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Comprehensive bioinformatic analysis of key genes and signaling pathways in glioma

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    Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China

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    Anhui Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Diseases, Hefei 230001, China

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    Xiaoming Zhang is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Clinical Medicine at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research focuses on the role of non-coding RNA in pathogenesis of glioblastoma

    Shanshan Hu received her Ph.D. degree in Cell Biology from the School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. She is currently an associate research fellow at the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China. Her research interest involves GSC derived exosome in glioma-associated environment, non-coding RNA in GBM progression and evolution

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: hss923@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 10 January 2022
  • Accepted Date: 16 March 2022
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    The identification of specific survival-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) is a method for uncovering therapeutic approaches for various cancers, including glioma. However, the key target genes associated with the occurrence and development of gliomas remain unknown. In this study, we performed bioinformatics analysis on 17 GSE datasets and identified DEGs correlated with glioma. A total of 74 mutual-DEGs with downregulated expression in gliomas compared with that in normal brain tissues were found in 17 datasets. These DEGs were related to GABAergic synaptic transmission, chloride transmembrane transport, glutamate secretion, and gamma-aminobutyric acid signaling pathway. Gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor subunit gamma 2 (GABRG2) was identified as a hub gene in the protein-protein interaction network. GABRG2 exhibited lower expression in IDH wild-type astrocytoma than that in IDH mutant astrocytoma and indicated poor prognosis in glioma patients. GABRG2 may contribute to the progression of glioma by affecting GABA receptor-related pathways and is a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and treatment of glioma.

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    Bioinformatics analysis of large-scale samples reveals potential mechanism of GABRG2 in glioma progression.

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    The identification of specific survival-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) is a method for uncovering therapeutic approaches for various cancers, including glioma. However, the key target genes associated with the occurrence and development of gliomas remain unknown. In this study, we performed bioinformatics analysis on 17 GSE datasets and identified DEGs correlated with glioma. A total of 74 mutual-DEGs with downregulated expression in gliomas compared with that in normal brain tissues were found in 17 datasets. These DEGs were related to GABAergic synaptic transmission, chloride transmembrane transport, glutamate secretion, and gamma-aminobutyric acid signaling pathway. Gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor subunit gamma 2 (GABRG2) was identified as a hub gene in the protein-protein interaction network. GABRG2 exhibited lower expression in IDH wild-type astrocytoma than that in IDH mutant astrocytoma and indicated poor prognosis in glioma patients. GABRG2 may contribute to the progression of glioma by affecting GABA receptor-related pathways and is a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and treatment of glioma.

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    • A total of 74 differentially expressed genes were downregulated in large-scale RNA sequencing in glioma.
    • GABRG2 was identified as a key gene in the glioma-related protein-protein interaction network and was correlated with poor prognosis of glioma patients.
    • GABRG2 may affect glioma biogenesis by regulating GABA receptor related pathways.

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    Figure  1.  Flowchart of data processing and DEG analysis.

    Figure  2.  Identification of 74 mutual differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in 17 GSE datasets. (a) Volcano plot of glioma-related DEGs in datasets. (b) Venn diagrams of glioma-related DEGs in four groups. (c) Venn diagram of mutual DEGs in 17 datasets.

    Figure  3.  Heat map of 74 mutual DEG expression in all samples.

    Figure  4.  Functional enrichment analyses of mutual DEGs in 17 datasets. (a) Gene ontology (GO) biological process analysis of 74 mutual DEGs. (b) GO cellular component analysis of 74 mutual DEGs. (c) GO molecular function of 74 mutual DEGs. (d) Bubble chart shows the result of KEGG pathway analysis of 74 mutual DEGs. P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

    Figure  5.  Construction of protein-protein interaction (PPI) network and detection of key module. (a) PPI network of mutual DEGs in glioma. Circle size represents the significance of nodes in the network. (b) Core module of PPI network in glioma. (c) Results of functional enrichment analysis of core module in glioma performed using Metascape.

    Figure  6.  Identification and prognosis of hub genes in core module. (a) PPI network of ten hub DEGs in glioma. (b) Basic information of ten hub genes. The red-colored gene (GABRG2) indicates the highest degree of importance. (c) Prognosis of hub genes in glioma. P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

    Figure  7.  Relative expression of GABRG2 and its potential molecular mechanism. (a) Relative expression of GABRG2 in 81 samples of normal brain tissue and 948 samples of glioma tissue (204 cases of WHO I, 134 cases of WHO II, 135 cases of WHO III, and 475 cases of WHO IV grade). (b) GABRG2 expression is downregulated in 20 glioma tissues compared with that in 15 normal brain tissues. (c) Relative expression of GABRG2 in glioma cell lines, primary cells, and HEB using qRT-PCR. (d) Potential molecular mechanisms of GABRG2 analyzed using GeneMANIA. ****P < 0.0001, ####P < 0.0001, &&&&P < 0.0001.

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