IGF2BP3 overexpression predicts poor prognosis and correlates with immune infiltration in bladder cancer

BMC Cancer

Research

Yuanyuan Li¹  Lizhen Zhu²  Haoxuan Huang³  Cheng Zhang³  Wei Huang³  Gongxian Wang³ 

[1] Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, 330000, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China;Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, 330000, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China;Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, 330000, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China;

关键词: IGF2BP3;    Bladder cancer;    PDL-1;    Prognosis marker;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12885-022-10353-5

 received in 2022-05-06, accepted in 2022-11-22,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundIGF2BP3 expression is associated with poor prognosis in cancers of multiple tissue origins. However, the precise mechanism of its co-carcinogenic action in bladder cancer is unknown.MethodsWe aimed to demonstrate the relationship between IGF2BP3 expression and pan-cancer using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. We next validated IGF2BP3 expression in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database (GSE3167). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to evaluate the diagnostic values of IGF2BP3. Cox and logistic regression were used to explore the factors affecting the prognosis. Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) network was constructed by STRING. Enrichment analyses were performed to infer involved pathways and functional categories of IGF2BP3 using the cluster Profiler package. We applied single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) algorithm and TIMER database to evaluate the expression level of immune genes.ResultsPan-cancer analyses reveal that IGF2BP3 was higher in most cancer types, including bladder cancer, and the same results were found in GSE3167. The area under the ROC curve of IGF2BP3 was 0.736, which indicated that IGF2BP3 may be a potential diagnostic biomarker. High IGF2BP3 expression was associated with poorer overall survival (OS) (P = 0.015). For validation, we collected 95 bladder cancer samples and found that IGF2BP3 expression was higher in bladder cancer tissues than that in non-tumor bladder tissues by immunohistochemistry staining. We found a positive correlation between the expression level of IGF2BP3 and the clinical stage of bladder cancer. Immunocyte infiltration analysis showed that high IGF2BP3 expression was correlated with regulating the infiltration level of immune cell, including neutrophil cells and macrophages. IGF2BP3 promotes migration and invasion of bladder cancer cells, while IGF2BP3 inhibition had the opposite effects. Higher IGF2BP3 expression was closely associated with advanced TNM stage.ConclusionIGF2BP3 overexpression was related to disease progression and poor prognosis, as well as infiltration of immune cells in bladder cancer. IGF2BP3 can be a promising independent prognostic biomarker and potential treatment target for bladder cancer.

【 授权许可】

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