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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2021

On-Chip Biogenesis of Circulating NK Cell-Derived Exosomes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Exhibits Antitumoral Activity.

Yoon-Tae Kang, Zeqi Niu, Thomas Hadlock, Emma Purcell, Ting-Wen Lo, Mina Zeinali, Sarah Owen, Venkateshwar G Keshamouni, Rishindra Reddy, Nithya Ramnath and 1 more

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Yoon-Tae KangDepartment of Chemical Engineering Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1596-7815
Zeqi NiuDepartment of Chemical Engineering Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Thomas HadlockDepartment of Chemical Engineering Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9123-4982
Emma PurcellDepartment of Chemical Engineering Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4653-4756
Ting-Wen LoDepartment of Chemical Engineering Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Mina ZeinaliDepartment of Chemical Engineering Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Sarah OwenDepartment of Chemical Engineering Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4102-7707
Venkateshwar G KeshamouniMichigan Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Division University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Rishindra ReddyMichigan Medicine Thoracic Surgery Clinic Taubman Center 1500E Medical Center Dr. SPC 5344 Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Nithya RamnathDepartment of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Sunitha NagrathDepartment of Chemical Engineering Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1497-7977

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the recognition between natural killer (NK) cells and cancer cells does not require antigen presentation, NK cells are being actively studied for use in adoptive cell therapies in the rapidly evolving armamentarium of cancer immunotherapy. In addition to utilizing NK cells, recent studies have shown that exosomes derived from NK cells also exhibit antitumor properties. Furthermore, these NK cell-derived exosomes exhibit higher stability, greater modification potentials and less immunogenicity compared to NK cells. Therefore, technologies that allow highly sensitive and specific isolation of NK cells and NK cell-derived exosomes can enable personalized NK-mediated cancer therapeutics in the future. Here, a novel microfluidic system to collect patient-specific NK cells and on-chip biogenesis of NK-exosomes is proposed. In a small cohort of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, both NK cells and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) were isolated, and it is found NSCLC patients have high numbers of NK and NK-exosomes compared with healthy donors, and these concentrations show a trend of positive and negative correlations with bloodborne CTC numbers, respectively. It is further demonstrated that the NK-exosomes harvested from NK-graphene oxide chip exhibit cytotoxic effect on CTCs. This versatile system is expected to be used for patient-specific NK-based immunotherapies along with CTCs for potential prognostic/diagnostic applications.

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cancer immunotherapycirculating tumor cellsexosome biogenesismicrofluidicsnatural killer cells

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PMID33747745
PMCPMC7967048

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