Table 3 Exosomes related with lung cancer metastasis by the regulation of immune and angiogenesis
From: Tumor-associated exosomes promote lung cancer metastasis through multiple mechanisms
Cancer type | Exosomes source | Related genes or pathway | Tissues and/or cells | Experimental data | Function | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Immune regulation | ||||||
 Lung cancer (NSCLC) | Cell culture fluid | PD-L1 | Lung cancer cells | Reduce T cell activity resulting in immune escape, and promote tumor growth | Immune inhibition; immune escape | [47] |
 Lung cancer | Lung cancer cells (LLC Lewis) | PD-L1 | LLC Lewis lung carcinomacells | Tumor exosome treatment can inhibit the maturation and migration of DCs and promote DCs immunosuppression | Immune inhibition | [48] |
 Lung cancer | Tumors secreting | miR-21; miR-29a; TLR7; TLR8 | Lung cancer cells (A549) | miR-21 and miR-29a bind to TLR7 and TLR8, triggering a TLR-mediated prometastatic inflammatory response that leads to tumor growth and metastasis | Immune inhibition | [49] |
 Lung cancer | TD-MVs | TGF-β1; miR-23a | Lung cancer cells | TD-MVS transferred TGF-β1 into NK cells and inhibited NK cell function under hypoxia | Immune inhibition | [50] |
 Lung cancer | Patients serum | EGFR | Lung cancer patients | Induction of immune tolerance in dendritic cells by inhibiting tumor antigen-specific CD8 + T cells | Immune inhibition | [51] |
 Lung cancer | MDA-MB-231 cell culture fluid | miR-126; PTEN/PI3K/ Akt signaling pathway | Lung cancer cells (A549) | MDA-MB-231 cell-derived exosomes can recognize A549 cells in the blood and effectively escape from in vitro immune monitoring systems; miR-126–231-Exo strongly inhibits the proliferation and migration of A549 cells by blocking the PTEN/PI3K/ Akt signaling pathway | Immune escape | [52] |
Angiogenesis regulation | ||||||
 Lung cancer | Cell culture fluid | miR-23a; PHD1; PHD2; ZO-1 | Lung cancer cells | miR-23a up-regulated in exosomes of lung cancer under hypoxic conditions. miR-23a inhibits PHD1 and 2, leading to HIF-1 accumulation to enhance angiogenesis and, in addition, inhibits ZO-1, increases vascular permeability and cancer transepithelial migration | Enhance angiogenesis | [53] |
 Lung cancer | Cell culture fluid (malignant transformation of HBE cells) | exosomal miR-21; STAT3; VEGF | HBE cells | miR-21 in exosomes activates STAT3, increases VEGF levels in recipient cells, and promotes angiogenesis and malignant transformation of HBE cells | Enhance angiogenesis | [54] |
 Lung cancer | Serum from patients with NSCLC | exosomal miR-126 | HBE cells | miR-126 in exosomes induces angiogenesis and malignant transformation of HBE cells. | Enhance angiogenesis | [55] |
 Lung cancer | Lung cancer cells secreting (Hypoxic conditions) | HIF-1α; COX-2; miR-135b; miR-210 | Lung cancer cells (A549) | Hypoxia-induced exosomes can promote the proliferation, migration and angiogenesis of A549 cells. Aspirin attenudes this stimulative effect by inhibiting the proliferation of hypoxic A549 cells, reducing exosome secretion and changing exosome composition. | Enhance angiogenesis | [29] |
 Lung cancer (SCLC) | NCI-H69 SCLC cells secreting | sFlt-1 | HUVECs | Exosomes of SCLC cell lines contain very low level of sFlt-1, which significantly increases the migration of HUVECs and weakens the inhibitory effect of NCI-H69-Exo on angiogenesis. | Enhance angiogenesis | [56] |
 Lung cancer | TECs (derived from ADC and SCC) | CDH2; MAPK/ERK and MAPK/JNK signaling pathways | Lung cancer patients | CDH2 significantly promoted angiogenesis in vivo and in vitro. | Enhance angiogenesis | [57] |