1. DNA methylation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas correlates with IDO1 expression, HPV status, patients’ survival, immune cell infiltrates, mutational load, and interferon γ signature
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Emma Grace Bawden, Romina Zarbl, Jennifer Landsberg, Verena Sailer, Carsten Golletz, Ulrike Sailer, Friedrich Bootz, Kathrin Scheckenbach, Sophia Loick, Joern Dietrich, Glen Kristiansen, Dimo Dietrich, Timo J. Vogt, Ingela Grünwald, Andreas O. H. Gerstner, Marieta Toma, and Constanze Wiek
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,HPV ,Research paper ,medicine.medical_treatment ,lcsh:Medicine ,Kaplan-Meier Estimate ,Biology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cell Line, Tumor ,medicine ,Biomarkers, Tumor ,Cluster Analysis ,Humans ,Indoleamine-Pyrrole 2,3,-Dioxygenase ,Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 ,RNA, Messenger ,Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase ,Gene ,Papillomaviridae ,lcsh:R5-920 ,DNA methylation ,Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck ,Papillomavirus Infections ,lcsh:R ,Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma ,General Medicine ,Methylation ,Immunotherapy ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma ,Immunohistochemistry ,Immune checkpoint ,Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ,030104 developmental biology ,CpG site ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Cancer research ,Cytokines ,CpG Islands ,Female ,Prediction ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,IDO1, Biomarker - Abstract
Background: The immune checkpoint, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1, is under investigation as target of novel immunotherapies for cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC). The aim of our study was to analyze DNA methylation of the encoding gene (IDO1) in HNSCC. Methods: Methylation of three CpG sites within the promoter, promoter flank, and gene body was investigated and correlated with mRNA expression, immune cell infiltration, mutational burden, human papillomavirus (HPV)-status, and overall survival in a cohort of N = 528 HNSCC patients obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas. In addition, IDO1 immunohistochemistry and DNA methylation analysis was performed in an independent cohort of N = 138 HNSCC samples. Findings: Significant inverse correlations of IDO1 methylation and IDO1 mRNA expression were found in the promoter and promoter flank region (Spearman's ρ = −0.163 and ρ = −0.377, respectively) while a positive correlation was present in the gene body (ρ = 0.502; all P
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- 2019