胞外囊泡
细胞外小泡
液体活检
生物标志物
纳米粒子跟踪分析
计算生物学
分离(微生物学)
外体
转录组
色谱法
微泡
生物
生物信息学
化学
小RNA
基因表达
基因
癌症
遗传学
细胞生物学
作者
Cheng Peng,Jizhuang Wang,Qiyuan Bao,Jun Wang,Zhuochao Liu,Junxiang Wen,Weibin Zhang,Yuhui Shen
摘要
BACKGROUND: Extracellular vesicles(EVs) is an emerging approach of cancer liquid biopsy. Although the precipitation-based method with commercial kits has gained popularity as the second most commonly used technique, these protocols vary tremendously with many included reagents still unknown to the community. METHODS: In this study, we assigned each of the 3 clinical plasma samples into 6 aliquots to assess five commercial EV isolation kits, in comparison with ultracentrifugation(UC). We implemented a standardized EV preparation and transcriptome analysis workflow except the EV isolation methods used. The metrics of EVs and its RNA cargo (evRNA) were compared to assess the technical variations versus the biological variations in the clinical setting. RESULTS: Although the size range of the isolated EVs demonstrated a similar distribution, we found significant technical variability among these methods, in terms of EV amount, purity, subpopulations and RNA integrity. Such variabilities were further relayed to a drastic divergence of evRNA expression on a transcriptome-wide fashion. CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrated a highly variable result from polymeric precipitation-based EV isolation methods, making EVs based biomarker analysis difficult to interpret and reproduce. We highlighted the importance of benchmarking and transparent reporting of the precipitation-based protocols in the liquid biopsy research.
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