scholarly journals Novel Prognostic Biomarkers in Gastric Cancer: CGB5, MKNK2, and PAPPA2

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Qin ◽  
Zhihai Liang ◽  
Heping Qin ◽  
Yifang Huo ◽  
Qing Wu ◽  
...  

IntroductionGastric cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors of the digestive tract. However, there are no adequate prognostic markers available for this disease. The present study used bioinformatics to identify prognostic markers for gastric cancer that would guide the clinical diagnosis and treatment of this disease.Materials and MethodsGene expression data and clinical information of gastric cancer patients along with the gene expression data of 30 healthy samples were downloaded from the TCGA database. The initial screening was performed using the WGCNA method combined with the analysis of differentially expressed genes, which was followed by univariate analysis, multivariate COX regression analysis, and Lasso regression analysis for screening the candidate genes and constructing a prognostic model for gastric cancer. Subsequently, immune cell typing was performed using CIBERSORT to analyze the expression of immune cells in each sample. Finally, we performed laboratory validation of the results of our analyses using immunohistochemical analysis.ResultsAfter five screenings, it was revealed that only three genes fulfilled all the screening requirements. The survival curves generated by the prognostic model revealed that the survival rate of the patients in the high-risk group was significantly lower compared to the patients in the low-risk group (P-value < 0.001). The immune cell component analysis revealed that the three genes were differentially associated with the corresponding immune cells (P-value < 0.05). The results of immunohistochemistry also support our analysis.ConclusionCGB5, MKNK2, and PAPPA2 may be used as novel prognostic biomarkers for gastric cancer.

Author(s):  
Hongxu Chen ◽  
Zhijing Jiang ◽  
Bingshi Yang ◽  
Guiling Yan ◽  
Xiaochen Wang ◽  
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Objective: The objective of this study is to construct a prognostic model using genetic markers of liver cancer and explore the signature genes associated with the tumor immune microenviroment. Methods: Cox proportional hazards regression analysis was carried out to screen the significant HR using dataset of TCGA Liver Cancer (LIHC) gene expression data, then LASSO (Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) was performed to select the minimal variables with significant HR of genes. Thus, the prognostic model was constructed by the minimal variables with their HR and time-dependent receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve and area under the ROC curve (AUC) value used to assess the prognostic performance. Then dividing the patients into high and low risk groups by the median of the model, survival analysis was performed by two groups with testing and independent dataset. Furthermore, enrichment analysis of signature mRNAs and lncRNAs and their co-expression genes were performed, then, spearman rank correlation used to calculate the correlation between immune cells and genes in the prognostic model, and testing abundance difference of the immune cells in high and low risks groups. Results: A total of 5989 genes with significant HR were identified, then 6 key genes (three mRNAs: DHX37, SMIM7 and MFSD1, three lncRNAs: PIWIL4, KCNE5 and LOC100128398) screened by LASSO were used to construct the model with their HR value respectively. The AUC values of 1 and 5 year overall survival were 0.78 and 0.76 in discovery data and 0.67 and 0.68 in testing data. Survival analysis performed significantly in discriminating high and low groups with testing and independent data. Furthermore, many immune cells such as nTreg found a significant correlation with the genes in the prognostic model, and many immune cells show significantly different abundance in high and low risk groups. Conclusion: In the study, we used Univariate Cox analyses and LASSO algorithm with TCGA gene expression data to construct the prognostic model in liver cancer patients. And the prognostic model comprising three mRNAs including DHX37, SMIM7, MFSD1, and three lncRNAs including PIWIL4, KCNE5 and LOC100128398. Furthermore, these genes expression levels were associated with the abundance of some immune cells, such as nTreg. Also, many immune cells have significantly different abundance in high and low risk groups. All these results indicated combination with all these six genes could be the potential biomarker for the prognosis of liver cancer.


