Research Paper Volume 15, Issue 8 pp 3094—3106
Identification of the pyroptosis-related gene signature and risk score model for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
- 1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Air Force Military Medical University, Xi’an 710038, China
- 2 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Huaihai Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University/The 71st Group Army Hospital of PLA, Xuzhou 221004, China
- 3 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Air Force Military Medical University, Xi’an 710038, China
- 4 Department of Medical Oncology, Senior Department of Oncology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, The Fifth Medical Center, Beijing 100853, China
Received: November 22, 2022 Accepted: April 3, 2023 Published: April 17, 2023
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204661How to Cite
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Abstract
Advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) still has a dismal prognostic outcome. However, the current approaches are unable to evaluate patient survival. Pyroptosis represents a novel programmed cell death type which widely investigated in various disorders and can influence tumor growth, migration, and invasion. Furthermore, few existing studies have used pyroptosis-related genes (PRGs) to construct a model for predicting ESCC survival. Therefore, the present study utilized bioinformatics approaches for analyzing ESCC patient data obtained from the TCGA database to construct the prognostic risk model and applied it to the GSE53625 dataset for validation. There were 12 differentially expressed PRGs in healthy and ESCC tissue samples, among which eight were selected through univariate and LASSO cox regression for constructing the prognostic risk model. According to K-M and ROC curve analyses, our eight-gene model might be useful in predicting ESCC prognostic outcomes. Based on the cell validation analysis, C2, CD14, RTP4, FCER3A, and SLC7A7 were expressed higher in KYSE410 and KYSE510 than in normal cells (HET-1A). Hence, ESCC patient prognostic outcomes can be assessed by our PRGs-based risk model. Further, these PRGs may also serve as therapeutic targets.
Abbreviations
EC: Esophageal cancer; ESCC: esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; PRGs: pyroptosis-related genes; GSDME: Gasdermin E; TIME: tumor immune microenvironment; TIICs: tumor-infiltrating immune cells; GSDMC: Gasdermin C; PYCARD: PYD and CARD Domain Containing; TP63: Tumor Protein P63; NOD2: Nucleotide Binding Oligomerization Domain Containing 2; IL1A: Interleukin 1 Alpha; AIM2: Absent in Melanoma 2; CASP1: Caspase 1; GZMB: Granzyme B; TNF: Tumor Necrosis Factor; NLRP1: NLR Family Pyrin Domain Containing 1; ELANE: Elastase, Neutrophil Expressed; B2M: β2-microglobulin; C1QB: Complement Component 1, Q Subcomponent, Beta Polypeptide; C2: Complement Component 2; CD14: Monocyte Differentiation Antigen CD14; FCER1G: Fc Fragment of IgE, High Affinity I, Receptor for Gamma; FCGR3A: Fc Fragment of IgG, Low Affinity IIIa, Receptor; RTP4: Receptor Transporter Protein 4; SLC7A7: Solute Carrier Family 7 Member 7.