scholarly journals A Novel Ferroptosis-related Gene Signature for Prognosis Prediction in Glioma

Author(s):  
Tian Lan ◽  
Die Wu ◽  
Wei Quan ◽  
Donghu Yu ◽  
Sheng Li ◽  
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Abstract Background: Glioma is a fatal brain tumor characterized by invasive nature, rapidly proliferation and tumor recurrence. Despite aggressive surgical resection followed by concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the overall survival (OS) of Glioma patients remains poor. Ferroptosis is a unique modality to regulate programmed cell death and associated with multiple steps of tumorigenesis of a variety of tumors.Methods: In this study, ferroptosis-related genes model was identified by differential analysis and Cox regression analysis. GO, KEGG and GSVA analysis were used to detect the potential biological functions and signaling pathway. The infiltration of immune cells was quantified by Cibersort.Results: The patients’ samples are stratified into two risk groups based on 4-gene signature. High-risk group has poorer overall survival. The results of functional analysis indicated that the extracellular matrix-related biologic functions and pathways were enriched in high-risk group, and that the infiltration of immunocytes is different in two groups.Conclusion: In summary, a novel ferroptosis-related gene signature can be used for prognostic prediction in glioma. The filtered genes related to ferroptosis in clinical could be a potential extra method to assess glioma patients’ prognosis and therapeutic.

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susu Zheng ◽  
Xiaoying Xie ◽  
Xinkun Guo ◽  
Yanfang Wu ◽  
Guobin Chen ◽  
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Pyroptosis is a novel kind of cellular necrosis and shown to be involved in cancer progression. However, the diverse expression, prognosis and associations with immune status of pyroptosis-related genes in Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have yet to be analyzed. Herein, the expression profiles and corresponding clinical characteristics of HCC samples were collected from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases. Then a pyroptosis-related gene signature was built by applying the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) Cox regression model from the TCGA cohort, while the GEO datasets were applied for verification. Twenty-four pyroptosis-related genes were found to be differentially expressed between HCC and normal samples. A five pyroptosis-related gene signature (GSDME, CASP8, SCAF11, NOD2, CASP6) was constructed according to LASSO Cox regression model. Patients in the low-risk group had better survival rates than those in the high-risk group. The risk score was proved to be an independent prognostic factor for overall survival (OS). The risk score correlated with immune infiltrations and immunotherapy responses. GSEA indicated that endocytosis, ubiquitin mediated proteolysis and regulation of autophagy were enriched in the high-risk group, while drug metabolism cytochrome P450 and tryptophan metabolism were enriched in the low-risk group. In conclusion, our pyroptosis-related gene signature can be used for survival prediction and may also predict the response of immunotherapy.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liyuan Wu ◽  
Feiya Yang ◽  
Nianzeng Xing

Abstract Background Bladder cancer (BC) is a highly heterogeneous disease, which makes the prognostic prediction challenging. Ferroptosis is related to a variety of biological pathways, including those involved in the metabolism of amino acids, lipids, and iron. However, the prognostic value of ferroptosis-related genes in BC remains to be further elucidated. Methods In this study, the mRNA expression profiles and corresponding clinical data of BC patients were downloaded from public databases. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) Cox regression model was utilized to construct a multigene signature and validated it. Results Our results showed 12 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were correlated with overall survival (OS) in the univariate Cox regression analysis (all adjusted P< 0.05). A 9-gene signature was constructed to stratify patients into two risk groups. Patients in the high-risk group showed significantly reduced OS compared with patients in the low-risk group (P < 0.001). The risk score was an independent predictor for OS in multivariate Cox regression analyses (HR> 1, P< 0.01). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis confirmed the signature's predictive capacity. Functional analysis revealed that immune-related pathways were enriched, and immune status were different between two risk groups, especially in humoral immune response process. Conclusion In conclusion, a novel ferroptosis-related gene signature can be used for prognostic prediction in BC. Targeting ferroptosis may be a therapeutic alternative for BC.


2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 153303382110414
Author(s):  
Xiaoyong Li ◽  
Jiaqong Lin ◽  
Yuguo pan ◽  
Peng Cui ◽  
Jintang Xia

