| Literature DB >> 32695099 |
Yixi Wang1, Na Zhao2, Xianwen Zhang3, Zhenhua Li4,5,6, Zheng Liang3, Jinrong Yang3, Xingyu Liu7, Yangzhe Wu4,5,6, Kebing Chen8, Yunfei Gao4,5,6, Zhinan Yin4,5,6, Xuejia Lin4,5,6, Haibo Zhou4, Dongbo Tian4, Yang Cao1, Jianlei Hao4,5,6.
Abstract
The butyrophilins (BTNs) represent a unique family of immunoglobulin. They were considered to be involved in milk lactation after their discovery in 1981. With the development of research, an increasing number of research revealed that BTNs play important roles in immune regulation [1992-2019]. Our research aimed to summarize the BTN research status and their relationship with lung cancers and breast cancers by bibliometrics and bioinformatics methods. Our results indicate that the researches on immune-regulatory functions of BTNs gradually developed from 1992 to 2006, whereas they increased quickly after 2007. There are international cooperations among 56 countries, of which the United States is the most active one with the highest number of studies as well as highest citations. By coauthorship and cocitation analysis, we showed that Adrian Hayday, who is active in γδ T-cell field, was an active author in BTN publications with average year of 2015 and led a subfield. By keywords co-occurrence analysis, we found that γδ T cell, which is an important cancer immune regulator, is one important hotspot. Finally, we found that several BTN members' expression levels were significantly correlated with prognosis of lung cancer and breast cancer patients. Thus, these BTNs might play immune regulatory effects and could serve as potential biomarkers for cancer.Entities:
Keywords: VOSviewer; bibliometrics; breast cancer; butyrophilin; lung cancer; γδ T cells
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32695099 PMCID: PMC7338374 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01187
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Immunol ISSN: 1664-3224 Impact factor: 7.561
Figure 1The overview of the studies of butyrophilins on immune modulation. Studies in butyrophilins were acquired from Scopus. (A) The composition of the 317 studies acquired from Scopus studying human and mouse butyrophilins is shown. (B) The number of studies of immune-related butyrophilins for each year (from 1992 to 2019) was calculated and shown. (C) Annual total citations of studies every year was calculated and shown. (D) The article citation distributions were calculated and shown. The ranges of citation numbers were divided into 0, 0–10, 10–20, 20–30, 30–40, 40–50, 50–100, 100–200, and 200–1,200.
Top-cited articles for butyrophilins as immune regulators.
| 1 | 25.455 | 4 | 1,702 | 1,069 | A candidate gene for familial Mediterranean fever | 1997 | Bernot A, et al. | |
| 353 | Sarcoidosis is associated with a truncating splice site mutation in BTNL2 | 2005 | Valentonyte R, et al. | |||||
| 166 | Skint1, the prototype of a newly identified immunoglobulin superfamily gene cluster, positively selects epidermal γδ T cells | 2008 | Boyden LM, et al. | |||||
| 114 | A genome-wide association study identifies two new susceptibility loci for lung adenocarcinoma in the Japanese population | 2012 | Shiraishi K, et al. | |||||
| 2 | 44.019 | 1 | 1,190 | 1,190 | The B7-CD28 superfamily | 2002 | Sharpe AH, et al. | |
| 3 | 21.522 | 2 | 336 | 170 | The intracellular B30.2 domain of butyrophilin 3A1 binds phosphoantigens to mediate activation of human Vγ9Vδ2T Cells | 2014 | Sandstrom A, et al. | |
| 166 | Coinhibitory pathways in the B7-CD28 ligand–receptor family | 2016 | Schildberg FA, et al. | |||||
| 4 | 59.102 | 1 | 227 | 227 | Role of human-milk lactadherin in protection against symptomatic rotavirus infection | 1998 | Newburg DS, et al. | |
| 5 | 16.601 | 1 | 217 | 217 | Key implication of CD277/butyrophilin-3 (BTN3A) in cellular stress sensing by a major human γδ T-cell subset | 2012 | Harly C, et al. | |
| 6 | 4.139 | 1 | 209 | 209 | Myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein is a unique member of the immunoglobulin superfamily | 1992 | Gardinier MV, et al. | |
