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Macrophage-associated SLAMF9 is a potential therapeutic target for glioma
Kailin Yin1, Xingzhi Han2, Zhihao Liu3
1Department of Neurology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Background:
The signaling lymphocytic activation molecule family (SLAMF) members have recently been demonstrated to be potential targets in malignant tumors. The aim of this study is to explore the role of SLAMF member 9 (SLAMF9) in glioma.
Methods:
Datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database were downloaded, and the correlation between SLAMF9 expression and the overall survival (OS) of glioma patients was analyzed. A tissue chip including 139 tumor tissues from glioma patients for immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining was used to detect the protein expression of SLAMF9, and the relationships between SLAMF9 expression and OS, disease-free survival (DFS), and clinicopathological features were analyzed. Multiplex immunofluorescence and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), flow cytometry analysis, and bioinformatics analysis were used to detect the potential biological function of SLAMF9 in glioma.
Results:
SLAMF9 expression was significantly higher in glioma tumor tissues than in normal tissues. High expression levels of SLAMF9 were correlated with shortened OS and DFS in glioma patients. Data from the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) glioma dataset revealed that the protein expression of CD68 and CD163 was positively related to SLAMF9 expression in the tissues of glioma patients. In vivo, the levels of CD80 and CD86 were significantly increased, whereas the level of CD163 decreased after SLAMF9 knockdown in human macrophages. Functional analysis revealed that the pathways enriched in glioma tissues with high SLAMF9 expression were associated with immune response-related pathways.
Conclusions:
This study is the first to highlight the important clinical value of SLAMF9 in patients with glioma.
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