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. 2022 Oct 21;13:6246. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34042-w

Fig. 1. Elevated BUD31 expression is associated with poor prognosis in ovarian cancer.

Fig. 1

a Volcano plot of differentially expressed core splicing factors (n = 134) between the TCGA-OV cohort (n = 374) and normal tissue in GTEx datasets (n = 180). |log2FC| > 1 and an adjusted p value < 0.05 were considered significant. b, c Forrest plot of the hazard ratio for the association between 13 dysregulated splicing factors and overall survival (n = 1023) and progression-free survival (n = 1001) in patients with SOC from the Kaplan–Meier Plotter database. The cohort of patients with SOC was split by auto-select cutoff. Prognostic splicing factors (red) with a p < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. d, e MTT assay and flow cytometry determined the HEYA8 cell viability and apoptosis cell percentage after siBUD31, siSF3B1, siSF3B4, siSRSF4, siMATR3, and siCHERP treatment for 72 h (n = 3 biologically independent experiments). *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01. f BUD31 mRNA expression was analyzed in the TCGA-OV cohort (n = 374) and normal tissue in GTEx datasets (n = 180). g BUD31 protein level was analyzed in SOCs (n = 93) and FTs (n = 25) from the CPTAC dataset. SOC samples were classified into Stage 1 (n  =  2), Stage 3 (n = 75), and Stage 4 (n = 16) according to individual cancer stage. The bounds of the box were the upper and lower quartile with the median value in the center. The whiskers indicated the minima and maxima. h Statistical analysis of BUD31 expression from IHC staining of the tissue microarray containing 149 samples of SOCs and 73 samples of FTs. i Representative images of IHC staining with high, medium, and low BUD31 expression in our tissue microarray. j, k Kaplan–Meier analysis of the correlation between BUD31 expression and overall survival and progression-free survival of ovarian cancer patients based on data from our tissue microarray. The 95% confidence interval was shown as dotted lines. l, m Kaplan–Meier analysis of the correlation between BUD31 expression and overall survival and progression-free survival of ovarian cancer patients based on the Kaplan–Meier Plotter cohort. The p value was obtained by log-rank test (b, c, j, k, l, m), two-tailed unpaired Student’s t-test (d, e, f, g), and Chi-square test (h). Data are presented as means ± SD unless otherwise stated.