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Fu D, Hu Z, Ma H, Xiong X, Chen X, Wang J, Zheng X, Yin Q. PLAU and GREM1 are prognostic biomarkers for predicting immune response in lung adenocarcinoma. Medicine (Baltimore) 2024; 103:e37041. [PMID: 38306567 PMCID: PMC10843304 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000037041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024] Open
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Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is a common malignant tumor. Identification of biomarkers and understanding their potential functions will facilitate the treatment and diagnosis in LUAD patients. The yellow module (cor = 0.31, P = 2e-6) was selected as the core module based on weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) by integrating RNA-seq data and tumor stage. Two upregulated genes (PLAU and GREM1) in yellow module were identified to be biomarkers. Kaplan-Meier curve analysis displayed that high expression levels of them had a poor overall survival (OS). And, their high expression levels revealed higher tumor stage and relapse possibility in LUAD patients, and could be a prognostic parameter. Both biomarkers showed similar immune cell expression profiles in low- and high-expression groups. Strongly positive correlation between both biomarkers and biomarkers of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes were also clarified in TCGA-LUAD cohort. Importantly, single gene GSEA showed that transcriptional mis-regulation in cancer and microRNAs in cancer were enriched in LUAD patients. Therefore, a miRNA-mRNA-transcription factors (TFs) co-expression regulatory networks was constructed for each biomarker, various miRNAs and TFs were related to PLAU and GREM1. Among which, 6 downstream TFs were overlapped genes for both biomarkers. Notably, 2 of these TFs (FOXF1 and TFAP2A) exhibited significantly abnormal expression levels. Among which, FOXF1 was downregulated and TFAP2A was upregulated in TCGA-LUAD cohort. Both TFs showed a significantly positive correlation with the expression level of PLAU. In conclusion, we identified 2 biomarkers related to immune response and achieved a good accuracy in predicting OS in patients with LUAD.
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- Dongliao Fu
- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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Zhang W, Li GS, Gan XY, Huang ZG, He RQ, Huang H, Li DM, Tang YL, Tang D, Zou W, Liu J, Dang YW, Chen G, Zhou HF, Kong JL, Lu HP. MMP12 serves as an immune cell-related marker of disease status and prognosis in lung squamous cell carcinoma. PeerJ 2023; 11:e15598. [PMID: 37601247 PMCID: PMC10439720 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15598] [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: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
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Background Worldwide, lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) has wreaked havoc on humanity. Matrix metallopeptidase 12 (MMP12) plays an essential role in a variety of cancers. This study aimed to reveal the expression, clinical significance, and potential molecular mechanisms of MMP12 in LUSC. Methods There were 2,738 messenger RNA (mRNA) samples from several multicenter databases used to detect MMP12 expression in LUSC, and 125 tissue samples were validated by immunohistochemistry (IHC) experiments. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves, Kaplan-Meier curves, and univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to assess the clinical value of MMP12 in LUSC. The potential molecular mechanisms of MMP12 were explored by gene enrichment analysis and immune correlation analysis. Furthermore, single-cell sequencing was used to determine the distribution of MMP12 in multiple tumor microenvironment cells. Results MMP12 was significantly overexpressed at the mRNA level (p < 0.05, SMD = 3.13, 95% CI [2.51-3.75]), which was verified at the protein level (p < 0.001) by internal IHC experiments. MMP12 expression could be used to differentiate LUSC samples from normal samples, and overexpression of MMP12 itself implied a worse clinical prognosis and higher levels of immune cell infiltration in LUSC patients. MMP12 was involved in cancer development and progression through two immune-related signaling pathways. The high expression of MMP12 in LUSC might act as an antigen-presenting cell-associated tumor neoantigen and activate the body's immune response. Conclusions MMP12 expression is upregulated in LUSC and high expression of MMP12 serves as a risk factor for LUSC patients. MMP12 may be involved in cancer development by participating in immune-related signaling pathways and elevating the level of immune cell infiltration.
