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Table 3 Overview of the most relevant genes associated with metastasis during liver colonisation (FDR < 5%)

From: The adaptation of colorectal cancer cells when forming metastases in the liver: expression of associated genes and pathways in a mouse model

Gene

Ensembl ID

Gene Symbol

Functional Gene Group

p-value

Mean intensity CMT-93

Mean intensity liver metastases

logFC*

logFC^

FDR

Matrix metallopepti-dase 7

ENSMUSG00000018623

MMP7

Extracellular Matrix Proteins

1,7 × 10−180

0,02

72,56

8,97

11,69

4,9 × 10−178

Keratin 20

ENSMUSG00000035775

KRT20

CRC-Related Genes

2,9 × 10−174

0,81

51,99

5,8

6,12

7,7 × 10−172

Wnt inhibitory factor 1

ENSMUSG00000020218

WIF1

Wnt Signalling (canonical)

3,7 × 10−126

0,00

20,68

7,37

12,85

3,3 × 10−124

Matrix metallopepti-dase 9

ENSMUSG00000017737

MMP9

Extracellular Matrix Proteins

3,8 × 10−72

0,10

14,16

5,95

7,92

9 × 10−71

Chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 4

ENSMUSG00000045382

CXCR4

Cell Growth and Proliferation Genes

1,5 × 10−71

0,02

19,29

7,06

10,50

3,4 × 10−70

Matrix metallopepti-dase 2

ENSMUSG00000031740

MMP2

Extracellular Matrix Proteins

1,8 × 10−70

0,09

27,83

7,04

8,33

4,2 × 10−69

Eph receptor B2

ENSMUSG00000028664

EPHB2

Cell Growth and Proliferation Genes

4,8 × 10−59

1,06

10,86

3,2

3,65

8 × 10−58

Chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 2

ENSMUSG00000026180

CXCR2

Cell Growth and Proliferation Genes

1,1 10−40

0,04

7,53

5,51

7,75

9,7 × 10−40

Cadherin 11

ENSMUSG00000031673

CDH11

Cell Adhesion Genes

8,8 × 10−40

0,12

6,32

4,67

5,75

7,9 × 10−39

Axin2

ENSMUSG00000000142

AXIN2

Wnt Signalling (canonical)

2,2 × 10−39

20,31

72,10

1,82

1,87

2 × 10−38

Integrin beta 3

ENSMUSG00000020689

ITGB3

Cell Adhesion Genes

1,6 × 10−33

5,54

25,48

2,17

2,35

1,2 × 10−32

Matrix metallopeptidase 13

ENSMUSG00000050578

MMP13

Extracellular Matrix Proteins

8,1 × 10−29

0,22

7,45

4,43

5,20

4,8 × 10−28

Glycoprotein (transmembrane) nmb

ENSMUSG00000029816

GPNMB

Cell Adhesion Genes

3,9 × 10−27

0,21

14,50

5,45

6,25

2,1 × 10−26

Snail family zinc finger 1

ENSMUSG00000042821

SNAI1

EMT Transition

2,9 × 10−26

0,12

3,05

3,62

4,66

1,5 × 10−25

Plasminogen activator, urokinase receptor

ENSMUSG00000046223

PLAUR

Cell Growth and Proliferation Genes

8,9 × 10−20

191,38

71,50

−1,42

−1,28

3,6 × 10−19

Matrix metallopeptidase 3

ENSMUSG00000043613

MMP3

Extracellular Matrix Proteins

3,7 × 10−17

0,05

2,70

3,95

5,74

1,3 × 10−16

Integrin alpha 6

ENSMUSG00000027111

ITGA6

Cell Adhesion Genes

5 × 10−17

12,03

31,23

1,36

1,32

1,8 × 10−16

Matrix metallopeptidase 10

ENSMUSG00000047562

MMP10

Extracellular Matrix Proteins

7,6 × 10−17

0,06

2,68

3,83

5,37

2,7 × 10−16

Somatostatin receptor 2

ENSMUSG00000047904

SSTR2

Cell Growth and Proliferation Genes

5,7 × 10−15

0,22

1,57

2,19

3,17

1,8 × 10−14

Jun proto-oncogene

ENSMUSG00000052684

JUN

Transcription Factors and Regulators

7,8 × 10−13

22,13

44,89

1,01

1,16

2,3 × 10−12

Frizzled homolog 2 (Drosophila)

ENSMUSG00000050288

FZD2

Wnt Signalling (canonical)

1,1 × 10−12

6,88

2,16

-1,7

-1,54

3 × 10−12

Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 7

ENSMUSG00000035373

CCL7

Cell Growth and Proliferation Genes

2,4 × 10−12

0,98

9,98

3,18

3,47

6,9 × 10−12

Nuclear receptor subfamily 4, group A, member 3

ENSMUSG00000028341

NR4A3

Transcription Factors and Regulators

3,5 × 10−12

0,16

1,22

2,1

3,31

1 × 10−11

RAR-related orphan receptor beta

ENSMUSG00000036192

RORB

Cell Growth and Proliferation Genes

2,6 × 10−11

2,57

0,70

-1,94

-1,68

7 × 10−11

Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A

ENSMUSG00000044303

CDKN2A

Transcription Factors and Regulators

1,9 × 10−8

179,73

91,40

−0,98

−0,84

4,4 × 10−8

Matrix metallopeptidase 11

ENSMUSG00000000901

MMP11

Extracellular Matrix Proteins

6,6 × 10−7

12,30

5,36

−1,21

−1,19

1,4 × 10−6

Ets variant 4

ENSMUSG00000017724

ETV4

Transcription Factors and Regulators

9,5 × 10−7

21,60

10,13

−1,1

−0,93

1,9 × 10−6

Lymphoid enhancer binding factor 1

ENSMUSG00000027985

LEF1

EMT Transition

5,3 × 10−5

0,37

1,19

1,26

1,69

9,3 × 10−5

Caspase 3

ENSMUSG00000031628

CASP3

Apoptosis Genes

0,00027

48,58

29,55

−0,72

−0,57

0,00045

Fibronectin 1

ENSMUSG00000026193

FN1

EMT Transition

0,00085

1051,50

805,60

−0,38

−0,74

0,00134

B cell CLL/lymphoma 9

ENSMUSG00000038256

BCL9

Wnt Signalling (canonical)

0,00222

15,50

19,20

0,3

0,42

0,00336

Dickkopf homolog 2 (Xenopus laevis)

ENSMUSG00000028031

DKK2

Wnt Signalling (canonical)

0,02671

9,31

6,03

−0,65

−0,50

0,03566

  1. LogFC* describes changes between/comparing the mean intensities calculated as the log fold changes of base 2 referring to the TPM-values, logFC^ represents the log fold change of base 2 from the R package EdgeR