Multi-omic analysis of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma uncovers candidate therapeutic targets and cancer-selective post-transcriptional regulation

J Robert O’Neill, Marcos Yébenes mayordomo, Goran Mitulović, Sofian Al shboul, Georges Bedran, Jakub Faktor, Lenka Hernychova, Lukas Uhrik, Maria Gomez-Herranz, Mikołaj Kocikowski, Vicki Save, Bořivoj Vojtěšek, Mark Arends, Ted Hupp, Javier Alfaro

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Background:
Efforts to address the poor prognosis associated with esophageal
adenocarcinoma (EAC) have been hampered by a lack of biomarkers to identify early disease and therapeutic targets. Despite extensive efforts to understand the somatic mutations associated with EAC over the past decade, a gap remains in understanding how the atlas of genomic aberrations in this cancer impacts the proteome and which somatic variants are of importance for the disease phenotype.
Methods:
We performed a quantitative proteomic analysis of 23 EACs and matched adjacent normal esophageal and gastric tissues. We explored the correlation of transcript and protein abundance using tissue-matched RNA-seq and proteomic data from 7 patients and further integrated these data with a cohort of EAC RNA-seq data (n=264 patients), EAC whole-genome sequencing (n=454 patients) and external published datasets.
Central findings:
We quantified protein expression from 5879 genes in EAC and patient-
matched normal tissues. Several biomarker candidates with EAC-selective expression were identified including the transmembrane protein GPA33. We further verified the EAC-enriched expression of GPA33 in an external cohort of 115 patients and confirm this as an attractive diagnostic and therapeutic target. To further extend the insights gained from our proteomic data, an integrated analysis of protein and RNA expression in EAC and normal tissues revealed several genes with poorly correlated Protein and RNA abundance, suggesting post-transcriptional regulation of protein expression. These outlier genes including SLC25A30, TAOK2, and AGMAT, only rarely demonstrated somatic mutation suggesting post-transcriptional drivers for this EAC-specific phenotype. AGMAT was demonstrated to be over-expressed at the protein level in EAC compared to adjacent normal tissues with an EAC-
selective, post-transcriptional mechanism of regulation of protein abundance proposed.
Conclusions: By quantitative proteomic analysis we have identified GPA33 as an EAC-selective biomarker. Integrated analysis of proteome, transcriptome, and genome in EAC hasJournal Pre-proof Running Title: Multi-omic analysis of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma uncovers candidate therapeutic targets and cancer-selective post-transcriptional regulation revealed several genes with tumor-selective, post-transcriptional regulation of protein expression which may be an exploitable vulnerability
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)100764
JournalMolecular & Cellular Proteomics (MCP)
Early online date9 Apr 2024
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 9 Apr 2024

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