Patent Grant
11333665
The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods for extracellular vesicles-based diagnosis of diseases, in particular apparatus and methods for identifying membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles which are specific for diseases and diagnosing diseases by using them. Moreover, the present disclosure relates to methods of isolating extracellular vesicles from tissues and identifying membrane proteins by membrane isolation, so called membrane proteomics. Furthermore, the present disclosure also relates to computer program products comprising non-transitory (namely non-transient) computer-readable storage media having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the computer-readable instructions being executable by a computerized device comprising processing hardware to execute the aforesaid methods.
Extracellular vesicles are nano-sized vesicles (40 nm to 1000 nm in diameter) with a lipid bi-layer membrane and are known to be released by many cells in the human body; extracellular vesicles include, for example, exosomes, ectosomes, microvesicles and apoptotic bodies. Such extracellular vesicles are operable to mediate intercellular communication by either activating surface receptors of recipient cells or by transferring cargo proteins, nucleic acids (DNAs, mRNAs, siRNAs, miRNAs, and small non-coding RNAs), or lipids to recipient cells. One of the most attractive considerations for extracellular vesicles is that a cargo of these extracellular vesicles is protected from extracellular enzymes and an immune system by a lipid membrane bilayer.
Extracellular vesicles have been found in many body fluids including blood (plasma and serum), urine, ejaculate, saliva, cerebrospinal fluid, ascites, synovial fluid, bronchoalveolar lavage, pleural effusion, amniotic fluid, sweats, feces, cystic fluids, tears and breast milk, and they are considered to carry signatures of the cells that produce them. This means that extracellular vesicles have a significant potential as functioning as diagnostic markers when seeking to detect diseases. Several extracellular vesicular markers have been proposed for use in cancer diagnosis, including glypican-1 protein, EpCAM protein, KRAS-mutated DNA, and oncogenic mRNA and microRNAs.
Several cell types including reticulocytes, dendritic cells, B cells, T cells, mast cells, epithelial cells, and embryonic cells are known to be capable of releasing exosomes, however their increased amount in the peripheral circulation appears to be unique to pregnancy and cancer. Furthermore, the primary source of circulating exosomes may be associated with tumors. Tumor patients have been found to have very high levels of tumor derived exosomes in plasma, ascites and pleural effusions.
To date, extracellular vesicular biomarker candidates have initially been identified in extracellular vesicles from a cell line, and have in some cases been proposed to be valid also for clinical diagnosis, but are often not detectable in real clinical diseases. Thus, such approaches are not considered to be valid ways to identify extracellular vesicular biomarkers for human disease. Therefore, any molecular signature of extracellular vesicles from human diseased tissue still remains to be described.
It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a new methodology for isolating extracellular vesicles from human tissues and identifying membrane and other extracellular vesicular molecular signatures as biomarker candidates.
A further objective of the present disclosure is to use the membrane proteins, and other molecular signatures, in diagnosis of diseases.
These and other objects, which are evident to the skilled person from the present disclosure, are met by the different aspects of the invention as claimed in the appended claims and as generally disclosed herein.
According to first aspect, the invention is realized by a method for isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins comprising:
Optionally, the method further comprises a step:
The above defined method provides methods to isolate the extracellular vesicles from human tissues and to identify the membrane protein signatures for further analysis and biomarker discovery. All cells in vivo produce the extracellular vesicles, and those extracellular vesicles are to a great extent entrapped in extracellular matrix of tissues. The released vesicles from any cell, or from any tissue, include a cloud of vesicles with different content, membrane molecules and with cellular origin. This makes the extracellular vesicles attractive biomarker sources. Current extracellular vesicles-based markers are identified from cultured cells, not from actual in vivo organ environment. Through the present invention, extracellular vesicles are isolated directly from human tissues, which are more relevant and realistic than cell culture-derived extracellular vesicles.
Optionally, the human tissues of steps (a) and (b) are obtained from a human body including tumors or diseased tissues. Further, the human tissues are derived from at least one of: liver, brain, kidney, heart, lung, skin, stomach, intestines, lymph nodes, bone marrow, adipose tissue, central and peripheral neural tissues, endocrine organs and muscles.
Optionally, isolating the membranes at the step (e) includes ultracentrifugation.
