scholarly journals Development and validation of ferroptosis-related lncRNAs prognosis signatures in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Liang Xing ◽  
Zhi-Yong Yao ◽  
Jialan Ou ◽  
Chaoqun Xing ◽  
Feng Li

Abstract Background Ferroptosis is a recently recognised new type of cell death which may be a potential target for cancer therapy. In the present study, we aimed to screen ferroptosis-related differentially expressed long non-coding RNAs as biomarkers to predict the outcome of kidney renal clear cell carcinoma. Methods RNAseq count data and corresponding clinical information were obtained from the Cancer Genome Atlas database. Lists of ferroptosis-related genes and long non-coding RNAs were obtained from the FerrDb and GENCODE databases, respectively. The candidate prognostic signatures were screened by Cox regression analyses and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator analyses. Results Three ferroptosis-related long non-coding RNAs (DUXAP8, LINC02609, and LUCAT1) were significantly correlated with the overall survival of kidney renal clear cell carcinoma independently. Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma patients with high-risk values displayed worse OS. Meanwhile, the expression of these three ferroptosis-related long non-coding RNAs and their risk scores were significantly correlated with clinicopathological features. Principal component analyses showed that patients with kidney renal clear cell carcinoma have differential risk values were well distinguished by the three ferroptosis-related long non-coding RNAs. Conclusions The present study suggests that the risk assessment model constructed by these three ferroptosis-related long non-coding RNAs could accurately predict the outcome of kidney renal clear cell carcinoma. We also provide a novel perspective for cancer prognosis screening.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqin Wei ◽  
Fan Wu ◽  
Shengfeng Zhang ◽  
Yanlin Tan ◽  
Qunying Wu ◽  
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Abstract Background The expression of GALNT14 in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) and its clinical significance remains unknown. Methods The KIRC data expressed by GALNT14 was downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. The expression of GALNT14 was analyzed by R software, Perl software and online analysis database. The relationship between GALNT14 expression and clinicopathological features in KIRC was analyzed by univariate, multivariate Cox regression and some databases. Gene Expression Profling Interactive Analysis (GEPIA), Starbase v3.0, UALCAN, and Kaplan-Meier were used to analyze the relationship between GALNT14 expression and overall survival (OS) in KIRC. UALCAN detects the expression of GALNT14 methylation in KIRC. Linkedomics and Genemania were used to analyze the gene co-expression of GALNT14. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) was performed to search for potential regulatory pathways. Results We found that GALNT14 was overexpressed in KIRC (p=1.433e-25). Patients with high GALNT14 expression in KIRC had a better prognosis than patients with low GALNT14 expression (p=0.008). In addition, high GALNT14 expression in KIRC was significantly associated with low T stage and positive OS (p<0.05). Univariate Cox analysis showed that GALNT14 was positively correlated with OS (p<0.001). Multivariate Cox analysis showed that GALNT14 was associated with OS (p<0.001), age (p=0.01) and histological grade (p=0.02). GALNT14 methylation is low expressed in KIRC (p<0.001). GSEA analysis showed that GALNT14 was enriched in histidine metabolism, peroxisome, and renin-angiotensin system pathways. Conclusion GALNT14 can be used as an independent prognostic factor for renal clear cell carcinoma and a potential target for clinical diagnosis and treatment of KIRC.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuolun Sun ◽  
Changying Jing ◽  
Xudong Guo ◽  
Mingxiao Zhang ◽  
Feng Kong ◽  
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Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) has long been identified as a highly immune-infiltrated tumor. However, the underlying role of pyroptosis in the tumor microenvironment (TME) of KIRC remains poorly described. Herein, we systematically analyzed the prognostic value, role in the TME, response to ICIs, and drug sensitivity of pyroptosis-related genes (PRGs) in KIRC patients based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Cluster 2, by consensus clustering for 24 PRGs, presented a poor prognosis, likely because malignancy-related hallmarks were remarkably enriched. Additionally, we constructed a prognostic prediction model that discriminated well between high- and low-risk patients and was further confirmed in external E-MTAB-1980 cohort and HSP cohort. By further analyzing the TME based on the risk model, higher immune cell infiltration and lower tumor purity were found in the high-risk group, which presented a poor prognosis. Patients with high risk scores also exhibited higher ICI expression, indicating that these patients may be more prone to profit from ICIs. The sensitivity to anticancer drugs that correlated with model-related genes was also identified. Collectively, the pyroptosis-related prognosis risk model may improve prognostic information and provide directions for current research investigations on immunotherapeutic strategies for KIRC patients.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axiu Zheng ◽  
Jianrong Bai ◽  
Yanping Ha ◽  
Bingshu Wang ◽  
Yuan Zou ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Stonin 1 (STON1) is an endocytic protein but its role in cancer remains unclear. Here, we investigated the role of STON1 in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC). Methods We undertook bioinformatics analyses of a series of public databases to determine the expression and clinical significance of STON1 in KIRC and focused on STON1-related immunomodulator and survival signatures. A nomogram model integrating clinicopathological characteristics and risk scores for KIRC was established and validated. Results Through TGCA and GEO databases, STON1 mRNA was found to be significantly downregulated in KIRC compared with normal controls, and decreased STON1 was related to grade, TNM stage, distant metastasis, and vital status of KIRC. Furthermore, OncoLnc, UALCAN, Kaplan–Meier, and GEPIA2 analyses supported that KIRC patients with high STON1 expression had better overall survival. STON1 was positively associated with mismatch proteins including MLH1, PMS2, MSH2, MSH6 and EpCAM, and was negatively correlated with tumor mutational burden. Interestingly, arm-level deletion of STON1 was clearly related to the abundance of immune cells and the infiltration abundance in the majority of 26 immune cell types that were positively related to STON1 mRNA level in the TIMER database. The TISIDB database revealed 21 immunostimulators and 10 immunoinhibitors that were obviously related to STON1 in KIRC. In univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses, CTLA4 , KDR , LAG3 , PDCD1 , HHLA2 , TNFRSF25 , and TNFSF14 were screened to establish a risk score model, and the low-risk group had a better prognosis for KIRC. Furthermore, a nomogram integrating clinicopathological characteristics and risk score had better accuracy and practicability in predicating the survival of KIRC patients. Conclusions Decreased STON1 expression in KIRC leads to clinical progression and poor survival. Mechanically, loss of STON1 is associated with the aberrant immune microenvironment in KIRC. Integrated clinicopathological characteristics and risk score derived from STON1 -related immunomodulators can aid the prediction of KIRC survival.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Yubin Wei ◽  
Zheng Zhang ◽  
Rui Peng ◽  
Yan Sun ◽  
Luyu Zhang ◽  
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There is growing evidence that aberrant alternative splicing (AS) is highly correlated with driving tumorigenesis, but its function in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) remains to be discovered. In this study, we obtained the level-3 RNA sequencing and clinical data of KIRC from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TGCA). Combining with the splicing event detail information from TGCA SpliceSeq database, we established the independent prognosis signatures for KIRC with the univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses. Then, we used the Kaplan-Meier analysis and receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) to assess the accuracy of prognosis signatures. We also constructed the regulatory network of splicing factors (SFs) and AS events. Our results showed that a total of 12029 survival-associated AS events of 5761 genes were found in 524 KIRC patients. All types of prognosis signatures displayed a satisfactory ability to reliably predict, especially in exon skip model which the area under curve of ROC was 0.802. Moreover, 18 splicing factors (SFs) highly correlated to AS events were identified. With the construction of the SF-AS interactive network, we found that SF powerfully promotes the occurrence of abnormal AS and may have a profound role in KIRC. Collectively, we screened survival-associated AS events and established prognosis signatures for KIRC, coupling with the SF-AS interactive network, which might provide a key perspective to clarify the potential mechanism of AS in KIRC.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueping Zhan ◽  
Wenna Guo ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Xin-jian Xu ◽  
...  

Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) is one of the most common cancers with high mortality all over the world. Many studies have proposed that genes could be used to predict prognosis in KIRC. In this study, RNA expression data from next-generation sequencing and clinical information of 523 patients downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset were analyzed in order to identify the relationship between gene expression level and the prognosis of KIRC patients. A set of five genes that significantly associated with overall survival time was identified and a model containing these five genes was constructed by Cox regression analysis. By Kaplan-Meier and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis, we confirmed that the model had good sensitivity and specificity. In summary, expression of the five-gene model is associated with the prognosis outcomes of KIRC patients, and it may have an important clinical significance.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-li Xu ◽  
Yong Guo

Abstract Background: LY96 has been reported to be relevant with kidney inflammatory injury but the function of this gene in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) remains unknown.Methods: Various online tools were applied to analyze the roles of LY96 in KIRC using data from the Cancer Genome Atlas. Differential LY96 expression and overall survival (OS) based on different expression levels were analyzed through Oncomine and GEPIA tools. The alterations, related genes, Gene Ontology, and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathways of LY96 were explored via cBioPortal and STRING database. LinkedOmics and Cistrome DB Toolkit were utilized to identify targets of kinase, miRNAs, and transcription factors. The relationship between LY96 and some associated genes or regulatory factors was displayed via GeneMANIA and TIMER tool. TISIDB revealed correlations between LY96 expression and immune-associated factors in the tumor microenvironment. Results: High LY96 expression level was observed in KIRC and associated with poor prognosis and diverse clinical characteristics. LY96 often amplified in KIRC and was mostly linked to the inflammatory response. Several highly correlated genes, kinase targets, transcription factors, and DNA methyltransferase that may interact with LY96 were all identified. Our study also demonstrated that various immune-related factors were relevant to LY96 in KIRC. Conclusions: Our study has shown the complex relationships between LY96 and KIRC from diverse angles. High LY96 expression had an adverse effect on the prognosis of KIRC. To find effective demethylation agents and transcription factors inhibitors targeting LY96 may have beneficial effects on the survival of KIRC patients.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongjiong Zheng ◽  
Yaosen SHao ◽  
Mingming Wang ◽  
Yeli Tang ◽  
Meiling Hu

