MYD88 Is a Potential Prognostic Gene and Immune Signature of Tumor Microenvironment for Gliomas

Frontiers in Oncology

Qinglong Guo⁴  Xing Xiao⁴  Jinsen Zhang⁴ 

[1] Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;Neurosurgery Department of Huashan Hospital, Neurosurgical Institute of Fudan University, Shanghai, China;Neurosurgery Department of Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Clinical Medical Center of Neurosurgery, Shanghai, China;Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Restoration and Neural Regeneration, Shanghai, China;

关键词: tumor microenvironment;    tumor-infiltrating immune cell;    MYD88;    macrophage;    glioma;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fonc.2021.654388

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

PurposeTo explore the profiles of immune and stromal components of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and their related key genes in gliomas.MethodsWe applied bioinformatic techniques to identify the core gene that participated in the regulation of the TME of the gliomas. And immunohistochemistry staining was used to calculate the gene expressions in clinical cases.ResultsThe CIBERSORT and ESTIMATE were used to figure out the composition of TME in 698 glioma cases from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Differential expression analysis identified 2103 genes between the high and the low-score group. Then the Gene Ontology (GO), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analysis, univariate Cox regression analysis, and protein–protein interaction (PPI) network construction were conducted based on these genes. MYD88 was identified as the key gene by the combination univariate Cox and PPI analysis. Furthermore, MYD88 expression was significantly associated with the overall survival and WHO grade of glioma patients. The genes in the high-expression MYD88 group were mainly in immune-related pathways in the Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA). We found that macrophage M2 accounted for the largest portion with an average of 27.6% in the glioma TIICs and was associated with high expression of MYD88. The results were verified in CGGA database and clinical cases in our hospital. Furthermore, we also found the MYD88 expression was higher in IDH1 wild types. The methylation rate was lower in high grade gliomas.ConclusionMYD88 had predictive prognostic value in glioma patients by influencing TIICs dysregulation especially the M2-type macrophages.

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