The present study investigated the association between the Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) signaling pathway with tumor progression and prognosis of colon cancer. A total of 62 patients with colon cancer were selected as the colon cancer group, and 40 patients with colon lesions were selected as the benign colon lesion group. Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression levels of JAK-1 and STAT-3 proteins in colon tissues. The association of JAK-1 and STAT-3 proteins with the pathological parameters and prognosis of colon cancer were analyzed. The total positive rates of JAK-1 and STAT-3 proteins in lesions of patients in the colon cancer group were significantly higher compared with those in the benign colon lesion group (P<0.05). The positive expression of JAK-1 and STAT-3 proteins in patients with colon cancer were not significantly associated with sex, age, tumor differentiation degree and neurovascular invasion (P>0.05), but significantly associated with the clinical stage of colon cancer, tumor infiltration depth and lymph node metastasis (P<0.05). The survival time of patients with colon cancer with positively-expressed JAK-1 and STAT-3 proteins was significantly shorter compared with that of patients with negatively-expressed JAK-1 and STAT-3 proteins (P<0.05). tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage, lymph node metastasis and the expression of JAK-1 and STAT-3 proteins in the tumor were associated with the prognosis of patients with colon cancer (P<0.05). TNM stage and the expression levels of JAK-1 and STAT-3 proteins were independent risk factors influencing the prognosis of colon cancer (P<0.05). The JAK/STAT signal may be used as a novel tumor marker and prognostic factor for the diagnosis, assessment and prognosis of colon cancer.
Chemoresistance is one of the most important biological elements affecting the progression and prognosis of cancer. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are important regulators and are aberrantly expressed in various types of cancer in humans, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The present study aimed to investigate the effect of lncRNAs on NSCLC resistance to chemotherapy. The relative expression level of epidermal growth factor receptor antisense RNA 1 (EGFR-AS1) was quantified by reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis in NSCLC tissues, paired adjacent normal tissues, patient plasma and NSCLC cell lines, and its association with prognosis was assessed by multivariate analysis. The biological functions of EGFR-AS1 in NSCLC cells were determined in vitro. It was found that EGFR-AS1 was abnormally upregulated in NSCLC tissues compared with adjacent normal lung tissues. Furthermore, patients with NSCLC with increased expression of EGFR-AS1 had a poor prognosis. EGFR-AS1 knockdown significantly inhibited NSCLC malignancy in vitro, including cell proliferation and chemoresistance. Furthermore, the expression levels of EGFR-AS1 were increased in plasma samples from patients with cisplatin-based chemotherapy resistance. Bioinformatics analysis and a luciferase reporter assay confirmed that EGFR-AS1 mediated cell proliferation and chemoresistance through directly binding to microRNA-223. Therefore, EGFR-AS1 overexpression-induced chemoresistance can contribute to poor prognosis in NSCLC.Abbreviations: lncRNA, long non-coding RNA; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; EGFR-AS1, epidermal growth factor receptor antisense RNA 1; PRC2, proteasome component 2; LSD1, lysine demethylase 1A; DNMT1, DNA methyltransferase 1; RT-qPCR, reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction; ceRNA, competitive endogenous RNA; IGF1R, insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor; PI3K, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
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