单位:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Tongji Hosp, Tongji Med Coll, Reprod Med Ctr, Wuhan, Peoples R China妇产科学系计划生育专科华中科技大学同济医学院附属同济医院[2]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Cent Hosp Wuhan, Tongji Med Coll, Dept Oncol, Wuhan, Peoples R China[3]Chongqing Med Univ, Women & Childrens Hosp, Med Record Dept, Chongqing, Peoples R China
Uterine fibroids (UFs) are the most common benign gynecologic tumors in reproductive-aged women. The typical diagnostic strategies of UFs are transvaginal ultrasonography and pathological feature, while molecular biomarkers are considered conventional options in the assessment of the origin and development of UFs in recent years. Here, we extracted the differential expression genes (DEGs) and differential DNA methylation genes (DMGs) of UFs from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, GSE64763, GSE120854, GSE45188, and GSE45187. 167 DEGs with aberrant DNA methylation were identified, and further Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) were performed by the relevant R package. We next discerned 2 hub genes (FOS, and TNFSF10) with autophagy involvement by overlapping 167 DEGs and 232 autophagic regulators from Human Autophagy Database. FOS was identified as the most crucial gene through the Protein-Protein Interactions (PPI) network with the correlation of the immune scores. Moreover, the down-regulated expression of FOS in UFs tissue at both mRNA and protein levels was validated by RT-qPCR and immunohistochemistry respectively. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) of FOS was 0.856, with a sensitivity of 86.2% and a specificity of 73.9%. Overall, we explored the possible biomarker of UFs undergoing DNA-methylated autophagy and provided clinicians with a comprehensive assessment of UFs.
基金:
This work was supported by the Foundation of Tongji Hospital
(No. 2020JZKT469).
第一作者单位:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Tongji Hosp, Tongji Med Coll, Reprod Med Ctr, Wuhan, Peoples R China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Cai Lei,Li Jie,Long Rui,et al.An autophagy-related diagnostic biomarker for uterine fibroids: FOS[J].FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE.2023,10:doi:10.3389/fmed.2023.1153537.
APA:
Cai, Lei,Li, Jie,Long, Rui,Liao, Zhiqi,Gong, Juejun...&Zhang, Hanwang.(2023).An autophagy-related diagnostic biomarker for uterine fibroids: FOS.FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE,10,
MLA:
Cai, Lei,et al."An autophagy-related diagnostic biomarker for uterine fibroids: FOS".FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE 10.(2023)