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ArticleMembranes2021

Dynamic Landscape of Extracellular Vesicle-Associated Proteins Is Related to Treatment Response of Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer.

Olivia Ruhen, Xinyu Qu, M Fairuz B Jamaluddin, Carlos Salomon, Aesha Gandhi, Michael Millward, Brett Nixon, Matthew D Dun, Katie Meehan

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Article in Membranes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 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 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Olivia RuhenSarcoma Molecular Pathology Team, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton SW7 3RP, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4961-9352
Xinyu QuDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0002-9452-9583
M Fairuz B JamaluddinSchool of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7343-9298
Carlos SalomonExosome Biology Laboratory, Centre for Clinical Diagnostics, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4474-0046
Aesha GandhiFiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.
Michael MillwardSchool of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.
Brett NixonReproductive Science Group, College of Engineering, Science and Environment, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2745-8188
Matthew D DunSchool of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9063-5370
Katie MeehanDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0002-9179-4592
Chinese University of Hong Kong · HKHunter Medical Research Institute · AUFiona Stanley Hospital · AUInstitute of Cancer Research · GBThe University of Western Australia · AUUniversidad de Santiago de Chile · CLUniversity of Newcastle Australia · AU

Funding

Ada Bartholomew Trust NAAustralian Government Research Training Program NACancer Council of Western Australia NAFondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico FONDECYT 1170809Lions Medical Research Foundation NANational Health and Medical Research Council NARichard Walter Gibbon Medical Research Fund NAThe Medical Research Future Fund NAZonta Club of Peel NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women. The majority of these deaths are due to disease metastasis, in which cancer cells disseminate to multiple organs and disrupt vital physiological functions. It is widely accepted that breast cancer cells secrete extracellular vesicles (EVs), which contain dynamic molecular cargo that act as versatile mediators of intercellular communication. Therefore, Evs. secreted by breast cancer cells could be involved in the development of metastatic disease and resistance to treatment. Moreover, changes in EV cargo could reflect the effects of therapy on their parent tumor cells. The aim of this feasibility study was to quantitatively profile the proteomes of Evs. isolated from blood samples taken from treatment sensitive and resistant metastatic breast cancer patients to identify proteins associated with responses. Three serial blood samples were collected from three patients with metastatic breast cancer receiving systemic therapy including a responder, a non-responder, and a mixed-responder. Evs. were isolated from plasma using size exclusion chromatography and their protein cargo was prepared for tandem mass tag (TMT)-labelling and quantitative analyses using two-dimensional high-performance liquid chromatography followed by tandem mass spectrometry. After filtering, we quantitatively identified 286 proteins with high confidence using a q value of 0.05. Of these, 149 were classified as EV associated candidate proteins and 137 as classical, high abundant plasma proteins. After comparing EV protein abundance between the responder and non-responder, we identified 35 proteins with unique de-regulated abundance patterns that was conserved at multiple time points. We propose that this proof-of-concept approach can be used to identify proteins which have potential as predictors of metastatic breast cancer response to treatment.

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extracellular vesiclesmetastatic breast cancerquantitative proteomicstreatment response

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PMID34832109
PMCPMC8619728
OpenAlexW3212761642

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