MCAM abnormal expression and clinical outcome associations are highly cancer dependent as revealed through pan-cancer analysis.

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Yunxia AnXiaoju Zhang

Abstract

MCAM (CD146) is a cell surface adhesion molecule that has been reported to promote cancer development, progression and metastasis and is considered as a potential tumor biomarker and therapeutic target. However, inconsistent reports exist, and its clinical value is yet to be confirmed. Here we took advantage of several large genomic data collections (Genotype-Tissue Expression, The Cancer Genome Atlas and Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia) and comprehensively analyzed MCAM expression in thousands of normal and cancer samples and cell lines along with their clinical phenotypes and drug response information. Our results show that MCAM is very highly expressed in large vessel tissues while majority of tissues have low or minimal expression. Its expression is dramatically increased in a few tumors but significantly decreased in most other tumors relative to their pairing normal tissues. Increased MCAM expression is associated with a higher tumor stage and worse patient survival for some less common tumors but not for major ones. Higher MCAM expression in primary tumors may be complicated by tumor-associated or normal stromal blood vessels yet its significance may differ from the one from cancer cells. MCAM expression is weakly associat...Continue Reading

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