Optionally, the enzymes of the step (h) are one enzyme or combination of enzymes that are chosen from proteases including matrix metalloproteinase, collagenases, and papain and nucleases including DNase, RNase, and Benzonase.
Optionally, the RNA and DNA cargo of the step g are mutated RNAs or DNAs, or non-mutated profiles of RNA and/or DNA sequences/genes.
According to an embodiment, the invention is realized by a method of diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids, characterized in that the method comprises steps of:
Alternatively, the invention is realized by a method of diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles obtained from body fluids, characterized in that the method comprises steps of:
Alternatively, the invention is realized by a method of diagnosing diseases using tissue and disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids, characterized in that the method comprises steps of:
Optionally, the body fluids are blood (plasma and serum), urine, ejaculate, saliva, cerebrospinal fluid, ascites, synovial fluid, sputum, pleural effusion, amniotic fluid, sweats, feces, cystic fluids, tears and breast milk, or lavage fluids from different body cavities such as lung, pleural cavity, stomach, small intestine, colon, nose, urinary bladder or the peritoneal cavity. More optionally, the epitope specific binder is an antibody, an aptamer, or a peptide.
Optionally, the tissue or disease-specific membrane protein is a plasma membrane protein. More optionally, the plasma membrane protein is HLA-DR protein.
Optionally, the tissue or disease-specific membrane protein is a mitochondrial membrane protein. More optionally, the mitochondrial membrane protein is MTCO2 and/or COX6C proteins.
Optionally, the tissue or disease specific membrane protein is an endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein that includes at least one of Erlin-2 or RPN1 proteins.
Optionally, the diseases are cancers and/or inflammatory diseases. More optionally, the nucleic acids are DNAs, mRNAs, miRNAs, ribosomal RNAs, and small non-coding RNAs and any other full length or fragment of RNAs or DNAs, including mutation-specific molecules.
Alternatively, the lipid-biotin conjugate is a cholesterol-polyethylene glycol (PEG)-biotin.
According to a second aspect, the invention is realized by a kit for capturing extracellular vesicles and detecting disease-associated markers, characterized in that the kit comprises:
Optionally, the tissue or disease-specific membrane protein is a plasma membrane protein, preferably HLA-DR protein.
Optionally, the tissue or disease-specific membrane protein is a mitochondrial membrane protein. More optionally, the mitochondrial membrane protein is MTCO2 and/or COX6C proteins. More optionally, the tissue or disease specific membrane protein is an endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein that includes at least one of Erlin-2 or RPN1 proteins. Optionally, the kit is adapted for use in any of the methods of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins and/or diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids.
According to third aspect, the invention is realized by an apparatus for implementing the methods of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins and/or diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids.
According to fourth aspect, the invention is realized by a computer program product comprising non-transitory (namely non-transient) computer-readable storage media having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the computer-readable instructions being executable by a computerized device comprising processing hardware to execute any of the method of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins and/or diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids.
It will be appreciated that features of the invention are susceptible to being combined in various combinations without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
A better understanding of the present invention may be obtained through the following examples which are set forth to illustrate, but are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.
Embodiments of the present disclosure will be more fully understood from examples described herein below and the accompanying drawings, which is given by way of illustration only, and thus are not limitative of the present invention, and wherein:
As used herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
As used herein, the term “extracellular vesicle” means a vesicle released by a cell. Examples of “extracellular vesicles” include exosomes, ectosomes, microvesicles, prostasomes, oncosomes, and apoptotic bodies.
The term “membrane” means biological membranes, i.e. the outer coverings of cells and organelles that allow passage of certain compounds. When the term “membrane” is used as a noun herein, it typically refers to an extracellular vesicle or organelle which encloses an intravesicular or organellar content and which has been opened to provide a non-enclosing form of the extracellular vesicle or organelle, i.e. a membrane form. Such membrane may originate from the outer Cell membrane, the Golgi-apparatus, the Endoplasmic reticulum, the nucleus or mitochondria.
