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Research Paper|Volume 15, Issue 21|pp 12068—12084

The role of m6A RNA methylation regulator in meningioma

Yu Yang1,2, Liqin Luo2,3, Zhiwu Zhou2,4
  • 1Department of Neurosurgery, Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
  • 2The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
  • 3Nanchang First Retired Cadre Rest House of Jiangxi Military Region, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
  • 4Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
Received: March 7, 2023Accepted: October 4, 2023Published: October 31, 2023
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.205163

Copyright: © 2023 Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Meningiomas are common intracranial tumors, and the effect of surgical resection is often unsatisfactory. N6-Methyladenosine (m6A)-related regulator expression levels are related to cancer occurrence and development. This study aimed to investigate the roles of m6A RNA methylation regulators in meningiomas, as these are currently unclear. Two m6A methylation-regulated genes (METTL3 and IGF2BP2) were identified as survival-associated linear models for RiskScore through bioinformatics analysis. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses showed that the overall survival of patients with meningioma in the high-risk group was substantially shorter than that in the low-risk group. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis constructed a co-expression network based on the m6A methylation model (RiskScore). Gene Ontology and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes analyses identified the biological processes of hub module gene behavior, and Cytoscape constructed an m6A methylation-related gene regulatory network. In vitro experiments verified that the mRNA and protein expression levels of METTL3 and IGF2BP2 were lower in meningioma cells than in normal meningioma cells. Therefore, central regulators of m6A methylation (METTL3 and IGF2BP2) could potentially serve as novel therapeutic targets in meningioma. Subsequently, a novel methylation signature (RiskScore) was developed for prognostic prediction in patients with meningioma.