Crohn's disease (CD) is a type of chronic, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which affects any part of the gastrointestinal tract. This study aims to understand the mechanism which activate mucosal fibroblasts in the microenvironment of the colon in CD and colorectal carcinomas and to extract fibroblasts phenotypes via a novel framework based on non-negative factorization of matrix (NMF). The results identify a fibroblast phenotype characterized by intense pro-inflammatory activity ensured by the presence of genes belonging to the APOBEC1 family, such as APOBEC3F and APOBEC3G. These results demonstrated that there is a difference in fibroblast response in producing a pro-tumorigenic effect in CD. The different activation mechanisms could represent useful biomarkers in controlling CD development without generalizing its significance as IBD.

Colorectal cancer in Crohn's disease evaluated with genes belonging to fibroblasts of the intestinal mucosa selected by NMF

Angelina Boccarelli;Nicoletta Del Buono
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Flavia Esposito
2022-01-01

Abstract

Crohn's disease (CD) is a type of chronic, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which affects any part of the gastrointestinal tract. This study aims to understand the mechanism which activate mucosal fibroblasts in the microenvironment of the colon in CD and colorectal carcinomas and to extract fibroblasts phenotypes via a novel framework based on non-negative factorization of matrix (NMF). The results identify a fibroblast phenotype characterized by intense pro-inflammatory activity ensured by the presence of genes belonging to the APOBEC1 family, such as APOBEC3F and APOBEC3G. These results demonstrated that there is a difference in fibroblast response in producing a pro-tumorigenic effect in CD. The different activation mechanisms could represent useful biomarkers in controlling CD development without generalizing its significance as IBD.
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