Cancer treatment is no longer only focused on tumour cell analysis. The Microenvironment and Metastasis Group studies the communication between tumour and stromal cells along tumour progression. Cancer treatment requires the analysis of the tumour microenvironment to define specific therapies targeting both the tumour and surrounding cells. Data support that combination of therapies against the tumour and its microenvironment are the future of cancer treatment. In our laboratory, we have focused on understanding the message of a novel ‘language’ between tumour cells and the environment; these are small extracellular vesicles called exosomes. Our data support that tumour-secreted exosomes contain specific signatures of molecules (e.g. proteins, DNA). Exosomes secreted from the tumour can reach metastatic organs and prepare pre-metastatic niche formation, aiding metastatic homing and further metastatic progression.
Publications
García-Silva S, Benito-Martín A, Sánchez-Redondo S, Hernández-Barranco A, Ximénez-Embún P, Nogués L, Mazariegos MS, Brinkmann K, Amor López A, Meyer L, Rodríguez C, García-Martín C, Boskovic J, Letón R, Montero C, Robledo M, Santambrogio L, Sue Brady M, Szumera-Cieckiewicz A, Kalinowska I, Skog J, Noerholm M, Muñoz J, Ortiz-Romero PL, Ruano Y, Rodríguez-Peralto JL, Rutkowski P, Peinado H (2019).Use of extracellular vesicles from lymphatic drainage as surrogate markers of melanoma progression and BRAF V600E mutation. J Exp Med 216, 1061. CNIO Publication.
Rodrigues G, Hoshino A, Kenific CM, Matei IR, Steiner L, Freitas D, Kim HS, Oxley PR, Scandariato I, Casanova-Salas I, Dai J, Badwe CR, Gril B, Tešic Mark M, Dill BD, Molina H, Zhang H, Benito-Martin A, Bojmar L, Ararso Y, Offer K, LaPlant Q, Buehring W, Wang H, Jiang X, Lu TM, Liu Y, Sabari JK, Shin SJ, Narula N, Ginter PS, Rajasekhar VK, Healey JH, Meylan E, Costa-Silva B, Wang SE, Rafii S, Altorki NK, Rudin CM, Jones DR, Steeg PS, Peinado H, Ghajar CM, Bromberg J, de Sousa M, Pisapia D, Lyden D (2019).Tumour exosomal CEMIP protein promotes cancer cell colonization in brain metastasis.. Nat Cell Biol 21, 1403-1412. CNIO Publication.
Zhang H, Freitas D, Kim HS, Fabijanic K, Li Z, Chen H, Mark MT, Molina H, Martin AB, Bojmar L, Fang J, Rampersaud S, Hoshino A, Matei I, Kenific CM, Nakajima M, Mutvei AP, Sansone P, Buehring W, Wang H, Jimenez JP, Cohen-Gould L, Paknejad N, Brendel M, Manova-Todorova K, Magalhães A, Ferreira JA, Osório H, Silva AM, Massey A, Cubillos-Ruiz JR, Galletti G, Giannakakou P, Cuervo AM, Blenis J, Schwartz R, Brady MS, Peinado H, Bromberg J, Matsui H, Reis CA, Lyden D (2018).Identification of distinct nanoparticles and subsets of extracellular vesicles by asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation. Nat Cell Biol 20, 332-343. CNIO Publication.
Casanova-Acebes M, Nicolás-Ávila JA, Li JL, García-Silva S, Balachander A, Rubio-Ponce A, Weiss LA, Adrover JM, Burrows K, A-González N, Ballesteros I, Devi S, Quintana JA, Crainiciuc G, Leiva M, Gunzer M, Weber C, Nagasawa T, Soehnlein O, Merad M, Mortha A, Ng LG, Peinado H, Hidalgo A (2018).Neutrophils instruct homeostatic and pathological states in naive tissues. J Exp Med 215, 2778-2795. CNIO Publication.
Peinado H, Zhang H, Matei IR, Costa-Silva B, Hoshino A, Rodrigues G, Psaila B, Kaplan RN, Bromberg JF, Kang Y, Bissell MJ, Cox TR, Giaccia AJ, Erler JT, Hiratsuka S, Ghajar CM, Lyden D (2017).Pre-metastatic niches: organ-specific homes for metastases.. Nat Rev Cancer 17, 302-317. CNIO Publication.
Huang Y, Rajappa P, Hu W, Hoffman C, Cisse B, Kim JH, Gorge E, Yanowitch R, Cope W, Vartanian E, Xu R, Zhang T, Pisapia D, Xiang J, Huse J, Matei I, Peinado H, Bromberg J, Holland E, Ding BS, Rafii S, Lyden D, Greenfield J (2017).A proangiogenic signaling axis in myeloid cells promotes malignant progression of glioma. J Clin Invest 127, 1826-1838. CNIO Publication.
A Gonzalez N, Quintana JA, García-Silva S, Mazariegos M, González de la Aleja A, Nicolás-Ávila JA, Walter W, Adrover JM, Crainiciuc G, Kuchroo VK, Rothlin CV, Peinado H, Castrillo A, Ricote M, Hidalgo A (2017).Phagocytosis imprints heterogeneity in tissue-resident macrophages. J Exp Med 214, 1281-1296. CNIO Publication.
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