The term “cancer” refers to a group of different diseases, which are characterized by unregulated cell growth and infiltration to neighboring tissues due to the disruption of programmed cell death. A target to be diagnosed according to the present invention may be selected from a cancers selected from the group consisting of, but not limited to, carcinoma originating from epithelial cells, such as lung cancer, larynx cancer, stomach cancer, large intestine/rectal cancer, liver cancer, gallbladder cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, uterine cervical cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, skin cancer, or non-epithelial malignancies such as malignant melanoma, sarcoma originating from connective tissue cells, such as bone cancer, muscle cancer, adipose tissue sarcoma, mesothelioma, etc., blood cancer originating from hematopoietic cells or lymphatic system, such as leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, etc., and neuroma, neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma or any other tumor originating in peripheral or central nervous system.
The term “inflammatory diseases,” as used herein, refers to a syndrome or symptom including edema, resulting from an abnormal accumulation of body fluid in tissues, congestion due to vascular dilation, increased heat by pyrogen and vasodilatation, and pain induced by arachidonic acid metabolites. Inflammation may be classified as acute, sub-acute, and chronic inflammation according to time, and as infectious, allergic, auto-immune, toxic, metabolic and traumatic inflammatory diseases according to pathophysiological conditions. A target to be diagnosed according to the present invention may be selected from the group consisting of, but not limited to, respiratory inflammatory diseases such as rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis media, rhinopharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, etc., inflammatory diseases of the digestive system such as stomatitis, esophagitis, gastritis, peptic ulcer, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, cholecystitis, cholangitis, pancreatitis, hepatitis, etc., skin inflammation such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, etc., cardiovascular inflammatory diseases such as endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis, vasculitis, arteriosclerosis, sepsis, etc., inflammatory diseases of the endocrine system, such as thyroiditis, parathyroiditis, diabetes, etc., inflammatory diseases of the urogenital system such as nephritis, nephropathy, interstitial nephritis, orchitis, oophoritis, endometritis, vaginosis, etc., inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system, such as rheumatoid arthritis, spondylarthritis, ostarthritis, gout, systemic lupus erythematosusethematosus, systemic sclerosis, myopathy, Sjogren syndrome, Behcet's disease, antiphospholipid syndrome, etc., inflammatory diseases of the Neuropsychiatric system, such as vascular dementia, Alzheimer's disease, degenerative brain diseases, depression, schizophrenia, and etc.
The terms “cell media”, “culture media” and/or “cell culture media” as used herein refer to a culture media used for preserving or culturing Melanoma metastatic tissues, cells and/or cell lines obtained from patient during surgery. The culture media include all supplements required for culturing and preservation of melanoma and/or carcinoma cell lines. The culture media may not include fetal bovine serum. For example, if the sample is a solid sample, cells from the sample can be cultured and exosome product is induced. In some embodiments, the sample is ascites fluid from a subject, e.g., ascites fluid from a human subject with ovarian cancer; cell culture media supernatant from a human primary melanoma cell line; cell culture mediasupernatant from a human primary colon cancer cell line; or murine macrophage, e.g., murine macrophage infected with tuberculosis. The culture media may be an ordinary medium, or may also be liquid nitrogen based medium. The liquid medium can be isotonic, hypotonic, or hypertonic. In certain embodiments, the liquid medium contains a buffer and/or at least one salt or a combination of salts. Buffers can maintain pH within a particular range, for example, between 1 and 12, and are also referred to as pH stabilizing agents.
The term “membrane carrier” as used herein refers to membrane proteins that use electrochemical gradients to move selective chemical substrates across lipid bilayers. The membrane carriers may be deep membrane carriers. Furthermore, the membrane carriers may include but not limited to ions and small soluble organic molecules and/or lipid soluble substrates. The membrane proteins that may candidates to be biomarkers are listed in Table-1.
The term “apoptoticbody” as used herein refers to degenerate basal epidermal cells. The apoptotic bodies may include but not limited to colloid, hyaline, filamentous and/or civattebodies. Furthermore, theapoptotic bodies may be round, shrunken, homogeneous, eosinophilic bodies in the stratum basale.
The practice of the embodiments described in further detail below will employ, unless otherwise indicated, conventional methods of diagnostics, molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry and immunology within the skill of the art. Such techniques are explained fully in the literature.
It is appreciated that certain features of the invention, which are for clarity described in the context of separate embodiments may also be provided in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely various features of the invention, which are for brevity, described in the context of a single embodiment, may also be provided separately and/or in any suitable sub-combination.
