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ArticleJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2022

Multi-omics of the expression and clinical outcomes of TMPRSS2 in human various cancers: A potential therapeutic target for COVID-19.

Li Liu, Ju-Fang Qin, Man-Zhen Zuo, Quan Zhou

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Article in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Li LiuDepartment of Pediatrics, The First College of Clinical Medical Science, China Three Gorges University and Yichang Central People's Hospital, Yichang, China.
Ju-Fang QinDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The People's Hospital, China Three Gorges University/the First People's Hospital of Yichang, Yichang, China.
Man-Zhen ZuoDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The People's Hospital, China Three Gorges University/the First People's Hospital of Yichang, Yichang, China.
Quan ZhouDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The People's Hospital, China Three Gorges University/the First People's Hospital of Yichang, Yichang, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6941-9887
China Three Gorges University · CN

Funding

General Project of Hubei Natural Science Foundation 2020CFB643the Key Project of Hubei Provincial Health Commission Joint Foundation WJ2019H500
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Growing evidence has shown that Transmembrane Serine Protease 2 (TMPRSS2) not only contributes to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, but is also closely associated with the incidence and progression of tumours. However, the correlation of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and cancers, and the prognostic value and molecular function of TMPRSS2 in various cancers have not been fully understood. In this study, the expression, genetic variations, correlated genes, immune infiltration and prognostic value of TMPRSS2 were analysed in many cancers using different bioinformatics platforms. The observed findings revealed that the expression of TMPRSS2 was considerably decreased in many tumour tissues. In the prognostic analysis, the expression of TMPRSS2 was considerably linked with the clinical consequences of the brain, blood, colorectal, breast, ovarian, lung and soft tissue cancer. In protein network analysis, we determined 27 proteins as protein partners of TMPRSS2, which can regulate the progression and prognosis of cancer mediated by TMPRSS2. Besides, a high level of TMPRSS2 was linked with immune cell infiltration in various cancers. Furthermore, according to the pathway analysis of differently expressed genes (DEGs) with TMPRSS2 in lung, breast, ovarian and colorectal cancer, 160 DEGs genes were found and were significantly enriched in respiratory system infection and tumour progression pathways. In conclusion, the findings of this study demonstrate that TMPRSS2 may be an effective biomarker and therapeutic target in various cancers in humans, and may also provide new directions for specific tumour patients to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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BiomarkersCOVID-19Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNeoplasmsPrognosisSerine EndopeptidasesBiomarkersSerine EndopeptidasesTMPRSS2 protein, humanbioinformaticscancer progressionmulti-omics analysisprognostic analysisprognostic biomarkersTMPRSS2

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PMID34951103
PMCPMC8817140
OpenAlexW4200536197

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