Abstract
Background
LARGE1 plays a pivotal role in glycosylation of alpha-Dystroglycan (α-DG) and is aberrantly downregulated in cell lines originating from epithelium-derived cancers including lung cancer. However, the expression of LARGE1 and its clinical significance in NSCLC are not clear.
Materials and Methods
The data were collected from the TCGA database to investigate LARGE1 expression in stage I–III NSCLC and explore its associations with clinicopathological parameters and overall survival of patients. The prognostic role of LARGE1 was examined in subgroups according to clinical features and treatments. The results were validated in external cohorts from the NCBI GEO database. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) was performed to investigate the potential molecular mechanisms during LARGE1 alteration in NSCLC.
Results
LARGE1 was aberrantly downregulated in NSCLC compared with adjacent tissues and normal lung tissues and in tumors with advanced stage compared with early stage. There was only a trend of association between high LARGE1 with OS in multivariate analysis. Surprisingly, high LARGE1 was significantly associated with improved OS in a subgroup of the patients with adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) and a significant interaction between LARGE1 expression and ACT was found. Improved OS after ACT was also found in patients with high LARGE1 compared to those with low LARGE1. When combining LARGE1 expression and ACT, compared with patients with non-ACT, HR of low LARGE1/ACT was 0.592 (95% CI=0.432–0.813, P=0.0012), and HR of high LARGE1/ACT was 0.124 (95% CI=0.031–0.505, P=0.0036). The results were verified in two external cohorts from the GEO database. GSEA indicated that LARGE1 might downregulate cell cycle pathway to improve ACT sensitivity and subsequently the prognosis in NSCLC.
Conclusion
High LARGE1 can be used to identify the patients with resected stage I–III NSCLC most likely to benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy.
Keywords: NSCLC, LARGE1, mRNA, overall survival, adjuvant chemotherapy, benefit
Introduction
Lung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide.1 In 2020, it is expected that there will be 228,820 cases of lung cancer and 135,720 related deaths in the United States.1 There are two main histological types of lung cancer: small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).2 NSCLC accounts for approximately 85% of lung cancer cases and can further be divided into lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC).2 The 5-year survival rate of all patients with lung cancer is only about 19%.1,3
Surgical resection is the main and most effective choice for NSCLC patients, but only 20% of patients are suitable for surgery due to late diagnosis4 and postoperative tumor recurrence is the major cause of treatment failure.5–7 Platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy is one of the main means to improve the overall survival (OS) of patients with NSCLC after surgical resection, especially for patients with advanced tumors8 after several previous randomized clinical trials demonstrated ACT is associated with statistically significant survival advantages in patients with completely resected NSCLC.9–13 However, a meta-analysis of these studies suggested that ACT only provides an absolute benefit of 5.4% in 5-year OS14 due to primary and acquired drug resistance.15 And the remaining 85%–95% of patients do not get benefit from ACT but suffer the ACT toxicity. Thus, it is critical to identify NSCLC patients who will not benefit from ACT.
LARGE1, encoding a bifunctional glycosyltransferase, participates in glycosylation of α-DG by synthesizing and transferring the laminin-binding repeating units of 3GlcA-1-3Xyl-1 onto α-DG.16 LARGE1 downregulation has been found to underlie abnormal glycosylation of α-DG in epithelium-derived cancer cells lines derived from breast, cervical, and lung cancers and exogenous expression of LARGE1 restores normal glycosylation and laminin binding of α-DG, leading to enhanced cell adhesion and reduced cell migration in vitro.17 Exogenous expression of LARGE1 has also been found to restore α-DG matriglycan and laminin binding in rhabdomyosarcoma.18
Currently, the clinical significance of LARGE1 in lung cancer is not clear. In the present study, we utilized the large dataset of NSCLC patients from TCGA database to investigate the expression of LARGE1 and its clinical significance and further validated the results in external cohorts. In addition, we preliminarily explored the potential molecular mechanisms related to LARGE1 in NSCLC carcinogenesis.
Materials and Methods
Expression of LARGE1 mRNA Expression in NSCLC
TCGA TARGET GTEx dataset, which contains gene expression data in tumor tissues, adjacent tissues, and normal lung tissues, was downloaded from Xenabrowser.net19 and used to investigate LARGE1 mRNA expression in NSCLC tumor tissues, adjacent tissues, and normal lung tissues.
