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Wolf J, Franco JA, Yip R, Dabaja MZ, Velez G, Liu F, Bassuk AG, Mruthyunjaya P, Dufour A, Mahajan VB. Liquid Biopsy Proteomics in Ophthalmology. J Proteome Res 2024; 23:511-522. [PMID: 38171013 PMCID: PMC10845144 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
Abstract
Minimally invasive liquid biopsies from the eye capture locally enriched fluids that contain thousands of proteins from highly specialized ocular cell types, presenting a promising alternative to solid tissue biopsies. The advantages of liquid biopsies include sampling the eye without causing irreversible functional damage, potentially better reflecting tissue heterogeneity, collecting samples in an outpatient setting, monitoring therapeutic response with sequential sampling, and even allowing examination of disease mechanisms at the cell level in living humans, an approach that we refer to as TEMPO (Tracing Expression of Multiple Protein Origins). Liquid biopsy proteomics has the potential to transform molecular diagnostics and prognostics and to assess disease mechanisms and personalized therapeutic strategies in individual patients. This review addresses opportunities, challenges, and future directions of high-resolution liquid biopsy proteomics in ophthalmology, with particular emphasis on the large-scale collection of high-quality samples, cutting edge proteomics technology, and artificial intelligence-supported data analysis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Julian Wolf
- Molecular
Surgery Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States
- Department
of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California 94303, United States
| | - Joel A. Franco
- Molecular
Surgery Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States
- Department
of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California 94303, United States
| | - Rui Yip
- Molecular
Surgery Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States
- Department
of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California 94303, United States
| | - Mohamed Ziad Dabaja
- Departments
of Physiology and Pharmacology & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Cumming School of Medicine, University of
Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
| | - Gabriel Velez
- Molecular
Surgery Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States
- Department
of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California 94303, United States
| | - Fei Liu
- Department
of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
| | - Alexander G. Bassuk
- Department
of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
| | - Prithvi Mruthyunjaya
- Department
of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California 94303, United States
| | - Antoine Dufour
- Departments
of Physiology and Pharmacology & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Cumming School of Medicine, University of
Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
| | - Vinit B. Mahajan
- Molecular
Surgery Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States
- Department
of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California 94303, United States
- Veterans
Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 94304, United States
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