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- Wei Zhang
- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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Su X, Gao H, Qi Z, Xu T, Wang G, Luo H, Cheng P. Prediction of immune subtypes and overall survival in lung squamous cell carcinoma. Curr Med Res Opin 2023; 39:289-298. [PMID: 36245361 DOI: 10.1080/03007995.2022.2129231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), one of the most common subtypes of lung cancer, is a leading cause of cancer-caused deaths in the world. It has been well demonstrated that a deep understanding of the tumor environment in cancer would be helpful to predict the prognosis of patients. This study aimed to evaluate the tumor environment in LUSC, and to construct an efficient prognosis model involved in specific subtypes. METHODS Four expression files were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Three datasets (GSE19188, GSE2088, GSE6044) were considered as the testing group and the other dataset (GSE11969) was used as the validation group. By performing LUSC immune subtype consensus clustering (CC), LUSC patients were separated into two immune subtypes comprising subtype 1 (S1) and subtype 2 (S2). Weighted gene co-expression network (WGCNA) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) were performed to identify and narrow down the key genes among subtype 1 related genes that were closely related to the overall survival (OS) of LUSC patients. Using immune subtype related genes, a prognostic model was also constructed to predict the OS of LUSC patients. RESULTS It showed that LUSC patients in the S1 immune subtype exhibited a better OS than in the S2 immune subtype. WGCNA and LASSO analyses screened out important immune subtype related genes in specific modules that were closely associated with LUSC prognosis, followed by construction of the prognostic model. Both the testing datasets and validation dataset confirmed that the prognostic model could be efficiently used to predict the OS of LUSC patients in subtype 1. CONCLUSION We explored the tumor environment in LUSC and established a risk prognostic model that might have the potential to be applied in clinical practice.
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- Xiaomei Su
- Department of Oncology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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Bai R, Zhang J, He F, Li Y, Dai P, Huang Z, Han L, Wang Z, Gong Y, Xie C. GPR87 promotes tumor cell invasion and mediates the immunogenomic landscape of lung adenocarcinoma. Commun Biol 2022; 5:663. [PMID: 35790819 PMCID: PMC9256611 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03506-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study is to examine the association between G protein-coupled receptor 87 (GPR87) and lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) metastasis and immune infiltration. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets extract clinical data. According to the TCGA database, increased GPR87 expression predicts poor overall survival, progression-free interval, and disease-specific survival in LUAD patients. The meta-analysis also reveals a significant association between high GPR87 expression and poor overall survival. Moreover, functional experiments demonstrate that GPR87 silencing reduces LUAD cell invasion and migration. Immunoblotting shows that GPR87 knockdown decreased Vimentin and N-cadherin expression and increased E-cadherin expression in LUAD cells. GPR87 expression in LUAD is positively correlated with immune infiltration. In addition, GPR87 expression is associated with immune and chemotherapy resistance in LUAD patients. Our findings indicate that GPR87 promotes tumor progression and is correlated with immune infiltration, suggesting GPR87 as a possible biomarker for prognosis prediction in LUAD. GPR87 is reported as a central player in lung adenocarcinoma and in resistance to immunotherapy, by promoting tumor cell invasion and mediating the immunogenomic landscape.
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Su Y, Xu B, Shen Q, Lei Z, Zhang W, Hu T. LIMK2 Is a Novel Prognostic Biomarker and Correlates With Tumor Immune Cell Infiltration in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Front Immunol 2022; 13:788375. [PMID: 35273591 PMCID: PMC8902256 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.788375] [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: 10/02/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Previous research found that LIM domain kinase 2 (LIMK2) expression correlated with a poor prognosis in many cancers. However, its role in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) has not yet been clarified. Our study aimed to clarify the role of LIMK2 in LUSC prognosis prediction and explore the relationship between LIMK2 and immune infiltration in LUSC. In this study, we first analyzed the expression level and prognostic value of LIMK2 across cancers. Subsequently, we explored the association of LIMK2 expression with immune infiltrating cells and immune checkpoints. our study found that LIMK2 was highly expressed and positively associated with the overall survival of LUSC. Moreover, our study further indicated that LIMK2 expression was significantly negatively correlated with immune cell infiltration and immune checkpoints in LUSC. Finally, we confirmed upstream regulatory noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) of LIMK2, and the PVT1 and DHRS4-AS1/miR-423-5p/LIMK2 regulatory axes were successfully constructed in LUSC. Put together, LIMK2 is a novel prognostic biomarker and correlates with tumor immune cell infiltration in LUSC, and the expression of LIMK2 is regulated by the PVT1 and DHRS4-AS1/miR-423-5p axes.
