Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 123, Issue 12, Pages 2856-2864Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23861
Keywords
colorectal cancer; proteomics; biomarkers; tumor targeting; immunotherapy
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Gebert-Ruef Foundation
- Schweizer Krebsliga
- ETH Zurich
- EU projects STROMA
- NFSR (Belgium)
- TELEVIE
- Centre Anti-Cancereux de Liege
- Belgian NFSR
- UICC
- FLUORMMPI
- IMMUNOPDT
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One or the most promising new strategies for the development of efficacious cancer therapies relies on the targeted delivery of biopharmaceutical to the tumor environment by the use of selective and specific antibodies. The identification of accessible perivascular proteins selectively overexpressed in cancer tissue may facilitate the development of anti body-based biopharmaceutical administration. This approach is potentially highly selective and specific, combining the presence of tumor biomarkers readily accessible from the blood vessels and the high rate of angiogenesis characteristic or cancer tissues. We performed ex vivo perfusions of surgically resected human colon cancer using a reactive ester derivative of biotin, thus achieving a selective covalent modification of accessible proteins in vascular structures and stroma. After extraction and purification, biotinylated proteins were digested and the resulting peptides submitted to a comparative mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis, revealing quantitative differences between normal and cancer colon. Sixty-seven of the total 367 proteins identified were found to be preferentially expressed at the tumor site. We generated human monoclonal antibodies against 2 potential tumor targets, NGAL and GW112, and we proved their selective expression in cancer colon and not or barely in healthy tissues. This article presents the first proteomic analysis of human colorectal cancer structures readily accessible from the tumor vasculature, revealing the overexpression of novel tumor antigens which may serve as selective targets for antibody-based imaging and therapeutic biomolecular strategies. (C) 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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