Notably, the combination of NXPH4 knockdown and enzalutamide treatment showed potent synergistic effects, significantly suppressing cell proliferation in vitro and substantially inhibiting tumor growth in vivo. These findings reveal a previously unrecognized mechanism of EnzR and identify the NXPH4-ALDH1L2 complex as a promising therapeutic target for CRPC treatment.
These findings identify the ETS1/NXPH4 axis as a potential therapeutic target in OSCC. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10616-025-00869-6.
FOXK1 was identified as a potential transcriptional regulator of NXPH4, suggesting a regulatory axis in HCC tumorigenesis. The study highlights the molecular complexity of HCC, providing insights into potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
Drug sensitivity analysis further suggested that high-risk patients exhibit differential responses to several chemotherapy agents, with potential therapeutic implications. This study constructed an effective prognostic model, providing new insights and potential therapeutic targets for the personalized treatment of bladder cancer, which needs further validation.
NXPH4, regulated by m5C, promotes malignant tumor progression and regulates the HIF pathway. Consequently, targeting NXPH4 through molecular therapies could potentially serve as an efficacious therapeutic strategy for the management of CRC exhibiting elevated NXPH4 expression.
The present study revealed that high expression of NXPH4 is associated with tumor progression, metabolic reprogramming, and immune infiltration. These findings suggest that NXPH4 could serve as a reliable prognostic biomarker and a promising therapeutic target in COAD.
Western blot further confirmed the higher expression of NXPH4 in colon cancer. Knockdown of NXPH4 significantly suppresses proliferation, invasion, and migration of colon cancer cell lines HT-29 and HCT116, as validated by functional assays.
The aforementioned process could be reversed by further FOXK1 overexpression in CRC cells. In conclusion, FOXK1-regulated NXPH4 promotes proliferation, metastasis and glycolysis in CRC.
The CSC marker genes we identified may help to further decipher the role of CSCs in CRC development and progression. The seven-gene prognostic model could serve as an indicator for predicting the response to immunotherapy and chemotherapy as well as prognosis of CRC patients.
External validation of the only available m6A sequencing in ccRCC consistently reduced dysregulated m6A-driven targets on the NNU panel with highly significant effects on OS. Epitranscriptomics are a promising target for developing novel therapies and for identifying prognostic markers for daily clinical practice.
The immune gene score of MIBC data in TCGA and GEO databases was successfully evaluated using GSVA in this research. The lasso Cox expression model was successfully constructed by screening immune genes, the high-risk group had a worse prognosis and higher sensitivity to immunotherapy, PD-1 inhibitors or PD-1 combined with CTLA-4 inhibitors can be preferentially used in high-risk patients who are sensitive to immunotherapy, and NXPH4 may be a molecular target to adjust the effect of immunotherapy.