Integrated trajectories of the maternal metabolome, proteome, and immunome predict labor onset.

Estimating the time of delivery is of high clinical importance because pre- and postterm deviations are associated with complications for the mother and her offspring. However, current estimations are inaccurate. As pregnancy progresses toward labor, major transitions occur in fetomaternal immune, metabolic, and endocrine systems that culminate in birth. The comprehensive characterization of maternal biology that precedes labor is key to understanding these physiological transitions and identifying predictive biomarkers of delivery. Here, a longitudinal study was conducted in 63 women who went into labor spontaneously. More than 7000 plasma analytes and peripheral immune cell responses were analyzed using untargeted mass spectrometry, aptamer-based proteomic technology, and single-cell mass cytometry in serial blood samples collected during the last 100 days of pregnancy. The high-dimensional dataset was integrated into a multiomic model that predicted the time to spontaneous labor [R = 0.85, 95% confidence interval (CI) [0.79 to 0.89], P = 1.2 × 10-40, N = 53, training set; R = 0.81, 95% CI [0.61 to 0.91], P = 3.9 × 10-7, N = 10, independent test set]. Coordinated alterations in maternal metabolome, proteome, and immunome marked a molecular shift from pregnancy maintenance to prelabor biology 2 to 4 weeks before delivery. A surge in steroid hormone metabolites and interleukin-1 receptor type 4 that preceded labor coincided with a switch from immune activation to regulation of inflammatory responses. Our study lays the groundwork for developing blood-based methods for predicting the day of labor, anchored in mechanisms shared in preterm and term pregnancies. Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works.

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Ina A Stelzer, Mohammad S Ghaemi, Xiaoyuan Han, Kazuo Ando, Julien J Hédou, Dorien Feyaerts, Laura S Peterson, Kristen K Rumer, Eileen S Tsai, Edward A Ganio, Dyani K Gaudillière, Amy S Tsai, Benjamin Choisy, Lea P Gaigne, Franck Verdonk, Danielle Jacobsen, Sonia Gavasso, Gavin M Traber, Mathew Ellenberger, Natalie Stanley, Martin Becker, Anthony Culos, Ramin Fallahzadeh, Ronald J Wong, Gary L Darmstadt, Maurice L Druzin, Virginia D Winn, Ronald S Gibbs, Xuefeng B Ling, Karl Sylvester, Brendan Carvalho, Michael P Snyder, Gary M Shaw, David K Stevenson, Kévin Contrepois, Martin S Angst, Nima Aghaeepour, Brice Gaudillière. Integrated trajectories of the maternal metabolome, proteome, and immunome predict labor onset. Science translational medicine. 2021 May 05;13(592)

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