An Exosome-based Transcriptomic Signature for Noninvasive, Early Detection of Patients With Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma : A Multicenter Cohort Study

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) incidence is rising worldwide, and most patients present with an unresectable disease at initial diagnosis. Measurement of carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) levels lacks adequate sensitivity and specificity for early detection; hence, there is an unmet need to develop alternate molecular diagnostic biomarkers for PDAC. Emerging evidence suggests that tumor-derived exosomal cargo, particularly micro RNAs (miRNAs), offer an attractive platform for the development of cancer-specific biomarkers. Herein, genomewide profiling in blood specimens was performed to develop an exosome-based transcriptomic signature for noninvasive and early detection of PDAC.

METHODS: Small RNA sequencing was undertaken in a cohort of 44 patients with an early-stage PDAC and 57 nondisease controls. Using machine-learning algorithms, a panel of cell-free (cf) and exosomal (exo) miRNAs were prioritized that discriminated patients with PDAC from control subjects. Subsequently, the performance of the biomarkers was trained and validated in independent cohorts (n = 191) using quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assays.

RESULTS: The sequencing analysis initially identified a panel of 30 overexpressed miRNAs in PDAC. Subsequently using qRT-PCR assays, the panel was reduced to 13 markers (5 cf- and 8 exo-miRNAs), which successfully identified patients with all stages of PDAC (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.98 training cohort; AUC = 0.93 validation cohort); but more importantly, was equally robust for the identification of early-stage PDAC (stages I and II; AUC = 0.93). Furthermore, this transcriptomic signature successfully identified CA19-9 negative cases (<37 U/mL; AUC = 0.96), when analyzed in combination with CA19-9 levels, significantly improved the overall diagnostic accuracy (AUC = 0.99 vs AUC = 0.86 for CA19-9 alone).

CONCLUSIONS: In this study, an exosome-based liquid biopsy signature for the noninvasive and robust detection of patients with PDAC was developed.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Gastroenterology. 2022 Nov;163(5):1157-1159. - PMID 35931105

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:163

Enthalten in:

Gastroenterology - 163(2022), 5 vom: 18. Nov., Seite 1252-1266.e2

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nakamura, Kota [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Zhongxu [VerfasserIn]
Roy, Souvick [VerfasserIn]
Jun, Eunsung [VerfasserIn]
Han, Haiyong [VerfasserIn]
Munoz, Ruben M [VerfasserIn]
Nishiwada, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Geeta [VerfasserIn]
Cridebring, Derek [VerfasserIn]
Zenhausern, Frederic [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Seungchan [VerfasserIn]
Roe, Denise J [VerfasserIn]
Darabi, Sourat [VerfasserIn]
Han, In-Woong [VerfasserIn]
Evans, Douglas B [VerfasserIn]
Yamada, Suguru [VerfasserIn]
Demeure, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Becerra, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Celinski, Scott A [VerfasserIn]
Borazanci, Erkut [VerfasserIn]
Tsai, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Kodera, Yasuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Park, Joon Oh [VerfasserIn]
Bolton, John S [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Song Cheol [VerfasserIn]
Von Hoff, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Goel, Ajay [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers, Tumor
CA-19-9 Antigen
Carbohydrates
Diagnostic Biomarker
Exosome
Journal Article
Liquid Biopsy
MiRNA Signature
MicroRNAs
Multicenter Study
Pancreatic Cancer
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 25.10.2022

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Gastroenterology. 2022 Nov;163(5):1157-1159. - PMID 35931105

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1053/j.gastro.2022.06.090

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM343703823