2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 46-46
Author(s):  
Sophie Earle ◽  
Toru Aoyama ◽  
Alexander I. Wright ◽  
Darren Treanor ◽  
Yohei Miyagi ◽  
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46 Background: Since the ACTS-GC trial, Japanese patients with stage II/III gastric cancer (GC) receive adjuvant S1 chemotherapy. However, selection of patients (pts) by TNM stage does not predict benefit from adjuvant S1 with certainty. Thus, there is an urgent clinical need to identify predictive biomarkers. Increasing evidence suggests tumor immune cell infiltration may be related to GC pts prognosis. We tested the hypothesis that extent and type of immune cell infiltration in GC is related to benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. Methods: Tissue microarrays from 252 GC resections (109 pts treated by surgery alone (S), 143 pts treated by surgery and adjuvant S1 chemotherapy (SC)) from the Kanagawa Cancer Center Hospital (Yokohama, Japan) were investigated by immunohistochemistry for common leucocytes antigen (CD45), neutrophils (CD66b), macrophages (CD68 and CD163), T-cell subtypes (CD45R0, CD8, CD3), B-cells (CD20) and Treg cells (FOXP3). Staining was quantified as percentage immunoreactivity/area by automated image analysis. Relationship with overall survival was analyzed. A Cox regression model was used to identify independent prognostic markers and treatment interaction effect. Results: The hazard ratio of S1 was 0.694 in this GC cohort which is similar to the results of the ACTS-GC trial. CD45 and CD45R0 were independent prognostic markers in the S group only (CD45 p=0.032, CD45R0 p=0.003). A treatment interaction effect was seen for CD45, CD45R0, and CD68 (p value for test of interaction: CD45 p=0.062, CD45R0 p=0.082, CD68 p=0.057). Survival in the SC group was significantly poorer compared to the S group for CD45>56% or CD68>7% (p<0.05). Conclusions: This is the first study to investigate the relationship between tumor immune cell infiltration at time of surgery and benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. Our results indicate that GC patients with high intratumoral levels of CD68, CD45, or CD45R0 positive immune cells might not benefit from adjuvant S1 chemotherapy. These findings require validation in a second independent dataset before conducting a prospective study stratifying patients with stage II/III GC based upon extent of CD45, CD45R0, or CD68 immune cell infiltration for adjuvant treatment.


2022 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junyu Huo ◽  
Ge Guan ◽  
Jinzhen Cai ◽  
Liqun Wu

Abstract Background Stromal cells in tumor microenvironment could promote immune escape through a variety of mechanisms, but there are lacking research in the field of gastric cancer (GC). Methods We identified differential expressed immune-related genes (DEIRGs) between the high- and low-stromal cell abundance GC samples in The Cancer Genome Atlas and GSE84437 datasets. A risk score was constructed basing on univariate cox regression analysis, LASSO regression analysis, and multivariate cox regression analysis in the training cohort (n=772). The median value of the risk score was used to classify patients into groups with high and low risk. We conducted external validation of the prognostic signature in four independent cohorts (GSE26253, n=432; GSE62254, n=300; GSE15459, n=191; GSE26901, n=109) from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. The immune cell infiltration was quantified by the CIBERSORT method. Results The risk score contained 6 genes (AKT3, APOD, FAM19A5, LTBP3, NOV, and NOX4) showed good performance in predicting 5-year overall survival (OS) rate and 5-year recurrence-free survival (RFS) rate of GC patients. The risk death and recurrence of GC patients growing with the increasing risk score. The patients were clustered into three subtypes according to the infiltration of 22 kinds of immune cells quantified by the CIBERSORT method. The proportion of cluster A with the worst prognosis in the high-risk group was significantly higher than that in the low-risk group; the risk score of cluster C subtype with the best prognosis was significantly lower than that of the other two subtypes. Conclusion This study established and validated a robust prognostic model for gastric cancer by integrated analysis 1804 samples of six centers, and its mechanism was explored in combination with immune cell infiltration characterization.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhijian Huang ◽  
Chen Xiao ◽  
Fushou Zhang ◽  
Zhifeng Zhou ◽  
Liang Yu ◽  
...  

