Extracellular vesicles released by cardiomyocytes in a doxorubicin-induced cardiac injury mouse model contain protein biomarkers of early cardiac injury

Chontida Yarana, Dustin Carroll, Jing Chen, Luksana Chaiswing, Yanming Zhao, Teresa Noel, Michael Alstott, Younsoo Bae, Emily V. Dressler, Jeffrey A. Moscow, D. Allan Butterfield, Haining Zhu, Daret K.St Clair

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Abstract

Purpose: Cardiac injury is a major cause of death in cancer survivors, and biomarkers for it are detectable only after tissue injury has occurred. Extracellular vesicles (EV) remove toxic biomolecules from tissues and can be detected in the blood. Here, we evaluate the potential of using circulating EVs as early diagnostic markers for long-term cardiac injury. Experimental Design: Using a mouse model of doxorubicin (DOX)-induced cardiac injury, we quantified serum EVs, analyzed proteomes, measured oxidized protein levels in serum EVs released after DOX treatment, and investigated the alteration of EV content. Results: Treatment with DOX caused a significant increase in circulating EVs (DOX_EV) compared with saline-treated controls. DOX_EVs exhibited a higher level of 4-hydroxynonenal adducted proteins, a lipid peroxidation product linked to DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. Proteomic profiling of DOX_EVs revealed the distinctive presence of brain/heart, muscle, and liver isoforms of glycogen phosphorylase (GP), and their origins were verified to be heart, skeletal muscle, and liver, respectively. The presence of brain/heart GP (PYGB) in DOX_EVs correlated with a reduction of PYGB in heart, but not brain tissues. Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) overexpression, as well as pretreatment with cardioprotective agents and MnSOD mimetics, resulted in a reduction of EV-associated PYGB in mice treated with DOX. Kinetic studies indicated that EVs containing PYGB were released prior to the rise of cardiac troponin in the blood after DOX treatment, suggesting that PYGB is an early indicator of cardiac injury. Conclusions: EVs containing PYGB are an early and sensitive biomarker of cardiac injury.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1644-1653
Number of pages10
JournalClinical Cancer Research
Volume24
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2018

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© 2017 American Association for Cancer Research.

Funding

The authors thank Professors Edward Kasarskis, William St. Clair, and Subbarao Bondada for valuable discussions; Wei Zhang for blood collection technique; Ana Bastos-Carvalho for assisting with EV TEM sample preparation; Steven Rheiner for assisting with dynamic light scattering analysis; and the MCC Research Communication Office for the graphic/editing support. This study was supported by the NIH (RO1 CA139843 to DK St. Clair), the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Redox Metabolism Shared Resource Facility (P30 CA177558), and the Royal Thai Government Scholarship (Ministry of Science and Technology) to C. Yarana. LC/MS-MS equipment was acquired using a National Center for Research Resources High-End Instrumentation grant (1S10RR029127 to H. Zhu).

FundersFunder number
MCC Research Communication Office
Royal Thai Government Scholarship
National Institutes of Health (NIH)DK St. Clair, RO1 CA139843
National Center for Research ResourcesS10RR029127
Ministry of Science and Technology
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer CenterP30 CA177558
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

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