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Proteomics of Primary Uveal Melanoma: Insights into Metastasis and Protein Biomarkers. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13143520. [PMID: 34298739 PMCID: PMC8307952 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13143520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Uveal melanoma metastases are lethal and remain incurable. A quantitative proteomic analysis of 53 metastasizing and 47 non-metastasizing primary uveal melanoma (pUM) was pursued for insights into UM metastasis and protein biomarkers. The metastatic status of the pUM specimens was defined based on clinical data, survival histories, prognostic analyses, and liver histopathology. LC MS/MS iTRAQ technology, the Mascot search engine, and the UniProt human database were used to identify and quantify pUM proteins relative to the normal choroid excised from UM donor eyes. The determined proteomes of all 100 tumors were very similar, encompassing a total of 3935 pUM proteins. Proteins differentially expressed (DE) between metastasizing and non-metastasizing pUM (n = 402) were employed in bioinformatic analyses that predicted significant differences in the immune system between metastasizing and non-metastasizing pUM. The immune proteins (n = 778) identified in this study support the immune-suppressive nature and low abundance of immune checkpoint regulators in pUM, and suggest CDH1, HLA-DPA1, and several DE immune kinases and phosphatases as possible candidates for immune therapy checkpoint blockade. Prediction modeling identified 32 proteins capable of predicting metastasizing versus non-metastasizing pUM with 93% discriminatory accuracy, supporting the potential for protein-based prognostic methods for detecting UM metastasis.
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Bande Rodríguez MF, Fernandez Marta B, Lago Baameiro N, Santiago-Varela M, Silva-Rodríguez P, Blanco-Teijeiro MJ, Pardo Perez M, Piñeiro Ces A. Blood Biomarkers of Uveal Melanoma: Current Perspectives. Clin Ophthalmol 2020; 14:157-169. [PMID: 32021081 PMCID: PMC6980862 DOI: 10.2147/opth.s199064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The detection of metastases in patients with a diagnosis of uveal melanoma (UM) is a controversial issue. While only 1% of the patients have detectable metastases at the time of diagnosis, up to 30% of them will develop liver metastases within 5 years of treatment. UM spreads hematogenously, therefore, blood biomarkers may be helpful for prognosis and monitoring the disease progression. Despite the great progress achieved thanks to the genetic analysis of UM biopsies, this is an invasive technique and is limited by the heterogeneity of the tumor. The present review considers the current understanding in the field regarding biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of UM and its metastasis, primarily to the liver. General covered topics include non-conventional markers such as proteins previously identified in cutaneous melanoma and UM cell lines, circulating tumor cells, microRNAs (miRNA), and circulating DNA, and how each may be critical in the development of novel blood biomarkers for UM.
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- Manuel F Bande Rodríguez
- Unidad de Retina Quirúrgica y Tumores Intraoculares del Adulto (URQTIA), Servicio de Oftalmología Xerencia de Xestión Integrada de Santiago de Compostela, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,Tumores Intraoculares en el Adulto, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Unidad de Retina Quirúrgica y Tumores Intraoculares del Adulto (URQTIA), Servicio de Oftalmología Xerencia de Xestión Integrada de Santiago de Compostela, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo Obesidómica, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Unidad de Retina Quirúrgica y Tumores Intraoculares del Adulto (URQTIA), Servicio de Oftalmología Xerencia de Xestión Integrada de Santiago de Compostela, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,Tumores Intraoculares en el Adulto, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Tumores Intraoculares en el Adulto, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Clinical University Hospital, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela 15705, Spain
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- Unidad de Retina Quirúrgica y Tumores Intraoculares del Adulto (URQTIA), Servicio de Oftalmología Xerencia de Xestión Integrada de Santiago de Compostela, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,Tumores Intraoculares en el Adulto, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo Obesidómica, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Unidad de Retina Quirúrgica y Tumores Intraoculares del Adulto (URQTIA), Servicio de Oftalmología Xerencia de Xestión Integrada de Santiago de Compostela, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,Tumores Intraoculares en el Adulto, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Surman M, Hoja-Łukowicz D, Szwed S, Kędracka-Krok S, Jankowska U, Kurtyka M, Drożdż A, Lityńska A, Stępień E, Przybyło M. An Insight into the Proteome of Uveal Melanoma-Derived Ectosomes Reveals the Presence of Potentially Useful Biomarkers. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20153789. [PMID: 31382537 PMCID: PMC6695883 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20153789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2019] [Revised: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Cancer cells are known to release extracellular vesicles that often promote disease development and progression. The present study investigated the protein content and glycosylation pattern of ectosomes released in vitro by a human primary uveal melanoma Mel202 cell line. Ectosomes released by Mel202 cells were isolated from conditioned media using sequential centrifugation, and a nano-LC-MS/MS approach was used to determine their protein content. Subsequently, proteins from ectosomes, the whole cell extracts, and the membrane fractions were probed with a panel of lectins using Western blotting and flow cytometry to reveal characteristic glycan structures. As many as 2527 unique proteins were identified, and many of them are known to be involved in cancer cell proliferation and altered metabolism, tumor invasion, metastasis, or drug resistance. Lectin-based studies revealed a distinct glycosylation pattern between Mel202-derived ectosomes and the parental cell membranes. Selective enrichment of ectosomal proteins with bisected complex type N-glycans and α2,6-linked sialic acids may be significant for ectosome formation and sequestration. Differences in the surface glycosylation of Mel202 cells and ectosomes supports recent findings that the budding of ectosomes occurs within strictly determined fragments of the plasma membrane, and thus ectosomes contain a unique protein and glycan composition.
