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Overexpression of Citron Rho-Interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase Associated with Poor Outcome in Bladder Cancer

Jiafeng Shou, Chong Yu, Dahong Zhang, Qi Zhang

Department of Urology, People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, 158 Shangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310014, People's Republic of China

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Shou J, Yu C, Zhang D, Zhang Q. Overexpression of Citron Rho-Interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase Associated with Poor Outcome in Bladder Cancer. J Cancer 2020; 11(14):4173-4180. doi:10.7150/jca.43435. https://www.jcancer.org/v11p4173.htm
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Abstract

Objective: Citron Rho-Interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase (CIT) was originally identified as a binding partner of active forms of the small GTPases Rho and Rac. This kinase participated in the regulation of cytokinesis and loss of CIT was associated with chromosomal instability. Here, we assume that CIT might be a potential prognostic biomarker for bladder cancer.

Materials and Methods: The expression and prognostic significance of CIT mRNA were validated on 5 published microarray data sets, including 948 bladder cancer cases. To further confirm the results, we collected 54 non-carcinomatous human bladder tissue samples and 315 bladder cancer tissues from Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital to detect the protein level of CIT based on the immunohistochemistry analysis. The Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional hazards regression model were used in survival analysis.

Results: Analysis results showed that high CIT expression was associated with tumor size (p=0.0001), tumor grade (p<0.0001), smoking status (p=0.0143), TNM stage (p=0.0024), pathological tumor stage (p<0.0001) and aggressive phenotypes of bladder cancer. Independent and pooled survival analyses both indicated that overexpression of CIT was significantly associated with poor survival of bladder cancers.

Conclusions: In conclusion, these findings indicated that overexpression of CIT was significantly associated with poor survival outcome in bladder cancers. CIT might serve as a promising prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target for bladder cancers.

Keywords: bladder cancer, CIT, prognosis, survival, biomarker


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Shou, J., Yu, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, Q. (2020). Overexpression of Citron Rho-Interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase Associated with Poor Outcome in Bladder Cancer. Journal of Cancer, 11(14), 4173-4180. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.43435.

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Shou, J.; Yu, C.; Zhang, D.; Zhang, Q. Overexpression of Citron Rho-Interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase Associated with Poor Outcome in Bladder Cancer. J. Cancer 2020, 11 (14), 4173-4180. DOI: 10.7150/jca.43435.

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Shou J, Yu C, Zhang D, Zhang Q. Overexpression of Citron Rho-Interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase Associated with Poor Outcome in Bladder Cancer. J Cancer 2020; 11(14):4173-4180. doi:10.7150/jca.43435. https://www.jcancer.org/v11p4173.htm

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Shou J, Yu C, Zhang D, Zhang Q. 2020. Overexpression of Citron Rho-Interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase Associated with Poor Outcome in Bladder Cancer. J Cancer. 11(14):4173-4180.

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