The methodology for isolating extracellular vesicles from human tissues and identifying membrane and other extracellular vesicular molecular signatures as biomarker candidates of the present disclosure is a method of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins, the method including steps of providing human tissues; chopping the human tissues to make a plurality of pieces of the human tissue; isolating the extracellular vesicles from the chopped pieces of human tissue; treating the extracellular vesicles with an aqueous solution, wherein the aqueous solution has a pH in a range of 9 to 14 to obtain membranes; isolating the membranes;
identifying proteins on the membranes by employing mass spectrometry to identify tissue and/or disease-specific membrane proteins; and isolating extracellular vesicles with such specific membrane proteins to identify at least one of their disease-specific proteome, their disease-related RNA cargo and their disease-related DNA cargo.
In an embodiment, the method of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins may include incubating the specific membrane proteins with enzymes to release the extracellular vesicles from a matrix just after providing the human tissues.
In another embodiment, the method of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins may include incubating the specific membrane proteins with enzymes to release the extracellular vesicles from a matrix just after chopping the human tissues.
In yet another embodiment, the method of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins may include incubating the specific membrane proteins with enzymes to release the extracellular vesicles from a matrix just after isolating the extracellular vesicles from the chopped pieces of human tissue.
In an embodiment, the human tissues may include tumor or diseased tissues and there may be no particular limitation on selection of human tissues. In an exemplary embodiment, the human tissues may be derived from but not limited to liver, brain, kidney, heart, lung, skin, stomach, intestines, lymph nodes, bone marrow, adipose tissue and muscles.
In an embodiment, isolating the membranes from the extracellular vesicles may include ultracentrifugation. For example, the membrane may be isolated using density gradient ultracentrifugation.
In an embodiment, the enzymes used in incubation for releasing the extracellular vesicles from the matrix may include enzyme or combination of enzymes chosen from proteases including matrix metalloproteinase, collagenases, and papain and nucleases including DNase, RNase, and Benzonase.
In another embodiment, identified disease-related RNA cargo or DNA cargo of the specific membrane proteins of the isolated extracellular vesicles may be mutated RNAs or DNAs.
The method of diagnosing diseases of the present disclosure is a method of diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids. The method includes steps of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins, capturing extracellular vesicles by using an epitope specific binder against the tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins and detecting extracellular vesicles by using an epitope specific binder against the tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins, or a combination of proteins.
The method further includes steps of adding an epitope-specific binder against a tissue or disease-specific membrane protein and a lipid-biotin conjugate to sample and detecting a tissue-specific membrane protein by using alpha capturing extracellular vesicles by using an epitope specific binder against the tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins donor and acceptor beads.
In an embodiment, the method may include isolating the extracellular vesicles from body fluids for providing the human tissues.
In an embodiment, the body fluids may include but not limited to blood (plasma and serum), urine, ejaculate, saliva, cerebrospinal fluid, ascites, synovial fluid, sputum, pleural effusion, amniotic fluid, sweats, feces, cystic fluids, tears and breast milk, or lavage fluids from different body cavities such as lung, pleural cavity, stomach, small intestine, colon, nose, urinary bladder or the peritoneal cavity.
In an embodiment, the epitope specific binder may be an antibody, an aptamer, and/or a peptide.
In another embodiment, the tissue or disease-specific membrane protein may be a plasma membrane protein. For example, the plasma membrane protein may be HLA-DR protein and the tissue or disease-specific membrane protein may be a mitochondrial membrane protein. In an exemplary embodiment, the mitochondrial membrane protein may be MTCO2 and/or COX6C proteins.
In another embodiment, the tissue or disease specific membrane protein may be an endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein. In an exemplary embodiment, the endoplasmic reticulum membrane proteins may be Erlin-2 and/or RPN1 proteins.
In an embodiment, the diseases may be cancers and/or inflammatory diseases, as described above.
In another embodiment, the nucleic acids may include but not limited to DNAs, mRNAs, miRNAs, ribosomal RNAs, and small non-coding RNAs and any other full length or fragment of RNAs or DNAs, including mutation-specific molecules.
In an exemplary embodiment, the lipid-biotin conjugate may be a cholesterol-polyethylene glycol (PEG)-biotin.
The kit of the present disclosure for capturing extracellular vesicles is a kit for capturing extracellular vesicles and detecting disease-associated markers. The kit includes an epitope specific binder for tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins and at least one disease-associated marker detection agent.
