PMID- 37098922 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230616 LR - 20230622 IS - 1538-7445 (Electronic) IS - 0008-5472 (Print) IS - 0008-5472 (Linking) VI - 83 IP - 12 DP - 2023 Jun 15 TI - Proteomic Profiling of Extracellular Matrix Components from Patient Metastases Identifies Consistently Elevated Proteins for Developing Nanobodies That Target Primary Tumors and Metastases. PG - 2052-2065 LID - 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-1532 [doi] AB - Metastases are hard to detect and treat, and they cause most cancer-related deaths. The relative lack of therapies targeting metastases represents a major unmet clinical need. The extracellular matrix (ECM) forms a major component of the tumor microenvironment in both primary and metastatic tumors, and certain ECM proteins can be selectively and abundantly expressed in tumors. Nanobodies against ECM proteins that show selective abundance in metastases have the potential to be used as vehicles for delivery of imaging and therapeutic cargoes. Here, we describe a strategy to develop phage-display libraries of nanobodies against ECM proteins expressed in human metastases, using entire ECM-enriched preparations from triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and colorectal cancer metastases to different organs as immunogens. In parallel, LC-MS/MS-based proteomics were used to define a metastasis-associated ECM signature shared by metastases from TNBC and colorectal cancer, and this conserved set of ECM proteins was selectively elevated in other tumors. As proof of concept, selective and high-affinity nanobodies were isolated against an example protein from this signature, tenascin-C (TNC), known to be abundant in many tumor types and to play a role in metastasis. TNC was abundantly expressed in patient metastases and widely expressed across diverse metastatic sites originating from several primary tumor types. Immuno-PET/CT showed that anti-TNC nanobodies bind TNBC tumors and metastases with excellent specificity. We propose that such generic nanobodies against tumors and metastases are promising cancer-agnostic tools for delivery of therapeutics to tumor and metastatic ECM. SIGNIFICANCE: Nanobodies specific for extracellular matrix markers commonly expressed in primary tumors and metastases are promising agents for noninvasive detection of tumors and metastases and potential tools for targeted therapy. CI - (c)2023 The Authors; Published by the American Association for Cancer Research. FAU - Jailkhani, Noor AU - Jailkhani N AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4933-1068 AD - Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. FAU - Clauser, Karl R AU - Clauser KR AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1052-9456 AD - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. FAU - Mak, Howard H AU - Mak HH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2031-4472 AD - Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. FAU - Rickelt, Steffen AU - Rickelt S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5224-7764 AD - Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. FAU - Tian, Chenxi AU - Tian C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6737-968X AD - CAS Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Whittaker, Charles A AU - Whittaker CA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2400-0094 AD - Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. FAU - Tanabe, Kenneth K AU - Tanabe KK AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1920-3417 AD - Division of Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Purdy, Stephen R AU - Purdy SR AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3307-1433 AD - Camelid Immunogenics, Belchertown, Massachusetts. FAU - Carr, Steven A AU - Carr SA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7203-4299 AD - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. FAU - Hynes, Richard O AU - Hynes RO AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7603-8396 AD - Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. AD - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland. LA - eng GR - P30 CA014051/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Cancer Res JT - Cancer research JID - 2984705R RN - 0 (Single-Domain Antibodies) RN - 0 (Tenascin) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Single-Domain Antibodies MH - Proteomics/methods MH - *Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms/pathology MH - Chromatography, Liquid MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry MH - Extracellular Matrix/metabolism MH - Tenascin/metabolism MH - *Colorectal Neoplasms/pathology MH - Tumor Microenvironment PMC - PMC10267678 EDAT- 2023/04/26 12:42 MHDA- 2023/06/16 06:42 PMCR- 2023/06/15 CRDT- 2023/04/26 10:13 PHST- 2022/05/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/11/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/04/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/06/16 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/04/26 12:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/04/26 10:13 [entrez] PHST- 2023/06/15 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 726121 [pii] AID - CAN-22-1532 [pii] AID - 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-1532 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cancer Res. 2023 Jun 15;83(12):2052-2065. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-1532.