Prognostic significance of high NPC2 expression in gastric cancer

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Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, and the third leading cause of cancer-related death. The identification of novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets is critical to improve the prognosis. A total of 380 patients with primary gastric cancer from the TCGA database were analyzed. The receiver operating characteristic curves were plotted. We further evaluated the independent prognostic ability of NPC2 expression for overall survival (OS) and relapse-free survival (RFS) through the Kaplan-Meier curve and Cox analysis. The NPC2 expression was significantly higher (P < 0.001) in gastric cancer. High NPC2 expression was significantly (P < 0.0001) associated with poor OS and poor RFS. The age, stage, radiation therapy, residual tumor, and NPC2 expression showed independent prognostic value for OS. The gender and NPC2 expression showed independent prognostic value for RFS. The higher NPC2 expression was observed in gastric cancer, compared with adjacent normal tissue (P < 0.001), confirmed by the IHC staining. The CCK-8 assay showed that NPC2 knockdown inhibits cell proliferation while NPC2 overexpression promotes cell proliferation (P < 0.05). NPC2 expression may serve as a promising prognostic biomarker for patients with gastric cancer.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 13(2023), 1 vom: 24. Nov., Seite 20710

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yao, Yunzhuang [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Jinnan [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Junhui [VerfasserIn]
Sui, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Jingwen [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xing [VerfasserIn]

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Biomarkers, Tumor
Journal Article
NPC2 protein, human
Vesicular Transport Proteins

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Date Completed 27.11.2023

Date Revised 20.12.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-023-47882-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364923784