1. CATHEPSIN A UPREGULATION IN GLIOMA: A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGET ASSOCIATED WITH IMMUNE INFILTRATION.
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Ming Zhang, Jun Huang, Yunfei Wang, Qingbin Nie, Xinye Zhang, Yufeng Yang, and Gengsheng Mao
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GLIOMAS , *CELL transformation , *WHITE matter (Nerve tissue) , *SPINAL cord , *SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry) - Abstract
Background: Glioma is the result of malignant transformation of glial cells in the white matter of the brain or spinal cord and accounts for approximately 80% of all intracranial malignancies. Cathepsin A (CTSA) is highly expressed in a variety of tumor tissues, but its role in glioma is poorly studied. This study analyses the relationship between CTSA, and glioma based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Methods: Data for glioma patients were collected from TCGA. The expression level of CTSA was compared between paired glioma tissues and normal tissues with Wilcoxon rank-sum test. In addition, the Wilcoxon rank-sum test was also applied to analyze the relationship between clinicopathologic features and CTSA expression. Kaplan-Meier Plotter was applied to analyze OS, DSS and PFI. Immuno-infiltration analysis of BLCA was performed by single sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) in the »GSVA« R package. Results: The CTSA was overexpressed in glioma tissues compared to normal tissues (P<0.001). The high expression of CTSA was significantly related to 1p/19q codele-tion, IDH, WHO grade and histological type. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that patients with glioma characterized with high expressed CTSA had a poorer OS (HR=2.16 P<0.001), DSS (HR=2.17 P<0.001) and PFI (HR=1.48 P<0.001) than patients with low CTSA expression. Moreover, High expressed CTSA was associated with immune cell infiltration. Conclusions: CTSA may serve as a candidate prognostic biomarker for determining prognosis associated with immune infiltration in glioma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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