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- Yongcheng Su
- Cancer Research Center, Xiamen University School of Medicine, Xiamen, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Cancer Research Center, Xiamen University School of Medicine, Xiamen, China
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- Cancer Research Center, Xiamen University School of Medicine, Xiamen, China
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- Cancer Research Center, Xiamen University School of Medicine, Xiamen, China
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- Cancer Research Center, Xiamen University School of Medicine, Xiamen, China.,Shenzhen Research Institute of Xiamen University, Shenzhen, China
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Zhang X, Xiao J, Fu X, Qin G, Yu M, Chen G, Li X. Construction of a Two-Gene Immunogenomic-Related Prognostic Signature in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:867494. [PMID: 35463955 PMCID: PMC9024339 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.867494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Lung cancer has the highest tumor incidence in China. Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) is the most common type, accounting for 40–51% of primary lung cancers. LUSC is slow in growth and late in metastasis. Immune-related genes (IRGs) and immune infiltrating cells play a vital role in the clinical outcomes of LUSC. It is important to systematically study its immune gene map to help the prognosis of cancer patients. In this study, we combined the prognostic landscape and expression status of IRGs downloaded from the TCGA and InnatedDB databases and systematically analyzed the prognostic information of LUSC patients to obtain IRGs. After systematically exploring the survival analysis, prognosis-related genes were found, and the PPI network revealed that a total of 11 genes were hub genes. A two-gene prognosis risk model was established by multivariate Cox analysis. Two IRGs were closely correlated with the prognosis of LUSC. Based on these two genes, a new independent prognostic risk model was established, and this model was further verified in the GEO database. Moreover, the risk score of the model was correlated with sex, survival status, and lymphatic metastasis in LUSC patients, and the predictive risk of the prognostic risk model was significantly positively correlated with five kinds of immune cells (CD4 T cells, CD8 T cells, neutrophils, macrophages, and dendritic cells). This study comprehensively analyzed immunogenomics and presented immune-related prognostic biomarkers for LUSC.
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- Xiaoting Zhang
- Shenzhen Bao’an District Songgang People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Bao’an District Songgang People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Bao’an District Songgang People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Bao’an District Songgang People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Bao’an District Songgang People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Xiaofeng Li, ; Guihong Chen,
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
- *Correspondence: Xiaofeng Li, ; Guihong Chen,
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Zhai WY, Duan FF, Chen S, Wang JY, Zhao ZR, Wang YZ, Rao BY, Lin YB, Long H. An Aging-Related Gene Signature-Based Model for Risk Stratification and Prognosis Prediction in Lung Squamous Carcinoma. Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:770550. [PMID: 35300428 PMCID: PMC8921527 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.770550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Aging is an inevitable process characterized by a decline in many physiological activities, and has been known as a significant risk factor for many kinds of malignancies, but there are few studies about aging-related genes (ARGs) in lung squamous carcinoma (LUSC). We designed this study to explore the prognostic value of ARGs and establish an ARG-based prognosis signature for LUSC patients. RNA-sequencing and corresponding clinicopathological data of patients with LUSC were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). The ARG risk signature was developed on the basis of results of LASSO and multivariate Cox analysis in the TCGA training dataset (n = 492). Furthermore, the GSE73403 dataset (n = 69) validated the prognostic performance of this ARG signature. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining was used to verify the expression of the ARGs in the signature. A five ARG-based signature, including A2M, CHEK2, ELN, FOS, and PLAU, was constructed in the TCGA dataset, and stratified patients into low- and high-risk groups with significantly different overall survival (OS) rates. The ARG risk score remained to be considered as an independent indicator of OS in the multivariate Cox regression model for LUSC patients. Then, a prognostic nomogram incorporating the ARG risk score with T-, N-, and M-classification was established. It achieved a good discriminative ability with a C-index of 0.628 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.586-0.671) in the TCGA cohort and 0.648 (95% CI: 0.535-0.762) in the GSE73403 dataset. Calibration curves displayed excellent agreement between the actual observations and the nomogram-predicted survival. The IHC staining discovered that these five ARGs were overexpression in LUSC tissues. Besides, the immune infiltration analysis in the TCGA cohort represented a distinctly differentiated infiltration of anti-tumor immune cells between the low- and high-risk groups. We identified a novel ARG-related prognostic signature, which may serve as a potential biomarker for individualized survival predictions and personalized therapeutic recommendation of anti-tumor immunity for patients with LUSC.
