Li Huihui, Wang Li, Zhang Wei, Dong Youting, Cai Yefeng, Huang Xiaoli, Dong Xubin
Department of Breast Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
Department of Gastroenterology, Wenzhou Central Hospital, Wenzhou, China.
Front Oncol. 2023 Jan 30;12:1002186. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1002186. eCollection 2022.
Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common malignancies among women worldwide. It is necessary to search for improvement in diagnosis and treatment methods to improve the prognosis. Protein kinase, membrane associated tyrosine/threonine 1 (PKMYT1), a member of the Wee family of protein kinases, has been studied in some tumors except BC. This study has explored that PKMYT1 functional role by bioinformatics methods combined with local clinical samples and experiments. Comprehensive analysis showed that PKMYT1 expression was higher in BC tissues, especially in advanced patients than that in normal breast tissues. The expression of PKMYT1 was an independent determinant for BC patients' prognosis when combined with the clinical features. In addition, based on multi-omics analysis, we found that the PKMYT1 expression was closely relevant to several oncogenic or tumor suppressor gene variants. The analysis of single-cell sequencing indicated that PKMYT1 expression was upregulated in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), consistent with the results of bulk RNA-sequencing. High PKMYT1 expression was correlated with a poor prognosis. Functional enrichment analysis revealed that PKMYT1 expression was associated with cell cycle-related, DNA replication-related, and cancer-related pathways. Further research revealed that PKMYT1 expression was linked to immune cell infiltration in the tumor microenvironment. Additionally, loss-of-function experiments were performed to investigate the role of PKMYT1. TNBC cell lines' proliferation, migration, and invasion were inhibited when PKMYT1 expression was knock-down. Besides, the down-regulation of PKMYT1 induced apoptosis . As a result, PKMYT1 might be a biomarker for prognosis and a therapeutic target for TNBC.
乳腺癌(BC)是全球女性中最常见的恶性肿瘤之一。有必要寻求诊断和治疗方法的改进以改善预后。蛋白激酶,膜相关酪氨酸/苏氨酸1(PKMYT1),是Wee蛋白激酶家族的成员,除乳腺癌外,已在一些肿瘤中进行了研究。本研究通过生物信息学方法结合局部临床样本和实验探索了PKMYT1的功能作用。综合分析表明,PKMYT1在乳腺癌组织中的表达较高,尤其是在晚期患者中,高于正常乳腺组织。当结合临床特征时,PKMYT1的表达是乳腺癌患者预后的独立决定因素。此外,基于多组学分析,我们发现PKMYT1的表达与几种致癌或抑癌基因变异密切相关。单细胞测序分析表明,三阴性乳腺癌(TNBC)中PKMYT1表达上调,与批量RNA测序结果一致。PKMYT1高表达与预后不良相关。功能富集分析表明,PKMYT1的表达与细胞周期相关、DNA复制相关和癌症相关途径有关。进一步研究表明,PKMYT1的表达与肿瘤微环境中的免疫细胞浸润有关。此外,进行了功能丧失实验以研究PKMYT1的作用。当PKMYT1表达被敲低时,TNBC细胞系的增殖、迁移和侵袭受到抑制。此外,PKMYT1的下调诱导了细胞凋亡。因此,PKMYT1可能是三阴性乳腺癌预后的生物标志物和治疗靶点。