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ArticlePloS one2022

Prognostic and immune-related value of STK17B in skin cutaneous melanoma.

Xueying Shi, Qi Zhou, Bingqian Huang, Shilin Xia, Yuankuan Jiang, Shifeng Fang, Jingrong Lin

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Article in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xueying ShiClinical Laboratory of Integrative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Qi ZhouClinical Laboratory of Integrative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Bingqian HuangClinical Laboratory of Integrative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Shilin XiaClinical Laboratory of Integrative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Yuankuan JiangDepartment of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Shifeng FangDepartment of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Jingrong LinDepartment of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4737-0856
Dalian Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM) is a common cancer of which mortality is increasing continuously. Our study conducted a series of analyses on the clinical significance of Serine/threonine kinase 17B (STK17B) in SKCM to provide a new biomarker for diagnosis and treatment. The RNA-sequence data were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Genotype-Tissue Expression databases. The data of 468 SKCM patients were divided into STK17B high- and low-expression groups and analyzed by Bioconductor package to identify the differential expressed genes. The R package of "clusterProfiler" was used for Gene Ontology, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes, and Gene-Set Enrichment Analysis analyses. A protein-protein interaction network and immune infiltration landscape were respectively constructed via STRING database and ssGSEA. STK17B had lower expression in SKCM than normal tissues. Besides, STK17B expression was significantly related to some clinicopathological characteristics in SKCM patients including T stage, Breslow depth, radiation therapy, melanoma Clark level, and pathologic stage. The Kaplan-Meier curve analyses revealed that the low expression of STK17B was correlated with poor overall survival and disease-specific survival. We constructed nomograms to predict the 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival of SKCM patients. The function enrichment analyses showed STK17B-related differential expressed genes were enriched in cellular differentiation and immune-related progress. STK17B expression level were positively correlated with infiltrating level of immune cells. In this study, we found that STK17B, which played an important role in immune infiltration, could be a new biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis in SKCM patients.

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NomogramsTumor MicroenvironmentAgedApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsBiomarkers, TumorCase-Control StudiesCutaneous Malignant MelanomaDatabases, GeneticFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMelanomaMiddle AgedPrognosisProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsBiomarkers, TumorProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesSTK17B protein, human

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