Kaplan–Meier Plotter
Kaplan-Meier plotter (KM plotter),20 a web-based tool, is capable of assessing the effect of 54k genes (mRNA, miRNA, protein) on survival in 21 cancer types with the data from the databases including GEO, EGA, and TCGA. This tool consisted of 2,437 lung cancer cases with gene profile (mRNA) data determined by microarray. Of the 2,437 lung cases, 1,927 cases had OS information. We used the tool to initially analyze the association of LARGE1 expression with OS in lung cancer with Auto select best cutoff value and the JetSet best probe set (215543_s_at) for LARGE1.
Analysis of NSCLC Data from TCGA
To further investigate the associations of LARGE1 mRNA levels with clinicopathological features and OS in NSCLC, RNA-Seq data and corresponding clinical data of the NSCLC patients were downloaded from TCGA database by Xenabrowser.net.19 The correlations between LARGE1 expression and baseline clinical characteristics in NSCLC patients were examined by the Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test as appropriate. Kaplan-Meier plot curves were used to explore the association of LARGE1 expression (optimal cutoff value) with OS in overall NSCLC patients. Univariate/multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression models were also used to explore the effects of LARGE1 mRNA levels on OS in overall and subgroups stratified by age, gender, smoking history, tumor stage, margin status, and adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) treatment. Furthermore, LARGE1 expression and ACT were also combined to classify NSCLC patients to observe their OS difference in Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox proportional hazards regression models.
Validation
To validate the results from the TCGA cohort, external cohort studies were searched in NCBI GEO database. The datasets in which: 1) the subjects were resected NSCLC patients; (2) the patients were treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and without chemotherapy; and 3) contained follow-up information (OS time and status) and contained LARGE1 expression levels analyzed by microarray or high throughput sequencing were downloaded. Only TNM stage I–III patients were enrolled. The datasets GSE42127,21 GSE14814,22 and GSE6846523 were included (Tables S1 and S2).
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
To investigate the potential molecular mechanisms during LARGE1 alteration in lung cancer, the Spearman correlations analysis results of more than 20,000 genes with LARGE1 in lung adenocarcinoma in the TCGA database were downloaded via cBioPortal (cbiopartal.org).24,25 The genes were ranked by the Spearman’s rank r and subjected to Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) via software, JAVA GSEA 3.0 (http://software.broadinstitute.org/gsea/index.jsp).26,27 The biologically defined gene sets “c2.cp.kegg.v7.1.symbols.gmt,” “c7.all.v7.1.symbols.gmt,” and “h.all.v7.1.symbols.gmt” were used as the reference databases.
Association of LARGE mRNA Expression with Cell Cycle Pathway Score
Akbani et al have used reverse phase protein array (RPPA) data from TCGA to calculate the score for 10 cancer-related pathways in 32 cancer types including cell cycle pathway.28 RPPA is a high-throughput antibody-based technique with procedures similar to that of Western blots. The pathway score is then the sum of the relative protein level of all positive regulatory components minus that of negative regulatory components in a particular pathway. For the cell cycle pathway, its score is the sum of the relative protein levels of CDK1, CYCLINB1, CYCLIND1, CYCLINDE1, CYCLINE2, P27PT157, P27PT198, and PCNA. Association of LARGE1 expression with cell cycle pathway score in lung adenocarcinoma was analyzed by Spearman correlation analysis.
Statistical Analysis
Kruskal–Wallis tests were used to compare LARGE1 expression in NSCLC tumor tissues, adjacent tissues, and normal lung tissues and in patients with different stages. Fisher’s exact test or Chi-square test were used to determine the associations of LARGE1 expression with clinical features of NSCLC patients. Kaplan-Meier curves and univariate Cox proportional hazards regression models as well as Kaplan-Meier curves adjusted by confounding factors and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to clarify the effects of LARGE1 expression on OS in NSCLC patients. All statistical analyses were performed with R software (v 3.4.3). A two-sided P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results
LARGE1 Was Downregulated in NSCLC
TCGA TARGET GTEx dataset was used to investigate LARGE1 mRNA expression in NSCLC tumor tissues, adjacent tissues, and normal lung tissues. LARGE1 was found to be downregulated in LUAD tumor tissues (Figure 1A) and LUSC tumor tissues (Figure 1B) compared with corresponding adjacent tissues and normal lung tissues. In addition, LARGE1 expression was determined in tumors with different stages in patients with TNM I–III NSCLC. The results suggested that LARGE1 was decreasingly expressed along with advancing tumor T stage (Figure 1C and D), N stage (Figure 1E and F), and TNM stage (Figure 1G and H) in both LUAD (Figure 1C, E, and G) and LUSC (Figure 1D, F, and H), especially in LUAD.
