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TRIM59 is a novel potential prognostic biomarker in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: A research based on bioinformatics analysis

  • Authors:
    • Ling Hao
    • Boyu Du
    • Xueyan Xi
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  • Published online on: June 22, 2017     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2017.6467
  • Pages: 2153-2164
  • Copyright: © Hao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide and its prognosis is poor. Few effective biomarkers for non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have been translated into the clinical practice aiming to assist in the treatment plan design and prognosis evaluation. The aim of the present study was to identify novel potential prognostic biomarkers for NSCLC. Tripartite motif 59 (TRIM59) was identified from a microarray dataset of matched‑samples and was verified as an aberrantly upregulated gene in NSCLC tissue. The expression level of TRIM59 in NSCLC subtypes was observed to be significantly increased in large cell lung carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma as compared with that in adenocarcinoma. Its expression correlated with several clinicopathological features, including gender, smoking habits, and unfavorable tumor node and pathological stages. Notably, TRIM59 demonstrated a negative correlation with survival time and its overexpression indicated a poor prognosis in NSCLC. Furthermore, univariate and multivariate Cox's regression analyses indicated that TRIM59 was an independent prognostic factor in tumor tissue as compared with age, gender, tumor stage, node stage, and metastasis. Gene set enrichment analysis and protein‑protein interaction network construction revealed that TRIM59 was associated with oncogenic mammalian target of rapamycin (MTOR) and eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (EIF4E) signaling through ubiquitin C binding. In conclusion, it was revealed that TRIM59 is a novel prognostic biomarker modulating oncogenic MTOR and EIF4E signaling pathways in NSCLC. These findings provided a novel insight into the clinical application of TRIM59. Therefore, TRIM59 may serve as an independent predictor for prognosis and a potential therapeutic target for NSCLC.

Introduction

Lung cancer is the leading cause of global cancer-related death. According to the recent statistics by national cancer institute, there are approximately 224,390 new cases reported annually and 158,080 will die from it (1). Although the morbidity due to lung cancer has gradually been decreasing world-wide since the 1990s, it is persistently rising in China (2,3). Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 85–90% of all lung cancer diagnoses (4). For the majority of these patients, current treatments do not cure the disease, and the prognosis remains poor (5). However, results from lots of Phase III trials had been demonstrated that better prognosis could still be achieved if molecular targeted therapies (e.g., based on EGFR, ALK) rather than standard chemotherapies were adopted (612). Therefore, the discovery of new prognostic markers and potential drug targets as well as a better understanding of molecular mechanisms for lung tumorigenesis are very essential.

The tripartite motif (TRIM) family proteins, comprising over 60 members, are evolutionarily conserved proteins that share a RBCC motif, which consist of a common N-terminal Really Interesting New Gene (RING) finger domain, one or two B-box motifs and a coiled-coil region (13,14). These proteins are involved in a plethora of cellular processes such as cell proliferation, migration, apoptosis, cell cycle regulation, differentiation and development (1518). Recently, several groups reported that TRIM proteins including TRIM11, TRIM28, TRIM29, TRIM44 and others seemed to act as oncogenes in lung cancer (1922), indicating significant roles of the TRIM family in lung tumorigenesis. TRIM59, a novel TRIM family member, is characterized by the presence of a RING finger domain, a B-box 2 domain, two coiled-coil domains and a transmenbrane domain in its structure (17), implicated in a wide range of biological processes in lung cancer and other multiple tumors. It may be used as a novel multiple tumor biomarker in immunohistochemical detection for early tumorigenesis (23). Upregulation of the TRIM59 gene promotes gastric carcinogenesis via facilitating the p53 ubiquitination and degradation (24), and increases the proliferation, migration and invasion in human osteosarcoma cells (25). Knockdown of TRIM59 inhibits the cellular proliferation and migration in cervical cancer (26). Additionally, TRIM59 may act as a proto-oncogene that affects both the Ras/Braf/MEK/ERK signaling pathway and the SV40 Tag/pRB/p53 pathway in prostate cancer models (27). Furthermore, a recent study of TRIM59 in lung cancer showed that it promotes the proliferation and migration of NSCLC cells by affecting the expression of cell cycle proteins (17). However, the molecular mechanisms of this protein are still poorly defined, and to date, no reports have evaluated the prognostic value of TRIM59 in lung cancer.

