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ArticleTheranostics2016

Recapitulating the Size and Cargo of Tumor Exosomes in a Tissue-Engineered Model.

Aranzazu Villasante, Alessandro Marturano-Kruik, Srikanth R Ambati, Zen Liu, Amandine Godier-Furnemont, Hesam Parsa, Benjamin W Lee, Malcolm A S Moore, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

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Article in Theranostics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aranzazu Villasante1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA;
Alessandro Marturano-Kruik1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA;; 4. Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "G Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Srikanth R Ambati2. Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10065, USA;
Zen Liu1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA;
Amandine Godier-Furnemont1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA;
Hesam Parsa1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA;
Benjamin W Lee1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA;
Malcolm A S Moore3. Department of Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10065, USA;
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA;
Columbia University · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Translational Bioreactors - Engineering Complex TissuesP41EB002520 · NIBIB · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI KAPLAN, DAVID L. · 2004 to 2018
$16.7M
Tissue Chips for Rare Disease: Adding Timothy Syndrome to the HeLIVaSkCa platformUH3EB017103 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI VUNJAK-NOVAKOVIC, GORDANA · 2014 to 2016
$7.1M
Integrated heart-liver-vascular systems for drug testing in human health and diseUH2EB017103 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI VUNJAK-NOVAKOVIC, GORDANA · 2012 to 2013
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB002520NIBIB NIH HHS UH2 EB017103NIBIB NIH HHS UH3 EB017103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a growing interest in the pivotal role of exosomes in cancer and in their use as biomarkers. However, despite the importance of the microenvironment for cancer initiation and progression, monolayer cultures of tumor cells still represent the main in vitro source of exosomes. As a result, their environmental regulation remains largely unknown. Here, we report a three-dimensional tumor model for studying exosomes, using Ewing's sarcoma type 1 as a clinically relevant example. The bioengineered model was designed based on the hypothesis that the 3-dimensionality, composition and stiffness of the tumor matrix are the critical determinants of the size and cargo of exosomes released by the cancer cells. We analyzed the effects of the tumor microenvironment on exosomes, and the effects of exosomes on the non-cancer cells from the bone niche. Exosomes from the tissue-engineered tumor had similar size distribution as those in the patients' plasma, and were markedly smaller than those in monolayer cultures. Bioengineered tumors and the patients' plasma contained high levels of the Polycomb histone methyltransferase EZH2 mRNA relatively to their monolayer counterparts. Notably, EZH2 mRNA, a potential tumor biomarker detectable in blood plasma, could be transferred to the surrounding mesenchymal stem cells. This study provides the first evidence that an in vitro culture environment can recapitulate some properties of tumor exosomes.

Indexed as

BiomarkersEnhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 ProteinExosomesHumansModels, BiologicalRNA, MessengerSarcoma, EwingTissue Culture TechniquesBiomarkersEnhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 ProteinEZH2 protein, humanRNA, MessengerExosomesEZH2.microenvironmenttissue engineeringtumor models

Identifiers

PMID27279906
PMCPMC4893640
OpenAlexW2398113455

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