Identification of collaboration patterns of dysfunctional pathways in breast cancer.

Int J Clin Exp Pathol

Department of General Surgery, Capital Medical University School of Rehabilitation, Beijing Bo'ai Hospital, China Rehabilitation Research Center Beijing 100068, China.

Published: May 2015

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy among women. We aimed to illuminate the molecular dysfunctional mechanisms of BC progression. The mRNA expression profile of BC GSE15852 was downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus database, including 43 normal samples and 43 cancer samples. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in BC were screened using the t-test by Benjamin and Hochberg method. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways of the selected DEGs were enriched using Hypergeomeric distribution model. In addition, functional similarity network among the enriched pathways was constructed to further analyze the collaboration of these pathways. We found 848 down-regulated DEGs were associated with 16 significant dysfunctional pathways, including PPAR signaling fatty acid metabolism, and 1584 up-regulated DEGs were related to 6 significant dysfunctional pathways, like cell cycle, protein export, and antigen processing and presentation in BC samples. Crosstalk network analysis of pathways indicated that pyruvate metabolism, propanoate metabolism, and glycolysis gluconeogenesis were the pathways with closest connections with other pathways in BC. In addition, other antigen processing and presentation, including 19 DEGs; PPAR signaling pathway, including 18 DEGs; and pyruvate metabolism pathway, including 13 DEGs were further analyzed. Our results suggested that dysfunctional of significant pathways can greatly affect the progression of BC. Several significant disorder pathways were enriched in our comprehensive study. They may provide guidelines to explore the dysfunctional mechanism of BC progression.

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