LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

A prognostic risk prediction model based on ferroptosis-related long non-coding RNAs in bladder cancer: A bulk RNA-seq research and scRNA-seq validation

Photo by thinkmagically from unsplash

Background: To construct a prognostic risk model of bladder cancer (BC) from the perspective of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and ferroptosis, in order to guide clinical prognosis and identify potential… Click to show full abstract

Background: To construct a prognostic risk model of bladder cancer (BC) from the perspective of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and ferroptosis, in order to guide clinical prognosis and identify potential therapeutic targets. Methods: In-hours BC samples were collected from 4 patients diagnosed with BC, who underwent radical cystectomy. Single cell transcriptome sequencing was performed and Seurat package were used for quality control and secondary analysis. LncRNAs expression profiles of BC samples were extracted from The Cancer Genome Atlas database. And sex, age, tumor, node, metastasis stage and other clinical data was downloaded at the same time. Ferroptosis-related lncRNAs were identified by co-expression analysis. We constructed a risk model by Cox regression and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression analyses. The predictive strength of the risk model for overall survival (OS) of patients with BC was evaluated by the log-rank test and Kaplan–Meier method. Finally, the enrichment analysis was performed and visualized. Results: We identified and included 15 prognostic ferroptosis-related lncRNAs (AL356740.1, FOXC2AS1, ZNF528AS1, LINC02535, PSMB8AS1, AL590428.1, AP000347.2, OCIAD1-AS1, AP001347.1, AC104986.2, AC018926.2, LINC00867, AC099518.4, USP30-AS1, and ARHGAP5-AS1), to build our ferroptosis-related lncRNAs risk model. Using this risk model, BC patients were divided into high and low-risk groups, and their respective survival lengths were calculated. The results showed that the OS of the low-risk group was significantly longer than that of the high-risk group. A nomogram was utilized to predict the survival rate of BC patients. As indicated in the nomogram, risk score was the most important indicator of OS in patients with BC. The ferroptosis-related lncRNAs risk model is an independent tool for prognostic risk assessment in patients with BC. Single cell transcriptome sequencing suggests that ferroptosis-related lncRNAs express specifically in BC tumor microenvironment. AL356740.1, LINC02535 and LINC00867 were mainly expressed in tumor cells. Conclusion: The risk model based on the ferroptosis-related lncRNAs and the genomic clinico-pathological nomogram could be used to accurately predict the prognosis of patients with BC. The lncRNAs used to build this model might become potential therapeutic targets in the future.

Keywords: risk model; ferroptosis related; related lncrnas; risk; model

Journal Title: Medicine
Year Published: 2022

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.