In recent years, there have been revolutionary advances in sequencing technology, and LncRNA, CircRNA and MiRNA have been detected. These do technology products can not only explain the onset and progression of cancer, but also provide research references for further treatment[][]. lncRNA plays a role in cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, invasion, and death via regulating gene transcription rate, translation, and post-translational modifications[][].Because the survival rate of ovarian cancer patients is among the lowest among gynecological cancers, this study looked into NALncRNAs to predict survival and further assessed the immunological and gene mutation status of high and low risk patients.
A total of 8 NALncRNAs were screened in this study, among which LINC01096, DNM3OS, LINC02574, ACAP2-IT1, and ILVBL-AS1 represented shorter survival time for ovarian cancer patients, and USP30-AS1, MINCR, and DTNB-AS1 represented longer survival time for ovarian cancer patients. Many studies have shown that the above LncRNAs are specific in the development of cancer.For example, in the current investigation, LINC01096 was not shown to be predictive for ovarian cancer but was found to be significantly expressed in breast cancer tissue cells, and knocking down LINC01096 prevented[] cancer cell migration and invasion. DNM3OS was overexpressed in ovarian cancer, and knockdown of it similarly inhibited migration and invasion of cancer cells and reduced mesenchymal to epithelial transformation[].USP30-AS1 inhibits apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemia cells and may promote cancer cell survival through cis-regulation of USP30 and ANKRD13A[]. By serving as a competitive endogenous RNA, MINCR may increase glioma cell proliferation and migration[]. As seen in Figure.2E, IGF2BP1, LINC01096 and DNM3OS co-expression. It has been shown that IGF2BP1 promotes the invasion of SRC/MAPK-driven ovarian cancer cells[].
Through GSEA, we found that pathways related to jak stat signaling, MAPK signaling, and endocytosis were more active in the high-risk group. jak stat signaling promotes tumor development and mediates almost all immunomodulatory processes, including immune escape[]. MAPK signaling plays an important role in the proliferation and metastasis of ovarian cancer cells, and this pathway is usually interfered with to influence apoptosis of cancer cells[]. The most important cause of death in ovarian cancer is recurrence and metastasis of tumor cells, and abnormal activation of the TGF-β signaling pathway in active passages in the high-risk group is just able to promote tumor metastasis and recurrence[]. Oxidative phosphorylation, arginine and proline metabolism, and alpha linolenic acid metabolism are more active pathways in the low-risk group of endometrial cancer. Among them, small molecule inhibitors often act on the multimeric complexes in the Oxidative phosphorylation pathway, thus inhibiting metabolism as well as inducing oxidative damage and cancer cell death[]. Related investigators have shown that the arginine and proline metabolism pathway can be interfered with to induce apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells and inhibit S-phase growth[].
The higher B cell enrichment scores in the low-risk group in the immune cell and pathway scores further imply that synergistic interactions between tumor-infiltrating T cells and B cells may be linked to better ovarian cancer patient survival[]. Upregulated expression of human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) was one of the methods by which ovarian cancer cells avoided immune monitoring, and the HLA enrichment score was greater in the low-risk group.It's perplexing that the low-risk group had a larger immune escape rate and a superior survival outcome deficiency[]. In the immunological checkpoint, the low-risk group's IDO1 score was higher than the high-risk group's, and previous studies found a link between high IDO1 expression and overall ovarian cancer survival[].We found that the expression of M6A-related genes FTO was higher in the high-risk group, and related studies showed that FTO could not only inhibit apoptosis but also promote proliferation of ovarian cancer cells[]. Both immune scores and microenvironment scores were higher in the low-risk group of ovarian cancer in our findings, which also surface the positive role of better immune and microenvironment in survival outcomes in ovarian cancer patients.
In our mutation analysis study, the highest mutated gene in the high and low risk groups was TP53, which improves the accuracy of cancer survival prognosis[]. The top 20 mutated genes were the same in both groups, and there was no difference in gene mutation scores. However, our findings suggest that high mutations are protective for ovarian cancer patients, and ovarian cancer patients with high mutations and low risk have the best survival, while those with low mutations and high risk have the worst survival.
Limitations
Although the LncRNA risk model we developed has strong predictive value in terms of LncRNA, immunity and gene mutation in high and low risk groups, there are some shortcomings in our current study. First, our data collection, although retrieving the original dataset used to build the lncRNA-related model from the TCGA database, still requires other databases to collect data to verify the accuracy of our results. Secondly, the exact mechanism by which necroptosis regulates the exact process of ovarian cancer is still unclear and needs to be elucidated by further experimental studies.