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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022

DLC1 Is a Prognosis-Related Biomarker Correlated With Tumor Microenvironment Remodeling in Endometrial Carcinoma.

Yalan Wu, Li-E Zheng, Shumin Chen, Chengyu Lv, Yuxiu Huang

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Yalan WuDepartment of Gynecology, The Affiliated First Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Li-E ZhengDepartment of Gynecology, The Affiliated First Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Shumin ChenDepartment of Gynecology, The Affiliated First Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Chengyu LvDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Yuxiu HuangDepartment of Gynecology, The Affiliated First Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Fujian Medical University · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University · CN

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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

aimDeleted in liver cancer 1 (DLC1) is confirmed as a metastasis suppressor gene in endometrial carcinoma (EC). However, its functional mechanisms remain unclear. This study aimed to explore the relationship between DLC1 expression and EC.

methodsThe Cancer Genome Atlas database was used for evaluating the expression of DLC1 in pan-cancer. CIBERSORT was used to assess the relationship between DLC1 and tumor immune infiltration. We applied real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction to determine the expression of DLC1 in EC and adjacent normal tissue samples. The targeting endogenous protein levels were assessed using the dataset from the cBioPortal database.

resultsDLC1 expression negatively correlated with the clinical characteristics (clinical stage, histologic grade) and positively correlated with the survival of patients with uterine corpus EC (UCEC). The gene set enrichment analysis displayed that the low-expression DLC1 group was enriched in metabolic pathways. Concomitantly, the high-expression DLC1 group was enriched in tumor immune-related activities. The CIBERSORT analysis showed that the number of resting memory CD4 T cells and resting mast cells positively correlated with DLC1 expression, while the number of macrophages M2 had a negative correlation, indicating that DLC1 played a key role in mediating immune cell infiltration. The target gene validation confirmed that DLC1 expression was downregulated in tumor samples. The target protein level was consistently downregulated in tumor samples.

conclusionsDLC1 levels might be useful in predicting the prognosis of patients with UCEC and especially governing the status of tumor microenvironment transition from immune-dominant to metabolic-dominant. The findings shed a different light on the immune therapeutics of UCEC.

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deleted in liver cancer 1 (DLC1)endometrial neoplasmsimmune cell infiltrationmacrophages M2metastasis suppressor geneprognosis-related biomarkertumor microenvironment remodeling

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