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Samaržija I. The Potential of Extracellular Matrix- and Integrin Adhesion Complex-Related Molecules for Prostate Cancer Biomarker Discovery. Biomedicines 2023; 12:79. [PMID: 38255186 PMCID: PMC10813710 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines12010079] [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: 11/18/2023] [Revised: 12/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
Abstract
Prostate cancer is among the top five cancer types according to incidence and mortality. One of the main obstacles in prostate cancer management is the inability to foresee its course, which ranges from slow growth throughout years that requires minimum or no intervention to highly aggressive disease that spreads quickly and resists treatment. Therefore, it is not surprising that numerous studies have attempted to find biomarkers of prostate cancer occurrence, risk stratification, therapy response, and patient outcome. However, only a few prostate cancer biomarkers are used in clinics, which shows how difficult it is to find a novel biomarker. Cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix (ECM) through integrins is among the essential processes that govern its fate. Upon activation and ligation, integrins form multi-protein intracellular structures called integrin adhesion complexes (IACs). In this review article, the focus is put on the biomarker potential of the ECM- and IAC-related molecules stemming from both body fluids and prostate cancer tissue. The processes that they are involved in, such as tumor stiffening, bone turnover, and communication via exosomes, and their biomarker potential are also reviewed.
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- Ivana Samaržija
- Laboratory for Epigenomics, Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Bošković Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Wang Y, Wang Q, Chen L, Li B. The lysosome-phagosome pathway mediates immune regulatory mechanisms in Mesocentrotus nudus against Vibrio coralliilyticus infection. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2023; 139:108864. [PMID: 37277051 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2023.108864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2023] [Revised: 05/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Sea urchins are a popular model species for studying invertebrate diseases. The immune regulatory mechanisms of the sea urchin Mesocentrotus nudus during pathogenic infection are currently unknown. This study aimed to reveal the potential molecular mechanisms of M. nudus during resistance to Vibrio coralliilyticus infection by integrative transcriptomic and proteomic analyses. Here, we identified a total of 135,868 unigenes and 4,351 proteins in the four infection periods of 0 h, 20 h, 60 h and 100 h in M. nudus. In the I20, I60 and I100 infection comparison groups, 10,861, 15,201 and 8,809 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and 2,188, 2,386 and 2,516 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were identified, respectively. We performed an integrated comparative analysis of the transcriptome and proteome throughout the infection phase and found very a low correlation between transcriptome and proteome changes. KEGG pathway analysis revealed that most upregulated DEGs and DEPs were involved in immune strategies. Notably, "lysosome" and "phagosome" activated throughout the infection process, could be considered the two most important enrichment pathways at the mRNA and protein levels. The significant increase in phagocytosis of infected M. nudus coelomocytes further demonstrated that the lysosome-phagosome pathway played an important immunological role in M. nudus resistance to pathogenic infection. Key gene expression profiles and protein‒protein interaction analysis revealed that cathepsin family and V-ATPase family genes might be key bridges in the lysosome-phagosome pathway. In addition, the expression patterns of key immune genes were verified using qRT‒PCR, and the different expression trends of candidate genes reflected, to some extent, the regulatory mechanism of immune homeostasis mediated by the lysosome-phagosome pathway in M. nudus against pathogenic infection. This work will provide new insights into the immune regulatory mechanisms of sea urchins under pathogenic stress and help identify key potential genes/proteins for sea urchin immune responses.
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- Yanxia Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, 264003, China; University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 10049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, 264003, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, 264003, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, 264003, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China.
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Xie T, Shuang L, Liu G, Zhao S, Yuan Z, Cai H, Jiang L, Huang Z. Insight into the Neuroprotective Effect of Genistein-3'-Sodium Sulfonate Against Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischaemic Brain Injury in Rats by Bioinformatics. Mol Neurobiol 2023; 60:807-819. [PMID: 36370154 PMCID: PMC9849302 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-022-03123-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is the only intervention approved for the treatment of neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE), but its treatment window is narrow (within 6 h after birth), and its efficacy is not ideal. Thus, alternative treatments are urgently needed. Our previous studies showed that genistein-3'-sodium sulfonate (GSS), a derivative of genistein (Gen), has a strong neuroprotective effect in rats with ischaemic stroke, but its role in HIE is unclear. A hypoxia-ischaemia (HI) brain injury model was established in neonatal male Sprague‒Dawley (SD) rats. Twenty-four hours after reperfusion, rats treated with GSS were assessed for cerebral infarction, neurological function, and neuronal damage. RNA-Seq and bioinformatics analysis were used to explore differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and regulated signalling pathways, which were subsequently validated by Western blotting and immunofluorescence. In this study, we found that GSS not only significantly reduced the size of brain infarcts and alleviated nerve damage in rats with HIE but also inhibited neuronal loss and degeneration in neonatal rats with HIE. A total of 2170 DEGs, of which 1102 were upregulated and 1068 were downregulated, were identified in the GSS group compared with the HI group. In an analysis based on Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) categories, the downregulated DEGs were significantly enriched in the pathways "Phagosome", "NF-κB signalling", and "Complement and coagulation cascades", amongst others. Meanwhile, the upregulated DEGs were significantly enriched in the pathways "Neurodegeneration", "Glutamatergic synapse", and "Calcium signalling pathway", amongst others. These results indicate that GSS intervenes in the process of HIE-induced brain injury by participating in multiple pathways, which suggests potential candidate drugs for the treatment of HIE.
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- Ting Xie
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases of Ministry of Education, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China ,Graduate School, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 Jiangxi China ,First Affiliated Hospital, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China
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- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases of Ministry of Education, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China ,Graduate School, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 Jiangxi China ,First Affiliated Hospital, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China
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- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases of Ministry of Education, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China ,Graduate School, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 Jiangxi China ,Basic Medicine School, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China
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- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases of Ministry of Education, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China ,Graduate School, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 Jiangxi China ,Basic Medicine School, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China
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- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases of Ministry of Education, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China ,Basic Medicine School, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China
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- First Affiliated Hospital, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China
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- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases of Ministry of Education, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China ,First Affiliated Hospital, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China
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- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases of Ministry of Education, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China ,Basic Medicine School, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China ,Pain Medicine Research Institute, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000 China
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Zhang F, Liang J, Lu Y, Tang Y, Liu S, Wu K, Zhang F, Lu Y, Liu Z, Wang X. Macrophage-Specific Cathepsin as a Marker Correlated with Prognosis and Tumor Microenvironmental Characteristics of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. J Inflamm Res 2022; 15:6275-6292. [DOI: 10.2147/jir.s375250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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