Cambridge Oesophagogastric Centre, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland; International Center for Cancer Vaccine Science (ICCVS), University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
Mol Cell Proteomics. 2024 Jun;23(6):100764. doi: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2024.100764. Epub 2024 Apr 9.
Efforts to address the poor prognosis associated with esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) have been hampered by a lack of biomarkers to identify early disease and therapeutic targets. Despite extensive efforts to understand the somatic mutations associated with EAC over the past decade, a gap remains in understanding how the atlas of genomic aberrations in this cancer impacts the proteome and which somatic variants are of importance for the disease phenotype. We performed a quantitative proteomic analysis of 23 EACs and matched adjacent normal esophageal and gastric tissues. We explored the correlation of transcript and protein abundance using tissue-matched RNA-seq and proteomic data from seven patients and further integrated these data with a cohort of EAC RNA-seq data (n = 264 patients), EAC whole-genome sequencing (n = 454 patients), and external published datasets. We quantified protein expression from 5879 genes in EAC and patient-matched normal tissues. Several biomarker candidates with EAC-selective expression were identified, including the transmembrane protein GPA33. We further verified the EAC-enriched expression of GPA33 in an external cohort of 115 patients and confirm this as an attractive diagnostic and therapeutic target. To further extend the insights gained from our proteomic data, an integrated analysis of protein and RNA expression in EAC and normal tissues revealed several genes with poorly correlated protein and RNA abundance, suggesting posttranscriptional regulation of protein expression. These outlier genes, including SLC25A30, TAOK2, and AGMAT, only rarely demonstrated somatic mutation, suggesting post-transcriptional drivers for this EAC-specific phenotype. AGMAT was demonstrated to be overexpressed at the protein level in EAC compared to adjacent normal tissues with an EAC-selective, post-transcriptional mechanism of regulation of protein abundance proposed. Integrated analysis of proteome, transcriptome, and genome in EAC has revealed several genes with tumor-selective, posttranscriptional regulation of protein expression, which may be an exploitable vulnerability.
为了改善食管腺癌(EAC)预后不良的问题,我们一直在努力寻找生物标志物,以便能够早期发现疾病并确定治疗靶点。尽管在过去十年中,我们已经付出了大量的努力来了解与 EAC 相关的体细胞突变,但我们对于导致这种癌症基因组重排的机制以及哪些体细胞突变对疾病表型具有重要意义,仍然知之甚少。我们对 23 例 EAC 及其匹配的癌旁正常食管和胃组织进行了定量蛋白质组学分析。我们通过 7 例患者的组织匹配 RNA-seq 和蛋白质组学数据来探索转录本和蛋白质丰度的相关性,并将这些数据与 EAC RNA-seq 数据(n=264 例患者)、EAC 全基因组测序(n=454 例患者)以及外部发表的数据集进行整合。我们对 5879 个基因在 EAC 和患者匹配正常组织中的蛋白质表达进行了定量分析。鉴定出了几个具有 EAC 选择性表达的候选生物标志物,包括跨膜蛋白 GPA33。我们进一步在 115 例外部队列患者中验证了 GPA33 在 EAC 中的丰富表达,并证实其是一个很有吸引力的诊断和治疗靶点。为了进一步扩展我们蛋白质组学数据的见解,我们对 EAC 和正常组织中的蛋白质和 RNA 表达进行了综合分析,发现了几个蛋白质和 RNA 丰度相关性较差的基因,这表明其蛋白质表达受到了转录后调控。这些异常基因包括 SLC25A30、TAOK2 和 AGMAT,它们很少发生体细胞突变,这表明其转录后调控是 EAC 特异性表型的一个驱动因素。AGMAT 在 EAC 中的蛋白水平表达高于癌旁正常组织,提出了一种 EAC 选择性、转录后调控蛋白丰度的机制。EAC 的蛋白质组、转录组和基因组的综合分析揭示了几个具有肿瘤选择性、转录后调控蛋白表达的基因,这可能是一个可利用的弱点。
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