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Liao LX, Zhang M, Xu X, Zhang S, Guo YZ. SPC25 Functions as a Prognostic-Related Biomarker, and Its High Expression Correlates with Tumor Immune Infiltration and UCEC Progression. FRONT BIOSCI-LANDMRK 2024; 29:69. [PMID: 38420826 DOI: 10.31083/j.fbl2902069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 12/28/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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BACKGROUND Most tumor tissues expressed spindle pole body component 25 (SPC25), one of the four subunits of the NDC80 complex, at greater levels compared to surrounding normal tissues. According to earlier researches, this subunit strongly encouraged tumor cell proliferation and tumor growth, which resulted in worse prognoses in patients with hepatocellular, breast, lung, and prostate cancer. Precisely because SPC25's role in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC) is understudied, we chose to concentrate on UCEC for gaining a more scientific and thorough understanding of SPC25. METHODS Along with examining SPC25's differential expression, prognostic significance, and biological function in UCEC, our research sought to clarify the underlying mechanism by which SPC25 influences the course of UCEC and patient prognosis from the viewpoints of methylation and immune infiltration. RESULTS We observed differential expression of SPC25 gene in different clinicopathological features of UCEC and identified SPC25 as a hazard factor for poorer overall survival (OS), disease-specific survival (DSS), and progress free interval (PFI) in UCEC, particularly in its multiple clinical subtypes. In addition, we also discovered that SPC25 and its co-expressed genes mostly engaged in biological processes and signal transduction routes linked to cell cycle and cell division in UCEC. After investigating SPC25's methylation status, we discovered that patients with UCEC had elevated SPC25 expression and a poor prognosis due to hypomethylation of CpG sites in the SPC25 gene sequence. Finally, we investigated SPC25's potential role in immunotherapy and discovered that SPC25 might alter the major immune cell infiltration levels in the tumor microenvironment (TME) by regulating the expression of immunoregulatory molecules and chemokines, which would be beneficial for SPC25 to control the progression of UCEC. CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, SPC25 was a useful predictive biomarker as well as a possible therapeutic target for UCEC.
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- Li-Xin Liao
- Department of Gynecology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, 730030 Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Department of Gynecology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, 730030 Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Department of Gynecology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, 730030 Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Department of Gynecology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, 730030 Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Department of Gynecology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, 730030 Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Liu XS, Zhang Y, Ming X, Hu J, Chen XL, Wang YL, Zhang YH, Gao Y, Pei ZJ. SPC25 as a novel therapeutic and prognostic biomarker and its association with glycolysis, ferroptosis and ceRNA in lung adenocarcinoma. Aging (Albany NY) 2024; 16:779-798. [PMID: 38217547 PMCID: PMC10817414 DOI: 10.18632/aging.205418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Spindle pole body component 25 (SPC25) is an important cyclin involved in chromosome segregation and spindle dynamics regulation during mitosis. However, the role of SPC25 in lung adenocarcinoma (LAUD) is unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS The differential expression of SPC25 in tumor samples and normal samples was analyzed using TIMER, TCGA, GEO databases, and the correlation between its expression and clinicopathological features and prognosis in LUAD patients. Biological pathways that may be enriched by SPC25 were analyzed using GSEA. In vitro cell experiments were used to evaluate the effect of knocking down SPC25 expression on LUAD cells. Correlation analysis and differential analysis were used to assess the association of SPC25 expression with genes related to cell cycle, glycolysis, and ferroptosis. A ceRNA network involving SPC25 was constructed using multiple database analyses. RESULTS SPC25 was highly expressed in LUAD, and its expression level could guide staging and predict prognosis. GSEA found that high expression of SPC25 involved multiple cell cycles and glycolytic pathways. Knocking down SPC25 expression significantly affected the proliferation, migration and apoptosis of LUAD cells. Abnormal SPC25 expression levels can affect cell cycle progression, glycolytic ability and ferroptosis regulation. A ceRNA network containing SPC25, SNHG15/hsa-miR-451a/SPC25, was successfully predicted and constructed. CONCLUSIONS Our findings reveal the association of up-regulation of SPC25 in LUAD and its expression with clinical features, prognosis prediction, proliferation migration, cell cycle, glycolysis, ferroptosis, and ceRNA networks. Our results indicate that SPC25 can be used as a biomarker in LUAD therapy and a target for therapeutic intervention.
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- Xu-Sheng Liu
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
- Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Umbilical Cord Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Department of Infection Control, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Danjiangkou First Hospital, Danjiangkou 420381, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
- Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Umbilical Cord Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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Hu B, Wei LU, Liang H, Su M, Wang R, Su T, Li Q, Yin Q, Feng Y, Jiang J. Correlation Between Serum ESPL1 and Hepatitis B Virus-related Hepatocellular Carcinoma Histological Grade: A Chinese Single-center Case-control Study. Anticancer Res 2023; 43:3997-4005. [PMID: 37648308 DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.16587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Revised: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND/AIM Serum markers to determine the histological grade of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are still limited. This study aimed to investigate if serum extra spindle pole bodies-like 1 (ESPL1) protein could reflect the histological grade of HBV-related HCC. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 154 patients with HBV-related HCC were enrolled in the experimental group and 41 non-HBV-related patients in the control. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect serum ESPL1 levels. The differences in serological ESPL1, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), and des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin (DCP) were compared between the two groups. HCC tumor diameter was measured, and pathological examination was performed to compare the relationship between ESPL1, AFP, and DCP and tumor size and histological grade. RESULTS Serum AFP and DCP levels showed no significant difference between experimental group and control group, and increased when the tumor diameter increased but were not related to HCC histological grade. Serological ESPL1 levels were higher in the experimental group than those in the control group, and positively correlated with the histological grade. In the experimental group, tumor size and histological grade were almost independent (Kappa=0.000); patients with medium size tumors had the highest serum ESPL1 levels and the highest proportion of poorly differentiated carcinomas, whereas 75.6% of patients with small size tumors had moderately differentiated carcinomas and only 20% well differentiated carcinomas. CONCLUSION Serum ESPL1 can reflect the malignant degree of HBV-related HCC and is helpful in identifying small size HCC tumors.
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- Bobin Hu
- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
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