Single-Cell Cloning of Breast Cancer Cells Secreting Specific Subsets of Extracellular Vesicles

Overview

Journal Cancers (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Oncology

Date 2021 Sep 10

PMID 34503207

Citations 10

Authors

Mohsen Fathi

Robiya Joseph

Jay R T Adolacion

Melisa Martinez-Paniagua

Xingyue An

Konrad Gabrusiewicz

Sendurai A Mani

Navin Varadarajan

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Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) mediate communication in health and disease. Conventional assays are limited in profiling EVs secreted from large populations of cells and cannot map EV secretion onto individual cells and their functional profiles. We developed a high-throughput single-cell technique that enabled the mapping of dynamics of EV secretion. By utilizing breast cancer cell lines, we established that EV secretion is heterogeneous at the single-cell level and that non-metastatic cancer cells can secrete specific subsets of EVs. Single-cell RNA sequencing confirmed that pathways related to EV secretion were enriched in the non-metastatic cells compared with metastatic cells. We established isogenic clonal cell lines from non-metastatic cells with differing propensities for CD81CD63EV secretion and showed for the first time that specificity in EV secretion is an inheritable property preserved during cell division. Combined in vitro and animal studies with these cell lines suggested that CD81CD63EV secretion can impede tumor formation. In human non-metastatic breast tumors, tumors enriched in signatures of CD81CD63EV have a better prognosis, higher immune cytolytic activity, and enrichment of pro-inflammatory macrophages compared with tumors with low CD81CD63EVs signatures. Our single-cell methodology enables the direct integration of EV secretion with multiple cellular functions and enables new insights into cell/disease biology.

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