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Table 1 Promising oral, and head and neck cancer salivary biomarkers discovered using epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics

From: Salivary biomarker development using genomic, proteomic and metabolomic approaches

Approach

 

Markers

Sensitivity/specificity (%)/AUC

Epigenomics

Candidate from previous study, Q-MSP analysis (HNSCC) [29]

DAPK, DCC, MINT-31, TIMP-3, p16, MGMT, CCNA1

NR

 

Candidate gene selection based on a previous study, Q-MSP discovery and validation (HNSCC) [23]

MINT31, CCNA1, DCC, DAPK, p16

34.1/91.8/0.63

  

MINT31, CCNA1, p16

24.0/97.1/0.61

 

Candidate from previous study, Q-MSP discovery and validation (HNSCC) [25]

KIF1A, EDNRB

77.4/93.1/NR

 

Candidate from previous study, Q-MSP assessment (HNSCC) [26]

EDNRB

65/51/0.61

 

Discovery by methylation array (OSCC) [27]

GABRB3_E42_F, IL11_P11_R, INSR_P1063_R, NOTCH3_E403_F, NTRK3_E131_F, PXN_P308_F

77/83/NR

  

ADCYAP1_P455_R, CEBPA_P706_F, EPHA5_E158_R, FGF3_E198_R, HLF_E192_F, IL11_P11_R, INSR_P1063_R, NOTCH3_E403_F

69/96/NR

  

ERBB4_P255_F, IL11_P11_R, PTCH2_P37_F, TMEFF1_P234_F, TNFSF10_E53_F, TWIST1_P44_R

62/100/NR

 

Discovery with HumanMethylation27 DNA assay, validation with Q-MSP [30]

HOXA9, NID2

50/90/0.77

Transcriptomics

Microarray discovery and qPCR validation (OSCC) [4]

IL8, IL1B, OAZ1, SAT

91/91/0.95

 

qRTPCR and ELISA validation of previously reported candidates [67]

IL-8, SAT, H3F3A, S100P

71/89/0.81

  

IL-8, IL-1B, SAT, OAZ1

79/77/0.86

  

IL-8, IL-1B, SAT, DUSP1

80/77/0.85

  

IL-8, IL-1B, S100P, OAZ1

64/86/0.78

  

IL-8, SAT, OAZ1, S100P

87/56/0.75

 

Discovery and validation by RT-preamp-qPCR (OSCC) [6]

miR-200a

NR/NR/0.65

  

miR-125a

NR/NR/0.62

 

Candidate gene selection based on previous study, qRT-PCR quantification [57]

miR-31

80/68/0.82

Proteomics

Discovery by C4 RP-LC and capillary reversed-phase LC with quadruple time-of-flight MS and validation by ELISA and immunoblotting (OSCC) [15]

M2BP, profilin, CD59, MRP14, catalase

90/83/0.93

 

ELISA assessment and qPCR confirmation [65]

IL-8

86/97/0.98

Combination of proteomic/transcriptomics

Reproducibility study of validated biomarkers using ELISA and qRT-PCR (OSCC) [46]

Proteins: IL-1B, IL-8 and M2BP

 

mRNAs: IL-8, IL-1B, SAT1, S100P

0.89/0.78/0.86, 0.67/0.96/0.85, 0.82/0.84/0.88 for OSCC total/T1-T2/T3-T4 respectively

  

Metabolomics

ULC/Q-TOF-MS (OSCC) [8]

Valine, lactic acid

86.5/82.4/0.89

 

Discovery by CE-TOF-MS-based metabolomics [7]

Taurine, piperidine and a peak at 120.0801 m/z

NR/NR/0.87

  1. AUC, area under curve; CE-TOF-MS, capillary electrophoresis time-of-flight mass spectrometry; ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; HNSCC, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; LC, liquid chromatography; MS, mass spectrometry; NR, not reported; OSCC, oral squamous cell carcinoma; Q-MSP, quantitative methylation-sensitive PCR; qPCR, quantitative PCR; qRT-PCR, quantitative reverse transcription PCR; RT-preamp-qPCR, reverse transcription preamplification quantitative PCR; ULC/Q-TOF-MS, ultraperformance liquid chromatography coupled with quadruple/time-of-flight mass spectrometry; C4 RP-LC, C4 reversed-phase liquid chromatography.