Screening of functional gene modules and the potential anti-cancer drugs in hypopharyngeal cancer / 局解手术学杂志

Objective Screening the functional gene modules that can play important roles in hypopharyngeal cancer and the potential anti-cancer drugs.Methods GEO database and MeV software were employed to screen the differentially expressed genes in hypopharyngeal cancer.Using STRING database,the protein-protein interaction network was identified.MCODE plugin of Cytoscape was used to identify the functional gene modules in the network.Based on DAVID database,the functions of modules were identified.DrugBank was used to screen the potential drugs that regulate the target genes of modules.Results 1 222 differentially expressed genes including 219 interaction pairs were i-dentified in whole genome profiling(P <0.05 ).Seven functional modules were identified in the network.The results of function analysis showed the module genes were enriched in cancer development related-function ‘regulation of angiogenesis’,‘cell adhesion’,‘DNA meta-bolic process’.A total of 50 potential drugs that regulating the 5 modules were screened.Conclusion Five functional modules that regulate the progress of hypopharyngeal cancer were identified,and maybe they can promote hypopharyngeal cancer through some functions such as regulation of angiogenesis 18 up-regulated protein kinases were identified.Their kinase inhibitors may potential have a role in anti-cancer, which provides a new target point for molecular therapy of nasopharyngeal cancer.

Gene module analysis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma based on protein-protein interaction network / 局解手术学杂志

Objective Based on protein-protein interaction network,gene modules were identified to provide new targets for molecular therapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Methods GEO dataset (GSE12452)and SAMsoftware were employed to screen the differentially ex-pressed gene in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Protein-protein interaction network was established by using String database.Based on the net-work,the gene modules were identified by using bioinformatics gene module analysis method.GO analysis was used to analyze the function of gene modules.Results In this study,2 634 differentially expressed genes were identified in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.There were 4 729 protein-protein interaction pairs among the differentially expressed genes according to the String database.We established the protein-protein interaction network based on these pairs.Seven gene modules were identified by bioinformatics methods.GO analysis results showed that the function of the gene modules including regulation of cell cycle,glycosylation,cell adhesion,oxidation reduction and so on.Conclusion There are 7 gene modules in protein-protein interaction network in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.These modules may play important roles in the progression and development of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Our finding can provide a new sight for molecular diagnose and therapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.