Background: Liver progenitor cells (LPCs) play significant roles in the development and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, no studies on the value of LPC-related genes for evaluating HCC prognosis exist. We developed a gene signature of LPC-related genes for prognostication in HCC. Methods: To identify LPC-related genes, we analyzed mRNA expression arrays from a dataset (GSE57812 & GSE 37071) containing LPCs, mature hepatocytes, and embryonic stem cell samples. HCC RNA-Seq data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were used to explore the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) related to prognosis through DEG analysis and univariate Cox regression analysis. Lasso and multivariate Cox regression analyses were performed to construct the LPC-related gene prognostic model in the TCGA training dataset. This model was validated in the TCGA testing set and an external dataset (International Cancer Genome Consortium [ICGC] dataset). Finally, we investigated the relationship between this prognostic model with tumor-node-metastasis stage, tumor grade, and vascular invasion of HCC. Results: Overall, 1770 genes were identified as LPC-related genes, of which 92 genes were identified as DEGs in HCC tissues compared with normal tissues. Furthermore, we randomly assigned patients from the TCGA dataset to the training and testing cohorts. Twenty-six DEGs correlated with overall survival (OS) in the univariate Cox regression analysis. Lasso and multivariate Cox regression analyses were performed in the TCGA training set, and a 3-gene signature was constructed to stratify patients into 2 risk groups: high-risk and low-risk. Patients in the high-risk group had significantly lower OS than those in the low-risk group. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis confirmed the signature's predictive capacity. Moreover, the risk score was confirmed to be an independent predictor for patients with HCC. Conclusion: We demonstrated that the LPC-related gene signature can be used for prognostication in HCC. Thus, targeting LPCs may serve as a therapeutic alternative for HCC.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gongmin Zhu ◽  
Hongwei Xia ◽  
Qiulin Tang ◽  
Feng Bi

Abstract Background Tumor metastasis is one of the leading reasons of the dismal prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is closely associated with tumor metastasis including HCC. The purpose of this study is to construct and validate an EMT-related gene signature for predicting the prognosis of HCC patients. Methods Gene expression data of HCC patients was downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was performed to found the EMT-related gene sets which were obviously distinct between normal samples and paired HCC samples. Cox regression analysis was used to develop an EMT-related prognostic signature, and the performance of the signature was evaluated by Kaplan–Meier curves and time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. A nomogram incorporating the independent predictors was established. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was used to detect the expression levels of the hub genes in HCC cell lines, and the role of PDCD6 in the metastasis of HCC was determined by functional experiments. Results An EMT-related 5-gene signature (PDCD6, TCOF1, TRIM28, EZH2 and FAM83D) was constructed using univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis. Based on the signature, the HCC patients were classified into high- and low-risk groups, and patients in high-risk group had a poor prognosis. Time-dependent ROC and Cox regression analyses suggested that the signature could predict HCC prognosis exactly and independently. The predictive capacity of the signature was also validated in two external cohorts. GSEA results showed that many cancer-related signaling pathways such as PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway and TGF-β/SMAD pathway were enriched in high-risk group. The result of qRT-PCR revealed that PDCD6, TCOF1 and FAM83D were highly expressed in HCC cancer cells. Among them, PDCD6 were found to promote cell migration and invasion. Conclusion The EMT-related 5-gene signature can serve as a promising prognostic biomarker for HCC patients and may provide a novel mechanism of HCC metastasis.


Author(s):  
Dongyan Zhao ◽  
Xizhen Sun ◽  
Sidan Long ◽  
Shukun Yao

AbstractAimLong non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been identified to regulate cancers by controlling the process of autophagy and by mediating the post-transcriptional and transcriptional regulation of autophagy-related genes. This study aimed to investigate the potential prognostic role of autophagy-associated lncRNAs in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients.MethodsLncRNA expression profiles and the corresponding clinical information of CRC patients were collected from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Based on the TCGA dataset, autophagy-related lncRNAs were identified by Pearson correlation test. Univariate Cox regression analysis and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator analysis (LASSO) Cox regression model were performed to construct the prognostic gene signature. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was used to further clarify the underlying molecular mechanisms.ResultsWe obtained 210 autophagy-related genes from the whole dataset and found 1187 lncRNAs that were correlated with the autophagy-related genes. Using Univariate and LASSO Cox regression analyses, eight lncRNAs were screened to establish an eight-lncRNA signature, based on which patients were divided into the low-risk and high-risk group. Patients’ overall survival was found to be significantly worse in the high-risk group compared to that in the low-risk group (log-rank p = 2.731E-06). ROC analysis showed that this signature had better prognostic accuracy than TNM stage, as indicated by the area under the curve. Furthermore, GSEA demonstrated that this signature was involved in many cancer-related pathways, including TGF-β, p53, mTOR and WNT signaling pathway.ConclusionsOur study constructed a novel signature from eight autophagy-related lncRNAs to predict the overall survival of CRC, which could assistant clinicians in making individualized treatment.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
YuPing Bai ◽  
Wenbo Qi ◽  
Le Liu ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Lan Pang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma is ranked fifth among the most common cancer worldwide. Hypoxia can induce tumor growth, but the relationship with HCC prognosis remains unclear. Our study aims to construct a hypoxia-related multigene model to predict the prognosis of HCC. Methods: RNA-seq expression data and related clinical information were download from TCGA database and ICGC database, respectively. Univariate/multivariate Cox regression analysis was used to construct prognostic models. KM curve analysis, and ROC curve were used to evaluate the prognostic models, which were further verified in the clinical traits and ICGC database. GSEA analyzed pathway enrichment in high-risk groups. Nomogram was constructed to predict the personalized treatment of patients. Finally, real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR(RT-qPCR) was used to detect the expressions of KDELR3 and SCARB1 in normal hepatocytes and 4 hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Results: Through a series of analyses, 7 prognostic markers related to HCC survival were constructed. HCC patients were divided into the high and low risk group, and the results of KM curve showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups. Stratified analysis,found that there were significant differences in risk values of different ages, genders, stages and grades, which could be used as independent predictors. In addition, we assessed the risk value in the clinical traits analysis and found that it could accelerate the progression of cancer, while the results of GSEA enrichment analysis showed that the high-risk group patients were mainly distributed in the cell cycle and other pathways. Then, Nomogram was constructed to predict the overall survival of patients. Finally, RT-qPCR showed that KDELR3 and SCARB1 were highly expressed in HepG2 and L02, respectively. Conclusion: This study provides a potential diagnostic indicator for HCC patients, and help clinicians to deepen the comprehension in HCC pathogenesis so as to make personalized medical decisions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Chaocai Zhang ◽  
Minjie Wang ◽  
Fenghu Ji ◽  
Yizhong Peng ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
...  

