Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 8, Issue 41, Pages 69847-69862Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.19349
Keywords
KEAP1; NRF2; NSCLC; biomarker; metabolism
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31170743, 81172230, 81441079, 31370772, 31470752, J1103630]
- Projects of Medical and Health Technology Program in Zhejiang Province [2014KYB094]
- Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation [LZ12H16001]
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Mutations in Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (KEAP1) cause the aberrant activation of nuclear factor erythroid-derived 2-like 2 (NRF2), which leads to oncogenesis and drug resistance in lung cancer cells. Our study was designed to identify the genes involved in lung cancer progression targeted by NRF2. A series of microarray experiments in normal and cancer cells, as well as in animal models, have revealed regulatory genes downstream of NRF2 that are involved in wide variety of pathways. Specifically, we carried out individual and combinatorial microarray analysis of KEAP1 overexpression and NRF2 siRNA-knockdown in a KEAP1 mutant-A549 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell line. As a result, we identified a list of genes which were mainly involved in metabolic functions in NSCLC by using functional annotation analysis. In addition, we carried out in silico analysis to characterize the antioxidant responsive element sequences in the promoter regions of known and putative NRF2-regulated metabolic genes. We further identified an NRF2-regulated metabolic gene signature (NRMGS) by correlating the microarray data with lung adenocarcinoma RNA-Seq gene expression data from The Cancer Genome Atlas followed by qRT-PCR validation, and finally showed that higher expression of the signature conferred a poor prognosis in 8 independent NSCLC cohorts. Our findings provide novel prognostic biomarkers for NSCLC.
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