Background: Endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) acts critical roles on cell growth, proliferation, and metastasis in various cancers. However, the relationship between ERs and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) prognoses still remains unclear.

Methods: The consensus clustering analysis of ERS-related genes and the differential expression analysis between clusters were investigated in LUSC based on TCGA database. Furthermore, ERS-related prognostic risk models were constructed by LASSO regression and Cox regression analyses. Then, the predictive effect of the risk model was evaluated by Kaplan-Meier, Cox regression, and ROC Curve analyses, as well as validated in the GEO cohort. According to the optimal threshold, patients with LUSC were divided into high- and low- risk groups, and somatic mutations, immune cell infiltration, chemotherapy response and immunotherapy effect were systematically analyzed.

Results: Two ERS-related clusters were identified in patients with LUSC that had distinct patterns of immune cell infiltration. A 5-genes ERS-related prognostic risk model and nomogram were constructed and validated. Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regression analysis showed that ERS risk score was an independent prognostic factor (p < 0.001, HR = 1.317, 95% CI = 1.159-1.496). Patients with low-risk scores presented significantly lower TIDE scores and significantly lower IC50 values for common chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin and gemcitabine.

Conclusion: ERS-related risk signature has certain prognostic value and may be a potential therapeutic target and prognostic biomarker for LUSC patients.

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