Construction of a three-component regulatory network of transcribed ultraconserved regions for the identification of prognostic biomarkers in gastric cancer
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Construction of a three-component regulatory network of transcribed ultraconserved regions for the identification of prognostic biomarkers in gastric cancer
Abstract
Altered expression and functional roles of the transcribed ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs), as genomic sequences with 100% conservation between the genomes of human, mouse, and rat, in the pathophysiology of neoplasms has already been investigated. Nevertheless, the relevance of the functions for T-UCRs in gastric cancer (GC) is still the subject of inquiry. In the current study, we first used a genome-wide profiling approach to analyze the expression of T-UCRs in GC patients. Then, we constructed a three-component regulatory network and investigated potential diagnostic and prognostic values of the T-UCRs. The Cancer Genome Atlas Stomach Adenocarcinoma (TCGA-STAD) dataset was used as a resource for the RNA-sequencing data. FeatureCounts was utilized to quantify the number of reads mapped to each T-UCR. Differential expression analysis was then conducted using DESeq2. In the following, interactions between T-UCRs, microRNAs (miRNAs), and messenger RNAs (mRNAs) were combined into a three-component network. Enrichment analyses were performed and a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed. The R Survival package was utilized to identify survival-related significantly differentially expressed T-UCRs (DET-UCRs). Using an in-house cohort of GC tissues, expression of two DET-UCRs was furthermore experimentally verified. Our results showed that several T-UCRs were dysregulated in TCGA-STAD tumoral samples compared to nontumoral counterparts. The three-component network was constructed which composed of DET-UCRs, miRNAs, and mRNAs nodes. Functional enrichment and PPI network analyses revealed important enriched signaling pathways and gene ontologies such as "pathway in cancer" and regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis. Five T-UCRs were significantly correlated with the overall survival of GC patients. While no expression of uc.232 was observed in our in-house cohort of GC tissues, uc.343 showed an increased expression, although not statistically significant, in gastric tumoral tissues. The constructed three-component regulatory network of T-UCRs in GC presents a comprehensive understanding of the underlying gene expression regulation processes involved in tumor development and can serve as a basis to investigate potential prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
Keywords: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA); long noncoding RNA (lncRNA); stomach cancer; transcribed ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs).
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