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- Wen-Yu Zhai
- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.,Lung Cancer Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.,Lung Cancer Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.,Lung Cancer Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.,Lung Cancer Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.,Lung Cancer Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.,Lung Cancer Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.,Lung Cancer Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Yang D, Ma X, Song P. A prognostic model of non small cell lung cancer based on TCGA and ImmPort databases. Sci Rep 2022; 12:437. [PMID: 35013450 PMCID: PMC8748945 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04268-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Bioinformatics methods are used to construct an immune gene prognosis assessment model for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and to screen biomarkers that affect the occurrence and prognosis of NSCLC. The transcriptomic data and clinicopathological data of NSCLC and cancer-adjacent normal tissues were downloaded from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and the immune-related genes were obtained from the IMMPORT database (http://www.immport.org/); then, the differentially expressed immune genes were screened out. Based on these genes, an immune gene prognosis model was constructed. The Cox proportional hazards regression model was used for univariate and multivariate analyses. Further, the correlations among the risk score, clinicopathological characteristics, tumor microenvironment, and the prognosis of NSCLC were analyzed. A total of 193 differentially expressed immune genes related to NSCLC were screened based on the "wilcox.test" in R language, and Cox single factor analysis showed that 19 differentially expressed immune genes were associated with the prognosis of NSCLC (P < 0.05). After including 19 differentially expressed immune genes with P < 0.05 into the Cox multivariate analysis, an immune gene prognosis model of NSCLC was constructed (it included 13 differentially expressed immune genes). Based on the risk score, the samples were divided into the high-risk and low-risk groups. The Kaplan–Meier survival curve results showed that the 5-year overall survival rate in the high-risk group was 32.4%, and the 5-year overall survival rate in the low-risk group was 53.7%. The receiver operating characteristic model curve confirmed that the prediction model had a certain accuracy (AUC = 0.673). After incorporating multiple variables into the Cox regression analysis, the results showed that the immune gene prognostic risk score was an independent predictor of the prognosis of NSCLC patients. There was a certain correlation between the risk score and degree of neutrophil infiltration in the tumor microenvironment. The NSCLC immune gene prognosis assessment model was constructed based on bioinformatics methods, and it can be used to calculate the prognostic risk score of NSCLC patients. Further, this model is expected to provide help for clinical judgment of the prognosis of NSCLC patients.
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- Dongliang Yang
- Department of General Education, Cangzhou Medical College, Cangzhou, 061001, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, 252200, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, 252200, China.
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Liu J, Zhang X, Ye T, Dong Y, Zhang W, Wu F, Bo H, Shao H, Zhang R, Shen H. Prognostic modeling of patients with metastatic melanoma based on tumor immune microenvironment characteristics. MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING : MBE 2022; 19:1448-1470. [PMID: 35135212 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2022067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Most of the malignant melanomas are already in the middle and advanced stages when they are diagnosed, which is often accompanied by the metastasis and spread of other organs. Besides, the prognosis of patients is bleak. The characteristics of the local immune microenvironment in metastatic melanoma have important implications for both tumor progression and tumor treatment. In this study, data on patients with metastatic melanoma from the TCGA and GEO datasets were selected for immune, stromal, and estimate scores, and overlapping differentially expressed genes were screened. A nine-IRGs prognostic model (ALOX5AP, ARHGAP15, CCL8, FCER1G, GBP4, HCK, MMP9, RARRES2 and TRIM22) was established by univariate COX regression, LASSO and multivariate COX regression. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to test the predictive accuracy of the model. Immune infiltration was analyzed by using CIBERSORT and Xcell in high-risk and low-risk groups. The immune infiltration of the high-risk group was significantly lower than that of the low-risk group. Immune checkpoint analysis revealed that the expression of PDCD1, CTLA4, TIGIT, CD274, HAVR2 and LAG3 demonstrated the visible difference in groups with different levels of risk scores. WGCNA analysis found that the yellow-green module contained seven genes from the nine-IRG prognostic model, and the yellow-green module had the highest correlation with risk scores. The results of GO and KEGG suggested that the genes in the yellow-green module were mainly enriched in immune-related biological processes. Finally, the expression characteristics of ALOX5AP, ARHGAP15, CCL8, FCER1G, GBP4, HCK, MMP9, RARRES2 and TRIM22 were analyzed between metastatic melanoma and normal samples. Overall, a prognostic model for metastatic melanoma based on the tumor immune microenvironment characteristics was established, which left plenty of space for further studies. It could function well in helping people to understand characteristics of the immune microenvironment in metastatic melanoma.
