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Pan-cancer ion transport signature reveals functional regulators of glioblastoma aggression.
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The EMBO journal [EMBO J] 2024 Jan; Vol. 43 (2), pp. 196-224. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 02. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Ion channels, transporters, and other ion-flux controlling proteins, collectively comprising the "ion permeome", are common drug targets, however, their roles in cancer remain understudied. Our integrative pan-cancer transcriptome analysis shows that genes encoding the ion permeome are significantly more often highly expressed in specific subsets of cancer samples, compared to pan-transcriptome expectations. To enable target selection, we identified 410 survival-associated IP genes in 33 cancer types using a machine-learning approach. Notably, GJB2 and SCN9A show prominent expression in neoplastic cells and are associated with poor prognosis in glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive brain cancer. GJB2 or SCN9A knockdown in patient-derived glioblastoma cells induces transcriptome-wide changes involving neuron projection and proliferation pathways, impairs cell viability and tumor sphere formation in vitro, perturbs tunneling nanotube dynamics, and extends the survival of glioblastoma-bearing mice. Thus, aberrant activation of genes encoding ion transport proteins appears as a pan-cancer feature defining tumor heterogeneity, which can be exploited for mechanistic insights and therapy development.<br /> (© 2024. The Author(s).)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1460-2075
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The EMBO journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38177502
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-023-00016-x