血清外泌体的蛋白质组分析及其在骨质疏松中的应用

外泌体是细胞分泌的微小具膜囊泡，作为重要媒介参与细胞间的信号传递，已在疾病的诊断和治疗中发挥独特作用。骨质疏松症是全身性骨代谢疾病，容易引起骨密度减少并导致骨折，在老年人群中发病率很高，目前急需发展特异性体液诊断技术。本论文采用超速离心的方法，对血清中的外泌体进行了分离富集和表征，并采用液相色谱-质谱进行了外泌体蛋白质组学分析，共鉴定到了179个外泌体蛋白质，主要参与防御响应和免疫应答等生物过程。针对来自正常对照组、骨量减少组和骨质疏松组的血清样本，分离富集其中的外泌体，通过免标记定量蛋白质组学分析，分别鉴定到188、224和185个蛋白质。定量分析显示17个蛋白质的表达量在骨质疏松组和骨量减少组有显著改变（p<0.05），包括Integrin β 3、Integrin α 2 β 1、Talin 1和Gelsolin等，说明人体骨质在衰变过程中发生了系统性变化，并体现在血清外泌体中。该研究可为骨质疏松研究提供潜在的分子标志物，有助于阐明其病变机制。     

纳升液相色谱-高分辨串联质谱研究不同分离方法对唾液外泌体蛋白质组的影响

外泌体是一系列胞外囊泡,是生物标志物的来源,但目前尚无灵敏高效的唾液外泌体蛋白质分离方法。本研究采用质谱方法比较唾液外泌体试剂盒(Exo Quick,EQ)方法和超高速离心(Ultracentrifugation,UC)方法分离外泌体的效果以及尿素缓冲液、RIPA裂解液、SDS裂解液提取外泌体蛋白质的效果。Brodford法和BCA定量测定结果表明,EQ方法分离0.5 m L唾液外泌体得到的蛋白质含量高于UC方法分离2 m L唾液所得到的蛋白质。进一步的质谱分析表明,前者鉴定到的蛋白质数目亦多于后者;试剂盒分离唾液外泌体与尿素缓冲液提取外泌体蛋白质的方法联用效果最佳,鉴定到194种蛋白质。本方法重现性好、样品用量少、检测结果稳定,可为在唾液外泌体中筛选疾病的标志物提供方法学参考。     

外泌体分离与纯化技术研究进展

外泌体是所有真核细胞分泌到细胞外的直径介于30～150 nm的一种膜性纳米囊泡,参与细胞间生物信号的传递。大量实验证据表明,外泌体参与多种生物功能并发挥重要作用,包括蛋白质、RNA和脂质等生物分子的转移及多种疾病生理和病理过程的调节,被认为是疾病诊断、治疗和预后的重要的生物标志物和药物载体,因此发展简单、高效、经济的外泌体分离与纯化技术将有助于疾病的早期诊断和精准治疗。目前,利用外泌体的物理化学和生物化学特性已开发出多种分离外泌体的技术,但仍缺乏标准化和规模化临床级外泌体的分离方法,从而限制了其临床应用。另外,对分离出的外泌体的特征、纯度和数量的鉴定是判断外泌体分离纯化方法优劣的重要指标。本文综述了外泌体分离与纯化技术以及鉴定方法的研究进展,主要讨论分离技术的机制、性能、挑战和前景以及外泌体的鉴定方法,以期为外泌体的分离纯化提供新的思路和解决策略。     

基于串联质量标记的帕金森病血浆及血浆外泌体定量蛋白质组学分析

外泌体是一类可由各种细胞在生理和病理条件下释放的细胞外囊泡,其携带了多种生物活性分子,是疾病标志物的良好载体。目前,帕金森病(Parkinson’s disease, PD)的诊断主要依靠临床表现,缺乏客观的疾病诊断标志物。因此,新型外周血特异性标志物的开发将有助于PD的早期筛查与诊疗。在本研究中,选取PD患者与正常对照人群的血浆及血浆外泌体作为研究对象,采用基于串联质量标记(tandem mass tag, TMT)的液相色谱-串联质谱(LC-MS/MS)技术对其进行定量蛋白质组学分析,在血浆和血浆外泌体样品中分别定量到724和611个蛋白质。采用基因集富集分析(gene set enrichment analysis, GSEA)对定量到的所有蛋白质进行生物学信息分析,以了解蛋白质的基因本体论(gene ontology, GO)、京都基因和基因组百科全书(Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes, KEGG)通路富集情况。根据细胞组分(cellular component, CC)分析,PD和正常对照组血浆样本中的差异表达蛋白质主要定位于细胞...     

