School of Artificial Intelligence, Anshan Normal University, Pingan Street, Anshan, 114007, Liaoning, China.
Biomedical Engineering Postdoctoral Research Station, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Sci Rep. 2023 Dec 18;13(1):22472. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-50156-7.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a prevalent malignancy and there is a lack of effective biomarkers for HCC diagnosis. Living organisms are complex, and different omics molecules interact with each other to implement various biological functions. Genomics and metabolomics, which are the top and bottom of systems biology, play an important role in HCC clinical management. Fatty acid metabolism is associated with malignancy, prognosis, and immune phenotype in cancer, which is a potential hallmark in malignant tumors. In this study, the genes and metabolites related to fatty acid metabolism were thoroughly investigated by a dynamic network construction algorithm named EWS-DDA for the early diagnosis and prognosis of HCC. Three gene ratios and eight metabolite ratios were identified by EWS-DDA as potential biomarkers for HCC clinical management. Further analysis using biological analysis, statistical analysis and document validation in the discovery and validation sets suggested that the selected potential biomarkers had great clinical prognostic value and helped to achieve effective early diagnosis of HCC. Experimental results suggested that in-depth evaluation of fatty acid metabolism from different omics viewpoints can facilitate the further understanding of pathological alterations associated with HCC characteristics, improving the performance of early diagnosis and clinical prognosis.
肝细胞癌(HCC)是一种常见的恶性肿瘤,目前缺乏有效的 HCC 诊断生物标志物。生物是复杂的,不同的组学分子相互作用,执行各种生物学功能。基因组学和代谢组学作为系统生物学的顶端和底端,在 HCC 临床管理中发挥着重要作用。脂肪酸代谢与癌症中的恶性、预后和免疫表型有关,是恶性肿瘤的一个潜在特征。在这项研究中,通过一种名为 EWS-DDA 的动态网络构建算法,深入研究了与脂肪酸代谢相关的基因和代谢物,以实现 HCC 的早期诊断和预后。EWS-DDA 确定了三个基因比和八个代谢物比作为 HCC 临床管理的潜在生物标志物。在发现和验证集中,通过生物分析、统计分析和文献验证进一步分析表明,所选潜在生物标志物具有重要的临床预后价值,有助于实现 HCC 的有效早期诊断。实验结果表明,从不同组学角度深入评估脂肪酸代谢可以促进对与 HCC 特征相关的病理改变的进一步理解,从而提高早期诊断和临床预后的性能。