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ArticleCancer medicine2021

Downregulation of CYP2E1 is associated with poor prognosis and tumor progression of gliomas.

Liguo Ye, Yang Xu, Long Wang, Chunyu Zhang, Ping Hu, Shi'ao Tong, Zhennan Liu, Daofeng Tian

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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Liguo YeDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China.
Yang XuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China.
Long WangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China.
Chunyu ZhangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China.
Ping HuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China.
Shi'ao TongDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China.
Zhennan LiuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China.
Daofeng TianDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-2023-0060
Wuhan University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo explore the role and possible regulatory mechanisms of CYP2E1 in gliomas.

methodsRNA-seq data and corresponding clinical information of glioma patients were collected from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas, and mRNA data of normal brain tissues were obtained by the Genotype-Tissue Expression project. The Wilcoxon test was performed to analyze the correlation between CYP2E1 expression and glioma subtypes. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression, receiver operating characteristic curves, and Kaplan-Meier plots were used to evaluate the prognostic value of CYP2E1 in glioma. Functional enrichment analyses and immune infiltration analyses were performed to investigate the potential function of CYP2E1 in gliomas. Moreover, we investigated the miRNA and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate CYP2E1 expression. Finally, network pharmacology and molecular docking experiments were used to predict drugs that target CYP2E1.

resultsThe downregulation of CYP2E1 expression may predict a poor prognosis for glioma patients. CYP2E1 expression decreased with increasing WHO grade (II-IV), and its level was correlated with clinical features, including age, 1p19q codeletion status, and IDH state in glioma tissues. Furthermore, CYP2E1 was involved in lipid metabolism and ferroptosis and related to the tumor immune microenvironment due to its strong correlation with the levels of infiltrating monocytes and Tregs. Moreover, variation in the total methylation level and copy number of CYP2E1 was moderately correlated with its mRNA expression (p < 0.05). CYP2E1 was predicted to be targeted by hsa-miR-527, whose expression was negatively related to CYP2E1 mRNA expression (p < 0.05). In addition, effective compounds that target CYP2E1, including 18beta-glycyrrhetinic acid, styrene, toluene, nicotine, m-xylene, p-xylene, and colchicine, were identified.

conclusionThe downregulation of CYP2E1, which affects lipid metabolism and the ferroptosis signaling pathway, promotes the progression of gliomas.

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Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1Disease ProgressionDown-RegulationGliomaHumansPrognosisCytochrome P-450 CYP2E1biomarkerCYP2E1ferroptosisgliomaslipid metabolism

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PMID34612013
PMCPMC8607268
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