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Identification of key modules and hub genes for small-cell lung carcinoma and large-cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma by weighted gene co-expression network analysis of clinical tissue-proteomes.

ABSTRACT: Small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) and large-cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma (LCNEC) are high-grade lung neuroendocrine tumors (NET). However, comparative protein expression within SCLC and LCNEC remains unclear. Here, protein expression profiles were obtained via mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) identified co-expressed modules and hub genes. Of 34 identified modules, six were significant and selected for protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis and pathway enrichment. Within the six modules, the activation of cellular processes and complexes, such as alternative mRNA splicing, translation initiation, nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex, SWItch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable (SWI/SNF) superfamily-type complex, chromatin remodeling pathway, and mRNA metabolic processes, were significant to SCLC. Modules enriched in processes, including signal recognition particle (SRP)-dependent co-translational protein targeting to membrane, nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process of nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), and cellular macromolecule catabolic process, were characteristically activated in LCNEC. Novel high-degree hub genes were identified for each module. Master and upstream regulators were predicted via causal network analysis. This study provides an understanding of the molecular differences in tumorigenesis and malignancy between SCLC and LCNEC and may help identify potential therapeutic targets.

SUBMITTER: Nakamura H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6550379 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Identification of key modules and hub genes for small-cell lung carcinoma and large-cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma by weighted gene co-expression network analysis of clinical tissue-proteomes.

Nakamura Haruhiko H Fujii Kiyonaga K Gupta Vipul V Hata Hiroko H Koizumu Hirotaka H Hoshikawa Masahiro M Naruki Saeko S Miyata Yuka Y Takahashi Ikuya I Miyazawa Tomoyuki T Sakai Hiroki H Tsumoto Kouhei K Takagi Masayuki M Saji Hisashi H Nishimura Toshihide T

PloS one 20190605 6

Small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) and large-cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma (LCNEC) are high-grade lung neuroendocrine tumors (NET). However, comparative protein expression within SCLC and LCNEC remains unclear. Here, protein expression profiles were obtained via mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) identified co-expressed modules and hub genes. Of 34 identified modules, six were significant and selected for protein-protein interactio ...[more]

PMID: 31166966

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Identification of key modules and hub genes for small-cell lung carcinoma and large-cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma by weighted gene co-expression network analysis of clinical tissue-proteomes.

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Identification of key modules and hub genes for small-cell lung carcinoma and large-cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma by weighted gene co-expression network analysis of clinical tissue-proteomes.

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