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most frequently diagnosed malignancies among females. As a huge heterogeneity of malignant tumor, it is important to seek reliable molecular biomarkers to carry out the stratification for patients with BC. We surveyed immune- associated lncRNAs that may be used as potential therapeutic targets in BC.Methods: LncRNA expression data and clinical information of BC patients were downloaded from the TCGA database for a comprehensive analysis of candidate genes. A model consisting of immune-related lncRNAs enriched in BC cancerous tissues was established using the univariate Cox regression analysis and the iterative Lasso Cox regression analysis. The prognostic performance of this model was validated in two independent cohorts (GSE21653 and BC-KR), and compared with known prognostic biomarkers. A nomogram that integrated the immune-related lncRNA signature and clinicopathological factors was constructed to accurately assess the prognostic value of this signature. The correlation between the signature and immune cell infiltration in BC was also analyzed.Results: The Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the OS of Patients in the low-risk group had significantly better survival than those in the high-risk group, Clinical subgroup analysis showed that the predictive ability was independent of clinicopathological factors. Univariate/multivariate Cox regression analysis showed immune lncRNA signature is an important prognostic factor and an independent prognostic marker. In addition, GSEA and GSVA analysis as well as comprehensive analysis of immune cells showed that the signature was significantly correlated with the infiltration of immune cells.Conclusion: We successfully constructed an immune-associated lncRNA signature that can accurately predict BC prognosis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianguang Shi ◽  
Zishan Wang ◽  
Jing Guo ◽  
Yingqi Chen ◽  
Changyong Tong ◽  
...  

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process, which is regulated by genes of inducible factors and transcription factor family of signaling pathways, transforms epithelial cells into mesenchymal cells and is involved in tumor invasion and progression and increases tumor tolerance to clinical interventions. This study constructed a multigene marker for lung predicting the prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) patients by bioinformatic analysis based on EMT-related genes. Gene sets associated with EMT were downloaded from the EMT-gene database, and RNA-seq of LUAD and clinical information of patients were downloaded from the TCGA database. Differentially expressed genes were screened by difference analysis. Survival analysis was performed to identify genes associated with LUAD prognosis, and overlapping genes were taken for all the three. Prognosis-related genes were further determined by combining LASSO regression analysis for establishing a prediction signature, and the risk score equation for the prognostic model was established using multifactorial COX regression analysis to construct a survival prognostic model. The model accuracy was evaluated using subject working characteristic curves. According to the median value of risk score, samples were divided into a high-risk group and low-risk group to observe the correlation with the clinicopathological characteristics of patients. Combined with the results of one-way COX regression analysis, HGF, PTX3, and S100P were considered as independent predictors of LUAD prognosis. In lung cancer tissues, HGF and PTX3 expression was downregulated and S100P expression was upregulated. Kaplan-Meier, COX regression analysis showed that HGF, PTX3, and S100P were prognostic independent predictors of LUAD, and high expressions of all the three were all significantly associated with immune cell infiltration. The present study provided potential prognostic predictive biological markers for LUAD patients, and confirmed EMT as a key mechanism in LUAD progression.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingchuan Chen ◽  
Yuen Tan ◽  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Zhe Zhang ◽  
Siwei Pan ◽  
...  

