Journal: JID Innovations
Article Title: Assessing T-Cell Profile Shifts through IL-23 Inhibition by Guselkumab on Psoriasis
doi: 10.1016/j.xjidi.2025.100433
Figure Lengend Snippet: Gene expression analysis at baseline predicting the effects of guselkumab. ( a) Clustering of transcriptomic profile–based moderate responder (blue) and transcriptomic profile–based high responder (red) groups using UMAP analysis of RNA-seq data of pretreatment CD4 + cells in peripheral blood. Box plots show the comparison of clinical response to guselkumab. ( b) Comparison of total Treg and each Treg subset in lesional skin blood and peripheral blood at 4W after guselkumab administration between the moderate and high responder groups. Box plots display the distribution of values, with the bars indicating the median, the box showing the interquartile range, and the whiskers covering the whole range of the data. ( c) Heatmap of serum levels of various cytokines and chemokines in peripheral blood at 0W from the moderate and high responder groups. The scale represents z-score, with red indicating higher expression. The moderate responder group showed significantly higher levels of the 6 cytokines/chemokines highlighted by the yellow box than the high responder group. ( d) Levels of cytokines associated with Th17 cells (eg, TGF-β1, IL-23, IL-6) and chemokines associated with immune cells in psoriasis (eg, GRO-α/CXCL1, ENA-78/CXCL5, I-TAC/CXCL11) in peripheral blood samples from moderate and high responder groups at different time points (0W, 4W, and 12W). All data were treated as nonparametric, and comparisons were conducted using the Mann–Whitney test for unpaired data. Statistical significance is indicated with asterisks (∗ P < .05, ∗∗ P < .01, and ∗∗∗ P < .001). 0W, 0 week; 12W, 12 week; 4W, 4 week; RNA-seq, RNA-sequencing; Th, T helper; Treg, regulatory T cell; UMAP, Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection.
Article Snippet: Raw sequencing data (fastq files) were received from Macrogen Japan.
Techniques: Gene Expression, RNA Sequencing, Comparison, Expressing, MANN-WHITNEY