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ArticleGenome biology2020

Convergent network effects along the axis of gene expression during prostate cancer progression.

Konstantina Charmpi, Tiannan Guo, Qing Zhong, Ulrich Wagner, Rui Sun, Nora C Toussaint, Christine E Fritz, Chunhui Yuan, Hao Chen, Niels J Rupp and 20 more

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Article in Genome biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors at 11 institutions in 6 countries.

Konstantina Charmpi *CECAD, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Tiannan Guo *Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. guotiannan@westlake.edu.cn.
Qing Zhong *Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Ulrich Wagner *Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Rui SunZhejiang Provincial Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, 310024, China.
Nora C ToussaintDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Christine E FritzDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Chunhui YuanZhejiang Provincial Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, 310024, China.
Hao ChenZhejiang Provincial Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, 310024, China.
Niels J RuppDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Ailsa ChristiansenDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Dorothea RutishauserDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Jan H RüschoffDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Christian FankhauserDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Karim SabaDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Cedric PoyetDepartment of Urology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Thomas HermannsDepartment of Urology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Kathrin OehlDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Ariane L MooreDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland.
Christian BeiselDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland.
Laurence CalzoneInstitut Curie, Paris, France.
Loredana MartignettiInstitut Curie, Paris, France.
Qiushi ZhangZhejiang Provincial Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, 310024, China.
Yi ZhuDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
María Rodríguez MartínezIBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland.
Matteo ManicaIBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland.
Michael C HaffnerFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.
Ruedi AebersoldDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. aebersold@imsb.biol.ethz.ch.
Peter J WildDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Peter.Wild@kgu.de.
Andreas BeyerCECAD, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. abeyer2@uni-koeln.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3891-2123
University of Zurich · CHWestlake University · CNETH Zurich · CHIBM Research - Zurich · CHInstitut Curie · FRFred Hutch Cancer Center · USGoethe University Frankfurt · DESIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHThe University of Sydney · AUTH Köln - University of Applied Sciences · DEUniversity of Cologne · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTumor-specific genomic aberrations are routinely determined by high-throughput genomic measurements. It remains unclear how complex genome alterations affect molecular networks through changing protein levels and consequently biochemical states of tumor tissues.

resultsHere, we investigate the propagation of genomic effects along the axis of gene expression during prostate cancer progression. We quantify genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic alterations based on 105 prostate samples, consisting of benign prostatic hyperplasia regions and malignant tumors, from 39 prostate cancer patients. Our analysis reveals the convergent effects of distinct copy number alterations impacting on common downstream proteins, which are important for establishing the tumor phenotype. We devise a network-based approach that integrates perturbations across different molecular layers, which identifies a sub-network consisting of nine genes whose joint activity positively correlates with increasingly aggressive tumor phenotypes and is predictive of recurrence-free survival. Further, our data reveal a wide spectrum of intra-patient network effects, ranging from similar to very distinct alterations on different molecular layers.

conclusionsThis study uncovers molecular networks with considerable convergent alterations across tumor sites and patients. It also exposes a diversity of network effects: we could not identify a single sub-network that is perturbed in all high-grade tumor regions.

Indexed as

Disease ProgressionGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticBiomarkers, TumorDNA Copy Number VariationsGenetic HeterogeneityGenomicsHumansMaleMutationPhenotypeProstateProstatic NeoplasmsProteogenomicsProteomeProteomicsRNA, MessengerBiomarkers, TumorProteomeRNA, MessengerMolecular aberrationsNetwork effectsProstate cancerProteogenomic analysisTumor heterogeneity

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PMID33317623
PMCPMC7737297
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