期刊
CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGEROPEN
DOI: 10.1186/s40169-016-0087-4
关键词
RNA; ExMVs; Horizontal transfer of RNA; Exosomes; Regenerative medicine; Circulating RNA; Liquid biopsies
资金
- NIH [2R01 DK074720, R01HL112788]
- Stella and Henry Endowment, and Maestro Grant [2011/02/A/NZ4/00035]
Extracellular microvesicles (ExMVs) are part of the cell secretome, and evidence has accumulated for their involvement in several biological processes. Fourteen years ago our team demonstrated for the first time that ExMVs carry functional RNA species and proteins from one cell to another, an observation that opened up the new research field of horizontal transfer of bioactive molecules in cell-to-cell communication. Moreover, the presence of mRNA, noncoding RNA, and miRNA in ExMVs in blood and other biological fluids opened up the possibility of employing ExMVs as new detection markers for pathological processes, and ExMVs became a target for liquid biopsy approaches. While ExMV-derived mRNAs may be translated in target cells into appropriate proteins, miRNAs regulate expression of corresponding mRNA species, and both RNA-depended ExMV-mediated mechanisms lead to functional changes in the target cells. Following from this observation, several excellent papers have been published that confirm the existence of the horizontal transfer of RNA. Moreover, in addition to RNA, proteins, bioactive lipids, infectious particles and intact organelles such as mitochondria may follow a similar mechanism. In this review we will summarize the impressive progress in this field-14 years after initial report.
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