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Ma YY, Zhang GJ, Liu PF, Liu Y, Ding JC, Xu H, Hao L, Pan D, Wang HL, Wang JK, Xu P, Shi ZD, Pang K. Comprehensive Genomic Analysis of Puerarin in Inhibiting Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma Cell Proliferation and Migration. Recent Pat Anticancer Drug Discov 2024; 19:516-529. [PMID: 37694778 DOI: 10.2174/1574892819666230908110107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Revised: 06/04/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Bladder urothelial carcinoma (BUC) ranks second in the incidence of urogenital system tumors, and the treatment of BUC needs to be improved. Puerarin, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), has been shown to have various effects such as anti-cancer effects, the promotion of angiogenesis, and anti-inflammation. This study investigates the effects of puerarin on BUC and its molecular mechanisms. METHODS Through GeneChip experiments, we obtained differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and analyzed these DEGs using the Ingenuity® Pathway Analysis (IPA®), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) and Gene Ontology (GO) pathway enrichment analyses. The Cell Counting Kit 8 (CCK8) assay was used to verify the inhibitory effect of puerarin on the proliferation of BUC T24 cells. String combined with Cytoscape® was used to create the Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) network, and the MCC algorithm in cytoHubba plugin was used to screen key genes. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA®) was used to verify the correlation between key genes and cell proliferation. RESULTS A total of 1617 DEGs were obtained by GeneChip. Based on the DEGs, the IPA® and pathway enrichment analysis showed they were mainly enriched in cancer cell proliferation and migration. CCK8 experiments proved that puerarin inhibited the proliferation of BUC T24 cells, and its IC50 at 48 hours was 218μmol/L. Through PPI and related algorithms, 7 key genes were obtained: ITGA1, LAMA3, LAMB3, LAMA4, PAK2, DMD, and UTRN. GSEA showed that these key genes were highly correlated with BUC cell proliferation. Survival curves showed that ITGA1 upregulation was associated with poor prognosis of BUC patients. CONCLUSION Our findings support the potential antitumor activity of puerarin in BUC. To the best of our knowledge, bioinformatics investigation suggests that puerarin demonstrates anticancer mechanisms via the upregulation of ITGA1, LAMA3 and 4, LAMB3, PAK2, DMD, and UTRN, all of which are involved in the proliferation and migration of bladder urothelial cancer cells.
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- Yu-Yang Ma
- Department of Urology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, No.199, South Jiefang Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Department of Urology, Graduate School, Bengbu Medical College, Building 1, Administration Building, 2600 Donghai Avenue, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, China
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- Department of Urology, Suqian Zhongwu Hospital. No. 3786, Development Avenue, Suqian Economic and Technological Development Zone, Suqian, China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Educational Big Data Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, 101 Shanghai Road, Tongshan, Xuzhou, 221116, China
- School of Mathematics and Statistics and Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Jiangsu Normal University, 101 Shanghai Road, Tongshan, Xuzhou, 221116, China
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- Department of Central Laboratory, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College. No.199, South Jiefang Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Xuzhou First People's Hospital, No. 269, Daxue Road, Tongshan District, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Urology, Graduate School, Bengbu Medical College, Building 1, Administration Building, 2600 Donghai Avenue, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, China
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- Department of Urology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, No.199, South Jiefang Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Urology, Graduate School, Bengbu Medical College, Building 1, Administration Building, 2600 Donghai Avenue, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, China
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- Department of Urology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, No.199, South Jiefang Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Graduate School, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, 212013, China
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- Graduate School, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, 212013, China
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- Department of Urology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, No.199, South Jiefang Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Department of Urology, Graduate School, Bengbu Medical College, Building 1, Administration Building, 2600 Donghai Avenue, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, China
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- Department of Urology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, No.199, South Jiefang Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Department of Urology, Graduate School, Bengbu Medical College, Building 1, Administration Building, 2600 Donghai Avenue, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, China
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Hagemann T, Czechowski P, Ghosh A, Sun W, Dong H, Noé F, Wolfrum C, Blüher M, Hoffmann A. Laminin α4 Expression in Human Adipose Tissue Depots and Its Association with Obesity and Obesity Related Traits. Biomedicines 2023; 11:2806. [PMID: 37893179 PMCID: PMC10604865 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11102806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Laminin α4 (LAMA4) is one of the main structural adipocyte basement membrane (BM) components that is upregulated during adipogenesis and related to obesity in mice and humans. We conducted RNA-seq-based gene expression analysis of LAMA4 in abdominal subcutaneous (SC) and visceral (VIS) adipose tissue (AT) depots across three human sub-cohorts of the Leipzig Obesity BioBank (LOBB) to explore the relationship between LAMA4 expression and obesity (N = 1479) in the context of weight loss (N = 65) and metabolic health (N = 42). We found significant associations of LAMA4 with body fat mass (p < 0.001) in VIS AT; higher expression in VIS AT compared to SC AT; and significant relation to metabolic health parameters e.g., body fat in VIS AT, waist (p = 0.009) and interleukin 6 (p = 0.002) in male VIS AT, and hemoglobin A1c (p = 0.008) in male SC AT. AT LAMA4 expression was not significantly different between subjects with or without obesity, metabolically healthy versus unhealthy, and obesity before versus after short-term weight loss. Our results support significant associations between obesity related clinical parameters and elevated LAMA4 expression in humans. Our work offers one of the first references for understanding the meaning of LAMA4 expression specifically in relation to obesity based on large-scale RNA-seq data.