血清多肽组及其个体差异的纳升液相色谱-高分辨串联质谱分析

分析和比较疾病组及健康对照组的混合样品是血清多肽组生物标记物研究的常用方法,但对健康个体多肽组的差异和共性关注较少.本研究利用纳升液相色谱-高分辨四级杆飞行时间质谱鉴定健康人混合血清样品(20例)的多肽组,阐明血清多肽组的分子量分布等一般特征,进而选取6例个体样品单独分析并与混合样品的分析结果进行比较,说明正常健康样品之间的个体差异和共同成分.结果表明,可鉴定序列的血清多肽组的分子量范围在7000 Da以下,纤维蛋白原α链等蛋白质所属肽段的检出频率最高,肽段在蛋白质水平上分布具有不均一性,排在前10％的蛋白质占据了约50％的总肽段,而后40％的蛋白质只有1条检出肽段.此外,在所有样品中都检测到了来自于8个蛋白质的12个共同肽段,检测到了N端乙酰化、氨基酸氧化、磷酸化、脱氨化和脱水等翻译后修饰和明显的阶梯序列现象.本研究在肽段序列水平分析了血清多肽组的基本特征和个体差异,可为血清多肽组生物标志物研究提供参考.     

基于核酸适体的外泌体分子识别研究进展

自研究者证实外泌体承担了细胞外RNA等物质的运输功能以来, 关于外泌体来源与功能的研究一直备受关注. 近年来外泌体被发现具有作为疾病生物标志物的潜力, 使得拥有特定表面蛋白以及特定装载物的外泌体成为分析化学领域有价值的检测对象. 从化学本质角度来说, 外泌体的获取与分析需要依赖特异性的分子识别过程. 核酸适体作为分子识别单元, 因其特异性强、 亲和力高、 生物活性稳定、 易于合成和保存、 而且其序列和结构上具有可编程性, 易于设计和修饰, 已成功地用在外泌体相关的生物传感体系中. 本文从外泌体的化学组成及其具有生理、 病理意义的组分出发, 从外泌体通用生物标志物识别、癌细胞来源外泌体的检测及外泌体蛋白谱的分析这3个方面综述了以核酸适体作为分子识别单元在外泌体分析领域的代表性工作, 总结了现有的靶向外泌体的核酸适体序列信息以及应用场景, 阐述了利用化学合成与修饰以及DNA自组装等化学调控手段增强核酸适体分子识别性能的最新进展, 并从适用于外泌体分子识别的核酸适体的筛选以及化学修饰的角度, 对未来的研究方向进行了展望.     

正常组织和胰腺癌组织中差异表达蛋白的鉴定

采用双向凝胶电泳和生物质谱技术, 对12对胰腺癌组织和癌旁组织样品、3个胰腺良性疾病样品、3个正常胰腺组织样品的蛋白质进行了分离和鉴定, 获得了重复性较好的双向凝胶电泳图谱; 鉴定了胰腺癌和癌旁组织的差异表达蛋白质, 发现了30个差异表达蛋白质; 应用MALDI-TOF-MS/MS技术对差异表达蛋白质进行鉴定, 共有24个蛋白质得到鉴定, 其中15个蛋白质在胰腺癌组织中表达上调, 9个蛋白质表达下调. 这些蛋白质与胰腺癌的发生相关, 可能成为胰腺癌的分子标志物和药物治疗的靶蛋白.     

人尿液外泌体蛋白质组的糖基化修饰分析

人体尿液外泌体糖基化修饰可反映多种生物信息,发展规模化的鉴定方法对深入研究其功能至关重要。本研究针对尿液外泌体糖基化修饰提取富集的关键问题,发展了一种结合EVTRAP磁珠(Extracellular vesicles total recovery and purification)和点击麦芽糖材料两步提取富集的研究策略。基于外泌体的磷脂双分子层的特点,利用亲脂性EVTRAP磁珠从30 mL尿液中有效提取外泌体,经裂解和酶解后,再基于糖肽糖链部分的亲水性特点,结合同样具有亲水性的点击麦芽糖材料对蛋白酶解液中的糖肽进行有效富集,利用液相色谱-串联质谱联用(LC-MS-MS)技术对尿液外泌体全蛋白和糖基化修饰进行检测鉴定。最终鉴定到1925种非冗余尿液外泌体蛋白质和14233条肽段,实现了对尿液外泌体的有效提取;同时鉴定到来自88种糖蛋白的468条非冗余的糖肽,对应修饰于135个位点上的95种不同糖链组成,实现了对尿液外泌体糖基化蛋白质组的规模化鉴定,并从糖蛋白修饰异质性和糖基化类型的角度进行整理分析,为尿液外泌体糖基化修饰的研究提供了更有效的分析方法。     