Correlations of LARGE1 Expression with Clinicopathological Features in Stage I-III NSCLC Patients
A total of 981 NSCLC patients from the TCGA database with baseline clinical characteristics and OS outcome information were split into a high LARGE1 expression group and a low LARGE1 expression group by the median value of LARGE1 expression. As shown in Table 1, high LARGE1 was associated with advanced T stage, N stage, TNM stage, LUSC, and older age but not with gender and smoking history.
Table 1.
Clinical Features | Low LARGE1 | High LARGE1 | P-value |
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N | 489 | 492 | |
Age (years) | 0.002 | ||
<65 | 208 (43.882%) | 164 (34.238%) | |
≥65 | 266 (56.118%) | 315 (65.762%) | |
Gender | 0.937 | ||
Female | 197 (40.286%) | 197 (40.041%) | |
Male | 292 (59.714%) | 295 (59.959%) | |
Smoking history | 0.065 | ||
Lifelong non-smoker | 43 (8.996%) | 43 (8.977%) | |
Current smoker | 123 (25.732%) | 121 (25.261%) | |
Current reformed smoker for < or = 15 years | 217 (45.397%) | 188 (39.248%) | |
Current reformed smoker for > 15 years | 89 (18.619%) | 124 (25.887%) | |
Current reformed smoker, duration not specified | 6 (1.255%) | 3 (0.626%) | |
Histology | 0.038 | ||
Lung adenocarcinoma | 259 (52.965%) | 228 (46.341%) | |
Lung squamous cell carcinoma | 230 (47.035%) | 264 (53.659%) | |
Pathological TNM stages | <0.001 | ||
I | 230 (47.035%) | 293 (59.553%) | |
II | 155 (31.697%) | 134 (27.236%) | |
III | 104 (21.268%) | 65 (13.211%) | |
Pathological T stages | <0.001 | ||
T1 | 112 (22.904%) | 167 (33.943%) | |
T2 | 295 (60.327%) | 256 (52.033%) | |
T3–4 | 82 (16.769%) | 69 (14.024%) | |
Pathological N stages | <0.001 | ||
N0 | 288 (59.627%) | 347 (71.399%) | |
N1 | 118 (24.431%) | 100 (20.576%) | |
N2 | 77 (15.942%) | 39 (8.025%) |
Correlations of LARGE1 Expression Levels with Overall Survival in Stage I-III NSCLC Patients
Effects of LARGE1 expression levels on OS in NSCLC was first examined using Kaplan-Meier plotter (KM plotter) and high LARGE1 expression was found to be associated with favorable OS in 1,925 NSCLC patients (Figure 2A). Then the effect of LARGE1 expression on OS was investigated in the 981 NSCLC patients from TCGA. Increased LARGE1 expression was associated with favorable OS in NSCLC revealed by both Kaplan-Meier curve with Log rank test (optimal cutoff value, P=0.028; Figure 2B) and univariate Cox proportional hazards regression model (HR=0.797; 95% CI=0.651–0.976; P=0.029). However, the association was not significant in the multivariate model (HR=0.806, 95% CI=0.633–1.027, P=0.081). Next, we used LARGE1 expression level as a continuous variable to explore its effects on OS in different subgroups stratified by age, gender, smoking history, histology, TNM stage, margin, adjuvant chemotherapy, and adjuvant radiotherapy. Association of increasing LARGE1 expression with OS was observed in the subgroup of patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy but not in other subgroups (Figure 2C). After splitting LARGE1 expression into high and low groups, similar results were obtained by Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regression analyses (Figure 3A–C; Table 2). And ACT was found to provide more benefit in the high LARGE1 group compared to the low LARGE1 group (Figure 3D and E, and Table 2). We also found a significant interaction between LARGE1 expression and adjuvant chemotherapy when evaluating their effects on OS (Table 2). Furthermore, we classified the patients by combining LARGE1 expression and adjuvant chemotherapy into three groups, ie, non-ACT, low LARGE1/ACT, and high LARGE1/ACT. Compared with patients with non-ACT, HR of low LARGE1/ACT was 0.592 (95% CI=0.432–0.813, P=0.0012), and HR of high LARGE1/ACT was 0.124 (95% CI=0.031–0.505, P=0.0036) (Figure 4A and B, and Table 2).
