Abstract:
:Background: The study of CTLA-4 inhibitors has been one of the hot spots in the field of tumor immunotherapy. As the most immunogenic subtype of breast cancer, Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) has a great potential in the treatment strategy. The aim of this study was to explore the relevant genes and pathways of CTLA-4 in TNBC and to explore the prognostic value, so as to provide a theoretical basis for clinical studies. Materials and methods: We used the data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) to analyze the expression of CTLA-4 in different types of breast cancer, and analyzed the TNBC data of CTLA-4 related co-expression genes by WGCNA and enrichment analysis. LncRNA-miRNA-CTLA-4 network was constructed to explore the immune infiltration and immune checkpoint associated with CTLA-4. The effect of CTLA-4 on clinical outcomes in TNBC patients was also evaluated. Finally, we used data from GEO database to verify the differences of CTLA-4 in different molecular types of breast cancer and related prognostic results. Results: CTLA-4 was significantly higher in TNBC than in Luminal subtype and Her-2 + subtype (P=0.019 and P<0.001, separately), and was significantly higher in ER and PR negative samples than in ER and PR positive samples (P<0.001). CTLA-4 related genes mainly enriched in biological process of leukocyte differentiation, regulation of leukocyte activation and T cell activation. Hsa-mir-92a was found to be a survival significance marker associated with CTLA-4 and lncRNA-miRNA-CTLA-4 network was constructed. The results of immune infiltration analysis showed that CTLA-4 was mainly related with T cell (r=0.74). For immune checkpoints analysis, CTLA-4 was mainly related to PDCD1(r=0.72) and CD28(r=0.64). In TNBC, high expression of CTLA-4 is related to good survival (P=0.0061). Results consistent with previous analysis were obtained in the GEO database, the expression of CTLA-4 in TNBC was significantly higher than that in non-TNBC (p<0.001), CTLA-4 was associated with favorable survival of TNBC (p<0.001). Conclusion: Among all types of breast cancer, the expression of CTLA-4 was the highest in TNBC.CTLA-4 in TNBC can be regulated by hsa-mir-92a to form ceRNA networks and influence the prognosis of TNBC patients through the leukocyte differentiation, regulation of leukocyte activation and T cell activation pathway.
journal_name
J Cancerjournal_title
Journal of Cancerauthors
Peng Z,Su P,Yang Y,Yao X,Zhang Y,Jin F,Yang Bdoi
10.7150/jca.46301subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-09-09 00:00:00pages
6365-6375issue
21issn
1837-9664pii
jcav11p6365journal_volume
11pub_type
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