Introduction. Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most frequent primary intracranial malignancies, with limited treatment options and poor overall survival rates. Alternated glucose metabolism is a key metabolic feature of tumour cells, including GBM cells. However, due to high cellular heterogeneity, accurately predicting the prognosis of GBM patients using a single biomarker is difficult. Therefore, identifying a novel glucose metabolism-related biomarker signature is important and may contribute to accurate prognosis prediction for GBM patients. Methods. In this research, we performed gene set enrichment analysis and profiled four glucose metabolism-related gene sets containing 327 genes related to biological processes. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were specifically completed to identify genes to build a specific risk signature, and we identified ten mRNAs (B4GALT7, CHST12, G6PC2, GALE, IL13RA1, LDHB, SPAG4, STC1, TGFBI, and TPBG) within the Cox proportional hazards regression model for GBM. Results. Depending on this glucose metabolism-related gene signature, we divided patients into high-risk (with poor outcomes) and low-risk (with satisfactory outcomes) subgroups. The results of the multivariate Cox regression analysis demonstrated that the prognostic potential of this ten-gene signature is independent of clinical variables. Furthermore, we used two other GBM databases (Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas (CGGA) and REMBRANDT) to validate this model. In the functional analysis results, the risk signature was associated with almost every step of cancer progression, such as adhesion, proliferation, angiogenesis, drug resistance, and even an immune-suppressed microenvironment. Moreover, we found that IL31RA expression was significantly different between the high-risk and low-risk subgroups. Conclusion. The 10 glucose metabolism-related gene risk signatures could serve as an independent prognostic factor for GBM patients and might be valuable for the clinical management of GBM patients. The differential gene IL31RA may be a potential treatment target in GBM.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haige Zheng ◽  
Xiangkun Wu ◽  
Huixian Liu ◽  
Yumin Lu ◽  
Hengguo Li

Abstract Background: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a highly heterogeneous tumor with high incidence and poor prognosis. Therefore, effective predictive models are needed to evaluate patient outcomes and optimize treatment. Methods: Ten gene microarray datasets were obtained from the gene expression omnibus (GEO) database. Level 3 mRNA expression and clinical data were obtained in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. We identified highly robust differentially-expressed genes (DEGs) between HNSCC and normal tissue in nine GEO and TCGA datasets using Robust Rank Aggregation (RRA) method. Univariate Cox regression analysis and lasso Cox regression analysis were performed to identify DEGs related to the Overall-survival (OS) and to construct a prognostic gene signature. External validation was performed using GSE65858. Moreover, gene set enrichment analyses (GSEA) analysis was used to analyze significantly rich pathways in high-risk and low-risk groups, and tumor immunoassays were used to clarify immune correlation of the prognostic gene. Finally, integrate multiple forecast indicators were used to build a nomogram using the TCGA-HNSCC dataset. Kaplan–Meier analysis, receiver operating characteristic (ROC), a calibration plot, Harrell’s concordance index (C-index), and decision curve analysis (DCA) were used to test the predictive capability of the seven genetic signals and the nomogram. Results: A novel seven-gene signature (including SLURP1, SCARA5, CLDN10, MYH11, CXCL13, HLF, and ITGA3) was established to predict overall survival in HNSCC patients. ROC curve performed well in the training and validation data sets. Kaplan–Meier analysis demonstrated that low-risk groups had a longer survival time. The nomogram containing seven genetic markers and clinical prognostic factors was a good predictor of HNSCC survival and showed a certain net clinical benefit through the DCA curve. Further research demonstrated that the infiltration degree of CD8 + T cells, B cells, neutrophils, and NK cells were significantly lower in the high-risk group.Conclusion: Our analysis established a seven-gene model and nomogram to accurately predict the prognosis status of HNSCC patients, immune relevance was also described, which may provide a new possibility for individual treatment and medical decision-making.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Yin ◽  
Xiaohui Li ◽  
Caifeng Lv ◽  
Xian He ◽  
Xiaoqin Luo ◽  
...  

