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Detection and quantification of ANXA6 in blood-EVs from breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy

ABSTRACT: Annexin 6 (ANXA6) is a calcium-binding, membrane-associated protein involved in membrane trafficking and cell signalling. Furthermore, ANXA6 has been recently associated to cancer progression and metastasis. The goal of the project was to assess the content of ANXA6 in EVs isolated from the plasma of 6 breast cancer patients undergoing anthracycline/taxane-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

INSTRUMENT(S): LTQ Orbitrap Elite

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)

TISSUE(S): Blood Plasma

DISEASE(S): Breast Cancer

SUBMITTER: Chiara Cianciaruso

LAB HEAD: Michele De Palma

PROVIDER: PXD010292 | Pride | 2019-01-02

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Chemotherapy elicits pro-metastatic extracellular vesicles in breast cancer models.

Keklikoglou Ioanna I Cianciaruso Chiara C Güç Esra E Squadrito Mario Leonardo ML Spring Laura M LM Tazzyman Simon S Lambein Lore L Poissonnier Amanda A Ferraro Gino B GB Baer Caroline C Cassará Antonino A Guichard Alan A Iruela-Arispe M Luisa ML Lewis Claire E CE Coussens Lisa M LM Bardia Aditya A Jain Rakesh K RK Pollard Jeffrey W JW De Palma Michele M

Nature cell biology 20181231 2

Cytotoxic chemotherapy is an effective treatment for invasive breast cancer. However, experimental studies in mice also suggest that chemotherapy has pro-metastatic effects. Primary tumours release extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, that can facilitate the seeding and growth of metastatic cancer cells in distant organs, but the effects of chemotherapy on tumour-derived EVs remain unclear. Here we show that two classes of cytotoxic drugs broadly employed in pre-operative (neoadjuva ...[more]

PMID: 30598531

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Detection and quantification of ANXA6 in blood-EVs from breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy

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Chemotherapy elicits pro-metastatic extracellular vesicles in breast cancer models.

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