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Profiling of Extracellular Vesicles of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Reveals Proteins Associated With Osimertinib Resistance
Dept of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4057-6827
Dept of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7045-867X
Dept of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0009-0000-8828-3620
Dept of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8049-5650
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2026 (English)In: Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, E-ISSN 2001-3078, Vol. 15, no 1, article id e70219Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Precision cancer medicine with small tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) directed toward oncogenic drivers, are important treatment regimens for solid tumours. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-TKI osimertinib is a preferred therapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) driven by activating mutations in EGFR, unfortunately responses are heterogeneous. This calls for non-invasive methods to predict or monitor treatment response, for example, via biomarker analyses in blood. To reveal such putative biomarkers, we analysed the proteome of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from osimertinib resistant or responsive NSCLC cells in vitro and from EVs isolated from serum samples of NSCLC patients treated with osimertinib in second line within the phase II clinical trial TREM. The protein cargo of the EVs was analysed by mass spectrometry (MS) and proximity extension assay (PEA). Western blotting, ELISA and single vesicle analysis was performed to validate and further confirm the expression of certain proteins. MS profiling of the NSCLC cells and their released EVs revealed a protein signature associated with osimertinib refractoriness. Among them were CSPG4, HSPG2, MCAM, L1CAM, TAGLN, THBS1 and TNC. GO-pathway analysis related several of these proteins to the focal adhesion and proteoglycan in cancer pathways. Some of these proteins, including CSPG4, which when suppressed by transient siRNA transfection in NSCLC cells resulted in reduced cell viability, were expressed also in EVs from serum of the NSCLC patients. Moreover, PEA profiling of the serum-isolated EVs revealed signatures associated with immune cells, best response and/or progression-free survival, including PD-L1, CD73/NT5E, FR-alpha/FOLR1, LAMP3, FASLG1 and ANXA1. In summary, we demonstrate that protein profiling of EVs in relation to osimertinib refractoriness has the potential to identify possible biomarkers that can indicate osimertinib treatment resistance, for example, CSPG4, HSPG2, TAGLN, TNC, THBS1, ANXA1 and CD73/NT5E. Studies in expanded cohorts should be conducted to further validate these putative osimertinib biomarkers.

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John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2026. Vol. 15, no 1, article id e70219
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biomarkers, extracellular vesicles, mutant epidermal growth factor receptor, non‐small cell lung cancer, osimertinib
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Cancer and Oncology Cell and Molecular Biology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-376876DOI: 10.1002/jev2.70219ISI: 001703794100001PubMedID: 41581122Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105028457538OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-376876DiVA, id: diva2:2040025
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