BackgroundGastric cancer (GC) is a major public health problem worldwide. In recent decades, the treatment of gastric cancer has improved greatly, but basic research and clinical application of gastric cancer remain challenges due to the high heterogeneity. Here, we provide new insights for identifying prognostic models of GC.MethodsWe obtained the gene expression profiles of GSE62254 containing 300 samples for training. GSE15459 and TCGA-STAD for validation, which contain 200 and 375 samples, respectively. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) was used to identify gene modules. We performed Lasso regression and Cox regression analyses to identify the most significant five genes to develop a novel prognostic model. And we selected two representative genes within the model for immunohistochemistry staining with 105 GC specimens from our hospital to verify the prediction efficiency. Moreover, we estimated the correlation coefficient between our model and immune infiltration using the CIBERSORT algorithm. The data from GSE15459 and TCGA cohort validated the robustness and predictive accuracy of this prognostic model.ResultsOf the 12 gene modules identified, 1,198 green-yellow module genes were selected for further analysis. Multivariate Cox analysis was performed on genes from univariate Cox regression and Lasso regression analysis using the Cox proportional hazards regression model. Finally, we constructed a five gene prognostic model: Risk Score = [(-0.7547) * Expression (ARHGAP32)] + [(-0.8272) * Expression (KLF5)] + [1.09 * Expression (MAMLD1)] + [0.5174 * Expression (MATN3)] + [1.66 * Expression (NES)]. The prognosis of samples in the high-risk group was significantly poorer than that of samples in the low-risk group (p = 6.503e-11). The risk model was also regarded as an independent predictor of prognosis (HR, 1.678, p &lt; 0.001). The observed correlation with immune cells suggested that this risk model could potentially predict immune infiltration.ConclusionThis study identified a potential risk model for prognosis and immune infiltration prediction in GC using WGCNA and Cox regression analysis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiyu Zhong ◽  
Fan Yang ◽  
Xiaochuan Chen ◽  
Jinbo Li ◽  
Cailing Zhong ◽  
...  

Background: Endometriosis (EMS) is an estrogen-dependent disease in which endometrial glands and stroma arise outside the uterus. Current studies have suggested that the number and function of immune cells are abnormal in the abdominal fluid and ectopic lesion tissues of patients with EMS. The developed CIBERSORT method allows immune cell profiling by the deconvolution of gene expression microarray data.Methods: By applying CIBERSORT, we assessed the relative proportions of immune cells in 68 normal endometrial tissues (NO), 112 eutopic endometrial tissues (EU) and 24 ectopic endometrial tissues (EC). The obtained immune cell profiles provided enumeration and activation status of 22 immune cell subtypes. We obtained associations between the immune cell environment and EMS r-AFS stages. Macrophages were evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in 60 patients with ovarian endometriomas.Results: Total natural killer (NK) cells were significantly decreased in EC, while plasma cells and resting CD4 memory T cells were increased in EC. Total macrophages in EC were significantly increased compared to those of EU and NO, and M2 macrophages were the primary macrophages in EC. Compared to those of EC from patients with r-AFS stage I ~ II, M2 macrophages in EC from patients with stage III ~ IV were significantly increased. IHC experiments showed that total macrophages were increased in EC, with M2 macrophages being the primary subtype.Conclusions: Our data demonstrate that deconvolution of gene expression data by CIBERSORT provides valuable information about immune cell composition in EMS.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e16523-e16523
Author(s):  
Jingde Chen ◽  
Bei Zhang ◽  
Yifan Zhou ◽  
Xiaochen Zhao ◽  
Yuezong Bai

e16523 Background: Previous studies revealed the CD8+T cells deeply involved in tumor progress and reaction to immunotherapy. Now we used expression data and in silicon algorithm to analyze immune cell composition in gastric cancer and explored other subsets of immune cells that may be the potential immune biomarkers. Methods: CIBERSORT quantified 22 immune cell subtypes using four GEO gastric cancer cohorts (GSE15459, GSE26253, GSE29272, GSE57303) and TCGA-STAD, TCGA-PAAD gene expression data, and only CIBERSORT P- value of < 0.05 were included in the survival analysis. Immune cell high was defined as ≥median cells proportion individually and were computed for survival analysis and hazard ratios. Wilcox test was applied to analyze the differences between normal and tumor tissues. Log-rank Mantel-Cox test was applied to compare the survival curves between the patient groups. Statistical analyses were conducted using R v3.3.2. Results: Unsupervised hierarchical analysis of four GEO gastric tumor cohort using 22 immune cells proportions identifies three subclasses. In the subclass with the best overall survival performance, we found enriched resting CD4 T memory cells. Then in TCGA-STAD (P = 0.03) and TCGA-PAAD (P = 0.03) cohort, we observed that normal tissue obtained higher fraction of resting CD4 T memory cells than tumor. On the other hand, in patients who administrated chemotherapy in TCGA-STAD, by comparing immune cell high and low subgroup, we found that plasma cells (P = 0.02), T cells CD8(P = 0.03) were associated with improved overall survival. while, neutrophils(P = 0.05), NK cells resting(P = 0.04), were correlated with decreased overall survival. Also we proved one similar result in GEO cohort, that plasma cells-high (above median) subgroup provided increased overall survival (P = 0.04, HR = 0.76). In contrast, other three immune cells were not significantly associated with survival benefits. Conclusions: Together, these results indicated that memory CD4 T cells and plasma cells infiltration in gastric cancer have important clinical meanings and may be potential immune biomarkers. The continued integration of observations from a variety of experimental models will be required to further understand and utilize the full potential of immune cells.


Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Muying Wang ◽  
Satoshi Fukuyama ◽  
Yoshihiro Kawaoka ◽  
Jason E. Shoemaker

Motivation: Immune cell dynamics is a critical factor of disease-associated pathology (immunopathology) that also impacts the levels of mRNAs in diseased tissue. Deconvolution algorithms attempt to infer cell quantities in a tissue/organ sample based on gene expression profiles and are often evaluated using artificial, non-complex samples. Their accuracy on estimating cell counts given temporal tissue gene expression data remains not well characterized and has never been characterized when using diseased lung. Further, how to remove the effects of cell migration on transcript counts to improve discovery of disease factors is an open question. Results: Four cell count inference (i.e., deconvolution) tools are evaluated using microarray data from influenza-infected lung sampled at several time points post-infection. The analysis finds that inferred cell quantities are accurate only for select cell types and there is a tendency for algorithms to have a good relative fit (R 2 ) but a poor absolute fit (normalized mean squared error; NMSE), which suggests systemic biases exist. Nonetheless, using cell fraction estimates to adjust gene expression data, we show that genes associated with influenza virus replication and increased infection pathology are more likely to be identified as significant than when applying traditional statistical tests.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinfeng Zhu ◽  
Chen Luo ◽  
Jiefeng Zhao ◽  
Xiaojian Zhu ◽  
Kang Lin ◽  
...  

Background: Lysyl oxidase (LOX) is a key enzyme for the cross-linking of collagen and elastin in the extracellular matrix. This study evaluated the prognostic role of LOX in gastric cancer (GC) by analyzing the data of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) dataset.Methods: The Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used to calculate the expression difference of LOX gene in gastric cancer and normal tissues. Western blot and immunohistochemical staining were used to evaluate the expression level of LOX protein in gastric cancer. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to calculate the survival difference between the high expression group and the low expression group in gastric cancer. The relationship between statistical clinicopathological characteristics and LOX gene expression was analyzed by Wilcoxon or Kruskal-Wallis test and logistic regression. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis was used to find independent risk factors affecting the prognosis of GC patients. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was used to screen the possible mechanisms of LOX and GC. The CIBERSORT calculation method was used to evaluate the distribution of tumor-infiltrating immune cell (TIC) abundance.Results: LOX is highly expressed in gastric cancer tissues and is significantly related to poor overall survival. Wilcoxon or Kruskal-Wallis test and Logistic regression analysis showed, LOX overexpression is significantly correlated with T-stage progression in gastric cancer. Multivariate Cox regression analysis on TCGA and GEO data found that LOX (all p &lt; 0.05) is an independent factor for poor GC prognosis. GSEA showed that high LOX expression is related to ECM receptor interaction, cancer, Hedgehog, TGF-beta, JAK-STAT, MAPK, Wnt, and mTOR signaling pathways. The expression level of LOX affects the immune activity of the tumor microenvironment in gastric cancer.Conclusion: High expression of LOX is a potential molecular indicator for poor prognosis of gastric cancer.


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