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Quantitative proteomics reveals that distant recurrenceassociated protein RRas and Transgelin predict postsurgical survival in patients with Stage III colorectal cancer
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Lai Xu1,*, Yanpan Gao2,*, Yanyu Chen2, Yi Xiao1, Qingzhong He2, Huizhong Qiu1, Wei Ge2
1Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100730, China
2National Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology & Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100005, China
*These authors have contributed equally to this work
Correspondence to:
Qingzhong He, email: [email protected]
Huizhong Qiu, email: [email protected]
Wei Ge, email: [email protected]
Keywords: quantitative proteomics, Stage III colorectal cancer, post-surgical recurrence, prognostic biomarker, R-Ras and Transgelin
Received: October 28, 2015 Accepted: May 08, 2016 Published: May 30, 2016
ABSTRACT
Surgical resection supplemented with adjuvant chemotherapy is the current preferred treatment for Stage III colorectal cancer (CRC). However, as many as 48% of patients who undergo curative resection eventually suffer from incurable distant recurrence. To investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in Stage III CRC post-surgical distant recurrence, we identified a total of 146 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) associated with distant recurrence in Stage III CRC using TMT-based quantitative mass spectrometry. Among these DEPs, the altered expressions of R-Ras and Transgelin were then validated in 192 individual specimens using immunohistochemistry (IHC). Furthermore, Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that the levels of R-Ras and Transgelin were significantly associated with 5-year overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS), and multivariate Cox-regression analyses revealed that R-Ras and Transgelin were independent prognostic factors for OS and DFS, respectively. In conclusion, this study identified potential biochemical players involved in distant recurrence and indicates that R-Ras and Transgelin are potential post-surgical prognostic biomarkers for Stage III CRC. This proteomics data have been submitted to Proteome Xchange under accession number PXD002903.