• Chao Wang, Wenqi Xi, Jun Ji, Qu Cai, Qianfu Zhao, Jinling Jiang, Chenfei Zhou, Min Shi, Huan Zhang, Zhenggang Zhu, and Jun Zhang.
• Department of Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, No. 197 Ruijin er Road, Shanghai, 200025, China.
• Int J Med Sci. 2020 Jan 1; 17 (13): 194619551946-1955.

AbstractGastric cancer is a heterogeneous tumor that underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unclear. This study aimed to elucidate the expression level of HGF-c-MET in gastric cancer patients and to investigate the prognostic and diagnostic value of HGF-c-MET. In silico analysis of the TCGA and GEO database found that HGF and c-MET mRNA expression are significantly higher in gastric cancer tissues than those in peritumor tissues. Both higher mRNA expression of HGF and c-MET were associated with a poorer prognosis. c-MET expression was modulated by methylation in the promoter regions. HGF was positively correlated with CD8+ T cell, CD4+ T cell, macrophage, neutrophil and dendritic cell. Furthermore, functional enrichment analysis and protein-protein interaction networks further shown that HGF-c-MET and related proteins mainly participated in growth factor receptor binding, protein tyrosine kinase activity and signaling receptor binding. Finally, outcome of GSEA analysis showed 13 shared KEGG pathways enriched in high expressed group of HGF and c-MET.© The author(s).

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