| Literature DB >> 35234293 |
Elisa Díaz de la Guardia-Bolívar1, Rocío Barrios-Rodríguez2,3,4, Igor Zwir1,3, José Juan Jiménez-Moleón2,3,4, Coral Del Val1,3.
Abstract
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a tumor with a great heterogeneity, both at a molecular and clinical level. Despite its global good prognosis, cases can vary from indolent to lethal metastatic and scientific efforts are aimed to discern those with worse outcomes. Current prognostic markers, as Gleason score, fall short when it comes to distinguishing these cases. Identification of new early biomarkers to enable a better PCa distinction and classification remains a challenge. In order to identify new genes implicated in PCa progression we conducted several differential gene expression analyses over paired samples comparing primary PCa tissue against healthy prostatic tissue of PCa patients. The results obtained show that this approach is a serious alternative to overcome patient heterogeneity. We were able to identify 250 genes whose expression varies along with tissue differentiation-healthy to tumor tissue, 161 of these genes are described here for the first time to be related to PCa. The further manual curation of these genes allowed to annotate 39 genes with antitumoral activity, 22 of them described for the first time to be related to PCa proliferation and metastasis. These findings could be replicated in different cohorts for most genes. Results obtained considering paired differential expression, functional annotation and replication results point to: CGREF1, UNC5A, C16orf74, LGR6, IGSF1, QPRT and CA14 as possible new early markers in PCa. These genes may prevent the progression of the disease and their expression should be studied in patients with different outcomes.Entities:
Keywords: antitumoral genes; biomarkers; prostate cancer
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35234293 PMCID: PMC9311191 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.33988
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Cancer ISSN: 0020-7136 Impact factor: 7.316
FIGURE 1Methodology flowchart [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
Study and validation datasets number of samples
| Source | Healthy prostate tissue | Healthy prostate adjacent tissue | Primary prostate tissue | Metastatic prostate tissue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery dataset | TCGA‐PRAD | – | 51 | 51 | – |
|
Replication datasets | TCGA‐PRAD | – | – | 444 | – |
| GDS2545 | 18 | 63 | 65 | 25 | |
| GDS2546 | 17 | 59 | 66 | 25 | |
| GDS2547 | 17 | 58 | 64 | 25 |
FIGURE 2Venn diagram of the 250 significant (P‐value <.01) differentially expressed genes between paired samples—healthy and tumor. The figure shows results found in the subsets “All,” “Gleason 6” and “Gleason 7.” (A) Results across the three datasets and their overlap for overexpressed genes; (B) Results across the three datasets and their overlap for underexpressed genes [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
FIGURE 3Results of the manually curated functional annotation over the 250 significant (P‐value <.01) differentially expressed genes between paired samples—healthy and tumor. (A) Percentage of genes merged by the available information linked to their activity related to cancer and prostate cancer. (B) Number of genes whose activity could be pooled into cancer hallmarks in prostate cancer (inner circle) and cancer in general (outer circle), which includes prostate cancer. Genes could be related to more than one hallmark [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
Antitumoral genes described for the first time to be involved in PCa
| Gene | Function | Cancer hallmark | PCa exp. |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGREF1 | Inhibits AP‐1, c‐Jun, c‐Fos, p42/44 and p38 suppressing proliferation | Prol. | OE |
| FFAR2 | Its loss promotes colon cancer by an epigenetic dysregulation of inflammation and its OE induced apoptosis in leukemia | A.I.D. | OE |
| SRARP | Its expression is inversely correlated with genes that promote cell proliferation | Prol. | OE |
| UNC5A | UE in most cancers. Reduces apoptosis when unbound to its ligand | R.C.D. | OE |
| TGM3 | Its OE acts repressing EMT in colorectal cancer but promoting it in hepatocellular carcinoma | Met. | OE |
| TOX3 | Inhibits cancer migration and invasion via transcriptional regulation of SNAI1 and SNAI2 but seems to play a critical role in progression of breast cancer | Met. | OE |
| PGM5‐AS1 | Its downregulation inhibits the proliferation and metastasis via increasing miRNAs expression in colorectal cancer and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma | Met. Prol. | UE |
| CRABP2 | Its loss reduces viability and proliferation and induces apoptosis, cytotoxicity and interferon‐signaling in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors | Prol., R.C.D. | UE |
| C16orf74 | OE in pancreatic cancer, plays a crucial role in proliferation and invasion | Met., Prol. | UE |
| P2RX6 | Promotes renal cancer cells migration and invasion modulating ERK1/2 phosphorylation and MMP9 signaling pathway | Met. | UE |
| LGR6 | Downregulation inhibits proliferation and invasion and increases apoptosis by increased expression of Bcl‐2 and caspase‐3 and inhibition of PI3K/AKT | Met., Prol. | UE |
| MSLN | OE in multiple cancers, activates the NFB, MAPK and PI3K pathways and subsequently induce resistance to apoptosis or promote cell proliferation, migration and metastasis | Met., Prol., R.C.D. | UE |
| PDE1C | Silencing PDE1C significantly mitigates proliferation and EMT in glioblastoma | Met., Prol. | UE |
| ACTC1 | ACTC1‐negative glioma had better prognosis than ACTC1 positive, and it was related to epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) | Met. | UE |
| EMX2OS | Induces proliferation, invasion and sphere formation in ovarian cancer via regulating the mir‐654‐3P/AKT3/PD‐L1 axis | Met., Prol. | UE |
| LINC00958 | Its OE facilitates cell proliferation, migration and invasion | Met., Prol. | UE |
| IGSF1 | Its knockdown could inhibit cell proliferation and significantly impair the migration and invasion in vitro in thyroid cancer | Met., Prol. | UE |
| SYT8 | Inhibition was correlated with decreased invasion, migration and fluorouracil resistance in gastric cancer | Met. | UE |
| CHP2 | Its OE promotes proliferation by activating AKT and suppression of FOXO3 transcription factor in breast cancer | Prol. | UE |
| CRABP2 | Its loss reduces viability and proliferation and induces apoptosis, cytotoxicity and interferon‐signaling in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors | Prol., R.C.D. | UE |
| QPRT | It suppresses spontaneous cell death by inhibiting overproduction of active‐caspase‐3 | R.C.D. | UE |
| PON3 | Enhances cell death resistance | R.C.D. | UE |
| CA14 | It is usually upregulated in cancer and linked with deadification | M.R. | UE |
FIGURE 4Results summary of antitumoral differentially expressed genes found in “Gleason 6” and “Gleason 7” subsets merged by cancer hallmarks manually curated annotation [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]