Journal
EBIOMEDICINE
Volume 34, Issue -, Pages 46-60Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.07.040
Keywords
Alternative splicing; Gastrointestinal pan-adenocarcinomas; Prognosis; Splicing factors
Funding
- Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education [YCSW2018104]
- Guangxi Medical University Training Program for Distinguished Young Scholars (2017)
- Medical Excellence - Creative Research Development Grant from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (2016)
- Guangxi Provincial Health Bureau Scientific Research Project [Z2018]
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Background: Gastrointestinal pan-adenocarcinomas, which mainly include adenocarcinomas of the esophagus, stomach, colon, and rectum, place a heavy burden on society owing to their poor prognoses. Since aberrant alternative splicing (AS) are starting to be considered as efficacious signatures for tumor prognosis predicting and therapeutic targets, systematic analysis of AS events is urgent. Methods: Prognosis-related AS events were selected by using univariate COX regression analysis. Gene functional enrichment analysis revealed the pathways enriched by prognosis-related AS. Then, prognostic signatures based on AS events were developed for prognosis prediction. Potential mechanism to regulate splicing events by splicing factors was analyzed via Pearson correlation and regulatory networks were constructed. Findings: A total of 967, 918, 674, and 406 AS events were identified as prognosis-related AS events in esophagus, stomach, colon, and rectum adenocarcinomas, respectively. Survival-associated AS events were distinguishing in the four subtypes of adenocarcinoma. Furthermore, computational algorithm results indicated that perturbation of ribosome and ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis pathways were the potential molecular mechanisms corresponding to inferior prognoses. Most notably, several prognostic signatures based on AS events displayed moderate performance in prognosis predicting. The area under curve values of the time-dependent receiver operating characteristic were 0.961, 0.871, 0.870, and 0.890 in esophagus, stomach, colon, and rectum adenocarcinomas. Survival-associated splicing factors were submitted to construct the AS regulatory network, which could be an underlying mechanism of AS events. Interpretation: AS may could be ideal indiactors in the prognosis of gastrointestinal pan-adenocarcinomas. Exploring interesting splicing regulatory networks is conducive to solve the puzzles of AS. (c) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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