基于UPLC-Q/TOF MS技术的痛风患者血清代谢组学研究

采用超高效液相色谱-飞行时间质谱联用技术（UPLC-Q/TOF MS）对恩施土家族苗族自治州60例健康志愿者（对照组）和65例痛风患者（痛风组）的血清样本建立代谢图谱,基于主成分分析及正交偏最小二乘判别分析对所得数据进行模式识别,并结合变量权重投影分析及火山图筛选出痛风患者的血清代谢标志物。通过数据分析和数据库检索,共筛选出63种差异代谢物,其中27种代谢物显著上调（P <0.05）,36种代谢物显著下调（P <0.05）,主要包括甘油磷脂类、氨基酸类及胆碱等成分。首先,对以上差异代谢物进行受试者工作特征曲线（ROC）分析,其中曲线下面积（AUC）大于0.8的14种代谢物是诊断效能较好的代谢物;然后对筛选的63种差异代谢物进行代谢通路富集分析,以Impact> 0.1且P <0.05为标准,得到影响最大的代谢通路主要有甘油磷脂代谢、醚性脂质代谢、亚油酸代谢、半胱氨酸和蛋氨酸代谢、花生四烯酸代谢及戊糖和葡萄醛酸的互相转化等。综上,痛风患者和健康对照人群的血清代谢水平有明显差异,差异代谢物的鉴定为痛风的发病机制和早期筛查提供了实验依据。     

肿瘤外泌体的分析检测

肿瘤外泌体是由肿瘤细胞释放到细胞外环境的微小囊泡,其直径约为30~150 nm,主要存在于血液、尿液、唾液等多种体液中,是早期肿瘤诊断的标志物之一。肿瘤外泌体具有较好的稳定性且含量丰富,因此是液体活检标志物的研究热点。肿瘤外泌体携带母细胞相关的蛋白、脂质和核酸等生物活性物质,为生物检测提供了多种特征标志物。本文就肿瘤外泌体的生成、分离、表征及分析检测进行了论述,重点讨论了肿瘤外泌体检测的研究进展。     

Proteomics comparison of exosomes from serum and plasma between ultracentrifugation and polymer‐based precipitation kit methods

Exosomes are vesicles with sizes ranging from 30 to 150 nm. The analysis and detection of blood exosomes offers an effective route for cancer diagnosis, prognosis assessment, and therapeutic evaluation of diseases. Due to the difference in separation procedure, collection method and the usage of anticoagulants, serum and plasma samples show diversity test results. In order to evaluate the isolation effect of exosomes in serum and plasma samples, two commonly used exosomal isolation methods, ultracentrifugation and polymer‐based precipitation kit, were used, respectively. And the isolation effects were evaluated by comparing the composition and abundant of proteins from isolated exosomes based on MS‐based proteomics analysis. The results showed that the plasma exosomes extracted by ultracentrifugation identified more exosome biomarkers, and the concentrations of these biomarkers were higher than others. And plasma exosomes could be a better sample for blood‐based proteomics research of exosomes. It would be more useful for future targeted biomarker discovery.     

Exosome enrichment of human serum using multiple cycles of centrifugation

In this work, we compared the use of repeated cycles of centrifugation at conventional speeds for enrichment of exosomes from human serum compared to the use of ultracentrifugation (UC). After removal of cells and cell debris, a speed of 110 000 × g or 40 000 × g was used for the UC or centrifugation enrichment process, respectively. The enriched exosomes were analyzed using the bicinchoninic acid assay, 1D gel separation, transmission electron microscopy, Western blotting, and high‐resolution LC‐MS/MS analysis. It was found that a five‐cycle repetition of UC or centrifugation is necessary for successful removal of nonexosomal proteins in the enrichment of exosomes from human serum. More significantly, 5× centrifugation enrichment was found to provide similar or better performance than 5× UC enrichment in terms of enriched exosome protein amount, Western blot band intensity for detection of CD‐63, and numbers of identified exosome‐related proteins and cluster of differentiation (CD) proteins. A total of 478 proteins were identified in the LC‐MS/MS analyses of exosome proteins obtained from 5× UCs and 5× centrifugations including many important CD membrane proteins. The presence of previously reported exosome‐related proteins including key exosome protein markers demonstrates the utility of this method for analysis of proteins in human serum.     