In this study, a screening approach was performed on microarray datasets from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo) to explore possible targets in the TRIM family whose expressions were significantly altered in lung cancer. Interestingly, TRIM59 was screened out by this approach. Then, the clinical relevance, the prognostic value and the functional mechanisms of TRIM59 in NSCLC were further examined by using bioinformatics approaches in order to elucidate the possibility of this protein being used as a biomarker in NSCLC patients. Our results showed that TRIM59 was a novel prognostic biomarker modulating oncogenic mammalian target of rapamycin (MTOR) and eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (EIF4E) signaling in NSCLC. It might be served as an independent predictor for prognosis and a potential therapeutic target for NSCLC.

Materials and methods

The expression profile datasets

Gene expression datasets used for statistical analysis were acquired from the National Center for Biotechnology Information GEO database with the accession codes GSE19804 (28), GSE30219 (29), GSE31210 (30,31), GSE32863 (32), GSE37745 (33) and GSE43580 (34). The TCGA data of lung cancer was available on cBioPortal (www.cbioportal.org).

Screening of the TRIM family which was overexpressed in NSCLC dataset

The screening was performed in GSE19804 which contained both the lung tumor samples and the matched adjacent normal lung samples. Two criteria were followed during the selection of the probes for screening: i) the probe specificity corresponding to a single gene of the TRIM family; ii) for multiple probes corresponding to a same gene, one with the maximum expression value in tumor samples would be chosen. The average value of log2(Tumor/Normal) was calculated for each selected probe and listed in the rank order. The identified overexpressed genes had relative high log2(Tumor/Normal) values in GSE19084 while being selected.

Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA)

GSEA was performed using the GSEA program provided by the Broad Institute (http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsea/index.jsp). In all datasets, the samples were divided into 2 groups according to their TRIM59 expression levels (top 50%: High vs. bottom 50%: Low). GSEA was carried out to compare the 2 groups within each indicated geneset and to examine the relative enrichment of the genes in a specific group. The genesets were downloaded from the Molecular Signatures Database. Significantly genesets were confirmed with nominal P-value <0.05 and false discovery rates (FDR) <0.25 after performing 1,000 permutations (35). Cytoscape and Enrichment Map were used for visualization of the GSEA results.

Protein-protein interaction (PPI) network construction

STRING 10.0 software (http://string-db.org/) is a web-based database for providing comprehensive interactions information for the already known or predicted proteins (36). Complex cellular functions of TRIM59 are formed by tightly interacted with other protein partners. To explore the interactions between TRIM59 and some oncogenic proteins, we mapped them onto STRING database, selected the interactions pertaining to Homo sapiens and grew a PPI network with combined score >0.4. Functional enrichments of the network were analyzed and displayed on the webpage.

Statistical analysis

In this study, the analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism 5.0 and SPSS 19.0 software. Unpaired comparisons were assessed by a two-tailed t-test. Matched-sample comparisons were performed by a paired t-test. Multigroup analyses were carried out by ANOVA analysis. Associations between TRIM59 expression and clinicopathologic parameters were assessed by χ2 test. The Pearson correlation was used to analyze the strength of the association between expression levels of TRIM59 and the survival or recurrence statuses in NSCLC patients. Survival analysis was performed by using Kaplan-Meier method and differences were tested by a Log-rank test. It was also obtained using the Kaplan Meier Plotter (K-M Plotter) website for lung cancer (v2015) (http://kmplot.com/analysis/index.php?p=service&cancer=lung) (37) with auto select best cut-off for splitting groups. Univariate and Multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression models were performed to identify the independent factors with a significant impact on patient survival. The hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of the prognostic factors were calculated. All P-values were two-sided, and a significant difference was defined as P<0.05.

