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Table 2 Tumor molecular markers with potential clinical value in HCC-related exosomes

From: Tumorigenesis, diagnosis, and therapeutic potential of exosomes in liver cancer

Factors as biomarker

Potential Mechanism

Exosome isolation methods

Ref

circ-0008043, circ-0003731, circ-0088030↑

Promote migration, invasion and metastasis

Exoquick (System Biosciences, USA)

[202]

LINC00161↑

Promote tumor migration and invasion

Total exosome isolation kit (Invitrogen, USA)

[196]

LINC-000635, ENSG00000258332.1↑

Positive related to portal vein tumor emboli, lymph node metastasis and worse OS

Total exosome isolation reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific Co. Ltd, USA)

[199]

lncRNA-FAL1↑

Promote proliferation and migration

Exoquick TC (System Biosciences, USA)

[152]

lncRNA-HEIH↑

Promote tumor progression

GS0301 (Guangzhou Geneseed Biotech Co, China)

[198]

lncRNA-RP11-513I15.6, mRNA-RAB11A↑, miR-1262↓

Associate with poor prognosis

ExoRNeasy® RNA isolation kit (Qiagen, USA)

[201]

miR-21↑

Correlate with tumor stage

Total exosome isolation reagent (From serum) (Invitrogen, USA)

[17]

miR-21↑, lncRNA-ATB↑

Short progression time and OS

Exoquick (System Biosciences, USA)

[19]

miR-155↑

Promote tube formation under hypoxia condition

Exoquick (System Biosciences, USA)

[145]

miR-93↑

Stimulate proliferation and invasion

Total exosome isolation reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific Co. Ltd, USA)

[151]

miR-638↓

Inhibit cancer cells proliferation

Total exosome isolation kit (Invitrogen, USA)

[174]

miR-9-3p↓

Suppress proliferation

Ultracentrifugation

[176]

miR-92b↑

Promote migration and affect NK cell cytotoxicity via downregulating CD69

Exoquick (System Biosciences, USA)

[181]

miR-718↓

Suppresses cell proliferation via targeting HOXB8

Ultracentrifugation

[182]

miR-125b↓

Short TTR and OS

Exoquick (System Biosciences, USA)

[194]

mRNA-hnRNPH1↑

Positive related to poor differentiation and worse OS

Total exosome isolation reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific Co. Ltd, USA)

[175]

G3BP↑, PIGR↑

Promote tumor progression, transformation, invasion and proliferation

Ultracentrifugation

[206]

  1. ↑: Upregulation, ↓: Downregulation, circ Circular RNA, G3BP Galectin-3-binding protein, HOXB8 Homeobox B8, LINC Long intergenic non-coding RNA, LncRNA Long non-coding RNA, miR microRNA, mRNA Messenger RNA, OS Overall survival, PIGR Polymeric immunoglobulin receptor, TTR Time to recurrence