Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Tumor cell-based liquid biopsy using high-throughput microfluidic enrichment of entire leukapheresis product
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55140-x
Figure Lengend Snippet: A – D Immunofluorescence images of representative CTCs enriched from leukopak samples from patients with metastatic prostate cancer (GU-1 and GU-2, n = 2), triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC-1, n = 1), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC-1 and HCC-2, n = 2), and uveal melanoma (UM-1 and UM-2, n = 2). Bulk cell populations are stained with DAPI nuclear marker (blue), the relevant tumor markers grouped within a single color (green) (see individual epitopes below), and with antibodies against the WBC markers CD45, CD16, CD66b (red). Tumor markers: A GU-1 and GU-2 (EpCAM, pan CK, CK19), B TNBC-1 (EpCAM, pan CK, CK19), C HCC-1 and HCC-2 (EpCAM, pan CK, CK19, ASGR1, GPC3), D UM-1 and UM-2 (Sox10, Melan-A, NG2). E Representative contaminating WBCs. F Table listing blood volumes processed and yield of CTCs obtained from patient-derived leukopaks (median 2799 CTCs per leukopak). G Droplet digital RNA-PCR (ddPCR) analysis of 0.5 to 1% of the bulk CTC products from all seven cases, quantifying expression of previously curated RNA signatures that denote either tissue lineage or cancer-specific transcripts within the background of normal blood cells. Of note, GU-1 CTCs express multiple neuroendocrine genes (CHGA, SYP, and DLL3), consistent with immunohistochemistry staining for synaptophysin and chromogranin A in a resected adrenal metastasis from this patient. Bar graphs showing expression of wild-type androgen receptor (AR-wt) and AR variant 7 (AR-V7) for GU-1 and GU-2 are shown in accompanying Supplementary Fig. . Healthy donor blood is shown as negative control, with positive controls drawn from either cultured prostate cancer cell lines (LNCaP, 22Rv1, and PC3), cultured breast CTCs (BRx-142 ), cultured liver cancer cells (HepG2), or cultured melanoma CTCs (Mel-167 ), respectively. (H) Measured whole cell and nucleus diameters of individual CTCs ( n = 5543), compared with WBCs ( n = 223). Substantial overlap in size is evident between CTC and WBC populations. I Variation across individual CTCs from cases GU-1, GU-2, TNBC-1, HCC-1, HCC-2, and UM-1 in their intensity of staining for the combined lineage markers (see above). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
Article Snippet: The WBC depletion cocktail included three antibodies: biotinylated anti-human CD45 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, clone HI30, IgG1, 0.25 μg/million cells), biotinylated anti-human CD16 (BD Biosciences, clone 3G8, IgG1, 0.05 μg/million cells), and biotinylated anti-human CD66b (Novus Biologicals, clone 80H3, IgG1, 0.025 μg/million cells).
Techniques: Immunofluorescence, Staining, Marker, Derivative Assay, Expressing, Immunohistochemistry, Variant Assay, Negative Control, Cell Culture