Xu Haitao, Jiang Caihong, Chen Dangui, Wu Youzhi, Lu Jia, Zhong Long, Yao Fusheng
Department of Hematology, Anqing Municipal Hospital, Anqing Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Anqing, China.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Anqing Municipal Hospital, Anqing Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Anqing, China.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Apr 28;9:869994. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.869994. eCollection 2022.
Chromobox protein homolog 3 (CBX3) has been recognized as a member of the heterochromatin protein 1 family and participate in transcriptional activation or inhibition, cell differentiation and growth. Despite more and more evidence shows that CBX3 has a critical function in the development of some tumors, no systematic extensive analysis of CBX3 has been reported. Thus, we intended to examine the prognostic significance of CBX3 in 33 tumors and investigate its potential immune function. We employed several bioinformatics methods to explore the potential carcinogenic impact of CBX3 premised on the data sets collected from tumor genome maps, human protein maps, cBioPortal, and genotype tissue expression. The approaches include assessing the link between CBX3 and prognosis of different tumors, immune cell infiltration, micro-satellite instability (MSI), DNA methylation, and tumor mutational burden (TMB). The outcomes illustrated that CBX3 was increasingly expressed in 29 tumors. Moreover, CBX3 exhibited a negative correlation with the prognosis of many tumors. The expression of CBX3 was linked to MSI in 12 tumors and TMB in 16 tumors. In 24 tumors, the expression of CBX3 was linked to DNA methylation. Moreover, the CBX3 expression exhibited a negative relationship with the infiltration level of the majority of immune cells, but showed a positive link to T gamma delta cells, central memory T cells, and T helper cells, especially when invading breast carcinoma, thymic carcinoma, colon carcinoma, cutaneous melanoma, endometrial carcinoma, and lung squamous carcinoma. Our research indicates that CBX3 might be used as a prognostic indicator for different malignant tumors due to its function in tumor genesis as well as tumor immunity.
染色体盒蛋白同源物3(CBX3)已被确认为异染色质蛋白1家族的成员,并参与转录激活或抑制、细胞分化和生长。尽管越来越多的证据表明CBX3在某些肿瘤的发生发展中起关键作用,但尚未见对CBX3进行系统广泛分析的报道。因此,我们旨在研究CBX3在33种肿瘤中的预后意义,并探讨其潜在的免疫功能。我们采用了多种生物信息学方法,基于从肿瘤基因组图谱、人类蛋白质图谱、cBioPortal和基因型组织表达收集的数据,探索CBX3的潜在致癌影响。这些方法包括评估CBX3与不同肿瘤预后、免疫细胞浸润、微卫星不稳定性(MSI)、DNA甲基化和肿瘤突变负荷(TMB)之间的联系。结果表明,CBX3在29种肿瘤中表达增加。此外,CBX3与许多肿瘤的预后呈负相关。CBX3的表达与12种肿瘤的MSI和16种肿瘤的TMB相关。在24种肿瘤中,CBX3的表达与DNA甲基化相关。此外,CBX3的表达与大多数免疫细胞的浸润水平呈负相关,但与γδT细胞、中枢记忆T细胞和辅助性T细胞呈正相关,尤其是在侵袭乳腺癌、胸腺癌、结肠癌、皮肤黑色素瘤、子宫内膜癌和肺鳞癌时。我们的研究表明,由于CBX3在肿瘤发生和肿瘤免疫中的作用,它可能作为不同恶性肿瘤的预后指标。