Background: Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) plays a significant role in the development, establishment, and progression of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). This article aims to develop an immune-related lncRNA (irlncRNA) model, regardless of expression levels, for risk assessment and prognosis prediction in HNSCC patients.Methods: We obtained clinical data and corresponding full transcriptome expression of HNSCC patients from TCGA, downloaded GTF files to distinguish lncRNAs from Ensembl, discerned irlncRNAs based on co-expression analysis, distinguished differentially expressed irlncRNAs (DEirlncRNAs), and paired these DEirlncRNAs. Univariate Cox regression analysis, LASSO regression analysis, and stepwise multivariate Cox regression analysis were then performed to screen lncRNA pairs, calculate the risk coefficient, and establish a prognosis model. Finally, the predictive power of this model was validated through the AUC and the ROC curves, and the AIC values of each point on the five-year ROC curve were calculated to select the maximum inflection point, which was applied as a cut-off point to divide patients into low- or high-risk groups. Based on this methodology, we were able to more effectively differentiate between these groups in terms of survival, clinico-pathological characteristics, tumor immune infiltrating status, chemotherapeutics sensitivity, and immunosuppressive molecules.Results: A 13-irlncRNA-pair signature was built, and the ROC analysis demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity of this signature for survival prediction. The Kaplan–Meier analysis indicated that the high-risk group had a significantly shorter survival rate than the low-risk group, and the chi-squared test certified that the signature was highly related to survival status, clinical stage, T stage, and N stage. Additionally, the signature was further proven to be an independent prognostic risk factor via the Cox regression analyses, and immune infiltrating analyses showed that the high-risk group had significant negative relationships with various immune infiltrations. Finally, the chemotherapeutics sensitivity and the expression level of molecular markers were also significantly different between high- and low-risk groups.Conclusion: The signature established by paring irlncRNAs, with regard to specific expression levels, can be utilized for survival prediction and to guide clinical therapy in HNSCC.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Zhang ◽  
Cailing Zeng ◽  
Shaoquan Xiong ◽  
Zewei Zhao ◽  
Guoyu Wu

Abstract Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a heterogeneous disease and one of the most common malignancies in the world. Previous studies have found that mitophagy plays an important role in the progression of colorectal cancer. This study is aimed to investigate the relationship between mitophagy-related genes and the prognosis of patients with CRC.Methods: Gene expression profiles and clinical information of CRC patients were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases. Univariate Cox regression and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression analysis were used to establish the prognostic signature composed of mitophagy related genes. Kaplan-Meier curve and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve were used to analyze patient survival and verify the predictive accuracy of the signature, respectively. Construction of a nomogram prognostic prediction model was based on risk scores and clinicopathological parameters. Using the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) database and Tumor Immune Dysfunction and Exclusion (TIDE) algorithm to estimate the sensitivity of chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy. Results: A total of 44 mitophagy-driven genes connected with CRC survival were identified, and prognostic signature was established based on the expression of 10 of them (AMBRA1, ATG14, MAP1LC3A, MAP1LC3B, OPTN, VDAC1, ATG5, CSNK2A2, MFN1, TOMM22). Patients were divided into high-risk and low-risk groups based on the median risk score, and the survival of patients in the high-risk group was significantly shorter than that of the low-risk group among the TCGA cohort (median OS 67.3 months vs not reached, p=0.00059) and two independent cohorts from GEO (median OS in GSE17536: 54.0 months vs not reached, p=0.0082; in GSE245: 7.7 months vs not reached, p=0.025). ROC curve showed that the area under the curves (AUC) of 1-, 3- and 5-year survival were 0.66, 0.66 and 0.64, respectively. Multivariate Cox regression analysis confirmed the independent prognostic value of the signature. Then we constructed a nomogram combining the risk score, age and M stage, which had a concordance index of survival prediction of 0.77 (95% CI=0.71-0.83) and more robust predictive sensitivity and specificity. Results showed that CD8+ T cells, regulatory T cells and activated NK cells were significantly more abundant in the high-risk group. Furthermore, patients in the high-risk group were more sensitive to potential targeted therapies, including Motesanib, ATRA, Olaparib, Selumetinib, AZD8055 and immunotherapy. Conclusion: In conclusion, we constructed and validated a novel mitophagy related gene signature that can be used as an independent prognostic biomarker for CRC, and may lead to better stratification and selection of precise treatment for CRC patients.


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