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- Magdalena Surman
- Department of Glycoconjugate Biochemistry, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Glycoconjugate Biochemistry, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Glycoconjugate Biochemistry, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Physical Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Laboratory of Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Laboratory of Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Medical Physics, M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Glycoconjugate Biochemistry, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Medical Physics, M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Glycoconjugate Biochemistry, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland.
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Crabb JW, Hu B, Crabb JS, Triozzi P, Saunthararajah Y, Tubbs R, Singh AD. iTRAQ Quantitative Proteomic Comparison of Metastatic and Non-Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Tumors. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135543. [PMID: 26305875 PMCID: PMC4549237 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Uveal melanoma is the most common malignancy of the adult eye. The overall mortality rate is high because this aggressive cancer often metastasizes before ophthalmic diagnosis. Quantitative proteomic analysis of primary metastasizing and non-metastasizing tumors was pursued for insights into mechanisms and biomarkers of uveal melanoma metastasis. METHODS Eight metastatic and 7 non-metastatic human primary uveal melanoma tumors were analyzed by LC MS/MS iTRAQ technology with Bruch's membrane/choroid complex from normal postmortem eyes as control tissue. Tryptic peptides from tumor and control proteins were labeled with iTRAQ tags, fractionated by cation exchange chromatography, and analyzed by LC MS/MS. Protein identification utilized the Mascot search engine and the human Uni-Prot/Swiss-Protein database with false discovery ≤ 1%; protein quantitation utilized the Mascot weighted average method. Proteins designated differentially expressed exhibited quantitative differences (p ≤ 0.05, t-test) in a training set of five metastatic and five non-metastatic tumors. Logistic regression models developed from the training set were used to classify the metastatic status of five independent tumors. RESULTS Of 1644 proteins identified and quantified in 5 metastatic and 5 non-metastatic tumors, 12 proteins were found uniquely in ≥ 3 metastatic tumors, 28 were found significantly elevated and 30 significantly decreased only in metastatic tumors, and 31 were designated differentially expressed between metastatic and non-metastatic tumors. Logistic regression modeling of differentially expressed collagen alpha-3(VI) and heat shock protein beta-1 allowed correct prediction of metastasis status for each of five independent tumor specimens. CONCLUSIONS The present data provide new clues to molecular differences in metastatic and non-metastatic uveal melanoma tumors. While sample size is limited and validation required, the results support collagen alpha-3(VI) and heat shock protein beta-1 as candidate biomarkers of uveal melanoma metastasis and establish a quantitative proteomic database for uveal melanoma primary tumors.
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- John W. Crabb
- Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Ophthalmology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Ophthalmology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Shi K, Bing ZT, Cao GQ, Guo L, Cao YN, Jiang HO, Zhang MX. Identify the signature genes for diagnose of uveal melanoma by weight gene co-expression network analysis. Int J Ophthalmol 2015; 8:269-74. [PMID: 25938039 DOI: 10.3980/j.issn.2222-3959.2015.02.10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/08/2014] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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AIM To identify and understand the relationship between co-expression pattern and clinic traits in uveal melanoma, weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) is applied to investigate the gene expression levels and patient clinic features. Uveal melanoma is the most common primary eye tumor in adults. Although many studies have identified some important genes and pathways that were relevant to progress of uveal melanoma, the relationship between co-expression and clinic traits in systems level of uveal melanoma is unclear yet. We employ WGCNA to investigate the relationship underlying molecular and phenotype in this study. METHODS Gene expression profile of uveal melanoma and patient clinic traits were collected from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. The gene co-expression is calculated by WGCNA that is the R package software. The package is used to analyze the correlation between pairs of expression levels of genes. The function of the genes were annotated by gene ontology (GO). RESULTS In this study, we identified four co-expression modules significantly correlated with clinic traits. Module blue positively correlated with radiotherapy treatment. Module purple positively correlates with tumor location (sclera) and negatively correlates with patient age. Module red positively correlates with sclera and negatively correlates with thickness of tumor. Module black positively correlates with the largest tumor diameter (LTD). Additionally, we identified the hug gene (top connectivity with other genes) in each module. The hub gene RPS15A, PTGDS, CD53 and MSI2 might play a vital role in progress of uveal melanoma. CONCLUSION From WGCNA analysis and hub gene calculation, we identified RPS15A, PTGDS, CD53 and MSI2 might be target or diagnosis for uveal melanoma.
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- Kai Shi
- Department of Ophthalmology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chendu 610041, Sichuan Province, China ; Molecular Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chendu 610041, Sichuan Province, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, China
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- Molecular Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chendu 610041, Sichuan Province, China
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- College of Electrical Engineering, Northwest University for Nationalities, Lanzhou 730030, Gansu Province, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chendu 610041, Sichuan Province, China ; Molecular Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chendu 610041, Sichuan Province, China
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- Molecular Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chendu 610041, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chendu 610041, Sichuan Province, China ; Molecular Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chendu 610041, Sichuan Province, China
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