The Ph.D. Program for Neural Regenerative Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.
Aging (Albany NY). 2021 Jul 30;13(14):17970. doi: 10.18632/aging.203345.
Breast cancer is a complex disease, and several processes are involved in its development. Therefore, potential therapeutic targets need to be discovered for these patients. Proteasome 26S subunit, ATPase gene (PSMC) family members are well reported to be involved in protein degradation. However, their roles in breast cancer are still unknown and need to be comprehensively researched. Leveraging publicly available databases, such as cBioPortal and Oncomine, for high-throughput transcriptomic profiling to provide evidence-based targets for breast cancer is a rapid and robust approach. By integrating the aforementioned databases with the Kaplan-Meier plotter database, we investigated potential roles of six PSMC family members in breast cancer at the messenger RNA level and their correlations with patient survival. The present findings showed significantly higher expression profiles of PSMC2, PSMC3, PSMC4, PSMC5, and PSMC6 in breast cancer compared to normal breast tissues. Besides, positive correlations were also revealed between PSMC family genes and ubiquinone metabolism, cell cycle, and cytoskeletal remodeling. Meanwhile, we discovered that high levels of PSMC1, PSMC3, PSMC4, PSMC5, and PSMC6 transcripts were positively correlated with poor survival, which likely shows their importance in breast cancer development. Collectively, PSMC family members have the potential to be novel and essential prognostic biomarkers for breast cancer development.
乳腺癌是一种复杂的疾病,其发展涉及多个过程。因此,需要为这些患者发现潜在的治疗靶点。蛋白酶体 26S 亚基、ATP 酶基因(PSMC)家族成员已被广泛报道参与蛋白质降解。然而,它们在乳腺癌中的作用仍不清楚,需要进行全面研究。利用 cBioPortal 和 Oncomine 等公开可用的数据库进行高通量转录组谱分析,为乳腺癌提供基于证据的靶点是一种快速而稳健的方法。通过将上述数据库与 Kaplan-Meier plotter 数据库集成,我们在信使 RNA 水平上研究了 PSMC 家族的六个成员在乳腺癌中的潜在作用及其与患者生存的相关性。本研究结果显示,与正常乳腺组织相比,乳腺癌中 PSMC2、PSMC3、PSMC4、PSMC5 和 PSMC6 的表达谱明显升高。此外,还发现 PSMC 家族基因与泛醌代谢、细胞周期和细胞骨架重塑之间存在正相关关系。同时,我们发现 PSMC1、PSMC3、PSMC4、PSMC5 和 PSMC6 的高转录水平与不良预后呈正相关,这表明它们在乳腺癌的发展中可能具有重要意义。综上所述,PSMC 家族成员有可能成为乳腺癌发展的新型重要预后生物标志物。