Transcriptional expressions of SCNs family correlates with overall
survival in patients with breast cancer
Abstract
Introduction: Voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels encoded by SCNs are
heteromeric protein complexes containing pore-forming α subunits
together with non-pore-forming β subunits. Methods: To analyze the
expression of SCNs in the samples of different types of breast cancer
(BC) patients and the relationship between the expression of α and β
subunits and the prognosis of in BC patients, the study investigated the
roles of SCNs in the prognosis of BC using ONCOMINE, UALCAN,
Kaplan-Meier Plotter, GEPIA, Metascape, LinkedOmics databases. The study
analyzed significant changes of SCNs expression and prognosis in
transcription level between BC and normal samples, and association of
mRNA expression of distinct SCNs family members with prognosis in
overall BC patients and HER2-positive/HER2-negative subgroups,
respectively. Moreover, we predicted functions and pathways of the
mutations in SCNs and their neighbor genes in BC patients by GO/KEGG and
GSEA analysis. Results: The results showed that transcriptional and
proteinic expressions of 9 SCNs were downregulated in patients with BC,
including SCN1A~4A, 7A, 9A and SCN2B~4B.
low expressions of 11 SCNs members were found to be significantly
associated with poorer overall survival (OS) in BC patients (P<0.01),
including SCN2A, 3A, 5A, 7A, 9A~11A and
SCN1B~4B. Moreover, prognostic value of mRNA expression
of SCNs could only be seen in HER2-negative BC patients when we
performed subgroup analysis. Conclusions: These results indicated that
SCNs could be prognostic biomarkers for survivals of BC patients. Some
medicines that regulate SCNs might provide new targets for BC treatment.