The First Clinical School of Medicine Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan 450000, China.
Department of Neurobiology, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Apr 12;103(15):e37688. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000037688.
Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) are the most common testicular malignancies. KLRB1 is considered to influence the development and progression of a number of cancers. However, it is unclear how the KLRB1 gene functions in TGCT. First, it was determined the expression level of KLRB1 in TGCT using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) (The Cancer Genome Atlas) dataset and GTEx (Genotype-Tissue Expression) dataset. The clinical significance and biological functions of KLRB1 were explored using the TCGA dataset, and we analyzed the correlation of the KLRB1 gene with tumor immunity and infiltrating immune cells using gene set variation analysis and the TIMER database. We found that the expression level of KLRB1 was upregulated in TGCT malignant tissues with the corresponding normal tissues as controls, and KLRB1 expression correlated with clinicopathologic features of TGCT. Functional enrichment analysis suggested that KLRB1 might be involved in immune response and inflammatory response. KLRB1 was highly positively correlated with natural killer cell activation in immune response and positively correlated with tumor-infiltrating immune cells. This study demonstrated for the first time the role of KLRB1 in TGCT, which may serve as a new biomarker associated with immune infiltration and provide a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of TGCT.
睾丸生殖细胞肿瘤(TGCT)是最常见的睾丸恶性肿瘤。KLRB1 被认为影响许多癌症的发展和进展。然而,KLRB1 基因在 TGCT 中的作用机制尚不清楚。首先,使用癌症基因组图谱(TCGA)数据集和 GTEx(基因型-组织表达)数据集来确定 KLRB1 在 TGCT 中的表达水平。使用 TCGA 数据集探讨 KLRB1 的临床意义和生物学功能,并使用基因集变异分析和 TIMER 数据库分析 KLRB1 基因与肿瘤免疫和浸润免疫细胞的相关性。我们发现,与相应的正常组织对照相比,KLRB1 在 TGCT 恶性组织中的表达水平上调,并且 KLRB1 的表达与 TGCT 的临床病理特征相关。功能富集分析表明,KLRB1 可能参与免疫反应和炎症反应。在免疫反应中,KLRB1 与自然杀伤细胞的激活呈高度正相关,并且与肿瘤浸润免疫细胞呈正相关。这项研究首次证明了 KLRB1 在 TGCT 中的作用,它可能作为与免疫浸润相关的新的生物标志物,并为 TGCT 的治疗提供潜在的治疗靶点。
Medicine (Baltimore). 2024-4-12