Extracellular vesicles and nanoparticles: emerging complexities

DK Jeppesen, Q Zhang, JL Franklin, RJ Coffey - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The study of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and nanoparticles (NPs) is rapidly expanding
because recent discoveries have revealed a much greater complexity and diversity than was …

The roles of extracellular vesicles in the immune system

EI Buzas - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The twenty-first century has witnessed major developments in the field of extracellular
vesicle (EV) research, including significant steps towards defining standard criteria for the …

Challenges and directions in studying cell–cell communication by extracellular vesicles

G van Niel, DRF Carter, A Clayton… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are increasingly recognized as important mediators of
intercellular communication. They have important roles in numerous physiological and …

The power of imaging to understand extracellular vesicle biology in vivo

FJ Verweij, L Balaj, CM Boulanger, DRF Carter… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nano-sized lipid bilayer vesicles released by virtually every
cell type. EVs have diverse biological activities, ranging from roles in development and …

An intercellular transfer of telomeres rescues T cells from senescence and promotes long-term immunological memory

A Lanna, B Vaz, C D'Ambra, S Valvo, C Vuotto… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
The common view is that T lymphocytes activate telomerase to delay senescence. Here we
show that some T cells (primarily naïve and central memory cells) elongated telomeres by …

Review of the isolation, characterization, biological function, and multifarious therapeutic approaches of exosomes

S Gurunathan, MH Kang, M Jeyaraj, M Qasim, JH Kim - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Exosomes are extracellular vesicles that contain a specific composition of proteins, lipids,
RNA, and DNA. They are derived from endocytic membranes and can transfer signals to …

Specificities of secretion and uptake of exosomes and other extracellular vesicles for cell-to-cell communication

M Mathieu, L Martin-Jaular, G Lavieu, C Théry - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The ability of exosomes to transfer cargo from donor to acceptor cells, thereby triggering
phenotypic changes in the latter, has generated substantial interest in the scientific …

[HTML][HTML] The immunostimulatory RNA RN7SL1 enables CAR-T cells to enhance autonomous and endogenous immune function

LR Johnson, DY Lee, JS Eacret, D Ye, CH June… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Poor tumor infiltration, development of exhaustion, and antigen insufficiency are common
mechanisms that limit chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell efficacy. Delivery of pattern …

T cell costimulatory receptor CD28 is a primary target for PD-1–mediated inhibition

E Hui, J Cheung, J Zhu, X Su, MJ Taylor, HA Wallweber… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Programmed cell death–1 (PD-1) is a coinhibitory receptor that suppresses T cell activation
and is an important cancer immunotherapy target. Upon activation by its ligand PD-L1, PD-1 …

Extracellular vesicles: unique intercellular delivery vehicles

SLN Maas, XO Breakefield, AM Weaver - Trends in cell biology, 2017 - cell.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a heterogeneous collection of membrane-bound carriers
with complex cargoes including proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. While the release of EVs …