Systematic Analyses of the Expression, Function, and Prognostic Value of CCNBs in Breast Caner

Background Cyclin B (CCNB) family plays key roles in the cell cycle, cell division and proliferation. Three members of CCNB family have been identified, including CCNB1, CCNB2 and CCNB3. Many studies have explored the roles of CCNBs in the tumorigenesis and pathogenesis of different types of cancer. However, the expression level, function, and prognostic value of CCNBs in breast caner (BC) are still unclear.Methods We explored the specific alterations of CCNBs in BC and predicted their prognostic value for BC patients. Oncomine, Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis (GEPIA), Kaplan-Meier plotter, cBioPortal, STRING, Database for Annotation,Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) databases were used for above analyses.Results We found that CCNB1 amd CCNB2 were significantly overexpressed in BC compared with normal samples, but not CCNB3. Survival analysis showed that upregulated CCNB1 and CCNB2 expression levels were associated with poor prognosis of BC patients, while high CCNB3 expression was related to good prognosis for BC patients. Furthermore, gene oncology (GO) enrichment analysis was performed to reveal the functions of CCNBs and the interacted genes related to CCNBs. In addition, hsa-miR-139-5p and has-miR-944 were identified to be potentially involved in the regulation of CCNB1.Conclusion Our study suggests that CCNB1, CCNB2 are potential targets of precise therapy for BC patients and that CCNB3 is a novel biomarker for the good prognosis of BC patients.