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ArticleAccounts of chemical research2026

Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry-Enabled Enrichment of Extracellular Vesicles for Integrated Molecular and Functional Liquid Biopsy§.

Junseok Lee, Yazhen Zhu, Hsian-Rong Tseng

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Article in Accounts of chemical research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Junseok LeeCalifornia NanoSystems Institute, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3709-1386
Yazhen ZhuDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2130-8085
Hsian-Rong TsengCalifornia NanoSystems Institute, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0942-5905

Funding

HCC EV Digital Scoring Assay for assessing treatment response in HCC patientsR01CA253651 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI TSENG, HSIAN-RONG, ZHU, YAZHEN · 2020 to 2024
$3.3M
Extracellular Vesicle-Based Digital Scoring Assay for Detecting Early-stage Hepatocellular CarcinomaR01CA255727 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ZHU, YAZHEN · 2021 to 2025
$3.2M
Click Chemistry-Mediated Surface Protein Assay for Quantifying Subpopulations of Hepatocellular Carcinoma-associated Extracellular VesiclesR01CA277530 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Vatche Agopian, HSIAN-RONG TSENG · 2023 to 2026
$2.6M
Translational development of osteosarcoma (OS) extracellular vesicle (EV) matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) Activity Assay for assessing patient treatment responsesR01CA298883 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI JONAS, STEVEN JOHN, TSENG, HSIAN-RONG · 2025 to 2025
$2.1M
Developing and Automating an Extracellular Vesicle-Based Test for Early Detection of Hepatocellular CarcinomaR44CA288163 · NCI · EXIMIUS DIAGNOSTICS CORP · PI CHUANG, HAN-YU, LIU, SEAN XIAO · 2023 to 2025
$2.0M
Novel circulating biomarker digital scores for assessing treatment response in liver cancerR21CA280444 · NCI · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI YANG, JU DONG, ZHU, YAZHEN · 2023 to 2023
$436k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA253651NCI NIH HHS R01 CA255727NCI NIH HHS R01 CA277530NCI NIH HHS R01 CA298883NCI NIH HHS R21 CA280444NCI NIH HHS R44 CA288163
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Abstract

ConspectusExtracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer-enclosed nanoparticles released by virtually all cells, carrying protected lipids, nucleic acids, proteins, and active enzymes that faithfully reflect the physiological and pathological states of their cellular origins. Tumor- and neuron-derived EVs are abundantly present in peripheral blood, even at early disease stages, and thus represent highly attractive substrates for liquid biopsy. However, the clinical translation of EV-based diagnostics has been constrained by a central challenge: the inability to selectively enrich disease-relevant EVs from a vast background of normal EVs with sufficient specificity, efficiency, and compatibility for seamless integration with downstream molecular and functional analyses. Conventional physical isolation approaches generate heterogeneous EV mixtures that dilute disease-specific signals, whereas traditional immunoaffinity capture often suffers from nonspecific interactions and low recovery due to sparse and heterogeneous antigen density on EV membranes.To overcome these limitations, our laboratory has developed a chemical biology solution utilizing the bioorthogonal inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction between

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Click ChemistryExtracellular VesiclesAnimalsCyclooctanesHumansLiquid BiopsyCyclooctanes

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