Molecular recognition triggered aptazyme cascade for ultrasensitive detection of exosomes in clinical serum samples

Exosomes have attracted widespread interest due to their inherent advantages in tumor diagnosis and treatment monitoring. However, it is still a big challenge for highly sensitive and specific detection of exosome in real complexed samples. Herein, a molecular recognition triggered aptazyme cascade strategy was developed for ultrasensitive detection of cancer exosomes in clinical serum samples. In this design, one target exosome could capture a large quantity of aptazymes for the first-step signal amplification. And then the captured aptazyme was activated and recycled to release the fluorophore-labelled substrate strand for a cascaded signal amplification. Notably, the activation of aptazyme only occurs when it has bound with target exosome, ensuring a low background. The experimental results show that the limit of detection (LOD) and the limit of quantification (LOQ) are 3.5 × 10³ particles/μL and 1.7 × 10⁴ particles/μL, respectively, which is comparable to the results of most existed fluorescence-based exosome probes. Moreover, this assay possesses high specificity to distinguish exosomes derived from other cell lines. Furthermore, this fluorescence probe was utilized in cancer patient and healthy serum samples successfully, suggesting its great potential for clinical diagnosis and biological studies.     

外泌体分离及其蛋白质组学分析的研究进展

外泌体是一种由细胞分泌的膜性囊泡小体,直径通常为30~100 nm,密度为1.10~1.18 kg/L。外泌体广泛存在于各种体液中,可携带脂类、蛋白质、信使RNAs（mRNAs）、microRNAs（miRNAs）、非编码RNAs（ncRNAs）等多种重要的生物功能分子。许多证据表明,外泌体形成了一种特殊的细胞间信息传递系统,不仅影响细胞的生理状态,而且与多种疾病的发生与发展密切相关。该文简要综述了近年来在外泌体的分离和纯化方面取得的研究进展,并对蛋白质组学技术在外泌体分析中的应用进行了概述。此外,还对外泌体蛋白质组学研究的发展前景进行了展望。     

不同金属/适配体双功能复合磁性纳米材料的制备及其对外泌体的富集性能

外泌体作为一种细胞外囊泡,其内容物可以反映亲代细胞的重要信息,而自身也具有独特的结构,能够执行特征的生物学功能。基于外泌体的表面化学和生物学特征,制备了不同类型的金属/适配体(Apt)双功能复合磁性纳米材料,并将其应用于外泌体的富集纯化。将适配体和外泌体表面目标膜蛋白的特异性结合性能与以钛、锆为代表的金属氧化物和外泌体磷脂双层膜的特异性亲和作用结合,可极大地提高分离材料对外泌体的分离选择性和富集容量。分别以Fe₃O₄@Zr-MOFs、Fe₃O₄@Zr-Ti-MOFs和Fe₃O₄@TiO₂等金属有机框架(MOFs)/金属氧化物磁性纳米材料为基底,制备对应的双功能MOFs/金属氧化物-适配体复合磁性纳米材料Fe₃O₄@Zr-MOFs-Apt、Fe₃O₄@Zr-Ti-MOFs-Apt和Fe₃O₄@TiO₂-Apt,并进一步对不同材料的外泌体富集性能加以评价。以超速离心法提取的模型外泌体以及尿液为样品,对修饰相同质量适配体和不同含量金属氧化物的双功能材料的富集性能加以对比。将3种双功能磁性纳米材料应用于尿液外泌体的富集,得到的外泌体裂解后经质谱鉴定,分别得到233、343和832个外泌体蛋白。这一结果也表明双功能磁性纳米材料可以充分结合核酸适配体亲和的高选择性和金属氧化物的高富集容量优势,对于复杂生物样品中外泌体的快速、高效分离纯化具有潜在的应用价值,而针对材料制备和分离纯化方法的设计也为新型外泌体富集材料的设计提供了一条可行的新思路。     

