Lipidomic analysis of cells and extracellular vesicles from high-and low-metastatic triple-negative breast cancer

Nao Nishida-Aoki, Yoshihiro Izumi*, Hiroaki Takeda, Masatomo Takahashi, Takahiro Ochiya, Takeshi Bamba

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Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer nanovesicles secreted from almost all cells including cancer. Cancer-derived EVs contribute to cancer progression and malignancy via educating the surrounding normal cells. In breast cancer, epidemiological and experimental observations indicated that lipids are associated with cancer malignancy. However, lipid compositions of breast cancer EVs and their contributions to cancer progression are unexplored. In this study, we performed a widely targeted quantitative lipidomic analysis in cells and EVs derived from high-and low-metastatic triple-negative breast cancer cell lines, using supercritical fluid chromatography fast-scanning triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry. We demonstrated the differential lipid compositions between EVs and cells of their origin, and between high-and low-metastatic cell lines. Further, we demonstrated EVs from highly metastatic breast cancer accumulated unsaturated diacylglycerols (DGs) compared with EVs from lower-metastatic cells, without increasing the amount in cells. The EVs enriched with DGs could activate the protein kinase D signaling pathway in endothelial cells, which can lead to stimulated angiogenesis. Our results indicate that lipids are selectively loaded into breast cancer EVs to support tumor progression.

Original languageEnglish
Article number67
JournalMetabolites
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020 Feb
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Angiogenesis
  • Diacylglycerol
  • Endothelial cells
  • Exosomes
  • Extracellular vesicles
  • Lipidomics
  • Protein kinase D

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology

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