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- Jing Liu
- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Dongguan People's Hospital, Affiliated Dongguan Hospital of Southern Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong 523059, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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Wang J, Hu T, Wang Q, Chen R, Xie Y, Chang H, Cheng J. Repression of the AURKA-CXCL5 axis induces autophagic cell death and promotes radiosensitivity in non-small-cell lung cancer. Cancer Lett 2021; 509:89-104. [PMID: 33848520 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2021.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Aurora kinase A (AURKA) regulates apoptosis and autophagy in various diseases and has shown promising clinical effects. Nevertheless, the complex regulatory mechanism of AURKA and autophagy in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) radiosensitivity remains to be elucidated. Here, we showed that AURKA was upregulated in NSCLC cell lines and tissues and that AURKA overexpression was significantly related to a poor prognosis, tumor stage and lymph node metastasis in NSCLC. Interestingly, AURKA expression was significantly increased after 8Gy radiotherapy. Silencing of AURKA enhanced radiosensitivity and impaired migration and invasion in vivo and in vitro. Mechanistically, we determined that CXCL5, a member of the chemokine family, was a key downstream effector of AURKA, and the phenotype induced by AURKA silencing was partly due to CXCL5 inhibition. We further demonstrated that the AURKA-CXCL5 axis played an essential role in NSCLC autophagy and that the activation of cytotoxic autophagy attenuated the malignant biological behavior of NSCLC cells mediated by AURKA-CXCL5. In general, we revealed the role of the AURKA-CXCL5 axis and autophagy in regulating the sensitivity of NSCLC cells to radiotherapy, which may provide potential therapeutic targets and new strategies for combatting NSCLC resistance to radiotherapy.
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- Jue Wang
- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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Feng P, Li H, Pei J, Huang Y, Li G. Identification of a 14-Gene Prognostic Signature for Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL). Front Genet 2021; 12:625414. [PMID: 33643388 PMCID: PMC7902938 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.625414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
Although immunotherapy is a potential strategy to resist cancers, due to the inadequate acknowledge, this treatment is not always effective for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. Based on the current situation, it is critical to systematically investigate the immune pattern. According to the result of univariate and multivariate cox proportional hazards, LASSO regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis on immune-related genes (IRGs), a prognostic signature, containing 14 IRGs (AQP9, LMBR1L, FGF20, TANK, CRP, ORM1, JAK1, BACH2, MTCP1, IFITM1, TNFSF10, FGF12, RFX5, and LAP3), was built. This model was validated by external data, and performed well. DLBCL patients were divided into low- and high-risk groups, according to risk scores from risk formula. The results of CIBERSORT showed that different immune status and infiltration pattern were observed in these two groups. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) indicated 12 signaling pathways were significantly enriched in the high-risk group, such as natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity, toll-like receptor signaling pathway, and so on. In summary, 14 clinically significant IRGs were screened to build a risk score formula. This formula was an accurate tool to provide a certain basis for the treatment of DLBCL patients.
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- Pengcheng Feng
- Department of Basic Medicine, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, China
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- Affiliated Hospital of Changzhi Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changzhi, China
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- Department of Basic Medicine, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, China
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- Department of Basic Medicine, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, China
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- Department of Basic Medicine, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, China
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