Yao Dai1, Yumeng Cao1, Jens Köhler2, Aiping Lu1, Shaohua Xu3, Haiyun Wang4. 1. Department of Gynecology, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China. 2. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. 3. Department of Gynecology, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China. xushaohua@tongji.edu.cn. 4. Department of Gynecology, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China. wanghaiyun@tongji.edu.cn.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Exosomes are extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from endocytic compartments of eukaryotic cells which contain various biomolecules like mRNAs or miRNAs. Exosomes influence the biologic behaviour and progression of malignancies and are promising candidates as non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers or as targets for therapeutic interventions. Usually, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) is used to assess gene expression in cancer exosomes, however, the ideal reference genes for normalization yet remain to be identified. RESULTS: In this study, we performed an unbiased analysis of high-throughput mRNA and miRNA-sequencing data from exosomes of patients with various cancer types and identify candidate reference genes and miRNAs in cancer exosomes. The expression stability of these candidate reference genes was evaluated by the coefficient of variation "CV" and the average expression stability value "M". We subsequently validated these candidate reference genes in exosomes from an independent cohort of ovarian cancer patients and healthy control individuals by qRT-PCR. CONCLUSIONS: Our study identifies OAZ1 and hsa-miR-6835-3p as the most reliable individual reference genes for mRNA and miRNA quantification, respectively. For superior accuracy, we recommend the use of a combination of reference genes - OAZ1/SERF2/MPP1 for mRNA and hsa-miR-6835-3p/hsa-miR-4468-3p for miRNA analyses.
BACKGROUND: Exosomes are extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from endocytic compartments of eukaryotic cells which contain various biomolecules like mRNAs or miRNAs. Exosomes influence the biologic behaviour and progression of malignancies and are promising candidates as non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers or as targets for therapeutic interventions. Usually, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) is used to assess gene expression in cancer exosomes, however, the ideal reference genes for normalization yet remain to be identified. RESULTS: In this study, we performed an unbiased analysis of high-throughput mRNA and miRNA-sequencing data from exosomes of patients with various cancer types and identify candidate reference genes and miRNAs in cancer exosomes. The expression stability of these candidate reference genes was evaluated by the coefficient of variation "CV" and the average expression stability value "M". We subsequently validated these candidate reference genes in exosomes from an independent cohort of ovarian cancerpatients and healthy control individuals by qRT-PCR. CONCLUSIONS: Our study identifies OAZ1 and hsa-miR-6835-3p as the most reliable individual reference genes for mRNA and miRNA quantification, respectively. For superior accuracy, we recommend the use of a combination of reference genes - OAZ1/SERF2/MPP1 for mRNA and hsa-miR-6835-3p/hsa-miR-4468-3p for miRNA analyses.
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Cancer exosome; RNA-Seq; Reference gene; miRNA-Seq; qRT-PCR
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