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ArticleHuman cell2023

A prognostic risk model, tumor immune environment modulation, and drug prediction of ferroptosis and amino acid metabolism-related genes in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Lina Ji, Qianqian Zhang, Yumeng Cao, Lixin Liu

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Article in Human cell, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Lina JiDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
Qianqian ZhangKey Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Liver Injury and Digestive System Neoplasms, Provincial Committee of the Medical and Health, Taiyuan, China.
Yumeng CaoKey Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Liver Injury and Digestive System Neoplasms, Provincial Committee of the Medical and Health, Taiyuan, China.
Lixin LiuDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China. lixinliu6@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7848-4178
Shanxi Medical University · CN

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Key Laboratory Project of Prevention and Treatment of Liver Injury and Digestive System Neoplasms, Provincial Committee of the Medical and Health 2020SYS19Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province 202103021224392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is challenging due to its heterogeneity. Ferroptosis and amino acid metabolism have been shown to be closely related to HCC. We obtained HCC-related expression data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) databases. We then crossed differentially expressed genes (DEGs), amino acid metabolism genes, and ferroptosis-related genes (FRGs) to obtain amino acid metabolism-ferroptosis-related differentially expressed genes (AAM-FR DEGs). Moreover, we developed a prognostic model using Cox analysis, followed by a correlation analysis of risk scores with clinical characteristics. We also performed an immune microenvironment analysis and drug sensitivity analysis. Finally, the expression levels of model genes were verified by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and immunohistochemical assays. We found that the 18 AAM-FR DEGs were mainly enriched to the alpha-amino acid metabolic process and amino acid biosynthesis pathways. Cox analysis identified CBS, GPT2, SUV39H1, and TXNRD1 as prognostic biomarkers for the risk model construction. Our results showed that the risk scores differed between pathology stage, pathology T stage, and HBV, and the number of HCC patients in the two groups. In addition, the expression of PD-L1 and CTLA-4 was high in the high-risk group, and the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) of sorafenib also differed between the two groups. Finally, the experimental validation demonstrated that the expression of biomarkers was consistent with the study analysis. Therefore, in this study, we constructed and validated a prognostic model (CBS, GPT2, SUV39H1, and TXNRD1) related to ferroptosis and amino acid metabolism and examined their prognostic value for HCC.

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Carcinoma, HepatocellularFerroptosisLiver NeoplasmsAmino AcidsBiomarkers, TumorHumansPrognosisTumor MicroenvironmentAmino AcidsBiomarkers, TumorAmino acid metabolismDrug sensitivity analysisFerroptosisHepatocellular carcinomaRisk model

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