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- Tobias Hagemann
- Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University of Leipzig and University Hospital Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University of Leipzig and University Hospital Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8093 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8093 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8093 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8093 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8093 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
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- Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University of Leipzig and University Hospital Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Medical Department III—Endocrinology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University of Leipzig and University Hospital Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Shu Y, He L, Gao M, Xiao F, Yang J, Wang S, Wei H, Zhang F, Wei H. EOGT Correlated With Immune Infiltration: A Candidate Prognostic Biomarker for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Front Immunol 2022; 12:780509. [PMID: 35069551 PMCID: PMC8766744 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.780509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background A preliminary study by our group revealed that the deficiency of EGF domain-specific O-linked N-acetylglucosamine transferase (EOGT) impaired regulatory T-cell differentiation in autoimmune hepatitis. Nevertheless, the prognostic value of EOGT in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and its relationship with immune infiltration remain obscured. Methods Initially, EOGT expression was evaluated by Oncomine, TIMER, GEO, and UALCAN databases. Besides, the prognostic potential of EOGT expression was analyzed using GEPIA, Kaplan-Meier plotter, CPTAC, Cox regression, and nomogram in HCC samples. Furthermore, we investigated the association between EOGT expression and tumor mutation burden, DNA methylation, and immune infiltration in addition to its possible mechanism via cBioPortal, TIMER, GEPIA, ESTIMATE, CIBERSORT, GSEA, STRING, and Cytoscape. Results The expression of EOGT in HCC was significantly higher than that in normal tissues. Additionally, elevated EOGT expression was correlated with advanced tumor staging and linked to poor overall survival and relapse-free survival, serving as a significant unfavorable prognostic indicator in HCC patients. Remarkably, our results revealed that high-EOGT expression subgroups with elevated TP53 or low CTNNB1 mutations have worse clinical outcomes than the others. Regarding immune infiltration, immunofluorescent staining showed that immune cells in HCC were positive for EOGT. Besides, elevated EOGT expression was linked to exhausted T cells and immune suppressor cells in HCC samples. More importantly, the proportion of CD8+ T cells was reduced in HCC samples with a high level of EOGT expression, but EOGT did not exhibit prognostic potential in HCC samples with increased CD8+ T cells. Conclusions EOGT may hold great potential as a novel biomarker to distinguish prognosis and immune profiles of HCC patients.
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- Yang Shu
- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Wu F, Zhang L, Wang L, Zhang D. AGT May Serve as a Prognostic Biomarker and Correlated with Immune Infiltration in Gastric Cancer. Int J Gen Med 2022; 15:1865-1878. [PMID: 35264871 PMCID: PMC8899101 DOI: 10.2147/ijgm.s351662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Purpose Angiotensinogen (AGT), as a component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), is associated with multiple risk factors for gastric cancer (GC). However, the relationship between AGT and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in GC remains elusive. Methods AGT expression was analyzed based on the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset. Kaplan–Meier curve was employed to assess the role of AGT expression in gastric patients’ prognosis. The association between AGT expression and tumor immune infiltration was further evaluated via exploring Tumour Immune Estimation Resource (TIMER) and The Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis (GEPIA). We also used multiple public databases to analyse the aberrant methylation of AGT, construct protein–protein interaction (PPI) and gene ontology (GO) analyses. Results AGT was overexpressed in GC tissues compared with normal gastric tissues (P<0.05). High AGT expression related with poorer overall survival of patients with GC, especially in advanced GC patients. Immune infiltration analysis revealed that AGT was associated with several immune cells (including B cells, CD4+ T cells, macrophages), and AGT expression was also associated with the markers of NK cells, TAMs, Tregs, and so on (all P<0.05). Methylation analysis indicated that hypomethylation may lead to abnormal upregulation of the AGT. GO analysis showed that AGT and its related genes were enriched in systemic arterial blood pressure by hormone, regulation of blood volume by renin-angiotensin, NIK/NF-kappaB signaling, ficolin-1-rich granule and so on. Conclusion AGT could act as a promising biomarker for prognosis and immune infiltration in GC.
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- Fanqi Wu
- Department of Respiratory, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China
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- The Second Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China
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- Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China
- Correspondence: Dekui Zhang, Department of Gastroenterology, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, No. 82, Cuiyingmen, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 13919788616, Email
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