パルフルオオクタン硫酸に対する環境曝露と食道がんの進行におけるその役割:包括的なバイオインフォマティクスと実験的研究
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Modeling Oral-Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in 3D Organoids
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Fangyi Liu1,2, Yansong Lin1,2, Lixuan Liu1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, People's Republic of China.
Scientific reports
|August 26, 2025
まとめ
環境に有害なパーフルオオクタン硫酸塩 (PFOS) への曝露は,PLAU,TOP2A,BAX発現を変化させ,食道がん (ESCA) を悪化させる. これらの遺伝子は,PFOSに関連したESCAのバイオマーカーおよび治療標的として機能し,環境規制の必要性を強調します.
科学分野:
- 環境毒性学
- 癌の生物学
- バイオ情報学
背景:
- 食道がん (ESCA) の発生率は世界中で増加しており,現在の診断と治療には限界があります.
- 新しいバイオマーカーを特定し,環境有毒物質の役割を含む基礎的なメカニズムを理解することは,ESCAの早期発見と管理に不可欠です.
- パルフローロオクタン硫酸塩 (PFOS) は,がん発症に潜在的に関連している環境有害物質です.
研究 の 目的:
- パルフルオオクタン硫酸 (PFOS) が食道がん (ESCA) の発症における役割を,生物情報学的アプローチを用いて調査する.
- ESCAにおけるPFOS曝露に関連した主要な分子標的を特定し,優先順位付けする.
- ESCAの進行と患者の生存における特定された標的の臨床的および分子的影響を調査する.
主な方法:
- TCGA-ESCAのデータセットを使用して,差異的に発現する遺伝子 (DEGs) を特定し,CTDとSuperPredのPFOS毒性ターゲットと交差させた.
- 機械学習アルゴリズム (ランダムフォレスト,XGBoost,LASSO,SVM) を応用して,コア・ターゲット優先順位を設定する.
- 生存分析,in vitro qPCR,分子ドッキング,遺伝子セット濃縮分析 (GSVA),免疫浸透分析を実施した.
主要な成果:
- 低酸素と癌に関連した経路で濃縮されたESCAで,PFOSに関連したDEGを98個特定しました.
- 機械学習は,PLAU,TOP2A,およびBAXを主要な標的として優先し,ESCA組織における生存率の低下とアップレギュレーションに関連している.
- PFOSの曝露は食道がん細胞におけるPLAU,TOP2A,BAXの発現を増加させ,強力な分子ドッキングの親和性と腫瘍性経路と免疫調節との関連を示した.
結論:
- PFOSは,PLAU,TOP2A,BAXを調節し,免疫調節,ゲノム不安定,腫瘍信号伝達を通じて腫瘍の進行を促すことでESCAを悪化させる.
- PLAU,TOP2A,BAXは,PFOSに関連したESCAの潜在的なバイオマーカーと治療上の脆弱性を表しています.
- 発見は,PFOSの環境規制と関連する食道がんの標的治療法の開発の必要性を強調しています.
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