Results

Upregulation of TRIM59 expression in NSCLC

Genes of the TRIM family that aberrantly expressed in GSE19804 of NSCLC were firstly screened. Among the 59 probes selected from GPL570 platform for study, 27 genes were elevated while 13 were decreased in lung tumors (Table I). TRIM59 was defined to be upregulated with positive and relatively high log2(Tumor/Normal) value (P<0.0001) (Fig. 1A). Statistical analysis was also performed to confirm the overexpression of TRIM59 in other two datasets (GSE30219 and GSE31210, all P<0.0001, Fig. 1B-C) and another paired-sample dataset (GSE32863, P=0.0065, Fig. 1D). The subtypes of NSCLC are adenocarcinoma (ADC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and large cell lung carcinoma (LCLC) (38). TRIM59 expression was notably enhanced in LCLC and SCC compared to ADC in GSE37745 (all P<0.0001, Fig. 1E). Similar results were also obtained from GSE43580 and TCGA data, which verified the enhancement of TRIM59 expression in SCC (all P<0.0001, Fig. 1F-G).

Table I.

Comparison of the TRIM family genes expression within lung tumor and the adjacent normal lung in GSE19804.

Table I.

Comparison of the TRIM family genes expression within lung tumor and the adjacent normal lung in GSE19804.

Log-2 mRNA signal intensity (mean ± SEM)

Gene symbolIDTumorNormalP-value
TRIM2202341_s_at   9.71±0.12   8.25±0.08<0.0001
TRIM59227801_at   6.13±0.14   4.98±0.06<0.0001
TRIM68219405_at   8.86±0.09   8.14±0.07<0.0001
TRIM6223599_at   7.06±0.12   6.50±0.07<0.0001
TRIM24213301_x_at   8.96±0.08   8.41±0.05<0.0001
TRIM9209859_at   5.13±0.15   4.61±0.040.0006
TRIM27212118_at   9.48±0.05   8.97±0.03<0.0001
TRIM47225868_at   8.82±0.07   8.44±0.07<0.0001
TRIM11226566_at   7.83±0.04   7.48±0.04<0.0001
TRIM31215444_s_at   5.40±0.06   5.06±0.02<0.0001
TRIM62219272_at   7.21±0.05   6.90±0.05<0.0001
TRIM29202504_at   7.85±0.21   7.55±0.090.1942
TRIM15210177_at   6.84±0.06   6.58±0.02<0.0001
TRIM55232721_at   4.46±0.07   4.21±0.020.0005
TRIM41226445_s_at   8.71±0.06   8.48±0.040.0006
TRIM54233669_s_at   5.29±0.03   5.07±0.02<0.0001
TRIM26202702_at   8.81±0.05   8.59±0.04<0.0001
TRIM17220279_at   6.34±0.04   6.13±0.03<0.0001
TRIM45219923_at   6.34±0.07   6.14±0.030.0041
TRIM37213009_s_at   9.07±0.05   8.88±0.03<0.0001
TRIM32203846_at   7.63±0.07   7.43±0.040.0046
TRIM48220534_at   4.35±0.05   4.18±0.020.0009
TRIM65235081_x_at   7.28±0.05   7.12±0.040.0009
TRIM61240342_at   6.62±0.04   6.47±0.020.0007
TRIM38203568_s_at   8.94±0.07   8.80±0.050.0349
TRIM28200990_at10.48±0.0710.34±0.070.0500
TRIM14203148_s_at   9.08±0.06   8.95±0.060.1116
TRIM16L1559682_at   7.11±0.04   7.00±0.030.0045
TRIM501556554_at   5.88±0.04   5.77±0.030.0238
TRIM46220909_at   5.51±0.03   5.41±0.020.0014
TRIM13229943_at   8.52±0.11   8.42±0.110.3087
TRIM7223694_at   6.00±0.10   5.91±0.030.3279
TRIM33210266_s_at   9.70±0.08   9.61±0.060.1793
TRIM78P232464_at   5.65±0.03   5.58±0.030.0710
TRIM67233357_at   3.83±0.02   3.82±0.020.5171
TRIM66229466_at   6.21±0.06   6.17±0.050.4846
TRIM23204732_s_at   6.63±0.09   6.62±0.080.8399
TRIM401553079_at   4.55±0.02   4.53±0.020.5134
TRIM10210579_s_at   5.36±0.02   5.34±0.020.3981
TRIM721554803_s_at   5.75±0.02   5.74±0.030.6289
TRIM361565812_at   5.76±0.04   5.76±0.030.8415
TRIM4223384_s_at   9.07±0.07   9.10±0.050.6288
TRIM8223132_s_at   9.83±0.08   9.86±0.050.6242
TRIM39222732_at   8.20±0.04   8.24±0.030.2768
TRIM5210705_s_at   7.83±0.06   7.88±0.050.3822
TRIM421566851_at   4.97±0.02   5.04±0.030.0163
TRIM52221897_at   7.22±0.09   7.30±0.060.3504
TRIM3213885_at   6.23±0.04   6.34±0.040.0165
TRIM44217759_at10.18±0.0410.37±0.03<0.0001
TRIM63236972_at   4.95±0.04   5.21±0.07<0.0001
TRIM35227102_at   7.31±0.04   7.58±0.04<0.0001
TRIM21204804_at   8.04±0.05   8.33±0.04<0.0001
TRIM56231876_at   8.74±0.06   9.09±0.05<0.0001
TRIM731554250_s_at   6.01±0.08   6.40±0.07<0.0001
TRIM22213293_s_at10.58±0.1210.99±0.060.0022
TRIM691568592_at   8.72±0.07   9.14±0.05<0.0001
TRIM16204341_at   7.09±0.14   7.57±0.090.0012
TRIM58215047_at   3.73±0.04   4.27±0.06<0.0001
TRIM25224806_at   9.04±0.10   9.72±0.08<0.0001
TRIM59 expression was associated with various clinicopathological characteristics in NSCLC

