The multifaceted role of extracellular vesicles in metastasis: Priming the soil for seeding.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, play a key role in inter and intracellular communication, promoting the proliferation and invasion of recipient cells to support tumor growth and metastasis. Metastasis comprises multiple steps that first include the detachment of tumor cells through epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), allowing the physical dissemination to distant organs. Thereafter, cancer-derived exosomes are still critical components for preparing the tumor microenvironment by (i) enabling tumor cells to escape from the immunological surveillance and (ii) arranging the pre-metastatic site for the engraftment of detached cancer cells. In this review, we discuss the multifaceted role of EVs in the multiple steps of metastasis. Future research directions draw attention to EVs as biological targets for cancer diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. However, due to their significant role in cell communication, they may become a valuable drug delivery system.

Dos Anjos Pultz B ，Andrés Cordero da Luz F ，Socorro Faria S ，Peixoto Ferreira de Souza L ，Cristina Brígido Tavares P ，Alonso Goulart V ，Fontes W ，Ricardo Goulart L ，José Barbosa Silva M ... -  《-》

Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer: Cell-to-Cell Mediators of Metastasis.

Tumor-secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs) are critical mediators of intercellular communication between tumor cells and stromal cells in local and distant microenvironments. Accordingly, EVs play an essential role in both primary tumor growth and metastatic evolution. EVs orchestrate multiple systemic pathophysiological processes, such as coagulation, vascular leakiness, and reprogramming of stromal recipient cells to support pre-metastatic niche formation and subsequent metastasis. Clinically, EVs may be biomarkers and novel therapeutic targets for cancer progression, particularly for predicting and preventing future metastatic development.

Becker A ，Thakur BK ，Weiss JM ，Kim HS ，Peinado H ，Lyden D ... -  《-》

The key role of extracellular vesicles in the metastatic process.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, have a key role in the paracrine communication between organs and compartments. EVs shuttle virtually all types of biomolecules such as proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, metabolites and even pharmacological compounds. Their ability to transfer their biomolecular cargo into target cells enables EVs to play a key role in intercellular communication that can regulate cellular functions such as proliferation, apoptosis and migration. This has led to the emergence of EVs as a key player in tumor growth and metastasis through the formation of "tumor niches" in target organs. Recent data have also been shown that EVs may transform the microenvironment of primary tumors thus favoring the selection of cancer cells with a metastatic behavior. The release of EVs from resident non-malignant cells may contribute to the metastatic processes as well. However, cancer EVs may induce malignant transformation in resident mesenchymal stem cells, suggesting that the metastatic process is not exclusively due to circulating tumor cells. In this review, we outline and discuss evidence-based roles of EVs in actively regulating multiple steps of the metastatic process and how we can leverage EVs to impair metastasis.

Zhao H ，Achreja A ，Iessi E ，Logozzi M ，Mizzoni D ，Di Raimo R ，Nagrath D ，Fais S ... -  《-》

Melanoma-derived extracellular vesicles instigate proinflammatory signaling in the metastatic microenvironment.

The major cause of melanoma mortality is metastasis to distant organs, including lungs and brain. Reciprocal interactions of metastasizing tumor cells with stromal cells in secondary sites play a critical role in all stages of tumorigenesis and metastasis. Changes in the metastatic microenvironment were shown to precede clinically relevant metastases, and may occur prior to the arrival of disseminated tumor cells to the distant organ, thus creating a hospitable "premetastatic niche." Exosomes secreted by tumor cells were demonstrated to play an important role in the preparation of a hospitable metastatic niche. However, the functional role of melanoma-derived exosomes on metastatic niche formation, and the downstream pathways activated in stromal cells at the metastatic niche are largely unresolved. Here we show that extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by metastatic melanoma cells that spontaneously metastasize to lungs and to brain, activate proinflammatory signaling in lung fibroblasts and in astrocytes. Interestingly, unlike paracrine signaling by melanoma cells, EVs secreted by metastatic melanoma cells instigated a proinflammatory gene signature in lung fibroblasts but did not activate wound-healing functions, suggesting that tumor cell-secreted EVs activate distinct CAF characteristics and tumor-promoting functions. Moreover, melanoma-secreted EVs also activated proinflammatory signaling in astrocytes, indicating that EV-mediated reprogramming of stromal cells is a general mechanism of modulating the metastatic niche in multiple distant organs. Thus, our study demonstrates that melanoma-derived EVs reprogram tumor-promoting functions in stromal cells in a distinct manner, implicating a central role for tumor-derived EV signaling in promoting the formation of an inflammatory metastatic niche.

Gener Lahav T ，Adler O ，Zait Y ，Shani O ，Amer M ，Doron H ，Abramovitz L ，Yofe I ，Cohen N ，Erez N ... -  《-》

How cancer cells dictate their microenvironment: present roles of extracellular vesicles.

Naito Y ，Yoshioka Y ，Yamamoto Y ，Ochiya T ... -  《-》