Table 2 Targeting EVs or inoculating engineered exosomes in antitumor therapies.

From: Extracellular vesicles and immunogenic stress in cancer

Target

Drug

Cancer type

Notes

Reference

ANXA2

ch2448

Breast cancer Ovarian cancer

Kill tumor cells by ADCC or ADC routes.

[59, 60]

 

Ginsenoside compound K

Astroglial cancer liver cancer

Inhibit the activation of NF-кB.

[61]

CD39

NTPDase

Liver cancer

Stimulate the antitumor immunity and decrease the metastatic of tumor cells.

[72]

CD73

Anti-CD73 antibody

Breast cancer

Inhibit the metastases as well as migration of tumor cell.

[73, 74]

 

MEDI9447

Solid tumors

Combine with anti-PD-L1 therapy.

NCT02503774

  

Relapsed ovarian cancer

Combine with MEDI0562, Tremelilumab, and Durvalumab.

NCT03267589

HMGB1

HMG Box-A

Mesothelioma

Suppresses the viability, migration, and growth of tumor cells, and decreases the growth of mesothelioma tumors in a xenograft mice model.

[42,43,44]

 

EP

DLBCL

Gastric cancer

Liver cancer

Prostate cancer

Gallbladder cancer

Downregulated the expression of HMGB1 and phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and Src.

[45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52]

 

Triptolide

Breast cancer

Downregulated the expressions of TLR4 and phosphorylated NF-κB p65.

[53]

 

miR-22

Osteosarcoma

Reversion the resistance of tumor cells in chemotherapy by targeting the 3′ UTR of HMGB1.

[54]

Ceramides

Alpha-galactosyl ceramide

Solid tumors

Enhances the activation of T cells by dendritic cells

[75]

HSPs

RP101

Quercetin

Oral cancer

Glioblastoma

Enhance the anticancer therapeutic effects in various cell lines including oral cancer and glioblastoma

[107, 108]

 

NW457

Conditional reprogramming cells

Induce the apoptosis

[109]

 

Ganetespib

Pancreatic cancer

As a radiosensitizer in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by modulating the STAT3, HIF-1α as well as AKT-driven pathways

[110]

DNA

exo-mtDNA

Breast cancer

Treatment with exo-mtDNA could reverse the drug resistance of tumor cells.

[88]

RNA

miR-1246 inhibitor

Ovarian cancer

Combine with chemotherapy led to reduced tumor burden in vivo.

[91]

 

PEI/siRNA complexes

Prostate cancer

Inhibit the growth of tumor cells

[92]