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Guangyan Zhangyuan¹, Yin Yin¹, Wenjie Zhang^2,3

¹Liver Transplantation Center of the First Affiliated Hospital and Department of Hepatobilliary Surgery of Drum Tower Clinical Medical College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry : International Journal of Experimental Cellular Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology

|May 10, 2018

Abstract

Background/Aims:

During the occurrence and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), phosphotyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are usually described as tumor suppressors or proto-oncogenes, and to some degree are correlated with the prognosis of HCC.

Methods:

A total of 321 patients from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and 180 patients from our validated cohort with hepatocellular carcinoma were recruited in this study. Kaplan-Meier, univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards model were used to evaluate the risk factors for survival. Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) were applied to detect the expression levels of PTP genes.

Results:

After screening the data of TCGA, we identified five PTPs as HCC overall survival related PTP genes, among which only three (PTPN12, PTPRN, PTPN18) exhibited differential expression levels in our 180 paired HCC and adjacent tissues (P< 0.001). Further analysis revealed that expression of PTPN18 was positively, but PTPRN was negatively associated with prognosis of HCC both in TCGA cohort and our own cohort. As to PTPN12, results turned out to be opposite according to HBV status. In detail, higher expression of PTPN12 was associated with better outcome in HBV group but worse prognosis in Non-HBV group.

Conclusion:

Our results suggested that PTPN12, PTPRN and PTPN18 were independent prognostic factors in HCC.

Keywords:

Cancer specific survival Hepatocellular carcinoma Phosphotyrosine phosphatase TCGA

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