Breast cancer (BRCA) is a highly heterogeneous disease, with significant differences in prognosis among patients. Existing biomarkers and prognostic models have limited ability to predict BRCA prognosis. Moonlighting genes regulate tumor progression and are associated with cancer prognosis. This study aimed to construct a moonlighting gene-based prognostic model for BRCA. We obtained differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in BRCA from The Cancer Genome Atlas and intersected them with moonlighting genes from MoonProt to acquire differential moonlighting genes. GO and KEGG results showed main enrichment of these genes in the response of BRCA cells to environmental stimuli and pentose phosphate pathway. Based on moonlighting genes, we conducted drug prediction and validated results through cellular experiments. After ABCB1 knockdown, viability and proliferation of BRCA cells were significantly enhanced. Based on differential moonlighting genes, BRCA was divided into three subgroups, among which cluster2 had the highest survival rate and immunophenoscore and relatively low tumor mutation burden. TP53 had the highest mutation frequency in cluster2 and cluster3, while PIK3CA had a higher mutation frequency in cluster1, with the majority being missense mutations. Subsequently, we established an 11-gene prognostic model in the training set based on DEGs among subgroups using univariate Cox regression, LASSO regression, and multivariable Cox regression analyses. Model prognostic performance was verified in GEO, METABRIC and ICGC validation sets. In summary, this study obtained three BRCA moonlighting gene-related subtypes and constructed an 11-gene prognostic model. The 11-gene BRCA prognostic model has good predictive performance, guiding BRCA prognosis for clinical doctors.
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