Journal
JOURNAL OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/20013078.2017.1302705
Keywords
Blood-brain barrier; inflammation; biomarker; proteomics; mass-spectrometry; parallel reaction monitoring
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- Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT)
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Little is known about the composition and functional differences between extracellular vesicle (EV) subsets, such as microvesicles (MVs) and exosomes (EXOs), nor to what extent their cargo reflects the phenotypic state of the cell of origin. Brain endothelial cells are the constitutive part of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a selective barrier that maintains brain homeostasis. BBB impairment is associated with several neuroinflammatory diseases with the pro-inflammatory cytokine tumour necrosis factor (TNF) often playing a key role. In the present study, shotgun proteomics and parallel reaction monitoring (PRM)-based targeted mass spectrometry were used to characterise brain endothelial cell-released EVs, and to study how TNF exposure modulated EV protein cargoes. MVs were found to be enriched in mitochondrial and cytoskeletal proteins, whereas EXOs were enriched in adhesion, histone and ribosomal proteins. After stimulation with TNF, several proteins involved in TNF and NF-.B signalling pathways, that were found to be differentially expressed in cells, were also differentially expressed in both MVs and EXOs. Thus, our results revealed some novel proteins as potentially useful candidates for discriminating between MVs and EXOs, together with additional evidence that cells package proteins in EVs systematically and according to their phenotypic state.
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