While most of the research has focused on circulating cell-free (cfDNA) or circulating-tumorcell-(CTC)-derived DNA, extracellular vesicle-(EVs)-associated DNA (EV-DNA) is emerging as a third valuable “liquid biopsy” platform.
Genomic single or double-stranded DNA and mitocondrial DNA have been detected in extracellular vesicles. In particular the majority of double-stranded DNA in extracellular vesicles seems to be associated with tumor derived exosomes (Thakur BK et al. 2014; Kalhert et al. 2014 ) where it represents the entire genome of the cancerous tumor from which exosomes were derived.
This discovery indicates the potential of exosomes as a possible diagnostic tool. Exosomes can easily be obtained from a simple blood sample, so combined with an equally simple method of isolation, they may provide an important diagnostic method in the future.
Get genomic DNA from exosomes with the EXO-DNAc Kit.
This kit combines the ability of our DNA-Prep reagent to co-isolate EVs and circulating DNA from biofluids or culture supernatants with a user friendly system for DNA purification. Isolated vesicles are simply lysed with the appropriate lysis buffer and DNA is purified by spin columns and optimised buffers with a fast turnaround time (approximatively 30 minutes).
Then finally, EXO-DNAc provides a DNA concentrator for concentrating the yield (4 fold concentration) and increasing the purity of the DNA to the levels required for digital PCR analysis.
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