PHLPP2 as a novel metastatic and prognostic biomarker in non-small cell lung cancer patients

© 2019 The Authors. Thoracic Cancer published by China Lung Oncology Group and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd..

BACKGROUND: PH domain and leucine-rich repeat protein phosphatase 2 (PHLPP2) has been reported to be a potent tumor suppressor in many human cancers. However, PHLPP2 has not been fully researched as a putative clinical prognostic biomarker of lung cancer.

METHODS: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases including data on 1383 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were used to determine PHLPP2 expression. PHLPP2 expression was then examined by immunohistochemistry, and its clinical significance analyzed in 134 NSCLC patients, including 73 patients with adenocarcinoma and 81 with squamous cell carcinoma.

RESULTS: We found PHLPP2 expression to be less pronounced in NSCLC tissue samples than that in nontumoral lung tissues according to data taken from TCGA and GEO datasets; this outcome was further validated by immunohistochemistry assay. The low PHLPP2 expression level was found to be associated with the presence of lymph node metastasis (P = 0.003). Importantly, PHLPP2 was found to be an independent indicator of prognosis for overall (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.520, 95% confidence interval [Cl] = 0.327-0.827; P = 0.006) and disease-free survival (HR = 0.489, 95% Cl = 0.308-0.775; P = 0.002) in patients with surgically-resected NSCLC by multivariate analysis.

CONCLUSION: Taken together, our findings show that PHLPP2 is a robust clinical marker for NSCLC survival and could serve as a potential therapeutic target.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Thoracic cancer - 10(2019), 11 vom: 02. Nov., Seite 2124-2132

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Hongmei [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Ruixue [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Fanglin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yuechao [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Weina [VerfasserIn]
Xue, Guiqin [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Li [VerfasserIn]
Xing, Ying [VerfasserIn]

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Biomarkers, Tumor
EC 3.1.3.16
Journal Article
Metastasis
Non-small cell lung cancer
PHLPP2
PHLPP2 protein, human
Phosphoprotein Phosphatases
Prognosis
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 27.07.2020

Date Revised 27.07.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/1759-7714.13196

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM301788537