IMR Press / FBL / Volume 29 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.31083/j.fbl2902069
Open Access Original Research
SPC25 Functions as a Prognostic-Related Biomarker, and Its High Expression Correlates with Tumor Immune Infiltration and UCEC Progression
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1 Department of Gynecology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, 730030 Lanzhou, Gansu, China
*Correspondence: guoyz@lzu.edu.cn (Yu-zhen Guo)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2024, 29(2), 69; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2902069
Submitted: 19 September 2023 | Revised: 28 December 2023 | Accepted: 2 January 2024 | Published: 20 February 2024
Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Most tumor tissues expressed spindle pole body component 25 (SPC25), one of the four subunits of the NDC80 complex, at greater levels compared to surrounding normal tissues. According to earlier researches, this subunit strongly encouraged tumor cell proliferation and tumor growth, which resulted in worse prognoses in patients with hepatocellular, breast, lung, and prostate cancer. Precisely because SPC25’s role in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC) is understudied, we chose to concentrate on UCEC for gaining a more scientific and thorough understanding of SPC25. Methods: Along with examining SPC25’s differential expression, prognostic significance, and biological function in UCEC, our research sought to clarify the underlying mechanism by which SPC25 influences the course of UCEC and patient prognosis from the viewpoints of methylation and immune infiltration. Results: We observed differential expression of SPC25 gene in different clinicopathological features of UCEC and identified SPC25 as a hazard factor for poorer overall survival (OS), disease-specific survival (DSS), and progress free interval (PFI) in UCEC, particularly in its multiple clinical subtypes. In addition, we also discovered that SPC25 and its co-expressed genes mostly engaged in biological processes and signal transduction routes linked to cell cycle and cell division in UCEC. After investigating SPC25’s methylation status, we discovered that patients with UCEC had elevated SPC25 expression and a poor prognosis due to hypomethylation of CpG sites in the SPC25 gene sequence. Finally, we investigated SPC25’s potential role in immunotherapy and discovered that SPC25 might alter the major immune cell infiltration levels in the tumor microenvironment (TME) by regulating the expression of immunoregulatory molecules and chemokines, which would be beneficial for SPC25 to control the progression of UCEC. Conclusions: In conclusion, SPC25 was a useful predictive biomarker as well as a possible therapeutic target for UCEC.

Keywords
SPC25
UCEC
prognosis
coexpression
methylation
immune
Funding
071100136/Distant Cause Development Fund
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