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ArticleDiscover oncology2025

Integrated bulk and single-cell transcriptomic analysis unveiled a novel cuproptosis-related lipid metabolism gene molecular pattern and a risk index for predicting prognosis and antitumor drug sensitivity in breast cancer.

Cheng Zeng, Chang Xu, Shuning Liu, Yuanyi Wang, Yuhan Wei, Yalong Qi, Yue Wang, Jiani Wang, Fei Ma

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Article in Discover oncology, 2025. 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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Cheng Zeng *Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9392-8259
Chang Xu *Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Shuning LiuDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Yuanyi WangDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Yuhan WeiDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Yalong QiDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Yue WangDepartment of Oncology, Wujin Hospital Affiliated With Jiangsu University, Changzhou, 213000, Jiangsu Province, China.
Jiani WangDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China. ncc_wangjiani@126.com.
Fei MaDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China. nccmafei@163.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9432-1902

Funding

Changzhou Sci & Tech Program CJ20230007Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) Roche Oncology Research Fund Project Y-Roche2019/2-0046Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Tumor Biotherapy XZSYSKF2020005Jiangsu University Medical Education Collaborative Innovation Fund Project JDY2023017joint innovative Fund of Beijing Natural Science Foundation and Changping District L234004National Natural Science Foundation of China 82172875National Natural Science Foundation of China 82230058Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases-National Science and Technology Major Project 2023ZD0502200
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer is the second most prevalent malignant tumor worldwide and is highly heterogeneous. Cuproptosis, a newly identified form of cell death, is intimately connected to lipid metabolism. This study investigated breast cancer heterogeneity through the lens of cuproptosis-related lipid metabolism genes (CLMGs), with the goal of predicting patient prognosis, immunotherapy efficacy, and sensitivity to anticancer drugs. By utilizing transcriptomic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) for breast cancer, we identified 682 CLMGs and applied the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) method to categorize breast cancer patients into four distinct clusters: cluster 1, ''immune-cold and stroma-poor''; cluster 2, ''immune-infiltrated''; cluster 3, ''stroma-rich''; and cluster 4, ''moderate infiltration''. We subsequently developed a risk model based on CLMGs that incorporates ACSL1, ATP2B4, ATP7B, ENPP6, HSPH1, PIP4K2C, SRD5A3, and ULBP1. This model demonstrated excellent prognostic predictive performance in both the internal (testing and entire sets) and external (GSE20685 and Kaplan-Meier Plotter sets) validation sets. High-risk patients presented lower expression levels of immune checkpoint-related genes and lower immunophenoscores (IPSs), whereas low-risk patients presented higher CD8

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Breast cancerCuproptosisImmunotherapyLipid metabolismMolecular patternTumor microenvironment

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PMCPMC11909392

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