• Medicine · Sep 2023

    Identification of TLRs as potential prognostic biomarkers for lung adenocarcinoma.

    • Junjie Ying, Haihua Hong, Chaoqun Yu, Maofen Jiang, and Dongxiao Ding.
    • Department of Thoracic Surgery, The People's Hospital of Beilun District, Ningbo, China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Sep 22; 102 (38): e34954e34954.

    AbstractLung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is one of the most common tumors with the highest cancer-related death rate worldwide. Early diagnosis of LUAD can improve survival. Abnormal expression of the Toll-like receptors (TLRs) is related to tumorigenesis and development, inflammation and immune infiltration. However, the role of TLRs as an immunotherapy target and prognostic marker in lung adenocarcinoma is not well understood and needs to be analyzed. Relevant data obtained from databases such as ONCOMINE, UALCAN, GEPIA, and the Kaplan-Meier plotter, GSCALite, GeneMANIA, DAVID 6.8, Metascape, LinkedOmics and TIMER, to compare transcriptional TLRs and survival data of patients with LUAD. The expression levels of TLR1/2/3/4/5/7/8 in LUAD tissues were significantly reduced while the expression levels of TLR6/9/10 were significantly elevated. LUAD patients having low expression of TLR1/2/3/5/8 and high expression of TLR9 had a poor overall survival while patients with low expression of TLR2/3/7 presented with worse first progress. TLR4, TLR7 and TLR8 are the 3 most frequently mutated genes in the TLR family. Correlation suggested a low to moderate correlation among TLR family. TLR family was also involved in the activation or inhibition of the famous cancer related pathways. Analysis of immune infiltrates analysis suggested that TLR1/2/7/8 levels significantly correlated with immune infiltration level. Enrichment analysis revealed that TLRs were involved in TLR signaling pathway, immune response, inflammatory response, primary immunodeficiency, regulation of IL-8 production and PI3K-Akt signaling pathway. Our results provided information on TLRs expression and potential regulatory networks in LUAD. Moreover, our results suggested TLR2/7/8 as a potential prognostic biomarker for lung adenocarcinoma.Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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