Identification of Prognostic Metabolism-Related Genes in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Abstract

Background. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a cancer with abnormal metabolism. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of metabolism-related genes on the prognosis of ccRCC patients. Methods. The data of ccRCC patients were downloaded from the TCGA and the GEO databases and clustered using the nonnegative matrix factorization method. The limma software package was used to analyze differences in gene expression. A random forest model was used to screen for important genes. A novel Riskscore model was established using multivariate regression. The model was evaluated based on the metabolic pathway, immune infiltration, immune checkpoint, and clinical characteristics. Results. According to metabolism-related genes, kidney clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) datasets downloaded from TCGA were clustered into two groups and showed significant differences in prognosis and immune infiltration. There were 667 differentially expressed genes between the two clusters, of which 408 were screened by univariate analysis. Finally, 12 differentially expressed genes (MDK, SLC1A1, SGCB, C4orf3, MALAT1, PILRB, IGHG1, FZD1, IFITM1, MUC20, KRT80, and SALL1) were filtered out using the random forest model. The model of Riskscore was obtained by multiplying the expression levels of these 12 genes with the corresponding coefficients of the multivariate regression. We found that the Riskscore correlated with the expression of these 12 genes; the high Riskscore matched the low survival rate verified in the verification set. The analysis found that the Riskscore model was associated with most of the metabolic processes, immune infiltration of cells such as plasma cells, immune checkpoints such as PD-1, and clinical characteristics such as M stage. Conclusion. We established a new Riskscore model for the prognosis of ccRCC based on metabolism. The genes in the model provided several novel targets for the study of ccRCC.

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