In an embodiment, the tissue or disease-specific membrane protein may be a plasma membrane protein. For example, the plasma membrane protein may be a HLA-DR protein.
In another embodiment, the tissue or disease-specific membrane protein may be a mitochondrial membrane protein. For example, the mitochondrial membrane protein may be MTCO2 and/or COX6C proteins.
In yet another embodiment, the tissue or disease specific membrane protein may be an endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein. For example, the endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein may be Erlin-2 and/or RPN1 proteins.
In an embodiment, the kit may be adapted to be used in the method of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins.
In another embodiment, the kit may be adapted to be used in the method of diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids.
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for implementing the method of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins and the method of diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids.
The present disclosure further provides a computer program product including non-transitory computer-readable storage media having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the computer-readable instructions being executable by a computerized device comprising processing hardware to execute the method of isolating extracellular vesicles and identifying membrane proteins and the method of diagnosing diseases using tissue or disease-specific membrane proteins on extracellular vesicles from body fluids, described herein above.
The invention is now described by means of non-limiting examples.
In the following, the examples of the present disclosure will be described. The examples concern methods of processing sample material, as well as apparatus that is operable to implement the methods of processing sample material; for example, the apparatus is implemented in a form of a sample processing kit.
Materials and Method:
A method developed relates to a study that was approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board at the University of Gothenburg (096-12) and all participants provided a written informed consent. The method includes obtaining melanoma metastatic tissues from patients (i.e. participants) during surgery. Thereafter, the method includes preserving the melanoma metastatic tissues in complete cell media (without fetal bovine serum) at a temperature of 4° C., until extracellular vesicle isolation is achieved. Thereafter, the method includes placing the samples of the tissue in 150 μm deep membrane carriers (Leica Microsystems) filled with 20% BSA in PBS followed by high pressure freezing using EMPactI machine (Leica Microsystems). Thereafter, the method includes applying a freeze substitution protocol, as follows: 2% uranyl acetate in dehydrated acetone for 1 h. The method includes increasing the temperature by 3° C. per hour up to −50° C. Thereafter, the method includes washing the samples two times with dehydrated acetone and then infiltrating with increasing concentrations of HM20 (3:1, 2:1, 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 acetone:HM20) followed with 3 changes with HM20. Thereafter, the method includes polymerizing the samples using UV light for 48 h. Thereafter, the method includes cutting thin sections (70 nm) by using a Leica UC6 ultramicrotome (Leica Microsystems). Thereafter, the method includes contrasting the sections using 2% uranyl acetate for 4 min and lead citrate for 2 min.
Results:
The method provides a result, wherein melanin (stained as black) is clearly visible inside melanoma cells; in a practical use of the method, two melanoma cells are well recognized by their cell membrane 100 as shown in
Materials and Method:
A method 200 is provided for isolating extracellular vesicles from melanoma metastatic tissues using centrifugation-based protocols. In the method 200, three slightly different protocols are beneficially employed, and have been tested in practice. As illustrated in
Protocol-1: Two tumor pieces are treatable by employing the protocol 1, to isolate extracellular vesicles. In the protocol-1, the tumor pieces are gently sliced into small fragments (1-2 mm) 204. At step 206, the plurality of pieces of the human tissue is incubated at 37° C. Thereafter, after a filtration step (70 μm pore size), cells and tissue debris are eliminated by centrifugation at 300×g for 10 min and 2000×g for 20 min, as step 210. Supernatant are centrifuged at 16,500×g for 20 min, as step 212, and 110,000×g for 2.5 h, as step 214, to collect larger vesicles and smaller vesicles, respectively; such centrifugation is achieved using, for example, a Ti45 rotor: fixed angle rotor. At step 216, all centrifugations are beneficially performed at a temperature of 4° C. Moreover, in the protocol 1, pellets are beneficially re-suspended in PBS.
Protocol-2: After extracellular vesicle isolation is achieved using the protocol 1, the protocol 2 includes incubating the pellet of larger and smaller vesicles after final ultracentrifugation with Collagenase D (Roche) (2 mg/ml) and DNase I (Roche) (40 U/ml) dissolved in RPMI plain medium (Sigma Aldrich) for 30 min at 37° C., as step 220. At step 222 and 224, after enzymatic treatments, the protocol 2 includes centrifuging larger vesicles at 16,500×g for 15 min and smaller vesicles at 117,000×g for 112 min (Ti70 rotor, fixed angle rotor) to remove enzymes and collect the pellets again. Beneficially, all centrifugations are performed at a temperature of 4° C. Moreover, beneficially, the pellets are re-suspended in PBS.
