Identification of Hub Genes to Regulate Breast Cancer Spinal Metastases by Bioinformatics Analyses.

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More than 65% of advanced-stage BC patients were identified to have bone metastasis. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in the BC spinal metastases remained largely unclear. This study screened dysregulated genes in the progression of BC spinal metastases by analyzing GSE22358. Moreover, we constructed PPI networks to identify key regulators in this progression. Bioinformatics analysis showed that these key regulators were involved in regulating the metabolic process, cell proliferation, Toll-like receptor and RIG-I-like receptor signaling, and mRNA surveillance. Furthermore, our analysis revealed that key regulators, including C1QB, CEP55, HIST1H2BO, IFI6, KIAA0101, PBK, SPAG5, SPP1, DCN, FZD7, KRT5, and TGFBR3, were correlated to the OS time in BC patients. In addition, we analyzed TCGA database to further confirm the expression levels of these hub genes in breast cancer. Our results showed that these regulators were significantly differentially expressed in breast cancer, which were consistent with GSE22358 dataset analysis. Furthermore, our analysis demonstrated that CEP55 was remarkably upregulated in the advanced stage of breast cancer compared to the stage I breast cancer sample and was significantly upregulated in triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) compared to other types of breast cancers, including luminal and HER2-positive cancers, demonstrating CEP55 may have a regulatory role in TNBC. Finally, our results showed that CEP55 was the most highly expressed in Basal-like 1 TNBC and Basal-like 2 TNBC samples but the most lowly expressed in mesenchymal stem-like TNBC samples. 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