In order to confirm the correlation between TRIM59 expression and the clinicopathological parameters of NSCLC, GSE30219 and GSE31210, which had a large cohort of samples and corresponding clinical information, were chosen and analyzed statistically. As shown in Tables II and III, TRIM59 expression was closely associated with gender (all P<0.05), N stage (P=0.037), smoking status (P=0.011), and pathological stage (P<0.001). These results strongly indicated that TRIM59 expression was closely associated with gender, smoking habits and tumor development.

Table II.

Correlations of TRIM59 with clinicopathological features of NSCLC in GSE30219.

Table II.

Correlations of TRIM59 with clinicopathological features of NSCLC in GSE30219.

TRIM59 expression

CharacteristicsNo. of patientsHighLowχ2 valueP-value
Age at surgery (years) 0.0280.866
  ≤50  41  21  20
  >50251126125
Gender 6.2530.012
  Male250133117
  Female  43  14  29
T stage 3.3550.187
  T1166  78  88
  T2121  67  54
  T3-4  52  32  20
N stage 4.3320.037
  Positive  95  56  39
  Negative198  91107
Metastasis 0.8720.351
  Yes  11  4  7
  No282143139

[i] TRIM59, Tripartite motif 59; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer

Table III.

Correlations of TRIM59 with clinicopathological features of NSCLC in GSE31210.

Table III.

Correlations of TRIM59 with clinicopathological features of NSCLC in GSE31210.

TRIM59 expression

CharacteristicsNo. of patientsHighLowχ2 valueP-value
Age (years) 2.0610.151
  ≤50  27  17  10
  >50199  96103
Gender 4.0020.045
  Male105  60  45
  Female121  53  68
Smoking status 6.3910.011
  Ever-smoker111  65  46
  Never-smoker115  48  67
Pathological stage 26.812<0.001
  I168  67101
  II  58  46  12
EGFR/KRAS/ALK 2.1030.147
alteration status
  Mutation158  74  84
  Triple-negative  68  39  29
c-MYC expression 0.5160.472
  High  17  10  7
  Low207103104

[i] TRIM59, Tripartite motif 59; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer

TRIM59 expression showed a negative correlation with survival time in NSCLC

The distribution of the survival and recurrence statuses was analyzed independently in GSE30219 and GSE31210. For each dataset, samples were arranged according to TRIM59 expression and patients' survival time. As shown in Fig. 2A and C, more deaths were noted for NSCLC patients with higher TRIM59 expression than for those with lower TRIM59 expression in both datasets. In addition, more recurrent cases were observed in higher TRIM59 expression groups in both datasets (Fig. 2B and D).

The correlations between TRIM59 expression and the survival or recurrence statuses of NSCLC patients were further examined. In consistence with the results described above, TRIM59 expression showed a negative correlation with overall survival (OS) time (R=−0.155, P=0.008), disease-free survival (DFS) time (R=−0.168, P=0.005) and relapse-free survival (RFS) time (R=−0.200, P=0.002). These results indicated that higher expression level of TRIM59 was related to shorter survival time in NSCLC patients.