Protocol-3: As illustrated in
For negative stain electron microscopy, the protocol 3 includes placing a drop (10 μl) of isolated extracellular vesicles (both larger and smaller vesicles) onto a glow discharged 200-mesh, namely formvar/carbon Cu copper grids for 15 min (Electron Microscopy Sciences, PA, USA) for 5 min. Thereafter, the protocol 3 includes washing vesicles three times in PBS and then fixing them using 2% paraformaldehyde. After three further washes in PBS, the protocol 3 includes fixing the samples in glutaraldehyde 2.5%, thereafter washing multiple times (up to five times) in filtered water and staining using 2% uranyl acetate for 5 min. The protocol 3 then includes obtaining pictures using an electron microscope, for example a digitized LEO 912AB Omega electron microscope (Carl Zeiss SMT) at 120 kV equipped with a Veleta CCD camera (Olympus-SiS).
Using the aforementioned protocol-1, protocol-2 and protocol-3, it is feasible to extract RNA from both larger and smaller vesicles isolated from melanoma metastatic tissues using miRCURY™ RNA Isolation Kit (Exiqon) according to an associated manufacturer's protocol. Thereafter, RNA profiles are analyzed using a capillary electrophoresis system (for example, an Agilent RNA 6000 Nano Kit for larger and smaller vesicles isolated using protocol 1 and Agilent RNA 6000 Pico Kit for larger and smaller vesicles isolated using protocols 2 and 3). In the protocols 1, 2 and 3, samples are beneficially analyzed using, for example, an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer machine (Agilent Technologies).
Results:
Regardless of which of the aforementioned protocols are employed, extracellular vesicles thereby obtained are susceptible to showing typical RNA profiles and morphology of extracellular vesicles illustrated in
By contrast, smaller vesicles that are pelleted at 110,000×g are susceptible, in practice, to having small RNAs, but no relatively prominent ribosomal RNA peaks. This is similar to exosomes, a subpopulation of extracellular vesicles that are released through endocytic pathway, as illustrated in
Materials and Method:
In a method pursuant to the present disclosure, extracellular vesicles from two melanoma metastatic tissues (MeT1 and MeT2) are isolated by employing the aforementioned protocol-2 described in Example 2 above. Additionally, pursuant to the method of Example 3, extracellular vesicles are isolated from three cell lines, MML1 (melanoma cell line), HMC1 (human mast cell line), and MSC (human mesenchymal stem cells). Conditioned media from cell cultures is then harvested and centrifuged at 300×g for 10 min to remove cells. The supernatant is then centrifuged at 2,000×g for 20 min to remove apoptotic bodies and cell debris. Larger and smaller vesicles are then pelleted at 16,500×g for 20 min and at 118,000×g (Type 45 Ti, Beckman Coulter) for 3.5 h. Thereafter, isolated extracellular vesicles are incubated with 100 mM sodium carbonate solution (pH 12) for 1 h at room temperature with rotation being employed. A potassium chloride solution (1 M) is added and further incubation for 1 h is then employed. Thereafter, samples hereby derived are subjected to an OptiPrep density gradient purification, thereafter ultracentrifuged at 178,000×g (SW 41 Ti, Beckman Coulter) for 2 h, and then membranes are collected from an interface between 30% and 10% iodixanol layers associated with such ultracentrifugation.
Thereafter, a proteome of the membrane of extracellular vesicles is identified by employing LC-MS/MS. Briefly, 30 μg of membranes are beneficially lysed with 2% SDS and sonicated. Tryptic digestion of proteins is then beneficially conducted by employing Filter Associated Aided Sample Preparation. Thereafter, digested peptides are analyzed with an OrbiTrap mass spectrometer. Peak lists of MS data are generated from the mass spectrometer and peptides/proteins are identified and quantified using a MaxQuant quantification tool with an Andromeda search engine (version 1.5.2.8). There is thereby obtained quantitative data, namely by way of employing label-free quantification (LFQ) with a minimum of two ratio counts was applied. Moreover, a normalized LFQ intensity is thereby obtainable. Moreover, protein localization information is obtainable by employing Uniprot (http://www.uniprot.org/).
