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ArticleScientific reports2024

Low ACADM expression predicts poor prognosis and suppressive tumor microenvironment in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Libin Zhou, Min Yin, Fei Guo, Zefeng Yu, Guobin Weng, Huimin Long

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Libin Zhou *Department of Urology, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Min Yin *Department of Urology, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Fei GuoNingbo Institute for Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Combined Innovation, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Zefeng YuSchool of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Guobin WengDepartment of Urology, Ningbo Yinzhou No.2 Hospital, Ningbo, China. ddwgb@aliyun.com.
Huimin LongDepartment of Urology, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China. longhuiming@vip.sina.com.
Ningbo University · CNNanchang University · CNNingbo Medical Center Lihuili Hospital · CNNingbo No. 2 Hospital · CN

Funding

Department of Health of Zhejiang Province 2019KY603Key Cultivating Discipline of LihHuiLi Hospital 2022-P09Medicine and Health Project of Zhejiang Province 2020KY858Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo 202003N4255Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo Municipality 2021J281Ningbo Key Clinical Speciality Construction Project 2023-BZZ
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) represents a highly frequent renal cancer subtype. However, medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACADM) encodes an important enzyme responsible for fatty acid β-oxidation (FAO) and its association with prognosis and immunity in cancers has rarely been reported. Therefore, the present work focused on exploring ACADM's expression and role among ccRCC cases. We used multiple public databases and showed the hypo levels of ACADM protein and mRNA within ccRCC. Additionally, we found that ACADM down-regulation showed a remarkable relation to the advanced stage, high histological grade, as well as dismal prognostic outcome. As suggested by Kaplan-Meier curve analysis, cases showing low ACADM levels displayed shorter overall survival (OS) as well as disease-free survival (DFS). Moreover, according to univariate/multivariate Cox regression, ACADM-mRNA independently predicted the prognosis of ccRCC. In addition, this work conducted immunohistochemistry for validating ACADM protein expression and its prognostic role in ccRCC samples. KEGG and GO analyses revealed significantly enriched genes related to ACADM expression during fatty acid metabolism. The low-ACADM group with more regulatory T-cell infiltration showed higher expression of immune negative regulation genes and higher TIDE scores, which might contribute to poor response to immunotherapies. In conclusion, our results confirmed that downregulated ACADM predicted a poor prognosis for ccRCC and a poor response to immunotherapy. Our results provide important data for developing immunotherapy for ccRCC.

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Carcinoma, Renal CellGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticKidney NeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAcyl-CoA DehydrogenaseAgedBiomarkers, TumorFemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisAcyl-CoA DehydrogenaseBiomarkers, Tumor

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PMID38664460
PMCPMC11045743
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