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Pyroptosis-Related Gene to Construct Prognostic Signature and Explore Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer

Bladder cancer is known to be the most common malignant tumor in the urinary system and has a poor prognosis; thus, new targets for drug treatment are urgently needed. Pyroptosis is defined as programmed cell death in the inflammatory form mediated by the gasdermin protein. It has therapeutic potent...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xiangyu, Liang, Hengzhang, Tang, Qi, Chen, Hongyi, Guo, Fangzhou
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9283834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35846123
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.801665
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author Zhang, Xiangyu
Liang, Hengzhang
Tang, Qi
Chen, Hongyi
Guo, Fangzhou
author_facet Zhang, Xiangyu
Liang, Hengzhang
Tang, Qi
Chen, Hongyi
Guo, Fangzhou
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description Bladder cancer is known to be the most common malignant tumor in the urinary system and has a poor prognosis; thus, new targets for drug treatment are urgently needed. Pyroptosis is defined as programmed cell death in the inflammatory form mediated by the gasdermin protein. It has therapeutic potential due to the synergistic effect of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, can reverse chemotherapy resistance, is able to regulate the body environment to alter tumor metabolism, and may enhance the response rate of the immune checkpoint inhibitor. Accordingly, this study attempted to explore the role of pyroptosis in bladder cancer. A prognostic model based on five pyroptosis-related genes was constructed by conducting univariate Cox survival and LASSO regression analyses using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cohort. Patients were divided into high- and low-risk groups according to the median risk score, with all five PRGs having downregulated expression in the high-risk group. The high-risk group was shown to have a worse prognosis than the low-risk group, and survival differences between the two groups were then validated in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) cohort. Moreover, the ROC curves demonstrated the model’s moderate predictive ability. The univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses indicated that risk scores were found to serve as an independent prognosis factor for OS in bladder cancer patients. In addition, the high-risk group was observed to be associated with advanced N and TNM stages. A nomogram combining risk scores and clinical features was then established, with the ROC curve indicating that the AUC of TCGA training cohort in 3 and 5 years was 0.789 and 0.775, respectively. The calibration curve exhibited a high consistency between the actual survival rate and the predicted rate. Furthermore, the GO and KEGG analyses found that antigen processing and presentation of exogenous antigen, exogenous peptide antigen, and peptide antigen were enriched in the low-risk group. A higher abundance of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and additional active immune pathways were also noted in the low-risk group. In addition, immunotherapy biomarkers, including TMB, PD1, PD-L1, CTLA4, and LAG3, were shown to have higher levels in the low-risk group. Therefore, patients in the low-risk group may be potential responders to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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spelling pubmed-92838342022-07-16 Pyroptosis-Related Gene to Construct Prognostic Signature and Explore Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer Zhang, Xiangyu Liang, Hengzhang Tang, Qi Chen, Hongyi Guo, Fangzhou Front Genet Genetics Bladder cancer is known to be the most common malignant tumor in the urinary system and has a poor prognosis; thus, new targets for drug treatment are urgently needed. Pyroptosis is defined as programmed cell death in the inflammatory form mediated by the gasdermin protein. It has therapeutic potential due to the synergistic effect of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, can reverse chemotherapy resistance, is able to regulate the body environment to alter tumor metabolism, and may enhance the response rate of the immune checkpoint inhibitor. Accordingly, this study attempted to explore the role of pyroptosis in bladder cancer. A prognostic model based on five pyroptosis-related genes was constructed by conducting univariate Cox survival and LASSO regression analyses using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cohort. Patients were divided into high- and low-risk groups according to the median risk score, with all five PRGs having downregulated expression in the high-risk group. The high-risk group was shown to have a worse prognosis than the low-risk group, and survival differences between the two groups were then validated in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) cohort. Moreover, the ROC curves demonstrated the model’s moderate predictive ability. The univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses indicated that risk scores were found to serve as an independent prognosis factor for OS in bladder cancer patients. In addition, the high-risk group was observed to be associated with advanced N and TNM stages. A nomogram combining risk scores and clinical features was then established, with the ROC curve indicating that the AUC of TCGA training cohort in 3 and 5 years was 0.789 and 0.775, respectively. The calibration curve exhibited a high consistency between the actual survival rate and the predicted rate. Furthermore, the GO and KEGG analyses found that antigen processing and presentation of exogenous antigen, exogenous peptide antigen, and peptide antigen were enriched in the low-risk group. A higher abundance of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and additional active immune pathways were also noted in the low-risk group. In addition, immunotherapy biomarkers, including TMB, PD1, PD-L1, CTLA4, and LAG3, were shown to have higher levels in the low-risk group. Therefore, patients in the low-risk group may be potential responders to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9283834/ /pubmed/35846123 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.801665 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhang, Liang, Tang, Chen and Guo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Genetics
Zhang, Xiangyu
Liang, Hengzhang
Tang, Qi
Chen, Hongyi
Guo, Fangzhou
Pyroptosis-Related Gene to Construct Prognostic Signature and Explore Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer
title Pyroptosis-Related Gene to Construct Prognostic Signature and Explore Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer
title_full Pyroptosis-Related Gene to Construct Prognostic Signature and Explore Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer
title_fullStr Pyroptosis-Related Gene to Construct Prognostic Signature and Explore Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Pyroptosis-Related Gene to Construct Prognostic Signature and Explore Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer
title_short Pyroptosis-Related Gene to Construct Prognostic Signature and Explore Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer
title_sort pyroptosis-related gene to construct prognostic signature and explore immune microenvironment and immunotherapy biomarkers in bladder cancer
topic Genetics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9283834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35846123
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.801665
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