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ArticleNPJ precision oncology2025

Plasma proteomic biomarkers predict therapeutic responses in advanced biliary tract cancer patients receiving Camrelizumab plus the GEMOX treatment.

Shiyun Cui, Hejian Zheng, Yiyang Xu, Qiuyu Wu, Weici Liu, Yucheng Cai, Lei Fan, Yitong Tian, Hao Qian, Yuting Ding and 6 more

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Shiyun Cui *Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, P. R. China.
Hejian Zheng *Department of oncology, Chongqing Hospital of Jiangsu Province Hospital (The People's Hospital of Qijiang District), Chongqing, 401420, China.
Yiyang Xu *Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Qiuyu WuNanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Weici LiuNanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Yucheng CaiNanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Lei FanDepartment of General Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, 210028, China.
Yitong TianNanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Hao QianNanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Yuting DingNanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Xinyi ZhangNanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Jiaguang ZhangNanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Xiaofeng WuHepatobiliar k77y Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Rong WangDepartment of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, P. R. China. rongwang79@126.com.
Xiangcheng LiHepatobiliar k77y Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China. drlixc@163.com.
Xiaofeng ChenDepartment of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, P. R. China. chenxiaofengnjmu@163.com.

Funding

Collaborative Innovation Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, the Pukou District Social Cause Science and Technology Development Project in 2020 S2020-2Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China CSTB2024NSCQ-MSX0914the National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 82073164the Pukou Branch Hospital of Jiangsu Province Hospital (Nanjing Pukou Central Hospital) Major Project of Science and Technology Development Fund in 2021 KJ2021-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biliary tract cancer (BTC) has greatly influenced patient survival for years. Nowadays, immunotherapy represents a promising breakthrough and proteomics is one of powerful technologies in biomarker research. We collected plasma and tissue samples from 37 patients with advanced BTC and 92 proteins were analyzed by proximity extension assay (PEA). Through linear mixed effect models, compared to partial response (PR) group, 8 proteins, IL7, ANGPT2, IL15, HO-1, CXCL1, CXCL5, IL33, and VEGFA, exhibited significantly higher expression in stable disease and progressive disease (SD_PD) group in response-effect analysis. It was also revealed that a subset of proteins increased over time, including PDCD1, TNFRSF4, DCN, CRTAM, VEGFR-2 and ADA in PR group and PDCD1, IL10, ADA, CD28, and PTN in SD_PD group. In interaction-effect analysis, HO-1, ANGPT2, IL15 were three significant differentially expressed proteins (DEPs). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis further demonstrated that HO-1, ANGPT2, IL15 showed high accuracy in patients with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) treatment plus chemotherapy (AUC = 0.74). In addition, based on the obtained plasma and tissue samples, two nomogram models were constructed for predicting the prognosis of BTC by genome combined with proteomics. Collectively meaningful proteomic biomarkers are beneficial to evaluate the efficacy of immunotherapy, and these discovered biomarkers may be included in the scope of treatments' evaluation and improvement in future study.

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