Publications by authors named "Keqin Dong"

Aquaporin1 (AQP1) facilitates water transport. Its ability to be a biomarker at the pan-cancer level remains uninvestigated. We performed immunohistochemical staining on tissues from 370 individuals with kidney neoplasms to measure AQP1 expression.

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Purpose: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC), exhibiting remarkable heterogeneity, can be highly infiltrated by regulatory T cells (Tregs). However, the relationship between Treg and the heterogeneity of RCC remains to be explored.

Methods: We acquired single-cell RNA-seq profiles and 537 bulk RNA-seq profiles of TCGA-KIRC cohort.

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Phosphorylation is an indispensable regulatory mechanism in cells, with specific sites on kinases that can significantly enhance their activity. Although several such critical phosphorylation sites (phos-sites) have been experimentally identified, many more remain to be explored. To date, no computational method exists to systematically identify these critical phos-sites on kinases.

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In improving agricultural yields and ensuring food security, precise detection of maize leaf diseases is of great importance. Traditional disease detection methods show limited performance in complex environments, making it challenging to meet the demands for precise detection in modern agriculture. This paper proposes a maize leaf disease detection model based on a state-space attention mechanism, aiming to effectively utilize the spatiotemporal characteristics of maize leaf diseases to achieve efficient and accurate detection.

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Background: TSPAN7 is an important factor in tumor progression. However, the precise function of TSPAN7 and its role in pan-cancer are not clear.

Methods: Based on Xinhua cohort incorporating 370 patients with kidney neoplasm, we conducted differential expression analysis by immunohistochemistry between tumor and normal tissues, and explored correlations of TSPAN7 with patients' survival.

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  • * Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are a key treatment for advanced RCC, but some patients develop resistance, prompting research into combining TKIs with targeted metabolic therapies.
  • * The study identified DEPDC1 as a significant factor in promoting RCC progression and resistance, suggesting it could be a new target for improved treatment strategies in resistant cases.
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  • This study investigates tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), highlighting their roles in the tumor microenvironment.
  • The analysis of 754 ccRCC patients revealed that the presence of mature TLSs is linked to better overall survival, while a high number of scattered TILs is associated with poor prognosis.
  • Findings indicate that abundant and mature TLSs correlate with improved therapy response and decreased risk of relapse, underlining the complex relationship between immune structures and cancer progression.
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Neoadjuvant tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy is an important treatment option for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Many RCC patients may fail to respond or be resistant to TKI therapy. We aimed to explore the key mechanisms of neoadjuvant therapy résistance.

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Next-generation androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSIs), such as enzalutamide (Enza) and darolutamide (Daro), are initially effective for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer (PCa) and castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). However, patients often relapse and develop cross-resistance, which consequently makes drug resistance an inevitable cause of CRPC-related mortality. By conducting a comprehensive analysis of GEO datasets, CRISPR genome-wide screening results, ATAC-seq data, and RNA-seq data, we systemically identified PAK1 as a significant contributor to ARSI cross-resistance due to the activation of the PAK1/RELA/hnRNPA1/AR-V7 axis.

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Pyroptosis is a programmed death mode of inflammatory cells, which is closely related to tumor progression and tumor immunity. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the major pathological type of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with poor prognosis. Many theories have tried to clarify the mechanism in the development of ccRCC, but the role of pyroptosis in ccRCC has not been well described.

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Previous bulk RNA sequencing or whole genome sequencing on clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) subtyping mainly focused on ccRCC cell origin or the complex tumor microenvironment (TME). Based on the single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data of 11 primary ccRCC specimens, cancer stem-cell-like subsets could be differentiated into five trajectories, whereby we further classified ccRCC cells into three groups with diverse molecular features. These three ccRCC subgroups showed significantly different outcomes and potential targets to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) or immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs).

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Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a hypermetabolic disease. Abnormal up-regulation of glycolytic signaling promotes tumor growth, and glycolytic metabolism is closely related to immunotherapy of renal cancer. The aim of the present study was to determine whether and how the glycolysis-related biomarker TCIRG1 affects aerobic glycolysis, the tumor microenvironment (TME) and malignant progression of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).

