ArticleJournal of extracellular vesicles2020
EGFR-rich extracellular vesicles derived from highly metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells accelerate tumour metastasis through PI3K/AKT pathway-suppressed ROS.
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- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma: current views on the tumor microenvironment's impact on drug resistance and clinical outcomes.Molecular cancer · 2024Review
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- Expression of cytoskeleton-associated protein 4 is associated with poor prognosis and metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2023Article
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- Application of small extracellular vesicles in the diagnosis and prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the most common cancer with high metastatic potential that occurs in the epithelial cells of the nasopharynx. Distant metastases are the primary cause for treatment failure and mortality of NPC patients. However, the underlying mechanism responsible for the initiation of tumour cell dissemination and tumour metastasis in NPC is not well understood. Here, we demonstrated that epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) was highly expressed in tumour tissues of NPC patients with distant metastases and was associated with a decrease in reactive oxygen species (ROS). We also revealed that extracellular vesicles (EVs) transfer occurred from highly to poorly metastatic NPC cells, mediating cell-cell communication and enhancing the metastatic potential of poorly metastatic NPC cells. Further experiments indicated that EVs derived from highly metastatic NPC cells induced the up-regulation of EGFR and down-regulation of ROS in low metastatic NPC cells. Mechanistically, EGFR-rich EVs-mediated EGFR overexpression down-regulated intracellular ROS levels through the PI3K/AKT pathway, thus promoting the metastatic potential of poorly metastatic NPC cells. Strikingly, treatment with EVs secreted from highly metastatic NPC cells was significantly associated with rapid NPC progression and shorter survival in xenografted mice. These findings not only improve our understanding of EVs-mediated NPC metastatic mechanism but also have important implications for the detection and treatment of NPC patients accompanied by aberrant EGFR-rich EVs transmission.
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