| 7 | 23.530 | 1 | 198 | 198 | Butyrophilin 3A1 binds phosphorylated antigens and stimulates human γδ T cells | 2013 | Vavassori S, et al. | |
| 8 | 9.580 | 1 | 180 | 180 | Myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein is a member of a subset of the immunoglobulin superfamily encoded within the major histocompatibility complex | 1993 | Pham-Dinh D, et al. | |
| 9 | 2.832 | 1 | 145 | 145 | Antibodies to neuron-specific antigens in children with autism: possible cross-reaction with encephalitogenic proteins from milk, | 2002 | Vojdani A, et al. | |
| 10 | 4.718 | 1 | 126 | 126 | BTNL2, a butyrophilin-like molecule that functions to inhibit T-cell activation | 2006 | Nguyen T, et al. | |
| 11 | 1.782 | 1 | 113 | 113 | Evolutionary study of multigenic families mapping close to the human major histocompatibility complex class I region | 1993 | Vernet C, et al. |
NA, number of highly cited articles; NC, number of citations; IF, 2018 impact factor; Rank, rank by NC.
Figure 2The overlay visualization map of country coauthorship analysis. The 260 studies on immune modulation in human and mouse (listed in the Supplementary Table 1) were analyzed by VOSviewer, and overlay visualization map was shown. Countries were represented by circle labels. The distance between two circles indicated the relatedness of their link. The strength of the coauthor link between two countries was represented by the thickness of the connecting curve lines. The area of the circle was determined by the numbers of the total citations contained by each country. Different colors of the circles indicated the average year of the studies according to the bar on the lower right corner. Color range indicated average year of publications in each country.
Figure 3Coauthorship analysis and cocitation analysis. The 260 studies on immune modulation in human and mouse (listed in the Supplementary Table 1) were analyzed by VOSviewer, and coauthorship analysis and cocitation analysis are shown. (A) The overlay visualization map of author coauthorship analysis. The area of the circle was determined by total citations of each author. Colors of the circles indicated the average year of the studies according to the symbol on the lower right corner. The distance between circles indicated their relatedness. The strength of the coauthor link between two countries was represented by the thickness of the connecting curve lines. (B) The network visualization map of author cocitation analysis. Different colors of the circles represented clusters divided by cocitations. The area of circles indicated the total citation number of each author.
Figure 4The overlay visualization map of author keywords co-occurrence analysis. Figure was generated by VOSviewer from the data of the 260 studies on immune modulation in human or mouse (listed in the Supplementary Table 1). The area of the circle was determined by occurrences of each keyword. Colors of the circles indicated the average year of the keyword occurrences according to the symbol on the lower right corner.
Figure 5Kaplan–Meier overall survival (OS) survival curves of LUAD and LUSC cases according to gene expression levels of butyrophilin family members. The Kaplan–Meier plotter (http://kmplot.com/analysis/) was employed to calculate survival of butyrophilin family members expression high vs. low in gene chip data on LUAD (n = 719), LUSC (n = 524), and breast cancer (n = 3,951) patients. (A) Overall survival curves of LUAD patients based on BTN1A1, BTN2A1, BTN2A2, BTN2A3, BTN3A1, BTN3A2, BTN3A3, BTNL2, BTNL3, BTNL8, and BTNL9 expression levels. (B) Overall survival curve of LUSC patients based on BTN3A3 expression levels. (C) Overall survival curve of breast cancer patients based on BTN1A1, BTN2A1, BTN2A2, BTN2A3, BTN3A1, BTN3A2, BTN3A3, BTNL2, BTNL3, and BTNL9 expression levels. Statistical difference (when log-rank p < 0.05) is shown. HR, hazard ratio.