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Increasing evidence reveals that the interaction between tumor cells and tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) facilitates the progression of prostate cancer, but the related mechanisms remained unclear. This study determined how gankyrin, a component of the 19S regulatory complex of the 26S proteasome, regulates the progression and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) resistance of prostate cancer through tumor cell-TAM interactions. functional experiments and subcutaneous tumor models were used to explore the biological role and molecular mechanisms of gankyrin in prostate cancer cell-TAM interactions.

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Tumor growth, metastasis and therapeutic response are believed to be regulated by the tumor and its microenvironment (TME) in advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, the mechanisms underlying genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic alternations in RCC progression have not been completely defined. In this study, single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data were obtained from eight tissue samples of RCC patients, including two matched pairs of primary and metastatic sites (lymph nodes), along with Hi-C, transposable accessible chromatin by high-throughput (ATAC-seq) and RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) between RCC (Caki-1) and human renal tubular epithelial cell line (HK-2).

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Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a frequent malignant tumor of the kidney which has a dismal prognosis. At present, targeted therapies and immunotherapy have achieved significant results; however, the overall survival rate of patients with ccRCC remains unacceptably poor. It is therefore necessary to find novel therapeutic and diagnostic targets for ccRCC.

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Background: Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are closely related to unfavorable prognosis of patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). However, the important molecules in the interaction between ccRCC and TAMs are unclear.

Methods: TCGA-KIRC gene expression data of tumor tissues and normal tissues adjacent to tumor were compared to identify differentially expressed genes in ccRCC.

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Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a common malignant soft tissue sarcoma, which is the third most common soft tissue sarcoma after malignant fibrohistoma and liposarcoma. The discovery of potential postbiomarkers could lead to early and more effective treatment measures to reduce the mortality of RMS. The discovery of biomarker is expected to be the direction of targeted therapy, providing a new direction for the precise treatment of RMS.

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Background: Although many intratumoral biomarkers have been reported to predict clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) patient prognosis, combining intratumoral and clinical indicators could predict ccRCC prognosis more accurately than any of these markers alone. This study mainly examined the prognostic value of HECT, C2 and WW domain-containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 (HECW1) expression in ccRCC patients in combination with established clinical indicators.

Methods: The expression level of HECW1 was screened out by data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) and analyzed in ccRCC patients from the The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and our cohort.

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Background: It is estimated that there are 338,000 new renal-cell carcinoma releases every year in the world. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a heterogeneous tumor, of which more than 70% is clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). It is estimated that about 30% of new renal-cell carcinoma patients have metastases at the time of diagnosis.

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Prostate cancer shows remarkable clinical heterogeneity, which manifests in spatial and clonal genomic diversity. By contrast, the transcriptomic heterogeneity of prostate tumours is poorly understood. Here we have profiled the transcriptomes of 36,424 single cells from 13 prostate tumours and identified the epithelial cells underlying disease aggressiveness.

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BACKGROUND Esophageal carcinoma (ESCA) is associated with a poor prognosis and high mortality rate. Autophagy plays important roles in promoting or suppressing tumor cell survival at different stages of cancer development. However, the roles of autophagy-related genes (ARGs) during ESCA progression and in patient prognosis remain unclear.

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Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of kidney cancer. ccRCC arises from the proximal tubular epithelium and is associated with high mortality. Autophagy may either promote or suppress tumor cell survival at different stages of cancer development.

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Background: MAGE-A10 is a subtype of the Melanoma-associated antigen A (MAGE-A), a class of tumor antigens that are extensively expressed in various histological types of tumors and represents an attractive target for tumor immunotherapy. Epigenetic-modifying drugs can enhance the expression of tumor antigens and improve the cytotoxicity of antigen-specific T cells. 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (DAC), a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor (DNMTI) considered an epigenetic-modifying drug, could enhance the expression of MAGE-A10 in cancer cells.

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Pancreatic cancer (PC) whose mortality is comparable to morbidity is a highly fatal disease. Early approaches of diagnosis and treatment for PC are quite limited, so it is of great urgency to figure out the exact tumorigenesis and development mechanism of PC. To identify the related molecular markers of pancreatic oncogenesis, we downloaded three microarray datasets (GSE63111, GSE101448, and GSE107610) from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database.

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