B-288 The Beginning of the End: AGO2 Protein Identified and Validated as a Novel Biomarker for Multi-cancer Diagnosis Through Bioinformatics Analysis and Immunoassay

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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Journal Article
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Clinical Chemistry, 2023, 69, (Supplement_1), pp. hvad097.608
Issue Date:
2023-09-27
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Abstract Background Despite significant progress in cancer research the complexity and heterogeneity of the disease still pose major challenges to accurate diagnosis and effective treatment Recent advancements in biomedical technologies have led to the identification of reliable potential cancer biomarkers In this sense the link between microRNAs master regulators of gene expression cancer is well established but there has been little research on the microRNA machinery itself We aim to investigate whether changes in the expression of genes proteins involved in the miRNA pathway can be used for multi cancer detection Method We analyzed RNASeq data from the TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas and GTEX The Genotype Tissue Expression projects to compare the expression of core components in the miRNA biogenesis pathway including AGO2 DGCR8 XPO5 RAN DROSHA DICER and TARBP2 in normal and tumorous samples across 22 tissue types including adrenocortical AML breast colon lung liver esophageal prostate pancreas stomach thyroid rectum uterus and ovarian cancer We accessed and analyzed the TCGA and GTEx datasets using the UCSC Xena Browser We also measured the protein concentrations of all these microRNA regulators in 15 normal adrenal cortex 15 benign adenoma and 15 adrenocortical cancer tissue homogenate samples using commercial ELISA kits The Human Protein Argonaute 2 EIF2C2 ELISA Kit AE45910HU Abebio Co Ltd was used for the assay procedure which was performed according to the manufacturer s instructions Statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism Version 9 GraphPad Software CA USA A P value of less than 0 05 was considered statistically significant Results Our RNASeq analysis results showed that among all microRNA regulators AGO2 is most highly significantly over expressed in samples derived from cancer patients compared with normal controls P 0 05 In addition we analysed the protein expression of AGO2 in adrenocortical tissue homogenate samples Our results demonstrated
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