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- Title
Potential Mechanism of Immune Evasion Associated with the Master Regulator ASCL2 in Microsatellite Stability in Colorectal Cancer.
- Authors
Yang, Qian; Huang, Guowei; Li, Liyan; Li, Enmin; Xu, Liyan
- Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has two major subtypes, microsatellite instability (MSI) and microsatellite stability (MSS) based on the genomic instability. In this study, using computational programs, we identified 9 master transcription factors (TFs) based on epigenomic profiling in MSS CRC samples. Notably, unbiased gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) showed that several master TFs were strongly associated with immune-related functions in TCGA MSS CRC tissues, such as interferon gamma (IFN-γ) and interferon alpha (IFN-α) responses. Focusing to the top candidate, ASCL2, we found that CD8+ T cell infiltration was low in ASCL2 overexpressed MSS CRC samples. Compared with other gastrointestinal (GI) cancers (gastric cancer, MSI CRC, and esophageal cancer), ASCL2 is specifically upregulated in MSS CRC. Moreover, we identified 28 candidate genes in IFN-γ and IFN-α response pathways which were negatively correlated with ASCL2. Together, these results link transcriptional dysregulation with the immune evasion in MSS CRC, which may advance the understanding of immune resistance and contribute to developing novel treatments of MSS CRC.
- Subjects
COLORECTAL cancer; MICROSATELLITE repeats; INTERFERON gamma; ESOPHAGEAL cancer; GENES
- Publication
Journal of Immunology Research, 2021, p1
- ISSN
2314-8861
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1155/2021/5964752