Abstract BackgroundTumor microenvironment has been implicated in the development and progression of cancers. However, the prognostic significance of tumor microenvironment-related genes in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) remains unclear. MethodsIn this study, we obtained and analyzed gene expression profiles from The Cancer Genome Atlas database. Stromal and immune scores were calculated based on the ESTIMATE algorithm. ResultsIn the discovery series of 537 patients, we identified a list of differentially expressed genes which was significantly associated with prognosis in KIRC patients. Protein-protein interaction networks and functional enrichment analysis were both performed, indicating that these identified genes were related to the immune response. ConclusionsThe tumor microenvironment-related genes could serve as the potential biomarkers for KIRC.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (27) ◽  
pp. 3103-3110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Longxiang Xie ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Yifang Dang ◽  
Linna Ge ◽  
Xiaoxiao Sun ◽  
...  

Aim: To develop a free and quick analysis online tool that allows users to easily investigate the prognostic potencies of interesting genes in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC). Patients & methods: A total of 629 KIRC cases with gene expression profiling data and clinical follow-up information are collected from public Gene Expression Omnibus and The Cancer Genome Atlas databases. Results: One web application called Online consensus Survival analysis for KIRC (OSkirc) that can be used for exploring the prognostic implications of interesting genes in KIRC was constructed. By OSkirc, users could simply input the gene symbol to receive the Kaplan–Meier survival plot with hazard ratio and log-rank p-value. Conclusion: OSkirc is extremely valuable for basic and translational researchers to screen and validate the prognostic potencies of genes for KIRC, publicly accessible at http://bioinfo.henu.edu.cn/KIRC/KIRCList.jsp


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhao Zhang ◽  
Changjiu Li ◽  
Fanding Wu ◽  
Ning Li ◽  
Yuwei Wang ◽  
...  

Background: Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) has the highest incidence rate in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Although bioinformatics is widely used in cancer, few reliable biomarkers of KIRC have been found. Therefore, continued efforts are required to elucidate the potential mechanism of the biogenesis and progression of KIRC.Methods: We evaluated the expression of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) family genes in KIRC, and constructed a prognostic signature. We validated the signature by another database and explored the relationship between the signature and progression of KIRC. We assessed the prognostic value, immune infiltration, and tumor mutation burden (TMB) of the signature in KIRC.Results: We selected four key genes (TNFSF14, TNFRSF19, TNFRSF21, and EDA) to construct the TNF-related signature. We divided the KIRC patients into high- and low-risk groups based on the signature. Patients with higher risk scores had shorter overall survival and worse prognosis. With another database, we validated the value of the signature. The signature was considered as an independent risk factor. A higher level of risk score was relevant to higher level of immune infiltration, especially T regulatory cells, CD8+ T cells, and macrophages. The signature was also associated with TMB scores, and it may have an effect on assessing the efficacy of immunotherapy.Conclusion: This is the first TNF-family-related signature of KIRC and we demonstrated its effectiveness. It played a significant role in predicting the prognosis of patients with KIRC. It also has the potential to become a powerful tool in guiding the immunotherapy of KIRC patients in clinical practice.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Wang ◽  
Yinhao Chen ◽  
Bingye Zhu ◽  
Limin Ma ◽  
Qianwei Xing

Background: This study was designed to establish a sensitive prognostic model based on apoptosis-related genes to predict overall survival (OS) in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).Methods: Obtaining the expression of apoptosis-related genes and associated clinical parameters from online datasets (The Cancer Genome Atlas, TCGA), their biological function analyses were performed through differently expressed genes. By means of LASSO, unadjusted and adjusted Cox regression analyses, this predictive signature was constructed and validated by internal and external databases (both TCGA and ArrayExpress).Results: A total of nine apoptosis-related genes (SLC27A2, TNFAIP2, IFI44, CSF2, IL4, MDK, DOCK8, WNT5A, APP) were ultimately screened as associated hub genes and utilized to construct a prognosis model. Then our constructed riskScore model significantly passed the validation in both the internal and external datasets of OS (all p &lt; 0.05) and verified their expressions by qRT-PCR. Moreover, we conducted the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC), finding the area under the ROC curves (AUCs) were all above 0.70 which indicated that riskScore was a stable independent prognostic factor (p &lt; 0.05). Furthermore, prognostic nomograms were established to figure out the relationship between 1-, 3- and 5-year OS and individual parameters for ccRCC patients. Additionally, survival analyses indicated that our riskScore worked well in predicting OS in subgroups of age, gender, grade, stage, T, M, N0, White (all p &lt; 0.05), except for African, Asian and N1 (p &gt; 0.05). We also explored its association with immune infiltration and applied cMap database to seek out highly correlated small molecule drugs.Conclusion: Our study successfully constructed a prognostic model containing nine hub apoptosis-related genes for ccRCC, helping clinicians predict patients’ OS and making the prognostic assessment more standardized. Future prospective studies are required to validate our findings.


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