Identification of SPRYD4 as a tumour suppressor predicts prognosis and correlates with immune infiltration in cholangiocarcinoma

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Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is an aggressive solid tumour with a 5-year survival rate ranging from 7% to 20%. It is, therefore, urgent to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets to improve the outcomes of patients with CCA. SPRY-domain containing protein 4 (SPRYD4) contains SPRY domains that modulate protein-protein interaction in various biological processes; however, its role in cancer development is insufficiently explored. This study is the first to identify that SPRYD4 is downregulated in CCA tissues using multiple public datasets and a CCA cohort. Furthermore, the low expression of SPRYD4 was significantly associated with unfavourable clinicopathological characteristics and poor prognosis in patients with CCA, indicating that SPRYD4 could be a prognosis indicator of CCA. In vitro experiments revealed that SPRYD4 overexpression inhibited CCA cells proliferation and migration, whereas the proliferative and migratory capacity of CCA cells was enhanced after SPRYD4 deletion. Moreover, flow cytometry showed that SPRYD4 overexpression triggered the S/G2 cell phase arrest and promoted apoptosis in CCA cells. Furthermore, the tumour-inhibitory effect of SPRYD4 was validated in vivo using xenograft mouse models. SPRYD4 also showed a close association with tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes and important immune checkpoints including PD1, PD-L1 and CTLA4 in CCA. In conclusion, this study elucidated the role of SPRYD4 during CCA development and highlighted SPRYD4 as a novel biomarker and tumour suppressor in CCA.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

BMC cancer - 23(2023), 1 vom: 04. Mai, Seite 404

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ma, Zuyi [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Tiange [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Jianchun [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Shanzhou [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Li, Binglu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cholangiocarcinoma
Journal Article
Nuclear Proteins
Prognosis
SPRYD4
SPRYD4 protein, human
Tumor immune infiltration
Tumor suppressor

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Date Completed 08.05.2023

Date Revised 08.05.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12885-023-10810-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356462412