Abstract:Objective To study the relationship between the expression of circMTO1, and miR-3200/PEBP1 axis and its predictive effect on the recurrence after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).Methods Patients with early gastric cancer who received ESD treatment in the First Hospital Affiliated to AMU (Southwest Hospital) from January 2015 to July 2018 were selected as the research subjects (early gastric cancer group), and the patients who received endoscopic gastric mucosal biopsy and confirmed as normal gastric mucosa by pathology were selected as the control group. The expression levels of circMTO1, miR-3200 and PEBP1 in early gastric cancer and normal gastric mucosa were detected. The recurrence free survival of early gastric cancer patients was followed up. The difference of recurrence free survival rate was analyzed by Kaplan-Meier curve.Results The expression levels of circMTO1 and PEBP1 in the early gastric cancer group were significantly lower than those in the control group, and the expression levels of miR-3200 were significantly higher than that in the control group (P < 0.05), and circMTO1 was negatively correlated with miR-3200 and positively correlated with PEBP1, and miR-3200 was negatively correlated with PEBP1; The expression levels of circMTO1, miR-3200 and PEBP1 were significantly different in the early gastric cancer group with different tumor diameter, depth of invasion, lymph node metastasis and vascular tumor thrombus (P < 0.05); Kaplan-Meier curve analysis showed that the recurrence free survival rate of patients with high expression of circMTO1 was higher than that of patients with low expression of circMTO1, the recurrence free survival rate of patients with high expression of miR-3200 was lower than that of patients with low expression of miR-3200, the recurrence free survival rate of patients with high expression of PEBP1 was higher than that of patients with low expression of PEBP1.Conclusion The low expression of circMTO1 in early gastric cancer relates with the deterioration and the shortening of recurrence free survival time after ESD, targeting miR-3200/PEBP1 axis may be the molecular mechanism of circMTO1 participating in the occurrence and development of early gastric cancer.