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m6A regulator-mediated methylation modification patterns and tumor immune microenvironment characterization in endometrial cancer

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m6A regulator-mediated methylation modification patterns and tumor immune microenvironment characterization in endometrial cancer

Kexin Li
Shanrong Shu
Jiahua Zou
Manmei Li
Zhong Liu
Genes & Diseases第10卷, 第6期pp.2278-2281纸质出版 2023-11-01在线发表 2023-03-24
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Endometrial cancer (EC) is the second most prevalent female reproductive system tumor after cervical cancer and its incidence is rising globally. Recently, N6-methyladenosine (m6A) has emerged as an important regulator of a variety of physiological and pathological processes, especially in promoting EC progression. However, the potential roles of m6A modification in EC and its immune landscape remain unknown. Here, the correlation between m6A modification patterns and tumor microenvironment (TME) cell-infiltrating characteristics was comprehensively evaluated based on 21 m6A regulators of 1301 endometrial cancer samples. We identified four m6Aclasses characterized by distinct TME cell infiltration. We used principal component analysis algorithms to construct m6Ascore to quantify m6A modification patterns of endometrial cancer individuals. Our results showed that lower m6Ascore may be closely related to immune-inflamed phenotype and displayed immune-activated characteristics and better prognosis, while higher m6Ascore may be associated with immune-desert and immune-excluded phenotype and showed interstitial activation-related characteristics and poor prognosis. These new findings reveal that m6A modification played a nonnegligible role in the formation of TME diversity and complexity and support the possibility of targeting m6A modification patterns for rescuing EC, which were unreported in EC patients.

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