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Prognosis and Immune Landscapes in Glioblastoma Based on Gene-Signature Related to Reactive-Oxygen-Species

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Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most malignant and aggressive primary brain tumor and is highly resistant to current therapeutic strategies. Previous studies have demonstrated that reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in the regulation of signal transduction and immunosuppressive environment in GBM. To further study the role of ROS in prognosis, tumor micro-environment (TME) and immunotherapeutic response in GBM, an ROS-related nine-gene signature was constructed using the Lasso-Cox regression method and validated using three other datasets in our research, based on the hallmark ROS-pathway-related gene sets and the Cancer Genome Atlas GBM dataset. Differences in prognosis, TME scores, immune cell infiltration, immune checkpoint expression levels, and drug sensitivity between high-risk and low-risk subgroups were analyzed using R software. Collectively, our research uncovered a novel ROS-related prognostic model for primary GBM, which could prove to be a potential tool for clinical diagnosis of GBM, and help assess the immune and molecular characteristics of ROS in the tumorigenesis and immunosuppression of GBM. Our research also revealed that the expressions of ROS-related genes—HSPB1, LSP1, and PTX3—were closely related to the cell markers of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and M2 macrophages validated by quantitative RT-PCR, suggesting them could be potential targets of immunotherapy for GBM.

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The GBM RNA-seq data and corresponding clinical information were observed from the TCGA (https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/) and CGGA (http://www.cgga.org.cn). The GBM microarray data and corresponding clinical information were retrieved from the GEO database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) and the TCGA. The single-cell RNA-seq dataset (dataset ID: GSE131928) was analyzed and downloaded from Single Cell Portal website (https://singlecell.broadinstitute.org/single_cell). The ROS-related gene list was downloaded from the MSigDB website (https://www.gsea-msigdb.org/gsea/msigdb).

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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the researchers’ contribution to the TCGA, CGGA, GEO and everyone who contributed to this article.

Funding

This research was funded by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82171832), the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang (No. LQ19H030001) and Shanghai Science and Technology development Foundation (No. 20Z11900100).

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Conceptualization, CL and JLY; Data curation, JLZ; Formal analysis, JLY; Investigation, ZPW; Methodology, PK; Project administration, HRC; Resources, JLZ; Software, JLY; Validation, CL; Visualization, ZPW; Writing—original draft, Prashant Kaushal; Writing—review & editing, JLY.

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Correspondence to Jingliang Ye or Chun Luo.

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The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee of Shanghai Tongji Hospital affiliated to the Tongji University (Shanghai, China). (Protocol code: 2020-KYSB-190-XZ-210526 and 2021.05.26).

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Supplementary file1 (JPG 4208 kb) The functional enrichment analysis of the 197 differentially expressed ROS-related genes. (A-C) The GO enrichment analyses of the 197 differentially expressed ROS-related genes. (D) The KEGG enrichment analysis of the 197 differentially expressed ROS-related genes. (E-G) The network diagram of the GO enrichment analyses for the 197 differentially expressed ROS-related genes. (H) The network diagram of the KEGG enrichment analysis of the 197 differentially expressed ROS-related genes

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Supplementary file2 (JPG 2928 kb) The correlation analyses among the nine hub genes, 22 immune cells and immune-related scores in three validation cohorts

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Supplementary file3 (JPG 1492 kb) The calibration plots of the training cohort and the three validation cohorts. (A) The calibration plots of the training cohort. (B-D) The calibration plots of the three validation cohorts

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Supplementary file4 (JPG 1517 kb) 18 drugs with higher sensitivity in the low-risk subgroup compared with high-risk subgroup (p < 0.001) by using the R package “pRRophetic”

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Supplementary file5 (XLSX 254 kb) The list of 979 ROS-related genes collected from the hallmark reactive oxygen species pathway gene set of Molecular Signatures Database v7.4, and other thirteen related gene sets

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Supplementary file6 (XLSX 395 kb) The functional enrichment analysis of the 197 differentially expressed ROS- related genes.

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Supplementary file7 (XLSX 10 kb) 15 differentially expressed ROS-related genes associated with the survival of primary GBM patients (p < 0.05)

Supplementary file8 (XLSX 11 kb) The qRT-PCR primer for genes used in this study

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Supplementary file9 (XLSX 425 kb) 4615 differentially expressed genes between primary GBM samples and normal samples, among which, 2981 genes were upregulated, and 1634 genes were downregulated in primary GBM samples compared with normal samples (p < 0.05, |log2FC| ≥ 2)

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Supplementary file10 (XLSX 26 kb) 197 differentially expressed ROS-related mRNAs, among which 124 genes were upregulated and 73 were downregulated in primary GBM samples compared with normal samples

Supplementary file11 (XLSX 20 kb) Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) between the high- and low-risk subgroups

Supplementary file12 (XLSX 10 kb) 17 ROS-related pathways in KEGG PATHWAY Database

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Kaushal, P., Zhu, J., Wan, Z. et al. Prognosis and Immune Landscapes in Glioblastoma Based on Gene-Signature Related to Reactive-Oxygen-Species. Neuromol Med 25, 102–119 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12017-022-08719-w

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