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Role of SYT11 in human pan-cancer using comprehensive approaches
Kyunghee Noh1,2, Hyunji Choi3, Eun-Hye Jo3
1Bionanotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
Background:
Synaptotagmin 11 (SYT11) plays a pivotal role in neuronal vesicular trafficking and exocytosis. However, no independent prognostic studies have focused on various cancers. In this study, we aimed to summarize the clinical significance and molecular landscape of SYT11 in various tumor types.
Methods:
Using several available public databases, we investigated abnormal SYT11 expression in different tumor types and its potential clinical association with prognosis, methylation profiling, immune infiltration, gene enrichment analysis, and protein-protein interaction analysis, and identified common pathways.
Results:
TCGA and Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) showed that SYT11 was widely expressed across tumor and corresponding normal tissues. Survival analysis showed that SYT11 expression correlated with the prognosis of seven cancer types. Additionally, SYT11 mRNA expression was not affected by promoter methylation, but regulated by certain miRNAs and associated with cancer patient prognosis. In vitro experiments further verified a negative correlation between the expression of SYT11 and miR-19a-3p in human colorectal, lung, and renal cancer cell lines. Moreover, aberrant SYT11 expression was significantly associated with immune infiltration. Pathway enrichment analysis revealed that the biological and molecular processes of SYT11 were related to clathrin-mediated endocytosis, Rho GTPase signaling, and cell motility-related functions.
Conclusions:
Our results provide a clear understanding of the role of SYT11 in various cancer types and suggest that SYT11 may be of prognostic and clinical significance.
