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ArticleBMC cancer2022

Glycoprotein α-Subunit of Glucosidase II (GIIα) is a novel prognostic biomarker correlated with unfavorable outcome of urothelial carcinoma.

Qiongqiong Lin, Lu Pei, Zhiguang Zhao, Xiaoping Zhuang, Haide Qin

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Article in BMC cancer, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Qiongqiong Lin *Department of Pathology, the Second Affiliated Hospital & Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Lu Pei *Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, 510120, Guangzhou, China.
Zhiguang Zhao *Department of Pathology, the Second Affiliated Hospital & Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Xiaoping ZhuangDepartment of Pathology, Wenzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Haide QinGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, 510120, Guangzhou, China. qinhd3@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
Second Affiliated Hospital & Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University · CNSun Yat-sen University · CNWenzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81972731
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundUrothelial carcinoma (UC) is among the most prevalent malignancies. The muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) shows an invasive feature and has poor prognosis, while the non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) shows a better prognosis as compared with the MIBC. However, a significant proportion (10%-30%) of NMIBC cases progress to MIBC. Identification of efficient biomarkers for the prediction of the course of UC remains challenging nowadays. Recently, there is an emerging study showed that post-translational modifications (PTMs) by glycosylation is an important process correlated with tumor angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis. Herein, we reported a data-driven discovery and experimental validation of GANAB, a key regulator of glycosylation, as a novel prognostic marker in UC.

methodsIn the present study, we conducted immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay to evaluate the correlation between the expression levels of GANAB protein and the prognosis of UC in our cohort of 107 samples using whole slide image (WSI) analysis. In vitro experiments using RNAi were also conducted to investigate the biological functions of GANAB in UC cell lines.

resultsWe observed that positive GANAB protein expression was significantly correlated with poor prognosis of UC in our cohort, with p-value of 0.0017 in Log-rank test. Notably, tumor cells at the invasive front of the tumor margin showed stronger GANAB expression than the tumor cells inside the tumor body in UCs. We further validated that the elevated expression levels of GANAB were significantly correlated with high grade tumors (p-values of 1.72 × 10

conclusionsThe elevated expression of GANAB is a novel indicator of poorer prognosis of UC. Our data suggests that GANAB is not only a new and promising prognostic biomarker for UC, but also may provide important cues for the development of PTM-based therapeutics for UC treatment.

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Carcinoma, Transitional CellUrinary Bladder Neoplasmsalpha-GlucosidasesBiomarkers, TumorGlucosidasesGlycoproteinsHumansNeoplasm InvasivenessPrognosis4-nitrophenyl-alpha-glucosidasealpha-GlucosidasesBiomarkers, TumorGANAB protein, humanGlucosidasesGlycoproteinsGANABGlucosidaseGlycosylationPost-translational modifications (PTMs)Stress granules (SGs)Urothelial Carcinoma (UC)

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