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MicroRNA-214 enriched exosomes from human cerebral endothelial cells (hCEC) sensitize hepatocellular carcinoma to anti-cancer drugs

Louie Semaan, Qingning Zeng, Yong Lu, Yi Zhang, Mehdi Mohamad Zreik, Mohamad Baqer Chamseddine, Michael Chopp, Zheng Gang Zhang _ and Dilip Moonka _

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Oncotarget. 2021; 12:185-198. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.27879

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Abstract

Louie Semaan1,*, Qingning Zeng1,*, Yong Lu1,*, Yi Zhang1, Mehdi Mohamad Zreik1,4, Mohamad Baqer Chamseddine1,5, Michael Chopp1,3, Zheng Gang Zhang1,# and Dilip Moonka2,#

1 Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202, USA

2 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202, USA

3 Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA

4 Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA

5 Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan–Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA

* These authors contributed equally to this work

# Contributed equally as senior authors

Correspondence to:

Zheng Gang Zhang,email: [email protected]
Dilip Moonka,email: [email protected]

Keywords: hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); human cerebral endothelial cells-derived exosomes; microRNA-214; therapeutic efficacy; anti-cancer drug

Received: November 17, 2020     Accepted: January 19, 2021     Published: February 02, 2021

Copyright: © 2021 Semaan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

ABSTRACT

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver tumor worldwide. Current medical therapy for HCC has limited efficacy. The present study tests the hypothesis that human cerebral endothelial cell-derived exosomes carrying elevated miR-214 (hCEC-Exo-214) can amplify the efficacy of anti-cancer drugs on HCC cells. Treatment of HepG2 and Hep3B cells with hCEC-Exo-214 in combination with anti-cancer agents, oxaliplatin or sorafenib, significantly reduced cancer cell viability and invasion compared with monotherapy with either drug. Additionally, the therapeutic effect of the combination therapy was detected in primary tumor cells derived from patients with HCC. The ability of hCEC-Exo-214 in sensitizing HCC cells to anti-cancer drugs was specific, in that combination therapy did not affect the viability and invasion of human liver epithelial cells and non-cancer primary cells. Furthermore, compared to monotherapy with oxaliplatin and sorafenib, hCEC-Exo-214 in combination with either drug substantially reduced protein levels of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and splicing factor 3B subunit 3 (SF3B3) in HCC cells. P-gp and SF3B3 are among miR-214 target genes and are known to mediate drug resistance and cancer cell proliferation, respectively. In conclusion, the present in vitro study provides evidence that hCEC-Exo-214 significantly enhances the anti-tumor efficacy of oxaliplatin and sorafenib on HCC cells.


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