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The polysaccharide chitosan facilitates the isolation of small extracellular vesicles from multiple biofluids

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JOURNAL OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jev2.12138

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biofluids; chitin; chitosan; exosomes; extracellular vesicles; proteomics; sEV isolation technology

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  1. Atlantic Innovation Fund grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)

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Chitosan has been demonstrated as a potential method for isolating small extracellular vesicles efficiently from various biofluids. This method offers advantages such as high efficiency, biocompatibility, and low toxicity.
Several studies have demonstrated the potential uses of extracellular vesicles (EVs) for liquid biopsy-based diagnostic tests and therapeutic applications; however, clinical use of EVs presents a challenge as many currently-available EV isolation methods have limitations related to efficiency, purity, and complexity of the methods. Moreover, many EV isolation methods do not perform efficiently in all biofluids due to their differential physicochemical properties. Thus, there continues to be a need for novel EV isolation methods that are simple, robust, non-toxic, and/or clinically-amenable. Here we demonstrate a rapid and efficient method for small extracellular vesicle (sEV) isolation that uses chitosan, a linear cationic polyelectrolyte polysaccharide that exhibits biocompatibility, non-immunogenicity, biodegradability, and low toxicity. Chitosan-precipitated material was characterized using Western blotting, nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and relevant proteomic-based gene ontology analyses. We find that chitosan facilitates the isolation of sEVs from multiple biofluids, including cell culture-conditioned media, human urine, plasma and saliva. Overall, our data support the potential for chitosan to isolate a population of sEVs from a variety of biofluids and may have the potential to be a clinically amenable sEV isolation method.

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