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While precision medicine driven by genome sequencing has revolutionized cancer care, such as lung cancer, its impact on gastric cancer (GC) has been minimal. GC patients are routinely treated with chemotherapy, but only a fraction of them receive the clinical benefit. There is an urgent need to develop biomarkers or algorithms to select chemo-sensitive patients or apply targeted therapy. Here, we carried out retrospective analyses of 1,020 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded GC surgical resection samples from 5 hospitals and developed a mass spectrometry-based workflow for proteomic subtyping of GC. We identified two proteomic subtypes: the chemo-sensitive group (CSG) and the chemo-insensitive group (CIG) in the discovery set. The 5-year overall survival of CSG was significantly improved in patients who had received adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery compared with those who received surgery only (64.2% vs. 49.6%; Cox P-value=0.002), whereas no such improvement was observed in CIG (50.0% vs. 58.6%; Cox P-value=0.495). We validated these results in an independent validation set. Further, differential proteome analysis uncovered 9 FDA-approved drugs that may be applicable for targeted therapy of GC. A prospective study is warranted to test these findings for future GC patient care.
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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC1308900, 2017YFC0908404, 2018YFA0507503, 2017YFA0505103), Beijing Municipal Government Key Research and Development Program (Z181100001918020, Z161100002616036), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31870828, 81972790, 81672319), the Guangdong Provincial Key R&D Programmes (2019B020229002), the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (201902020009), the National Key Basic Research Program of China (2014CBA02002), and the National Key Technology Support Program (2015BAI13B07). This work is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Bei Zhen. We thank the following people for their contributions: all the patients who participated in this study; the clinicians and staff of the institutions who assisted with the studies; and Drs. Jing Gao, Sai Ge, Yanyan Li, Xiaoyi Chong (Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute) for assistance with data management and logistic support; and Dongmei Lin, Zhongwu Li, Bin Dong (Department of Pathology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute) for assistance with sample evaluation.
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Huang, W., Zhan, D., Li, Y. et al. Proteomics provides individualized options of precision medicine for patients with gastric cancer. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 1199–1211 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-1966-4
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