Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from tumor cells have the potential to provide a much-needed source of non-invasive molecular biomarkers for liquid biopsies. However, current methods for EV isolation have limited specificity towards tumor-derived EVs that limit their clinical use. Here, we present an approach called immunomagnetic sequential ultrafiltration (iSUF) that consists of sequential stages of purification and enrichment of EVs in approximately 2 h. In iSUF, EVs present in different volumes of biofluids (0.5–100 mL) can be significantly enriched (up to 1000 times), with up to 99% removal of contaminating proteins (e.g., albumin). The EV recovery rate by iSUF for cell culture media (CCM), serum, and urine corresponded to 98.0% ± 3.6%, 96.0% ± 2.0% and 94.0% ± 1.9%, respectively (p > 0.05). The final step of iSUF enables the separation of tumor-specific EVs by incorporating immunomagnetic beads to target EV subpopulations. Serum from a cohort of clinical samples from metastatic breast cancer (BC) patients and healthy donors were processed by the iSUF platform and the isolated EVs from patients showed significantly higher expression levels of BC biomarkers (i.e., HER2, CD24, and miR21).

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Title
Immunomagnetic sequential ultrafiltration (iSUF) platform for enrichment and purification of extracellular vesicles from biofluids
Author
Zhang, Jingjing 1 ; Nguyen Luong T H 1 ; Hickey, Richard 1 ; Walters, Nicole 1 ; Wang, Xinyu 1 ; Kwak, Kwang Joo 1 ; James, Lee L 1 ; Palmer, Andre F 1 ; Reátegui Eduardo 2 

 The Ohio State University, William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Columbus, USA (GRID:grid.261331.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 2285 7943) 
 The Ohio State University, William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Columbus, USA (GRID:grid.261331.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 2285 7943); The Ohio State University, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, USA (GRID:grid.261331.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 2285 7943) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2512157868
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.