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J. Mol. Sci.","IJMS"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Diagnosis of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) currently depends on invasive liver biopsy or serum markers with inadequate diagnostic performance. This study aimed to identify non-invasive urinary protein biomarkers for PBC detection. Urine specimens from biopsy-verified PBC patients and healthy controls were processed through ultracentrifugation-based protein extraction, enzymatic digestion, and HPLC-ESI-IT\/MS proteomic profiling; protein quantification was completed using Spectronaut v14.8. We identified 194 differentially expressed urinary proteins (109 upregulated, 85 downregulated) and screened 10 immune-related candidates through GO and KEGG enrichment. Pearson correlation further filtered three core proteins, osteopontin (SPP1\/OPN), RAMP3 and S100A8, that correlated significantly with key PBC biochemical indices (ALP, GGT, AST, ALT, IgM, p &lt; 0.05). Elevated urinary concentrations of OPN, RAMP3 and S100A8 were validated by ELISA in an independent cohort containing 30 PBC patients and 20 healthy volunteers. In summary, urinary OPN, RAMP3 and S100A8 are markedly increased in PBC patients and hold promise as non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers for PBC; however, their diagnostic specificity against other cholestatic and autoimmune liver diseases remains to be evaluated, and further confirmation in larger multicenter cohorts with disease control groups is warranted.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms27177584","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,24]],"date-time":"2026-08-24T17:20:28Z","timestamp":1787592028000},"page":"7584","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Label-Free Urinary Proteomics Uncovers Immune-Related Non-Invasive Biomarkers for Primary Biliary Cholangitis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Xiong","family":"Pei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610093, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ting","family":"Lei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610093, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610093, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qingmin","family":"Zeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610093, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hong","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610093, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Taoyou","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610093, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4500-047X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dongbo","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610093, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.3350\/cmh.2020.0028","article-title":"Current understanding of primary biliary cholangitis","volume":"27","author":"Tanaka","year":"2021","journal-title":"Clin. 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