High expression of TRIM59 led to poor prognosis in NSCLC

The survival curves for lung cancer patients were further analyzed in GSE30219 and GSE31210. Ranked on the expression level of TRIM59, top 50% samples were counted as the high-expression group, and the remaining 50% were as the low-expression group. The Kaplan-Meier analysis and Log-rank test were used to compare the survival of patients in the 2 groups. As shown in Fig. 3A and B, low expression of TRIM59 was found to be correlated to better OS in GSE30219 (HR=1.484, 95% CI 1.119–1.968, P=0.0062) and GSE31210 (HR=2.289, 95% CI 1.179–4.446, P=0.0144). In addition, better DFS rate (HR=1.189, 95% CI 1.027–2.157, P=0.0354) (Fig. 3C) and RFS rate (HR=2.166, 95% CI 1.325–3.542, P=0.0021) (Fig. 3D) were presented in low-expression group. Survival analysis was also performed through online software, the K-M Plotter (www.kmplot.com), with auto selected best cut-off. The survival curves plotted for all lung cancer patients from multi-datasets (all datasets provided by the website) revealed the similar results (Fig. 3E).

To further corroborate the prognostic role of TRIM59, we performed a GSEA using NSCLC datasets with the ‘c2.cgp.v5.2.’ genesets from MSigDB database. It was observed that genes in a good survival signature were enriched in the group with low TRIM59 expression (Fig. 3F), while a group of poor survival signature genes were enriched in the subset of high TRIM59 expression (Fig. 3G).

Additionally, the relevance of TRIM59 expression with other prognostic features of NSCLC patients was also determined by using the K-M Plotter software. As shown in Table IV, high expression of TRIM59 acted as a risk factor in SCC (but not in ADC) patients, pathological stage I cases, T1-2, N0-1 and M0 stages, both male and female, and the surgical margins negative cases.

Table IV.

Correlation of TRIM59 expression with prognostic factors of NSCLC patients in the K-M Plotter software.

Table IV.

Correlation of TRIM59 expression with prognostic factors of NSCLC patients in the K-M Plotter software.

Prognostic factorsCasesHR95% CI of HRP-value
Histological type
  ADC6731.271–1.610.052
  SCC2711.521.03–2.220.032
Pathological stage
  I4492.031.49–2.774.9e-06
  II1610.660.41–1.060.083
  III  441.920.89–4.150.091
T stage
  T12242.781.65–4.76.5e-05
  T21901.951.21–3.150.005
N stage
  N03241.961.36–2.830.00023
  N11022.631.58–4.390.00011
  N2  320.520.22–1.230.13
M stage
  M04621.861.39–2.491.9e-05
Gender
  Male6591.481.19–1.830.00032
  Female3751.551.1–2.170.011
Smoking history
  Ever-smoker3000.80.53–1.190.27
  Never-smoker1411.860.74–4.70.18
Surgery success
Only surgical margins negative2042.241.05–4.790.033

[i] CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio.

Effect of TRIM59 expression on survival by Cox regression analysis

Furthermore, a significant association between TRIM59 expression signature and OS in the univariable Cox regression model was observed. As is shown in Table V, the HR values of TRIM59 expression signature of the high-expression group vs. the low-expression group for OS in the two datasets were 1.437 (95% CI 1.086–1.901, P=0.011 for GSE30219) and 2.373 (95% CI 1.162–4.847, P=0.018 for GSE31210). Gender (HR=1.698, 95% CI 1.080–2.670, P=0.022), T stage (HR=4.128, 95% CI 2.547–6.689, P<0.001), N stage (HR=4.613, 95% CI 2.385–8.920, P<0.001), metastasis (HR=2.555, 95% CI 1.300–5.020, P=0.007), and pathological stage (HR=4.232, 95% CI 2.175–8.236, P=0.001) were also contribute factors to shorter OS of patients. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards model analysis from GSE30219 indicated that TRIM59 expression signature (high vs. low, HR=1.369, 95% CI 1.012–1.851, P=0.042) was an independent prognostic factor in tumor tissues as compared with age, gender, T stage, N stage and metastasis.