Results:
The method of Example 3 is capable of providing example results, as will next be described. For example, in total, 1239, 901, 1451, 1410, and 959 proteins are susceptible to being identified from extracellular vesicles of MeT1, MeT2, MML1, HMC1, and MSCs, respectively. Only membrane proteins that are annotated in the Uniprot database are beneficially selected and compared to determine unique surface protein profiles of different extracellular vesicles, as illustrated in exemplary graphs 602-612 of
Materials and Method:
There is provided a method for this Example 4. The method includes coating extracellular vesicles on 96-well plates for an overnight period at a temperature of 4° C. Thereafter, the method includes removing unbound extracellular vesicles, wherein the plates are blocked with 1% BSA in PBS for 1 h and incubated with anti-COX6c (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), anti-SLC25A22 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), anti-MT-CO2 (Abcam), anti-HLA-DR (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), anti-Erlin-2 (Abcam), or anti-RPN1 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) antibodies for 2 h. After washing, the appropriate secondary antibodies with HRP are added. Thereafter, the method includes initiating the reaction by adding a TMB substrate solution, terminated by 2M H2SO4; the method includes measuring the optical density at an interrogating radiation wavelength of 450 nm.
Results:
For the method of Example 4, results are obtainable, wherein membrane proteins are highly expressed in melanoma metastatic tissue-derived extracellular vesicles compared to cell line-derived extracellular vesicles, with high correlation of the LFQ intensity from mass spectrometry, as illustrated in exemplary graphs 602-612 of
Materials and Method:
Overall scheme of sandwich ELISA is described in
Results:
High luminescent signals were observed only in melanoma tissue-derived extracellular vesicles compared with cell line-derived extracellular vesicles when COX6c antibody was used, as shown in an exemplary graph 802 of
Materials and Method:
In the Example 6, there is provided method including steps as will next be described. The method includes collecting a total of 20 ml of peripheral blood from melanoma patients and healthy controls in EDTA tubes. The method next includes a step of obtaining plasma therefrom by centrifugation at 1880×g for 10 min, followed by a second centrifugation at 2500×g for 10 min. All centrifugations are beneficially performed at a temperature of 4° C.
For example, the method is implemented by collecting blood samples from ovarian cancer patients after anesthesia, but before performing surgery upon the cancer patients. Beneficially, the method includes collecting 6 ml of blood in EDTA vacutainers using standardized procedures, and then centrifuging and directly aliquoting resulting sample material into Eppendorf tubes, followed by steps of frozing and storing the sample material at a temperature of −80° C. within a period in a range of 30 minutes to 60 minutes after withdrawal. Moreover, the method includes collecting ovarian cystic fluids after one or more ovarian cysts are surgically removed and prepared as described above.
In the method, subsequent steps include purifying an MT-CO2 antibody that is purified by a protein G column prior to use to remove the carrier proteins, then coating onto black 96-well plates for an overnight period at a temperature of 4° C. Thereafter, the plasma or cystic fluid are added to the wells and incubated for 2 h at room temperature. Beneficial, a total of 50 μl of blood plasma from patients and 30 μl of cystic fluid plasma is used when implementing the method. After washing with PBS, the method includes incubating a COX6c antibody was incubated for a period of 1 h and then incubating HRP-conjugated anti-mouse antibody for a period of 1 h. Thereafter, the method includes obtaining a luminescent signal by employing a BM Chemiluminescence ELISA Substrate (BD Biosciences).
Results:
When employing the method of Example 4, higher levels of combined MI-CO2 and COX6c are susceptible to being detected in plasma of melanoma patients compared with healthy controls as shown in exemplary graph 902 of
Extracellular vesicles have an aqueous, cargo-containing core surrounded by a roughly spherical bilayer membrane. Arrival of the vesicles at a distant site and fusion with targeted cells allows transport of cargo as diverse as nucleic acids (DNA, mRNA, and microRNA), proteins, and lipids, facilitating important cell-cell communications.
