Microvesicles

Microvesicles

Microvesicles (sometimes called exosomes, circulating microvesicles, or microparticles) are fragments of plasma membrane ranging from 50 nm to 1000 nm shed from almost all cell types. Microvesicles play a role in intercellular communication and can deliver mRNA, miRNA, and proteins between cells.[1] They have been implicated in the process of cancer tumor immune suppression, metastasis, tumor-stroma interactions and angiogenesis along with having a role in tissue regeneration.[2][3][4][5] They originate directly from the plasma membrane of the cell and reflect the antigenic content of the cells from which they originate.

Mechanism of shedding of MV

Under physiologic conditions, the plasma membrane of cells has an asymmetric distribution of phospholipids. Aminophospholipids, phosphatidylserine and phosphatidilethanolammine are specifically sequestered in the inner leaflet of the membrane. The transbilayer lipid distribution is under the control of three phospholipidic pumps: an inward-directed pump, or flippase; an outward-directed pump, or floppase; and a lipid scramblase, responsible for non-specific redistribution of lipids across the membrane. After cell stimulation, including apoptosis, a subsequent cytosolic Ca2+ increase promotes the loss of phospholipid asymmetry of the plasma membrane, subsequent phosphatidylserine exposure and a transient phospholipidic imbalance between the external leaflet at the expense of the inner leaflet leading to blebbing of the plasma membrane and microvesicles release.[6]

References

  1. ^ Balaj, L.; Lessard, R.; Dai, L.; Cho, Y. J.; Pomeroy, S. L.; Breakefield, X. O.; Skog, J. (2011). "Tumour microvesicles contain retrotransposon elements and amplified oncogene sequences". Nature Communications 2 (2): 180. Bibcode 2011NatCo...2E.180B. doi:10.1038/ncomms1180. PMC 3040683. PMID 21285958. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=3040683.  edit
  2. ^ Ratajczak, J.; Miekus, K.; Kucia, M.; Zhang, J.; Reca, R.; Dvorak, P.; Ratajczak, M. Z. (2006). "Embryonic stem cell-derived microvesicles reprogram hematopoietic progenitors: evidence for horizontal transfer of mRNA and protein delivery". Leukemia 20 (5): 847–856. doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404132. PMID 16453000.  edit
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