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Dual targeted extracellular vesicles regulating oncogenic genes in pancreatic cancer [sRNAseq]

ABSTRACT: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumors carry multiple gene mutations and respond poorly to treatments. There is currently an unmet need for drug carriers that can deliver multiple gene cargoes to high solid tumor burden like PDAC. Here, we report a dual-targeted extracellular vesicle (EV) carrying high loads of RNA that effectively suppresses large PDAC tumors in mice. The EV surface contains a CD64 protein that has a tissue targeting peptide and a humanized monoclonal antibody. Cells sequentially transfected with plasmid DNAs encoding for the RNA and protein of interest by Transwell®-based asymmetric cell electroporation released abundant targeted EVs with high RNA loading. Together with a low dose chemotherapy drug, Gemcitabine, dual-targeted EVs effectively suppressed large orthotopic PANC-1 and patient derived xenograft tumors in mice and extended animal survival. This work presents a clinically accessible and scalable way to produce abundant EVs for delivering multiple gene cargoes to large solid tumors.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE223397 | GEO | 2023/10/02

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a high fatality rate, mainly due to its asymptomatic nature until late-stage disease and therefore delayed diagnosis that leads to a lack of timely treatment intervention. Consequently, there is a significant need for better methods to screen populations that are at high risk of developing PDAC. Such advances would result in earlier diagnosis, more treatment options, and ultimately better outcomes for patients. Several recent studies have applied the concept of liquid biopsy, which is the sampling of a biofluid (such as blood plasma) for the presence of disease biomarkers, to develop screening approaches for PDAC; several of these studies have focused on analysis of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their cargoes. While these studies have identified many potential biomarkers for PDAC that are present within EVs, their application to clinical practice is hindered by the lack of a robust, reproducible method for EV isolation and analysis that is amenable to a clinical setting. Our previous research has shown that the Vn96 synthetic peptide is indeed a robust and reproducible method for EV isolation that has the potential to be used in a clinical setting. We have therefore chosen to investigate the utility of the Vn96 synthetic peptide for this isolation of EVs from human plasma and the subsequent detection of small RNA biomarkers of PDAC by Next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis. We find that analysis of small RNA from Vn96-isolated EVs permits the robust discrimination of PDAC patients from non-affected individuals. Moreover, analyses of all small RNA species, miRNAs, and lncRNAs are most effective at segregating PDAC patients from non-affected individuals. We further identified 34 chromosomal regions that encode small RNAs whose differential expression in Vn96-isolated EVs strongly distinguishes PDAC patients from non-affected individuals. Several of the identified small RNA biomarkers have been previously associated with and/or characterized in PDAC, indicating the validity of our findings, whereas other identified small RNA biomarkers may have novel roles in PDAC or cancer in general. Overall, our results provide a basis for a clinically-amendable detection and/or screening strategy for PDAC using a liquid biopsy approach that relies on Vn96-mediated isolation of EVs from plasma.

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