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ArticleJournal of immunology research2021

Identification of Key Functional Modules and Immunomodulatory Regulators of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Ding Luo, Xiang Zhang, Xiao-Kai Li, Gang Chen

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Article in Journal of immunology research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ding LuoDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Kunming City & Ganmei Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, No. 504 Youth Road, Kunming 650000, China.
Xiang ZhangDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Kunming City & Ganmei Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, No. 504 Youth Road, Kunming 650000, China.
Xiao-Kai LiDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, No. 295 Xichang Road, Kunming 650032, China.
Gang ChenDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Kunming City & Ganmei Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, No. 504 Youth Road, Kunming 650000, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7343-1256
Kunming Medical University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the advances in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the prognosis of HCC patients remains unsatisfactory due to postsurgical recurrence and treatment resistance. Therefore, it is important to reveal the mechanisms underlying HCC and identify potential therapeutic targets against HCC, which could facilitate the development of novel therapies. Based on 12 HCC samples and 12 paired paracancerous normal tissues, we identified differentially expressed mRNAs and lncRNAs using the "limma" package in R software. Moreover, we used the weighted gene coexpression network analysis (WGCNA) to analyze the expression data and screened hub genes. Furthermore, we performed pathway enrichment analysis based on the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database. In addition, the relative abundance of a given gene set was estimated by single-sample Gene Set Enrichment Analysis. We identified 687 differentially expressed mRNAs and 260 differentially expressed lncRNAs. A total of 6 modules were revealed by WGCNA, and MT1M and MT1E genes from the red module were identified as hub genes. Moreover, pathway analysis revealed the top 10 enriched KEGG pathways of upregulated or downregulated genes. Additionally, we also found that CD58 might act as an immune checkpoint gene in HCC via PD1/CTLA4 pathways and regulate the levels of tumor-infiltrating immune cells in HCC tissues, which might be an immunotherapeutic target in HCC. Our research identified key functional modules and immunomodulatory regulators for HCC, which might offer novel diagnostic biomarkers and/or therapeutic targets for cancer immunotherapy.

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Biomarkers, TumorComputational BiologyImmunomodulationCarcinoma, HepatocellularDatabases, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene OntologyGene Regulatory NetworksHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateLiver NeoplasmsPrognosisSignal TransductionTranscriptomeBiomarkers, Tumor

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PMID34423049
PMCPMC8378952
OpenAlexW3196079240

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