Table V.

Univariable and multivariable Cox regression analysis of TRIM59 expression signature and OS of NSCLC patients in GSE30219.

Table V.

Univariable and multivariable Cox regression analysis of TRIM59 expression signature and OS of NSCLC patients in GSE30219.

Univariate analysisMultivariate analysis


VariablesHR95% CI of HRP-valueHR95% CI of HRP-value
GSE30219
  Age1.0381.024–1.052<0.0011.0391.024–1.054<0.001
  Gender1.6981.080–2.6700.0221.4920.931–2.3910.096
  T stage4.1282.547–6.689<0.0012.3391.225–4.4680.010
  N stage4.6132.385–8.920<0.0012.9881.379–6.4740.006
  Metastasis2.5551.300–5.0200.0071.6460.700–3.8710.254
  TRIM59 expression1.4371.086–1.9010.0111.3691.012–1.8510.042
GSE31210
  Age1.0250.977–1.0750.3061.0340.986–1.0850.170
  Gender1.5190.780–2.9550.2190.9510.379–2.3860.914
  Smoking status1.6370.837–3.2010.1501.3310.528–3.3570.545
  Pathological stage4.2322.175–8.236<0.0013.4891.685–7.2250.001
  EGFR/KRAS/ALK0.4570.235–0.8900.0210.5480.277–1.0850.084
  alteration status
  c-MYC expression0.6960.167–2.9000.6180.7930.186–3.3700.753
  TRIM59 expression2.3731.162–4.8470.0181.5050.696–3.2520.299

[i] TRIM59, Tripartite motif 59; OS, overall survival; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio.

Overexpression of TRIM59 promoted MTOR and EIF4E signaling

After screening the association of TRIM59 expression with the oncogenic signatures within the ‘c6.all.v5.2’ genesets from MSigDB database, the results revealed that high expression of TRIM59 was associated with the activation of MTOR signaling in the four datasets (Fig. 4A-D) and activation of EIF4E signaling which has been considered as a down-stream effector of MTOR (Fig. 4E), suggesting the involvement of TRIM59 in MTOR pathways. To better understand the association of TRIM59 with MTOR and EIF4E, we mapped TRIM59, MTOR and EIF4E onto STRING database to build a PPI network (Fig. 4F). By using the ‘+ more proteins’ option, additional 15 predicted functional partners were allowed into the network. As is shown in Fig. 4F, UBC (ubiquitin C) acted as a bridge to connect TRIM59 with MTOR, EIF4E and other predicted functional partners. Functional enrichments of the PPI network by STRING software, using KEGG Pathway and GO analysis filter, revealed that they were involved in a wide variety of processes and pathways. 9 proteins (PDPK1, AKT1, RICTOR, MLST8, RPS6KB1, MTOR, RPTOR, EIF4EBP1 and EIF4E) were enriched in MTOR signaling pathway (FDR=9.96e-17). 4 proteins (BAD, AKT1, GSK3B and MTOR) were enriched in Pathways in cancer (FDR=0.00228). 3 proteins (BAD, PDPK1 and AKT1) were enriched in Non-small cell lung cancer (FDR=0.000305). 10 proteins (BAD, PDPK1, AKT1, GSK3B, MLST8, MTOR, RPS6KB1, RPTOR, EIF4EBP1, EIF4E) were enriched in PI3K-Akt signaling pathway (FDR=4.66e-12).

In addition, GO enrichment analysis showed that the proteins in the network were enriched in 10 cell cycle processes. 9 proteins (BAD, AKT1, UBC, RPS6KB1, MLST8, MTOR, RPTOR, EIF4EBP1 and EIF4E) were enriched in regulation of cell cycle (FDR=3.37e-06). 9 proteins (GSK3B, AKT1, UBC, RPS6KB1, MLST8, MTOR, RPTOR, EIF4EBP1 and EIF4E) were enriched in cell cycle process (FDR=6.88e-06) and cell cycle (FDR=4.56e-05). 5 proteins (AKT1, UBC, RPS6KB1, EIF4EBP1 and EIF4E) were enriched in G1/S transition of mitotic cell cycle (FDR=4.57e-05), positive regulation of cell cycle (FDR=0.000478), and mitotic cell cycle (FDR=0.021). 3 proteins (RPS6KB1, EIF4EBP1 and EIF4E) were enriched in positive regulation of mitotic cell cycle (FDR=0.00779). 3 proteins (MLST8, MTOR and RPTOR) were enriched in cell cycle arrest (FDR=0.013). 4 proteins (MLST8, UBC, MTOR and RPTOR) were enriched in negative regulation of cell cycle (FDR=0.0218). 4 proteins (UBC, RPS6KB1, EIF4EBP1 and EIF4E) were enriched in regulation of mitotic cell cycle (FDR=0.0233).