Table 2.
Parameters | HR | 95% CI | P-value | |
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TCGA | ||||
LARGE1 in patients without ACT | 0.922 | 0.650 | 1.308 | 0.649 |
LARGE1 in patients with ACT | 0.196 | 0.047 | 0.810 | 0.024 |
ACT in patients with low LARGE1 expression | 0.562 | 0.403 | 0.783 | 0.001 |
ACT in patients with high LARGE1 expression | 0.103 | 0.020 | 0.515 | 0.006 |
Interaction of adjuvant chemotherapy and LARGE1 | 0.222 | 0.052 | 0.950 | 0.042 |
Combination of ACT and LARGE1 expression | ||||
Low LARGE1/ACT vs nonACT | 0.592 | 0.432 | 0.813 | 0.001 |
High LARGE1/ACT vs nonACT | 0.124 | 0.031 | 0.505 | 0.004 |
GSE42127 | ||||
LARGE1 in patients without ACT | 0.604 | 0.304 | 1.203 | 0.151 |
LARGE1 in patients with ACT | 0.067 | 0.015 | 0.307 | 0.001 |
ACT in patients with low LARGE1 expression | 1.973 | 0.621 | 6.272 | 0.249 |
ACT in patients with high LARGE1 expression | 0.175 | 0.052 | 0.589 | 0.005 |
Interaction of adjuvant chemotherapy and LARGE1 | 0.152 | 0.032 | 0.721 | 0.018 |
Combination of ACT and LARGE1 expression | ||||
Low LARGE1/ACT vs nonACT | 2.162 | 0.884 | 5.285 | 0.091 |
High LARGE1/ACT vs nonACT | 0.188 | 0.058 | 0.610 | 0.005 |
GSE14814 | ||||
LARGE1 in patients without ACT | 1.119 | 0.447 | 2.797 | 0.811 |
LARGE1 in patients with ACT | 0.299 | 0.100 | 0.897 | 0.031 |
ACT in patients with low LARGE1 expression | 1.094 | 0.413 | 2.903 | 0.856 |
ACT in patients with high LARGE1 expression | 0.179 | 0.062 | 0.517 | 0.002 |
Interaction of adjuvant chemotherapy and LARGE1 | 0.278 | 0.072 | 1.078 | 0.064 |
Combination of ACT and LARGE1 expression | ||||
Low LARGE1/ACT vs nonACT | 0.837 | 0.382 | 1.835 | 0.657 |
High LARGE1/ACT vs nonACT | 0.320 | 0.134 | 0.766 | 0.011 |
Validation
The above results suggested high LARGE1 expression might help to identify the patients who would get more benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy in stage I–III NSCLC, so next we validated the results in external cohorts from the GEO database. Datasets GSE42127, GSE14814, GSE29013, and GSE68465 contained resected NSCLC cases treated with ACT or not and provided OS information (Table S1). ACT was found to improve OS in datasets GSE42127 and GSE14814 while decrease OS in datasets GSE29013 and GSE68465, thus validation was only performed in datasets GSE42127 and GSE14814 (Table S2). Similar to the results from the TCGA cohort, in both GSE42127 and GSE14814 cohorts, LARGE1 expression was associated with OS in patients with ACT while not in patients without ACT, and ACT was associated with OS in patients with high LARGE1 expression while not in patients with low LARGE1 expression (Figures S1 and S2; Table 2). The whole cohort of patients was also classified into three groups based on LARGE1 expression and ACT as well as TCGA cohort, compared to patients with non-ACT and those with LARGE1/ACT, patients with high LARGE1/ACT were found to be associated with significantly improved OS (Figures S3 and S4; Table 2).
Potential Mechanisms During LARGE1 Alteration in Lung Adenocarcinoma
To elucidate the potential mechanisms during LARGE1 alteration in lung cancer, the Spearman correlations analysis results of more than 20,000 genes with LARGE1 in lung adenocarcinoma were download from TCGA. The genes were ranked by the Spearman’s rank r and subjected to Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA). KEGG pathways, GO biological processes, and hallmarks that were positively or negatively correlated with LARGE1 expression were explored. Figure 5 showed the top 10 negative- and top 10 positive-associated gene sets against KEGG (Figure 5A), HALLMARK (Figure 5B), and GO biological processes (Figure 5C) databases, respectively. KEGG Cell cycle pathway (Figure 6A), HALLMARK G2/M checkpoint (Figure 6B), and GO cell cycle G2/M phase transition (Figure 6C) were all negatively associated with LARGE1 expression, indicating LARGE1 might improve patients’ outcomes via partly downregulating cell cycle in lung adenocarcinoma. The result was further validated by examining the association of LARGE1 expression with cell cycle pathway score, which was calculated by summing cell cycle-related proteins expression (Figure 6D).
