Exosomes harbor B cell targets in pancreatic adenocarcinoma and exert decoy function against complement-mediated cytotoxicity

The humoral immune response role in cancer is unclear. Here the authors perform an in-depth proteomic profiling of immunoglobulin-bound proteins in plasma from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients and find cancer-cell specific antibodies neutralized by binding to cancer-cell derived exosomes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michela Capello, Jody V. Vykoukal, Hiroyuki Katayama, Leonidas E. Bantis, Hong Wang, Deepali L. Kundnani, Clemente Aguilar-Bonavides, Mitzi Aguilar, Satyendra C. Tripathi, Dilsher S. Dhillon, Amin A. Momin, Haley Peters, Matthew H. Katz, Hector Alvarez, Vincent Bernard, Sammy Ferri-Borgogno, Randall Brand, Douglas G. Adler, Matthew A. Firpo, Sean J. Mulvihill, Jeffrey J. Molldrem, Ziding Feng, Ayumu Taguchi, Anirban Maitra, Samir M. Hanash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08109-6