Survival-associated N6-adenosine methyltransferase signatures in lung squamous cell carcinoma and clinical verification

Autor: Jialin Qu, Li Wang, Man Jiang, Zhimin Wei, Guangming Fu, Xiaochun Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: BMC Cancer, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-021-08939-6
Popis: Abstract Background N6-methyladenine (m6A) is the most common modification of mRNA and IncRNA in higher organisms. m6A has been confirmed to be related to the formation and progression of tumors and m6A-related genes can be used as prognostic biomarkers in a variety of tumors. However, there have been no similar studies on lung squamous cell carcinoma. The main purpose of this study was aimed to explore the differential expression of m6A-related genes in lung squamous cell carcinoma tissues and its relationship with patient clinical prognosis. Methods We integrated three m6A writers that catalyze the methylation of adenine on mRNA molecules. The training set including 501 patients with LUSC was collected from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and the test set including 181 patients with LUSC was collected from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Based on the expression level of the m6A methylase gene, we established a tumor subgroup and risk-prognosis model to quantify the risk index and long-term patient prognosis, which were confirmed by principal component analysis (PCA) and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. After lung squamous cell carcinoma tissue specimens were obtained during surgery, immunohistochemistry (IHC) was used to verify the results in vitro. Results The results of the study showed that the expression of the three m6A methylases in tumor tissues and normal tissues was significantly different (P
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