Discussion
α-Dystroglycan functions as an extracellular matrix (ECM) receptor29 for several LG domain-containing basement membrane proteins via a unique heteropolysaccharide [-GlcA-beta1,3-Xyl-alpha1,3-]n called matriglycan, including laminin,30–32 perlecan,33 agrin,34 and Slit.35 α-DG has been implicated in several cell functions (ie, growth control, differentiation, shape change and movement) which are all relevant in the process of tumor development and metastasis.36,37 Expression or glycosylation of α-DG has been identified to be lost or reduced in a variety of human cancer cell lines17,38 and different cancers including rhabdomyosarcoma,18 gliomas,39 breast,40,41 prostate,42 colon,41,43 cervical,44 vulvar,44 gastric,45 tongue,46 and pancreatic cancers,47 oral squamous cell carcinoma,48 and renal cell carcinoma.49 Such reduction or loss of α-DG seems to correlate with the biologically invasive character of primary tumors41,44,46,47,49–51 and associated with poor outcomes.41,43,45,47,49,51 LARGE1 is important for α-DG glycosylation by adding the laminin-binding repeating units of 3GlcA-1-3Xyl-1 onto α-DG16 and significant association of LARGE1 downregulation with abnormal α-DG glycosylation in cancer cells has been observed.17,18 In the present study, we, for the first time, have reported that LARGE1 mRNA expression was downregulated in lung cancer tissues compared with adjacent tissues and normal lung tissues and in patients with advanced stages compared with early stages via analyzing the large dataset from the TCGA database. And there was a trend of significant association between LARGE1 downregulation with poor overall survival in stage I–III patients in overall and LARGE1 downregulation was significantly associated with poor overall survival in stage I–III patients receiving ACT.
ACT is the standard care for patients with NSCLC after complete resection, unfortunately, only a few of the patients get to benefit from ACT due to primary and acquired drug resistance.14,15 Therefore, it is critical to develop predictive biomarkers to identify the patients who will benefit from ACT and who will not benefit from ACT to avoid unnecessary toxicity and the delay of further treatment. Previously, low expression of ERCC152 and high expression of TUBB353 were shown to be predictive of benefit from ACT in NSCLC patients from a large cohort or clinical trial. However, large cross-validation studies suggested that attempts to validate ERCC1 or TUBB3 as predictive biomarkers fell short.54,55 Similar results were derived for validating other single biomarkers including p53, RRM1, and p27.56–58 Here, we found high LARGE1 mRNA expression can be used to identify the patients who would benefit from ACT, which was also validated in external cohorts, although this should be validated in more and larger multi-center studies.
LARGE1 is essential for α-DG glycosylation, which mediates the interaction between cells and the ECM and may play critical roles in the development and progression of many cancers by modulating cell growth, differentiation, shape change, and movement.36,37,59 In our study, we performed GSEA and found cell cycle regulation during LARGE1 alteration might be involved in carcinogenesis of lung adenocarcinoma, which might also be associated with ACT sensitivity. The potential mechanisms of LARGE1 downregulation in lung cancer were also unknown. Zhang et al reported that reduced LARGE1 expression was associated with its promoter hypermethylation in tongue cancer.46 In lung cancer, we also identified the negative and significant association between LARGE1 mRNA expression and the methylation of the CpG islands at its promoter (data not shown). More in vitro and animal experiments should be performed to validate our results.
Conclusions
LARGE1 mRNA expression was aberrantly downregulated in NSCLC and especially in cancers with advanced stages. High LARGE1 mRNA expression was associated with favorable OS in NSLCLC patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy rather than in patients without ACT and improved OS after ACT was also found in patients with high LARGE1 than those with low LARGE1. External cohorts confirmed these results, indicating that high LARGE expression could be used to identify the NSCLC patients who benefited from adjuvant chemotherapy.
Acknowledgment
This study was supported by the subjects from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC81601849), Zhejiang Provincial Medicine and Health Technology Project (2019RC217), Wenzhou Science and Technology Bureau (Y20180109, Y20180254).
Disclosure
The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
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