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In silico pathway analysis in cervical carcinoma reveals potential new targets for treatment
Steven Van LaereXuan Bich TrinhManon T. HuizingPieter-jan H.h. Van DamChristian RolfoMarco GiallombardoKostas PapadimitriouChristophe Van BerckelaerPeter A. Van DamWiebren A.a. TjalmaSevilay Altintassubject
0301 basic medicineUterine Cervical NeoplasmMAPK3Uterine Cervical NeoplasmsBioinformaticsHeLa CellMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase0302 clinical medicineTransforming Growth Factor betaMedicineOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisCancerCervical cancerABLCell CycleIn silico pathway analysiCell cycleGene Expression Regulation NeoplasticOncology030220 oncology & carcinogenesisFemaleDNA microarrayMitogen-Activated Protein KinasesTreatment targetResearch PaperHumanin silico pathway analysisMAP Kinase Signaling SystemIn silicoComputational biologytreatment targetsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc03 medical and health sciencesCell Line TumorBiomarkers TumorHumansComputer SimulationAmino Acid SequenceBiologyCervical carcinomabusiness.industryOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysiGene Expression ProfilingCancerComputational Biologymedicine.diseaseChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGene expression profiling030104 developmental biologyHuman medicinebusinessHeLa Cellsdescription
Abstract: An in silico pathway analysis was performed in order to improve current knowledge on the molecular drivers of cervical cancer and detect potential targets for treatment. Three publicly available Affymetrix gene expression data-sets (GSE5787, GSE7803, GSE9750) were retrieved, vouching for a total of 9 cervical cancer cell lines (CCCLs), 39 normal cervical samples, 7 CIN3 samples and 111 cervical cancer samples (CCSs). Predication analysis of microarrays was performed in the Affymetrix sets to identify cervical cancer biomarkers. To select cancer cell-specific genes the CCSs were compared to the CCCLs. Validated genes were submitted to a gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) and Expression2Kinases (E2K). In the CCSs a total of 1,547 probe sets were identified that were overexpressed (FDR < 0.1). Comparing to CCCLs 560 probe sets (481 unique genes) had a cancer cell-specific expression profile, and 315 of these genes (65%) were validated. GSEA identified 5 cancer hallmarks enriched in CCSs (P < 0.01 and FDR < 0.25) showing that deregulation of the cell cycle is a major component of cervical cancer biology. E2K identified a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network of 162 nodes (including 20 drugable kinases) and 1626 edges. This PPI-network consists of 5 signaling modules associated with MYC signaling (Module 1), cell cycle deregulation (Module 2), TGF beta-signaling (Module 3), MAPK signaling (Module 4) and chromatin modeling (Module 5). Potential targets for treatment which could be identified were CDK1, CDK2, ABL1, ATM, AKT1, MAPK1, MAPK3 among others. The present study identified important driver pathways in cervical carcinogenesis which should be assessed for their potential therapeutic drugability.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | Oncotarget |