微流控技术在外泌体分离分析中的研究进展

外泌体是一类由细胞分泌的含有脂质、蛋白、核酸等多种物质的纳米级囊泡,主要参与细胞间的物质交换及信息传导,与多种疾病的发生发展密切相关。对外泌体进行深入研究,理解其生物学功能,对疾病诊断与治疗具有重要意义。由于外泌体尺寸较小且密度和体液接近,想要对复杂生物样本中的外泌体进行分离与分析十分困难。传统的外泌体分离方法如超速离心、超滤等大都需要借助大型仪器设备,且耗时长、操作复杂。因此迫切需要开发高效、便捷的外泌体分离检测手段。微流控技术因其微型化、高通量、可集成等特点,为外泌体的分离分析提供了一个新的平台。该文主要对近年来微流控技术在外泌体分离分析相关领域的研究进展进行了综述。重点从外泌体物理特性和生化特性两个角度出发,介绍了微流控芯片技术用于外泌体分离领域的主要原理、策略和方法。此外,还介绍了微流控技术与荧光、电化学传感、表面等离子体共振等多模态检测方法结合,实现外泌体一体化分析的新进展。最后,该文分析了目前微流控技术用于外泌体分离检测存在的挑战,并对其发展趋势和前景进行了展望。随着微流控外泌体分离分析装置的不断微型化、集成化、自动化,微流控芯片技术将在外泌体分离、生化检测、机制研究等方面将发挥越来越重要的作用。     

Near‐Infrared Afterglow Semiconducting Nano‐Polycomplexes for the Multiplex Differentiation of Cancer Exosomes

The detection of exosomes is promising for the early diagnosis of cancer. However, the development of suitable optical sensors remains challenging. We have developed the first luminescent nanosensor for the multiplex differentiation of cancer exosomes that bypasses real‐time light excitation. The sensor is composed of a near‐infrared semiconducting polyelectrolyte (ASPN) that forms a complex with a quencher‐tagged aptamer. The afterglow signal of the nanocomplex (ASPNC), being initially quenched, is turned on in the presence of aptamer‐targeted exosomes. Because detection of the afterglow takes place after the excitation, background signals are minimized, leading to an improved limit of detection that is nearly two orders of magnitude lower than that of fluorescence detection in cell culture media. Also, ASPNC can be easily tailored to detect different exosomal proteins by changing the aptamer sequence. This enables an orthogonal analysis of multiple exosome samples, potentially permitting an accurate identification of the cellular origin of exosomes for cancer diagnosis.     

Shotgun Proteomics of Isolated Urinary Extracellular Vesicles for Investigating Respiratory Impedance in Healthy Preschoolers

Urine proteomic applications in children suggested their potential in discriminating between healthy subjects from those with respiratory diseases. The aim of the current study was to combine protein fractionation, by urinary extracellular vesicle isolation, and proteomics analysis in order to establish whether different patterns of respiratory impedance in healthy preschoolers can be characterized from a protein fingerprint. Twenty-one 3–5-yr-old healthy children, representative of 66 recruited subjects, were selected: 12 late preterm (LP) and 9 full-term (T) born. Children underwent measurement of respiratory impedance through Forced Oscillation Technique (FOT) and no significant differences between LP and T were found. Unbiased clustering, based on proteomic signatures, stratified three groups of children (A, B, C) with significantly different patterns of respiratory impedance, which was slightly worse in group A than in groups B and C. Six proteins (Tripeptidyl peptidase I (TPP1), Cubilin (CUBN), SerpinA4, SerpinF1, Thy-1 membrane glycoprotein (THY1) and Angiopoietin-related protein 2 (ANGPTL2)) were identified in order to type the membership of subjects to the three groups. The differential levels of the six proteins in groups A, B and C suggest that proteomic-based profiles of urinary fractionated exosomes could represent a link between respiratory impedance and underlying biological profiles in healthy preschool children.     

Restoration of full-length APC protein in SW480 colon cancer cells induces exosome-mediated secretion of DKK-4

Mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor gene are common in both inherited and sporadic forms of colorectal cancer (CRC), and are associated with dysregulated Wnt signaling. Colon carcinoma SW480 cells restored with stable expression of wild-type APC (SW480APC cells) exhibit attenuated Wnt signaling, and reduced tumorigenicity, including increased cell adhesion. We performed a comparative proteomic analysis of exosomes isolated from SW480 and SW480APC cells to examine the effects of restored APC on exosome protein expression. A salient finding of our study was the unique expression of the Wnt antagonist Dickkopf-related protein 4 (DKK4) in SW480APC, but not parental SW480 cell-derived exosomes. Upregulation of DKK4 in SW480APC cells was confirmed by semiquantitative RT-PCR, immunoblotting, and immunogold electron microscopy. Analysis of the DKK4 gene promoter by methylation-specific PCR revealed reduced methylation in SW480APC cells, while RT-PCR demonstrated the downregulation of DNMT-3a, compared to the parental cell line. Our discovery of exosome-mediated secretion of DKK4 opens up the possibility that exosomal DKK4 may be a mechanism used by epithelial colon cells to regulate Wnt signaling which is lost during CRC progression.