Hui Deng , Hanming Yao , Shurui Zhou , Chong He , Yuzhou Huang , Yunlong Li , Hanwei Chen , Jianchang Shu
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Abstract
Introduction
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most malignant gastrointestinal tumors worldwide with a dismal prognosis and high relapse rate. PDAC is considered a “cold cancer” for which immunotherapy is not effective. Therefore, to improve the prognosis for PDAC patients, it is urgent to explore the mechanism driving its insensitivity to immunotherapy.
Materials and methods
We conducted pancancer analyses to test IGF2BP family expression and survival in patients with different cancers via TCGA and GETx databases. Then, we determined the immunological role and prognostic value of IGF2BP2 in vitro, in vivo and in clinical specimens.
Results
In the present study, we found that the m6A reader IGF2BP2 was the most clinically relevant member of the IGF2BP family for pancreatic cancer. High expression of IGF2BP2 was most associated with poor prognosis and an immunosuppressive microenvironment in PDAC. By IGF2BP2 knockdown, we found that tumor cell proliferation and invasive ability were significantly diminished. Importantly, we found that IGF2BP2 expression was closely associated with high expression of immunosuppressive molecules such as PD-L1. IGF2BP2 modulated downstream PD-L1 expression by regulating its mRNA stability via m6A methylation control, and we obtained the same verification in animal experiments and human tissue specimens.
Conclusion
Our study contributes to existing knowledge regarding the IGF2BP2-regulated PD-L1 signaling pathway as a potential prognostic and immune biomarker in pancreatic cancer.
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