Independent Researcher,India.
Department of Biochemistry. All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh-462020,India.
Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2022;23(1):112-122. doi: 10.2174/1389201021666201211102710.
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is present in numerous body fluids and generally blood cells. It is undoubtedly the utmost promising tool among all components of liquid biopsy. Liquid biopsy is a specialized method investigating the non-solid biological tissue by revealing circulating cells, cell-free DNA, etc., that enter the body fluids. Since cancer cells disengage from compact tumors circulating in peripheral blood, evaluating cancer patients' blood profile is essential for the molecular level analysis of various tumor-derived constituents. Cell-free DNA samples can deliver a significant diagnosis in oncology, for instance, tumor heterogeneity, rapid tumor development, response to therapy and treatment, comprising immunotherapy, and mechanisms of cancer metastasis. Malignant growth at any phase can cause the occurrence of tumor cells in addition to fragments of neoplasticity. Liquid biopsy indicates diverse blood-based biomarkers comprising circulating tumor cells (CTCs), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) or cfDNA, circulating RNA (cfRNA), and exosomes. Cell-free DNAs are little DNA fragments circulating in plasma or serum, just as other fluids present in our body. Cell-free DNA involves primarily double-stranded nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA, present both on a surface level and in the vesicles' lumen. The probable origins of the tumor-inferred portion of cfDNA are apoptosis or tumor necrosis, lysis of CTCs or DNA release from the tumor cells into circulation. The evolution of innovations, refinement, and improvement in therapeutics to determine the fragment size of cfDNA and its distribution provide essential information related to pathological conditions of the cell, thus emerging as a promising indicator for clinical output in medical biotechnology.
无细胞游离 DNA(cfDNA)存在于许多体液中,通常是血细胞。它无疑是液体活检所有成分中最有前途的工具。液体活检是一种通过揭示进入体液的循环细胞、无细胞游离 DNA 等,来研究非固态生物组织的专门方法。由于癌细胞从外周血液中的实体肿瘤中分离出来,因此评估癌症患者的血液状况对于各种肿瘤衍生成分的分子水平分析至关重要。无细胞游离 DNA 样本可以在肿瘤学中提供重要的诊断,例如肿瘤异质性、肿瘤快速发展、对治疗和治疗的反应,包括免疫疗法以及癌症转移的机制。恶性生长在任何阶段都可能导致肿瘤细胞的发生以及肿瘤的片段。液体活检表明存在多种基于血液的生物标志物,包括循环肿瘤细胞(CTC)、循环肿瘤 DNA(ctDNA)或 cfDNA、循环 RNA(cfRNA)和外泌体。无细胞游离 DNA 是在血浆或血清中循环的小 DNA 片段,就像我们体内的其他液体一样。无细胞游离 DNA 主要包括双链核 DNA 和线粒体 DNA,存在于表面水平和小泡腔中。cfDNA 中肿瘤推断部分的可能来源是细胞凋亡或肿瘤坏死、CTC 的裂解或肿瘤细胞将 DNA 释放到循环中。创新、改进和治疗方法的进步,以确定 cfDNA 的片段大小及其分布,为与细胞病理状况相关的提供了重要信息,因此作为医学生物技术临床输出的有前途的指标而出现。