Fang Can, Zhong Rulei, Qiu Chenyang, Zou Bing-Bing
Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
Front Genet. 2022 Feb 23;13:833013. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.833013. eCollection 2022.
: G Protein Subunit Gamma 7 (GNG7) is an important gene that regulates cell proliferation and induces apoptosis. However, the correlation between GNG7 expression and immune infiltration as well as patient prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) remains unclear. : The GNG7 expression differences between tumor tissues and normal tissues were explored via the Oncomine database, Tumor Immune Estimation Resource (TIMER) site and UALCAN database. Then, the influence of GNG7 on clinical prognosis were evaluated, using the PrognoScan database. In addition, the relationship between GNG7 and tumor-related immune infiltration as well as gene marker sets of immune infiltration was investigated via TIMER, TISIDB and GEPIA. : We found that GNG7 expression was down-regulated in multiple malignant tumors including colorectal cancer (CRC) and the GNG7 expression was associated with tumor stage, histology subtype, lymph node metastasis and poor prognosis in colorectal cancer (CRC). In addition, the expression of GNG7 was significantly associated with infiltration level of multiple immune cells, immunomodulatory factors as well as part of the immune cell markers. : GNG7 displays validated prognostic value in CRC and was associated with its immune cell infiltration and immunoregulation. These results suggest that GNG7 is a potential prognostic marker and is associated with tumor immune infiltration, thus providing a new perspective for the immunotherapy of CRC.
G蛋白亚基γ7(GNG7)是一个调节细胞增殖并诱导细胞凋亡的重要基因。然而,GNG7表达与免疫浸润以及结直肠癌(CRC)患者预后之间的相关性仍不清楚。
通过Oncomine数据库、肿瘤免疫评估资源(TIMER)网站和UALCAN数据库探索肿瘤组织与正常组织之间的GNG7表达差异。然后,使用PrognoScan数据库评估GNG7对临床预后的影响。此外,通过TIMER、TISIDB和GEPIA研究GNG7与肿瘤相关免疫浸润以及免疫浸润基因标志物集之间的关系。
我们发现GNG7表达在包括结直肠癌(CRC)在内的多种恶性肿瘤中下调,并且GNG7表达与结直肠癌(CRC)的肿瘤分期、组织学亚型、淋巴结转移和不良预后相关。此外,GNG7的表达与多种免疫细胞、免疫调节因子以及部分免疫细胞标志物的浸润水平显著相关。
GNG7在CRC中显示出有效的预后价值,并且与其免疫细胞浸润和免疫调节相关。这些结果表明,GNG7是一种潜在的预后标志物,与肿瘤免疫浸润相关,从而为CRC的免疫治疗提供了新的视角。