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Germana Rappa

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Cancer relevance of signal recognition particle RNA and other non-coding RNAs in extracellular vesicles

2017

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and ImagingCancer ResearchOncology
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The HDAC6 Inhibitor tubacin induces release of CD133+ extracellular vesicles from cancer cells

2017

Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as an important mode of intercellular communication, capable of transferring biologically active molecules that facilitate the malignant growth and metastatic process. CD133 (Prominin-1), a stem cell marker implicated in tumor initiation, differentiation and resistance to anti-cancer therapy, is reportedly associated with EVs in various types of cancer. However, little is known about the factors that regulate the release of these CD133+ EVs. Here, we report that the HDAC6 inhibitor tubacin promoted the extracellular release of CD133+ EVs from human FEMX-I metastatic melanoma and Caco-2 colorectal carcinoma cells, with a concomitant dow…

0301 basic medicineCellBiologyBiochemistry03 medical and health sciencesDownregulation and upregulationSettore BIO/13 - Biologia ApplicataExtracellularmedicineLIPIDMolecular BiologyCancerCD 133TubacinCell BiologyHDAC6MicrovesiclesCell biologyExosome030104 developmental biologymedicine.anatomical_structureTrichostatin ACancer cellCancer researchextracellular vesicleIntracellularDeacetylase activitymedicine.drug
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Anti-Human CD9 Fab Fragment Antibody Blocks the Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Increase in Malignancy of Colon Cancer Cells.

2022

Intercellular communication between cancer cells themselves or with healthy cells in the tumor microenvironment and/or pre-metastatic sites plays an important role in cancer progression and metastasis. In addition to ligand–receptor signaling complexes, extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as novel mediators of intercellular communication both in tissue homeostasis and in diseases such as cancer. EV-mediated transfer of molecular activities impacting morphological features and cell motility from highly metastatic SW620 cells to non-metastatic SW480 cells is a good in vitro example to illustrate the increased malignancy of colorectal cancer leading to its transformation and aggressive b…

cancer; CD9; Fab; cell morphology; migration; colon carcinoma; extracellular vesiclecell morphologyGeneral Medicinecolon carcinomaCell CommunicationCD9migrationTetraspanin 29Extracellular VesiclesImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsSettore BIO/13 - Biologia ApplicataColonic NeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentcancerHumansFabextracellular vesicleCells
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Itraconazole inhibits nuclear delivery of extracellular vesicle cargo by disrupting the entry of late endosomes into the nucleoplasmic reticulum

2021

ABSTRACT Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are mediators of intercellular communication under both healthy and pathological conditions, including the induction of pro‐metastatic traits, but it is not yet known how and where functional cargoes of EVs are delivered to their targets in host cell compartments. We have described that after endocytosis, EVs reach Rab7+ late endosomes and a fraction of these enter the nucleoplasmic reticulum and transport EV biomaterials to the host cell nucleoplasm. Their entry therein and docking to outer nuclear membrane occur through a tripartite complex formed by the proteins VAP‐A, ORP3 and Rab7 (VOR complex). Here, we report that the antifungal compound itracona…

Models MolecularHistologyAntifungal AgentsEndosomeNuclear EnvelopeNucleoplasmic reticulumActive Transport Cell NucleusVesicular Transport ProteinsHost cell nucleoplasmEndosomesEndocytosisFatty Acid-Binding ProteinsExosomeCell LineExtracellular VesiclesCell MovementSettore BIO/13 - Biologia ApplicataHumanscancerexosomemetastasisendosomeResearch ArticlesCholestenonesmicro‐vesicleQH573-671Chemistryrab7 GTP-Binding ProteinsCell BiologyExtracellular vesicleSaponinsEndocytosisCell biologyKetoconazoleCancer cellintercellular communicationnucleoplasmic reticulumcancer endosome exosome intercellular communication metastasis micro-vesicle nucleoplasmicreticulumItraconazoleCytologyIntracellularResearch ArticleJournal of Extracellular Vesicles
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