Objective To investigate the expression of leucine-rich repeat and fibronectin type Ⅲ domain-containing protein 4(LRFN4)in gastric cancer tissues and analyze the relationship between LRFN4 expression levels and the clinicopathological parameters as well as the prognosis of gastric cancer patients.Method 8 pairs of samples of gastric cancer patients were collected,including gastric cancer and adjacent normal tissue.These patients were diagnosed and underwent surgical treatment at the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery,the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from January to December 2017.Postoperative tissue samples of 117 gastric cancer patients were collected between January 2004 and December 2005 from the same center to create a gastric cancer tissue microarray.The expression of LRFN4 in the gastric cancer dataset from the cancer genome atlas(TCGA)database was analyzed.Western blotting and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction(RT-qPCR)were applied to detect LRFN4 expression in 8 pairs of fresh gastric cancer tissues and adjacent normal tissues.Immunohistochemistry was used to detect LRFN4 expression in the gastric cancer tissue microarray.The differences in clinicopathological parameters of gastric cancer patients with different LRFN4 expression levels were analyzed.The prognosis of gastric cancer patients with different LRFN4 expression levels was analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method.Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were further conducted to identify factors affecting the prognosis of gastric cancer patients.Result LRFN4 was highly expressed in gastric cancer tissues in both the TCGA dataset and fresh gastric cancer tissues.Patients with high expression of LRFN4 exhibited larger tumor size and more advanced T stage,N stage,M stage and TNM stage(all P<0.05),and had poorer prognosis(P<0.001).Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses indicated that high LRFN4 expression in gastric cancer tissues was an independent risk factor influencing the prognosis of gastric cancer patients(HR=3.898,95%CI 2.273-6.686,P<0.001).Conclusion High expression of LRFN4 in gastric cancer tissues is associated with poor prognosis in patients and may act as a novel potential biomarker for predicting the prognosis of gastric cancer patients.
关键词
胃癌/富含亮氨酸重复序列/Ⅲ型纤维连接蛋白4/癌症基因组图谱数据库/生物标志物/胃癌预后
Key words
Gastric cancer/Leucine-rich repeat and fibronectin type Ⅲ domain-containing protein 4/The cancer genome atlas/Biomarker/Prognosis of gastric cancer