Materials and Method:
MT-CO2 antibody was coated on black 96-well plates for overnight at 4° C. The MT-CO2 antibody was purified on a protein G column prior to use to remove the membrane proteins. The extraction of the nucleic acids is done through a spin column-based procedure using affinity membrane binding of all extracellular vesicles. The process of extracting nucleic acids from the isolated extracellular vesicles includes pre-filtering the sample to exclude cell-contamination, and loading on the membrane affinity column followed by a brief wash. The bound vesicles are lysed and eluted with QIAzol; the nucleic acid is extracted by addition of chloroform, precipitated by ethanol and further purified by using an RNeasy column. The extracted nucleic acid is washed with PBS, anti-COX6c, anti-CD9, anti-HLA-DR, or anti-RPN1 antibody and was incubated for 1 h and then HRP-conjugated anti-mouse antibody was incubated for 1 h.
Further, to characterize the nucleic acid eluate, 1 μl of the eluate was subjected to the Bioanalyzer RNA 6000 Pico assay according to the manufacturer's instructions. The aligned fluorescence trace data was exported from the instrument's software into a CSV file and plotted using Microsoft Excel.
Results:
High luminescent signals were observed only in melanoma tissue-derived extracellular vesicles compared with cell line-derived extracellular vesicles when COX6c antibody was used. Furthermore, when CD9 antibody was used, high luminescent signals were observed, but there was no difference observed between samples. Moreover, high luminescent signals were missing when HLA-DR or RPN1 antibody were used. Therefore, based on the high luminescent signals nature of nucleic acid present on the extracellular vesicles is identified.
Materials and Method:
In the Example 8, there is provided method including steps as will next be described. The method includes collecting a total of 20 ml of peripheral blood from melanoma patients in EDTA tubes. The method next includes a step of obtaining plasma therefrom by centrifugation at 1880×g for 10 min, followed by a second centrifugation at 2500×g for 10 min. All centrifugations are beneficially performed at a temperature of 4° C.
For example, the method is implemented by collecting blood samples from ovarian cancer patients. Beneficially, the method includes collecting 6 ml of blood in EDTA vacutainers using standardized procedures, and then centrifuging and directly aliquoting resulting sample material into Eppendorf tubes, followed by steps of frozing and storing the sample material at a temperature of −80° C. within a period in a range of 30 minutes to 60 minutes after withdrawal.
In the method, subsequent steps include purifying an MT-CO2 antibody that is purified by a protein G column prior to use to remove the carrier proteins, then coating onto black 96-well plates for an overnight period at a temperature of 4° C. Thereafter, the plasma or cystic fluid are added to the wells and incubated for 2 h at room temperature. Beneficial, a total of 50 μl of blood plasma from patients and 30 μl of cystic fluid plasma is used when implementing the method. After washing with PBS, the method includes incubating a COX6c antibody was incubated for a period of 1 h and then incubating HRP-conjugated anti-mouse antibody for a period of 1 h. Thereafter, the method includes obtaining a luminescent signal by employing a BM Chemiluminescence ELISA Substrate (BD Biosciences).
Results:
When employing the method of Example 8, higher luminescent signals were observed only in melanoma tissue-derived extracellular vesicles compared with cell line-derived extracellular vesicles when COX6c antibody was used.
Furthermore, when CD9 antibody was used, high luminescent signals were observed, but there was no difference observed between samples. Moreover, high luminescent signals were missing when HLA-DR or RPN1 antibody were used. Therefore, based on the higher luminescent signals, a conclusion can be made that the extracellular vesicles include different surface molecular profiles, and the system of the present disclosure works efficiently to detect the cancer specific mitochondrial membrane proteins.
Modifications to embodiments described in the foregoing are possible without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the accompanying claims. Expressions such as “including”, “comprising”, “incorporating”, “consisting of”, “have”, “is” used to describe and claim the present invention are intended to be construed in a non-exclusive manner, namely allowing for items, components or elements not explicitly described also to be present. Reference to the singular is also to be construed to relate to the plural. Numerals included within parentheses in the accompanying claims are intended to assist understanding of the claims and should not be construed in any way to limit subject matter claimed by these claims.
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| 1704646 | Mar 2017 | GB | national |
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| PCT/EP2018/025067 | 3/22/2018 | WO | 00 |
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| WO2018/171947 | 9/27/2018 | WO | A |
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| 2015085096 | Jun 2015 | WO |
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