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Poster display session: Breast cancer - early stage, locally advanced & metastatic, CNS tumours, Developmental therapeutics, Genitourinary tumours - prostate & non-prostate, Palliative care, Psycho-oncology, Public health policy, Sarcoma, Supportive care

4152 - Circulating exosomal microRNA profiling to depict mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance among triple negative breast cancer

Date

22 Oct 2018

Session

Poster display session: Breast cancer - early stage, locally advanced & metastatic, CNS tumours, Developmental therapeutics, Genitourinary tumours - prostate & non-prostate, Palliative care, Psycho-oncology, Public health policy, Sarcoma, Supportive care

Topics

Translational Research

Tumour Site

Breast Cancer

Presenters

Yunjie He

Citation

Annals of Oncology (2018) 29 (suppl_8): viii90-viii121. 10.1093/annonc/mdy272

Authors

Y. He1, T. Jinhai2

Author affiliations

  • 1 Department Of General Surgery, Jiangsu Province Hospital, 210000 - Nanjing/CN
  • 2 Department Of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, 210029 - Nanjing/CN

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Abstract 4152

Background

Chemotherapeutic resistance leads to high mortality among triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients and underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Exosomes have become new area of interest for liquid biopsy. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), as the most important inclusions in exosomes, are ideal candidate biomarkers and therapeutic targets.

Methods

We isolated exosomes and analyzed exosome-carried miRNA signatures in several TNBC cells lines sensitive or resistant to adariamycin, docetaxel or cisplatin. The resistance transfer capacity was determined by flow cytometry after sensitive cells incubated 48 hours with exosomes from drug-resistant cells. Locked nucleic acid probes and enzyme-labeled fluorescence (LNA-ELF-FISH) was performed to detect exosomal miRNA molecule transfer. Animal mode was constructed to evaluate treatment feasibility using miRNA-modified exosomes. Serum exosomes from 40 TNBC stage IV patients who underwent chemotherapy before or after progressive disease (PD) status were isolated to analyze miRNA profiling for potential biomarker identification.

Results

We successfully isolated and identified exosomes from several drugsensitive and resistant TNBC cell lines and patients. Exosomal miR-222, miR-4443, miR-100, miR-17, miR-210 were found significantly upregulated from chemotherapy-resistant cells. Incubation of exosomes from the resistant cells with the sensitive cells resulted in increasing resistant capacity among sensitive cells. Exosomal miRNA molecule transfer was detected using LNA-ELF-FISH. Transfection of synthesized miRNAs competitors into exosomes increased drug sensitivity in vivo. Exosomal miR-222, miR-4443, miR-100, miR-17, miR-210 were also found upregulated significantly from serums of patients after PD status. These five miRNAs were able to differentiate patients with PD status from those with CR or PR status with at least 89% accuracy.

Conclusions

Exosomes from chemotherapy-resistant TNBC cells could transfer drug resistance to sensitive cells via exosomal miRNAs. A circulating exosomal microRNA profiling was estabilished for potential biomarkers and therapeutic target identification.

Clinical trial identification

Legal entity responsible for the study

Jinhai Tang.

Funding

Has not received any funding.

Editorial Acknowledgement

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

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