Akira Yokoi, Mayu Ukai, Takao Yasui, Yasuhide Inokuma, Kim Hyeon-Deuk, Juntaro Matsuzaki, Kosuke Yoshida, Masami Kitagawa, Kunanon Chattrairat, Mikiko Iida, Taisuke Shimada, Yumehiro Manabe, I-Ya Chang, Eri Asano-Inami, Yoshihiro Koya, Akihiro Nawa, Kae Nakamura, Tohru Kiyono, Tomoyasu Kato, Akihiko Hirakawa, Yusuke Yoshioka, Takahiro Ochiya, Takeshi Hasegawa, Yoshinobu Baba, Yusuke Yamamoto, Hiroaki Kajiyama
Cancer cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have unique protein profiles, making them promising targets as disease biomarkers. High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is the deadly subtype of epithelial ovarian cancer, and we aimed to identify HGSOC-specific membrane proteins. Small EVs (sEVs) and medium/large EVs (m/lEVs) from cell lines or patient serum and ascites were analyzed by LC-MS/MS, revealing that both EV subtypes had unique proteomic characteristics. Multivalidation steps identified FRα, Claudin-3, and TACSTD2 as HGSOC-specific sEV proteins, but m/lEV-associated candidates were not identified...
July 7, 2023: Science Advances