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Li L, Masica D, Ishida M, Tomuleasa C, Umegaki S, Kalloo AN, Georgiades C, Singh VK, Khashab M, Amateau S, Li Z, Okolo P, Lennon AM, Saxena P, Geschwind JF, Schlachter T, Hong K, Pawlik TM, Canto M, Law J, Sharaiha R, Weiss CR, Thuluvath P, Goggins M, Ji Shin E, Peng H, Kumbhari V, Hutfless S, Zhou L, Mezey E, Meltzer SJ, Karchin R, Selaru FM. Human bile contains microRNA-laden extracellular vesicles that can be used for cholangiocarcinoma diagnosis. Hepatology 2014; 60:896-907. [PMID: 24497320 PMCID: PMC4121391 DOI: 10.1002/hep.27050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2013] [Accepted: 01/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
UNLABELLED Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) presents significant diagnostic challenges, resulting in late patient diagnosis and poor survival rates. Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) patients pose a particularly difficult clinical dilemma because they harbor chronic biliary strictures that are difficult to distinguish from CCA. MicroRNAs (miRs) have recently emerged as a valuable class of diagnostic markers; however, thus far, neither extracellular vesicles (EVs) nor miRs within EVs have been investigated in human bile. We aimed to comprehensively characterize human biliary EVs, including their miR content. We have established the presence of extracellular vesicles in human bile. In addition, we have demonstrated that human biliary EVs contain abundant miR species, which are stable and therefore amenable to the development of disease marker panels. Furthermore, we have characterized the protein content, size, numbers, and size distribution of human biliary EVs. Utilizing multivariate organization of combinatorial alterations (MOCA), we defined a novel biliary vesicle miR-based panel for CCA diagnosis that demonstrated a sensitivity of 67% and specificity of 96%. Importantly, our control group contained 13 PSC patients, 16 with biliary obstruction of varying etiologies (including benign biliary stricture, papillary stenosis, choledocholithiasis, extrinsic compression from pancreatic cysts, and cholangitis), and 3 with bile leak syndromes. Clinically, these types of patients present with a biliary obstructive clinical picture that could be confused with CCA. CONCLUSION These findings establish the importance of using extracellular vesicles, rather than whole bile, for developing miR-based disease markers in bile. Finally, we report on the development of a novel bile-based CCA diagnostic panel that is stable, reproducible, and has potential clinical utility.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ling Li
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,Division of Gastroenterology, Third hospital of Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Masaharu Ishida
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Ciprian Tomuleasa
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,Center for Genomics and Translational Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and Department of Hematology, Ion Chiricuta Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cluj Napoca, Romania
| | - Sho Umegaki
- Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
| | - Anthony N. Kalloo
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Christos Georgiades
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,Vascular & Interventional Radiology, American Medical Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Stuart Amateau
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Jean-Francois Geschwind
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Todd Schlachter
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Timothy M. Pawlik
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Joanna Law
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Reem Sharaiha
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
| | - Clifford R. Weiss
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- The Institute for Digestive Health & Liver Disease at Mercy, Baltimore, USA
| | - Michael Goggins
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Third hospital of Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Rachel Karchin
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Florin M. Selaru
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,Correspondence: Florin M. Selaru, MD, Johns Hopkins University, 720 Rutland Ave, Suite 950, Tel: (410) 614-3369, Fax: (410) 614-9612,
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