Omics analysis of educated platelets in cancer and benign disease of the pancreas
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Abstract
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is traditionally associated with thrombocytosis/hypercoagulation and novel insights on platelet-PDAC “dangerous liaisons” are warranted. Here we performed an integrative omics study investigating the biological processes of mRNAs and expressed miRNAs, as well as proteins in PDAC blood platelets, using benign disease as a reference for inflammatory noise. Gene ontology mining revealed enrichment of RNA splicing, mRNA processing and translation initiation in miRNAs and proteins but depletion in RNA transcripts. Remarkably, correlation analyses revealed a negative regulation on SPARC transcription by isomiRs involved in cancer signaling, suggesting a specific ”education” in PDAC platelets. Platelets of benign patients were enriched for non-templated additions of G nucleotides (#ntaG) miRNAs, while PDAC presented length variation on 3′ (lv3p) as the most frequent modification on miRNAs. Additionally, we provided an actionable repertoire of PDAC and benign platelet-ome to be exploited for future studies. In conclusion, our data show that platelets change their biological repertoire in patients with PDAC, through dysregulation of miRNAs and splicing factors, supporting the presence of de novo protein machinery that can “educate” the platelet. These novel findings could be further exploited for innovative liquid biopsies platforms as well as possible therapeutic targets.
Date Issued
2021-01-01
Date Acceptance
2020-12-24
Citation
Cancers, 2021, 13 (1)
ISSN
2072-6694
Publisher
MDPI AG
Journal / Book Title
Cancers
Volume
13
Issue
1
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Oncology
liquid biopsy
platelets
omics integration
regulatory mechanisms
gene expression
miRNAs
proteins
pancreatic cancer
CELL LUNG-CANCER
ENRICHMENT ANALYSIS
MESSENGER-RNAS
POOR-PROGNOSIS
METHYLATION
EXPRESSION
MICRORNA
TARGET
DNA
GENOME
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 66
Date Publish Online
2021-12-29