Abstract
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the common malignant tumors in China, which occurs on the top and sidewalls of the nasopharyngeal cavity. The incidence of malignant tumors of the ear, nose and throat is the highest. However, little is known about the growth of the cells. Therefore, this study constructed a multi-regulator-driven NPC cell growth-related module, aiming to explore the mechanism of functional pathways regulating the proliferation of NPC cells in an all-round way. Firstly, differential expression analysis, co-expression analysis, enrichment analysis and connectivity analysis were synthesized to identify the intrinsic genes of expression disorder module. Subsequently, we analyzed the module by crosstalk, and observed the interaction between modules intuitively. Finally, based on hypergeometric test, the significance of multi-regulators on the regulation of potential modules is calculated. We obtained 17 cell growth-related expression disorder modules by 2148 gene modules focusing. These modules are mainly involved in the growth cycle of NPC cells, including cell proliferation, migration and apoptosis. At the same time, they mainly affect the proliferation and apoptosis of NPC cells through PI3K-AKT signaling pathway, NF-kappa B signaling pathway and Wnt signaling pathway. Based on the growth-related modules of NPC cells, we have obtained a series of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) including microRNA-92a-3p, microRNA-19a-3p and microRNA-130a-3p, play an important role in regulating the growth of NPC cells. Similarly, we also predicted transcription factors (involving E2F1, NFKB1, SP1, etc.) that may play a key role in cell growth-related modules. This study is based on cell growth-related expression disorder module to explore the regulatory role of its functional pathway on cell proliferation mechanism, which will help researchers to have a deeper understanding of the potential pathogenesis of NPC.
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Li, W., Ma, H. & Liu, M. Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis-Related Genes Affect the Development of Human Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Through PI3K/AKT Signaling Pathway. Mol Biotechnol 63, 1081–1091 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12033-021-00357-0
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