Author:
Zhang Qiang,Sun Xiangfei,Sun Jianyi,Lu Jiangshen,Gao Xiaodong,Shen Kuntang,Qin Xinyu
Abstract
The effect of immunotherapy strategy has been affirmed in the treatment of various tumors. Nevertheless, the latent role of RNA 5-methylcytosine (m5C) modification in gastric cancer (GC) tumor microenvironment (TME) cell infiltration is still unclear. We systematically explore the m5C modification patterns of 2,122 GC patients from GEO and TCGA databases by 16 m5C regulators and related these patterns to TME characteristics. LASSO Cox regression was employed to construct the m5Cscore based on the expression of regulators and DEGs, which was used to evaluate the prognosis. All the GC patients were divided into three m5C modification clusters with distinct gene expression characteristics and TME patterns. GSVA, ssGSEA, and TME cell infiltration analysis showed that m5C clusters A, B, and C were classified as immune-desert, immune-inflamed, and immune-excluded phenotype, respectively. The m5Cscore system based on the expression of eight genes could effectively predict the prognosis of individual GC patients, with AUC 0.766. Patients with a lower m5Cscore were characterized by the activation of immunity and experienced significantly longer PFS and OS. Our study demonstrated the non-negligible role of m5C modification in the development of TME complexity and inhomogeneity. Assessing the m5C modification pattern for individual GC patients will help recognize the infiltration characterization and guide more effective immunotherapy treatment.
Subject
Immunology,Immunology and Allergy
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