Medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles.
Medulloblastomas are the most prevalent malignant pediatric brain tumors. Survival for these patients has remained largely the same for approximately 20 years, and our therapies for these cancers cause significant health, cognitive, behavioral and developmental sequelae for those who survive the tum...
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| author | Laura M Epple Steve G Griffiths Anjelika M Dechkovskaia Nathaniel L Dusto Jason White Rodney J Ouellette Thomas J Anchordoquy Lynne T Bemis Michael W Graner |
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| description | Medulloblastomas are the most prevalent malignant pediatric brain tumors. Survival for these patients has remained largely the same for approximately 20 years, and our therapies for these cancers cause significant health, cognitive, behavioral and developmental sequelae for those who survive the tumor and their treatments. We obviously need a better understanding of the biology of these tumors, particularly with regard to their migratory/invasive behaviors, their proliferative propensity, and their abilities to deflect immune responses. Exosomes, virus-sized membrane vesicles released extracellularly from cells after formation in, and transit thru, the endosomal pathway, may play roles in medulloblastoma pathogenesis but are as yet unstudied in this disease. Here we characterized exosomes from a medulloblastoma cell line with biochemical and proteomic analyses, and included characterization of patient serum exosomes. Further scrutiny of the proteomic data suggested functional properties of the exosomes that are relevant to medulloblastoma tumor biology, including their roles as proliferation stimulants, their activities as attractants for tumor cell migration, and their immune modulatory impacts on lymphocytes. Aspects of this held true for exosomes from other medulloblastoma cell lines as well. Additionally, pathway analyses suggested a possible role for the transcription factor hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha (HNF4A); however, inhibition of the protein's activity actually increased D283MED cell proliferation/clonogenecity, suggesting that HNF4A may act as a tumor suppressor in this cell line. Our work demonstrates that relevant functional properties of exosomes may be derived from appropriate proteomic analyses, which translate into mechanisms of tumor pathophysiology harbored in these extracellular vesicles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d5494feec1e445f88dc89ac92dfeddc22022-12-22T02:28:50ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0177e4206410.1371/journal.pone.0042064Medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles.Laura M EppleSteve G GriffithsAnjelika M DechkovskaiaNathaniel L DustoJason WhiteRodney J OuelletteThomas J AnchordoquyLynne T BemisMichael W GranerMedulloblastomas are the most prevalent malignant pediatric brain tumors. Survival for these patients has remained largely the same for approximately 20 years, and our therapies for these cancers cause significant health, cognitive, behavioral and developmental sequelae for those who survive the tumor and their treatments. We obviously need a better understanding of the biology of these tumors, particularly with regard to their migratory/invasive behaviors, their proliferative propensity, and their abilities to deflect immune responses. Exosomes, virus-sized membrane vesicles released extracellularly from cells after formation in, and transit thru, the endosomal pathway, may play roles in medulloblastoma pathogenesis but are as yet unstudied in this disease. Here we characterized exosomes from a medulloblastoma cell line with biochemical and proteomic analyses, and included characterization of patient serum exosomes. Further scrutiny of the proteomic data suggested functional properties of the exosomes that are relevant to medulloblastoma tumor biology, including their roles as proliferation stimulants, their activities as attractants for tumor cell migration, and their immune modulatory impacts on lymphocytes. Aspects of this held true for exosomes from other medulloblastoma cell lines as well. Additionally, pathway analyses suggested a possible role for the transcription factor hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha (HNF4A); however, inhibition of the protein's activity actually increased D283MED cell proliferation/clonogenecity, suggesting that HNF4A may act as a tumor suppressor in this cell line. Our work demonstrates that relevant functional properties of exosomes may be derived from appropriate proteomic analyses, which translate into mechanisms of tumor pathophysiology harbored in these extracellular vesicles.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3407172?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Laura M Epple Steve G Griffiths Anjelika M Dechkovskaia Nathaniel L Dusto Jason White Rodney J Ouellette Thomas J Anchordoquy Lynne T Bemis Michael W Graner Medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles. PLoS ONE |
| title | Medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles. |
| title_full | Medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles. |
| title_fullStr | Medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles. |
| title_short | Medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles. |
| title_sort | medulloblastoma exosome proteomics yield functional roles for extracellular vesicles |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3407172?pdf=render |
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