A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of <i>UBE2C</i> in Cancers
Ubiquitination is one of the main post-translational modification of proteins. It plays key roles in a broad range of cellular functions, including protein degradation, protein interactions, and subcellular location. In the ubiquitination system, different proteins are involved and their dysregulati...
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doaj-0aa65afebc8243588af62aa7b0e815232020-11-25T01:11:20ZengMDPI AGInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences1422-00672019-05-01209222810.3390/ijms20092228ijms20092228A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of <i>UBE2C</i> in CancersHassan Dastsooz0Matteo Cereda1Daniela Donna2Salvatore Oliviero3Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Via Accademia Albertina, 13, 10123 Torino, ItalyItalian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Via Nizza 52, 10126 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Via Accademia Albertina, 13, 10123 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Via Accademia Albertina, 13, 10123 Torino, ItalyUbiquitination is one of the main post-translational modification of proteins. It plays key roles in a broad range of cellular functions, including protein degradation, protein interactions, and subcellular location. In the ubiquitination system, different proteins are involved and their dysregulation can lead to various human diseases, including cancers. By using data available from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) databases, we here show that the ubiquitin conjugating enzyme, E2C (<i>UBE2C</i>), is overexpressed in all 27 cancers we investigated. <i>UBE2C</i> expression is significantly higher in late-stage tumors, which might indicate its involvement in tumor progression and invasion. This study also revealed that patients with higher <i>UBE2C</i> levels showed a shorter overall survival (OS) time and worse OS prognosis. Moreover, our data show that <i>UBE2C</i> higher-expression leads to worse disease-free survival prognosis (DFS), indicating that <i>UBE2C</i> overexpression correlates with poor clinical outcomes. We also identified genes with positive correlations with <i>UBE2C</i> in several cancers. We found a number of poorly studied genes (family with sequence similarity 72-member D, <i>FAM72D</i>; meiotic nuclear divisions 1, <i>MND1</i>; mitochondrial fission regulator 2, <i>MTFR2</i>; and POC1 centriolar protein A, <i>POC1A</i>) whose expression correlates with <i>UBE2C</i>. These genes might be considered as new targets for cancers therapies since they showed overexpression in several cancers and correlate with worse OS prognosis.https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/9/2228<i>UBE2C</i>TCGAGEPIAGTExUALCANoverexpressioncancer |
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Hassan Dastsooz Matteo Cereda Daniela Donna Salvatore Oliviero A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of <i>UBE2C</i> in Cancers International Journal of Molecular Sciences <i>UBE2C</i> TCGA GEPIA GTEx UALCAN overexpression cancer |
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A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of <i>UBE2C</i> in Cancers |
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A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of <i>UBE2C</i> in Cancers |
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A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of <i>UBE2C</i> in Cancers |
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A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of <i>UBE2C</i> in Cancers |
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A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of <i>UBE2C</i> in Cancers |
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comprehensive bioinformatics analysis of <i>ube2c</i> in cancers |
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences |
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Ubiquitination is one of the main post-translational modification of proteins. It plays key roles in a broad range of cellular functions, including protein degradation, protein interactions, and subcellular location. In the ubiquitination system, different proteins are involved and their dysregulation can lead to various human diseases, including cancers. By using data available from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) databases, we here show that the ubiquitin conjugating enzyme, E2C (<i>UBE2C</i>), is overexpressed in all 27 cancers we investigated. <i>UBE2C</i> expression is significantly higher in late-stage tumors, which might indicate its involvement in tumor progression and invasion. This study also revealed that patients with higher <i>UBE2C</i> levels showed a shorter overall survival (OS) time and worse OS prognosis. Moreover, our data show that <i>UBE2C</i> higher-expression leads to worse disease-free survival prognosis (DFS), indicating that <i>UBE2C</i> overexpression correlates with poor clinical outcomes. We also identified genes with positive correlations with <i>UBE2C</i> in several cancers. We found a number of poorly studied genes (family with sequence similarity 72-member D, <i>FAM72D</i>; meiotic nuclear divisions 1, <i>MND1</i>; mitochondrial fission regulator 2, <i>MTFR2</i>; and POC1 centriolar protein A, <i>POC1A</i>) whose expression correlates with <i>UBE2C</i>. These genes might be considered as new targets for cancers therapies since they showed overexpression in several cancers and correlate with worse OS prognosis. |
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<i>UBE2C</i> TCGA GEPIA GTEx UALCAN overexpression cancer |
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