Houshi Xu1,2, Anke Zhang1,2, Xiaying Han3, Yanning Li4, Zeyu Zhang2, Liying Song5, Wei Wang6, Meiqing Lou7. 1. Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200080, China. 2. Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China. 3. Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 650 New Songjiang Road, Shanghai, 200080, China. 4. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. 5. Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China. 6. Department of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China. wangweiocean@163.com. 7. Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200080, China. Meiqing_Lou2020@163.com.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Glioma is the most common primary tumor in the brain, accounting for 81% of intracranial malignancies. Nowadays, cancer immunotherapy has become a novel and revolutionary treatment for patients with advanced, highly aggressive tumors. However, to date, there are no effective biomarkers to reflect the response of glioma patients to immunotherapy. In this study, we aimed to assess the clinical predictive value of ITGB2 in patients with glioma. METHODS: The correlation between ITGB2 expression levels and glioma progression was explored and validated using data from CGGA, TCGA, GEO datasets, and patient samples from our hospital. Univariate and multivariate cox regression models were developed to determine the predictive role of ITGB2 on the prognosis of patients with glioma. The relationship between ITGB2 and immune activation was then analyzed. Finally, we predicted the immunotherapy response in both high and low ITGB2 expression subgroups. RESULTS: ITGB2 was significantly elevated in gliomas with higher malignancy and predicted poor prognosis. In multivariate analysis, the hazard ratio for ITGB2 expression (low versus high) was 0.71 with 95% CI (0.59-0.85) (P < 0.001). Furthermore, we found that ITGB2 stratified glioma patients into high and low ITGB2 expression subgroups, exhibiting different clinical outcomes and immune activation status. At last, we demonstrated that glioma patients with high ITGB2 expression levels had better immunotherapy response. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated ITGB2 as a novel predictor for clinical prognosis and response to immunotherapy in gliomas. Assessing expression levels of ITGB2 is a promising method to discover patients that may benefit from immunotherapy.
PURPOSE: Glioma is the most common primary tumor in the brain, accounting for 81% of intracranial malignancies. Nowadays, cancer immunotherapy has become a novel and revolutionary treatment for patients with advanced, highly aggressive tumors. However, to date, there are no effective biomarkers to reflect the response of glioma patients to immunotherapy. In this study, we aimed to assess the clinical predictive value of ITGB2 in patients with glioma. METHODS: The correlation between ITGB2 expression levels and glioma progression was explored and validated using data from CGGA, TCGA, GEO datasets, and patient samples from our hospital. Univariate and multivariate cox regression models were developed to determine the predictive role of ITGB2 on the prognosis of patients with glioma. The relationship between ITGB2 and immune activation was then analyzed. Finally, we predicted the immunotherapy response in both high and low ITGB2 expression subgroups. RESULTS: ITGB2 was significantly elevated in gliomas with higher malignancy and predicted poor prognosis. In multivariate analysis, the hazard ratio for ITGB2 expression (low versus high) was 0.71 with 95% CI (0.59-0.85) (P < 0.001). Furthermore, we found that ITGB2 stratified glioma patients into high and low ITGB2 expression subgroups, exhibiting different clinical outcomes and immune activation status. At last, we demonstrated that glioma patients with high ITGB2 expression levels had better immunotherapy response. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated ITGB2 as a novel predictor for clinical prognosis and response to immunotherapy in gliomas. Assessing expression levels of ITGB2 is a promising method to discover patients that may benefit from immunotherapy.
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