Discussion

In the last decade, much attention has been garnered in focusing on the role of TRIM proteins in innate immunity and antiviral defense (3941). Recently, their biological functions in tumor biology have become an attractive research area. A number of TRIM proteins have been revealed to play a crucial role in proliferation, migration and invasion of lung cancer (1922). However, no reports have evaluated the prognostic value of TRIM59 in lung cancer. In this study, we tried to explore a possible target in the TRIM family and elucidated its possibility being used as a biomarker in NSCLC patients. By taking the advantage of the availability of online expression profile datasets, bioinformatics analysis is a well-established method which has been widely utilized to help researchers find out potential biomarkers. Therefore, bioinformatics analysis was also adopted in our study and a microarray dataset of matched-samples was screened on the focus of the TRIM family. As a result, TRIM59 was identified as an aberrantly overexpressed gene in lung cancer tissues. Among the major histological subtypes of NSCLC, our results showed that TRIM59 expression was notably enhanced in LCLC and SCC compared to ADC. We also revealed that the positive expression of TRIM59 was significantly associated with gender, smoking habits, and the unfavorable conditions on the depth of tumor N stage and pathological stage, which suggested that TRIM59 might play an important role in the development and progression of NSCLC.

Nowadays, surgery and chemotherapy are considered as the first choice of NSCLC treatments, but even for the early stage patients, the therapeutic effect of these treatments remains unsatisfactory (42). The results above indicated that TRIM59 acted as a risk factor even in the surgical margins negative cases and was negatively correlated with clinical outcome. It is worthy to note that TRIM59 could represent as a potential independent prognostic marker in NSCLC patients, which might help doctors make optimal clinical decisions and individualized treatment strategies in order to provide better prognosis. Considering that distinct histological subtypes might make a significant contribution to selecting appropriate treatment programs (42), the prognostic values of TRIM59 in ADC and SCC were further evaluated, using the K-M Plotter online software with auto selected best cut-off. High expression of TRIM59 was found to act as a risk factor in SCC patients but not in ADC patients, which implied that TRIM59 might act as a prognostic marker in different histological subtypes of NSCLC.

GSEA showed the enrichment of MTOR signaling and its down-stream signaling genes within high TRIM59 expression of lung cancer. MTOR is a key component of PI3K/AKT/MTOR pathway, a potential candidate served as an effectively therapeutic target of cancers (4345). Abnormal MTOR activity may result in tumorigenesis, aberrant proliferation, metastasis, and chemotherapy resistance (4648). MTOR contains two independent functional complexes, MTOR complex 1 (MTORC1) and MTOR complex 2 (MTORC2) (49). In general, MTORC1 regulates cell autonomous growth by controlling nutrient availability and growth factors, whereas MTORC2 mediates cell proliferation and survival by regulating cell surface area (45,49). Dysregulation of upstream signals, such as PI3K/AKT mutation (50), Phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) mutation (51), Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) loss of function (52), and RAS mutation (53), often results in the alteration of MTOR, which has been demonstrated to contribute to a poor prognosis in serious cancers including NSCLC, breast cancer, gastric cancer and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (5457). The activation of MTOR is mediated by Ser2448 phosphorylation through the PI3K/AKT/MTOR pathway, and then it activates a potent oncogene, EIF4E (58). The oncogenic ability of EIF4E is formed by activating translation and being phosphorylated, which leads to tumor formation primarily by suppressing apoptosis (59). Furthermore, elevated levels of EIF4E on the one hand induce cellular proliferation, invasion and acquired drug resistance, and on the other hand enhance translation of many malignancy-related proteins, thus may present negative effects on survival of NSCLC patients (6062).

