND1,HRG,AMBP,S100A9,AHSG |
GO:0032101 | Regulation of response to external stimulus | 0.0052 | APOH,HRG,S100A9,F11,AHSG,MST1 |
GO:0016192 | Vesicle-mediated transport | 0.0073 | APOH,F9,HRG,TTR,AMBP,S100A9,AHSG |
GO:0051918 | Negative regulation of fibrinolysis | 0.0087 | APOH,HRG |
GO:0031639 | Plasminogen activation | 0.0099 | APOH,F11 |
GO:0045055 | Regulated exocytosis | 0.0099 | APOH,HRG,TTR,S100A9,AHSG |
GO:0051336 | Regulation of hydrolase activity | 0.0116 | APOH,SERPIND1,HRG,AMBP,S100A9,AHSG |
GO:0002576 | Platelet degranulation | 0.0174 | APOH,HRG,AHSG |
GO:0080134 | Regulation of response to stress | 0.0189 | APOH,HRG,AMBP,S100A9,F11,AHSG |
GO:0050790 | Regulation of catalytic activity | 0.0274 | APOH,SERPIND1,HRG,AMBP,S100A9,AHSG,MST1 |
GO:0006950 | Response to stress | 0.0308 | APOH,SERPIND1,F9,HRG,S100A9,F11,AHSG,NCAM1 |
GO:0006935 | Chemotaxis | 0.0452 | SERPIND1,HRG,S100A9,NCAM1 |
GO:0004866 | Endopeptidase inhibitor activity | 0.0064 | SERPIND1,HRG,AMBP,AHSG |
GO:0008201 | Heparin binding | 0.0064 | APOH,SERPIND1,HRG,F11 |
GO:0004867 | Serine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity | 0.0086 | SERPIND1,HRG,AMBP |
GO:0004252 | Serine-type endopeptidase activity | 0.0258 | F9,F11,MST1 |
GO:0019865 | Immunoglobulin binding | 0.0258 | HRG,AMBP |
GO:0030234 | Enzyme regulator activity | 0.0356 | APOH,SERPIND1,HRG,AMBP,AHSG |
Table 8.
Significantly expressed proteins (p < 0.05) when comparing EANPOST and O2POST and related publications in hyperbaria, hyperoxygen, or pulmonary oxygen toxicity for relevant protein results. Significantly expressed proteins that are associated with published literature relevant to hyperbaria, hyperoxygen, or pulmonary oxygen toxicity are marked with a, b, and/or c, respectively.
Accession (_HUMAN) | Ensembl ID (ENSG-) | Protein Name | Function | Relevant to Hyperbaria a, Hyperoxygen b, or Pulmonary O2 Toxicity c? |
---|
EANPOST |
A0A087WTE4 | 00000149294 | Neural cell adhesion molecule 1 | a cell adhesion molecule involved in neuron–neuron adhesion, neurite fasciculation, outgrowth of neurites, etc. | - |
AMBP | 00000106927 | Protein AMBP | inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor inhibits trypsin, plasmin, and lysosomal granulocytic elastase; inhibits calcium oxalate crystallization | - |
CON__ENSEMBL:ENSBTAP00000031900 | unclassified | CON__ENSEMBL:ENSBTAP00000031900 | unknown, not in the protein database | - |
FA9 | 00000101981 | Coagulation factor IX | a vitamin K-dependent plasma protein that participates in the intrinsic pathway of blood coagulation by converting factor X to its active form in the presence of Ca2+ ions, phospholipids, and factor 8a | - |
HEP2 | 00000099937 | Heparin cofactor 2 | predominant thrombin inhibitor in place of antithrombin III, also inhibits chymotrypsin | - |
ITIH4 | 00000055955 | Inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain H4 | involved in inflammatory responses to trauma, may also play a role in liver development or regeneration | - |
O2POST |
A0A0A0MS08 | 00000211896 | Immunoglobulin heavy constant gamma 1 | constant region of immunoglobulin heavy chains | - |
A0A286YFJ8 | 00000211892 | Immunoglobulin heavy constant gamma 4 | constant region of immunoglobulin heavy chains | - |
APOD | 00000189058 | Apolipoprotein D | occurs in the macromolecular complex with lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase, most likely involved in the transport and binding of bilin, able to transport a variety of ligands in several different contexts | c [48] |
KV105 | 00000243466 | Immunoglobulin kappa variable 1–5 | V region of the variable domain of immunoglobulin light chains that participates in the antigen recognition | - |
KV315 | 00000244437 | Immunoglobulin kappa variable 3–15 | V region of the variable domain of immunoglobulin light chains that participates in the antigen recognition | - |
M0R2W8 | 00000161031 | N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase (Fragment) | an enzyme that catalyzes a chemical reaction that cleaves the link between N-acetylmuramoyl residues and L-amino acid residues in certain cell-wall glycopeptides | - |
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, D.M.F. and E.C.L.; methodology, D.M.F., E.C.L. and K.J.M.; software, K.J.M., E.C.L., N.P., Y.S., J.S.B. and A.E.F.; validation, E.C.L. and D.M.F.; formal analysis, K.J.M. and E.C.L.; investigation, D.M.F. and E.C.L.; resources, D.M.F. and E.C.L.; data curation, E.C.L. and K.J.M.; writing—original draft preparation, K.J.M., E.C.L., D.M.F. and A.E.F.; writing—review and editing, all authors; visualization, K.J.M. and E.C.L.; supervision, D.M.F. and E.C.L.; project administration, D.M.F. and E.C.L.; funding acquisition, D.M.F. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported by funding from the Defense Health Program, Joint Program Committee 5, Military Operational Medicine Research Program, work unit F1604.
Institutional Review Board Statement
The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Naval Submarine—Medical Research Laboratory Institutional Review Board (NSMRL protocol 2017.0002 approval 7 February 2016).
Informed Consent Statement
Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
We wish to acknowledge the dive locker and staff at the Pressurized Submarine Escape Trainer, Naval Submarine School, Groton, CT for the use of their hyperbaric chamber facilities and the operational support that they provided in conducting the chamber dives for this study. We acknowledge Jeremy Balsbaugh in the University of Connecticut Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility for consult, sample processing and analysis, and assistance in the data analyses of the proteomics data.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest. The views expressed in this article reflect the results of research conducted by the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. The study protocol was approved by the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory Institutional Review Board in compliance with all applicable Federal regulations governing the protection of human subjects. Dr. David Fothergill is an employee of the U.S. Government. This work was prepared as part of his official duties. Title 17 U.S.C. §105 provides that ‘Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government’. Title 17 U.S.C. §101 defines the U.S. Government’s work as work prepared by a military service member or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties.
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