Amyloid Beta (A4) Precursor Protein : A Potential Biomarker for Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

© 2019 Li et al..

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common cancers in Southern China, Southeast Asia. Radiotherapy is the main treatment for NPC. Still, about 20% of patients with NPC have a recurrence. No effective serum biomarkers are available for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (rNPC) to date. This study aimed to explore whether amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein (APP) might serve as a valuable diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for patients with rNPC.

METHODS: In a previous study, a tandem mass tag-based proteomic test was performed, which screened 59 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) between nonrecurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (nrNPC) and rNPC. In this study, a protein-protein interaction was conducted to screen the key proteins among the 59 DEPs. APP was validated and evaluated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 70 serum samples [recurrence (n = 35) and no-recurrence (n = 35)]. Also, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was plotted to evaluate the predictive value of APP.

RESULTS: The area under the ROC curve was 0.666 (95% CI: 0.514-0.818, P = 0.044). The best cutoff point of the relative expression levels for APP was 1.23 (concentration = 16.95 ng/mL), at which the sensitivity was 55.2% and the specificity was 90.9%.

CONCLUSION: The findings indicated that APP might be a valuable diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for patients with rNPC.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Cancer management and research - 11(2019) vom: 28., Seite 10651-10656

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Xiao-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Hui-Ling [VerfasserIn]
Li, Kai-Guo [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xiao-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Xiao-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Zhong-Guo [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Xin-Bin [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Fan-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Qu, Song [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Amyloid beta precursor protein
Biomarker
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
Journal Article
Protein–protein interaction
Recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Date Revised 12.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2147/CMAR.S218030

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM305080326