The complicated cellular processes of TRIM59 related to cancer are undertaken by closely connected to proteins which have oncogenic signatures. The PPI network constructed from STRING database vividly delineated the functional interactions of TRIM59 with other proteins through UBC binding. Because of the presence of RING finger domain, many TRIM proteins can act as E3 ubiquitin ligases and partake in the ubiquitin-proteasome system (63). That might be one of the reasons why TRIM59 could be tied to UBC. The TRIM family of E3 ubiquitin ligases is necessary for regulation of many key and diverse processes in various malignancies, such as TRIM4 which sensitizes the tumor cells to hydrogen peroxide induced cell death (64), TRIM32 which negatively regulates tumor suppressor p53 to promote tumorigenesis (65), TRIM11 which may promote cell motility and invasiveness through AKT pathway in lung cancer (19) and TRIM25 which acts as an oncogene in gastric cancer and exerts its function through TGF-β pathway (66).

In particular, several other tumor related molecules were also observed in the PPI network, such as AKT1, BAD and EIF4EBP1 (EIF4E binding protein 1). AKT1, one of AKT kinase family members, is the predominant isoform responsible for cell proliferation and survival (67). AKT has been reported to transduce antiapoptotic signals by inactivating BAD (68) and mediate cell growth through MTOR, which activates p70 ribosomal protein S6 kinase 1 and inhibits EIF4EBP1 (69). EIF4EBP1, a critical regulator of MTOR downstream signaling, may be associated with drug resistance in human tumors (70). Phosphorylation of EIF4EBP1 results in release of EIF4E, which enhances the oncogenic protein synthesis and correlates with the poor prognosis in lung cancer (71,72).

In addition, a recent study of TRIM59 in NSCLC showed that TRIM59 knocking down arrests NSCLC cell cycle in G2 phase and decreases the expression of cell cycle proteins (17). Consistent with this paper, functional enrichments of the PPI network by STRING software showed that the proteins selected by STRING Database for network construction were enriched in 10 cell cycle processes. These results not only implicated the involvement of TRIM59 in cell cycle process but also revealed how it would affect this process.

In conclusion, we have demonstrated the clinical relevance, the prognostic value and the functional mechanisms of TRIM59 in NSCLC. TRIM59 was frequently elevated in NSCLC, associated with various unfavorable conditions of clinicopathological characteristics. TRIM59 was negatively correlated with clinical outcome and represented as a potential independent prognostic marker in NSCLC patients. GSEA and PPI network construction revealed that TRIM59 was associated with oncogenic MTOR and EIF4E signaling through UBC binding. Taken together, high expression of TRIM59 could serve as a valuable independent predictor for the poor prognosis of NSCLC patients, and aberrant TRIM59 expression might be a novel biomarker for molecular targeted therapies against the disease.

Glossary

Abbreviations

Abbreviations:

NSCLC

non-small cell lung cancer

TRIM59

Tripartite motif 59

LCLC

large cell lung carcinoma

SCC

squamous cell carcinoma

ADC

adenocarcinoma

GEO

gene expression omnibus

GSEA

gene set enrichment analysis

MTOR

mammalian target of rapamycin

EIF4E

eukaryotic initiation factor 4E

PPI

Protein-protein interaction

K-M Plotter

Kaplan Meier plotter

HR

hazard ratios

CI

confidence intervals

FDR

false discovery rates

NES

normal enrichment score

OS

overall survival

DFS

disease-free survival

RFS

relapse-free survival

PTEN

phosphatase and tensin homolog

TSC

tuberous sclerosis complex

MTORC1

MTOR complex 1

MTORC2

MTOR complex 2

UBC

ubiquitin C

EIF4EBP1

EIF4E binding protein 1

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Hao, L., Du, B., Xi, X."TRIM59 is a novel potential prognostic biomarker in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: A research based on bioinformatics analysis". Oncology Letters 14.2 (2017): 2153-2164.
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Hao, L., Du, B., Xi, X."TRIM59 is a novel potential prognostic biomarker in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: A research based on bioinformatics analysis". Oncology Letters 14, no. 2 (2017): 2153-2164. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2017.6467