Project description:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) function through their cargos. This study aims to identify active components of EVs generated from mouse adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) by comparing the small RNA compositions between EVs and ASCs as well as EVs generated from naive ASCs and primed ASCs (iASCs).
Project description:Background: We have found that extracellular vesicles (EV) secreted by embryonic stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells (hES-CPg) recapitulate the therapeutic effects of these cells in a model of chronic heart failure (CHF). Objectives: Our goal was to test other cellular sources of EV and to explore their mechanism of action.
Project description:Background: We have found that extracellular vesicles (EV) secreted by embryonic stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells (hES-CPg) recapitulate the therapeutic effects of these cells in a model of chronic heart failure (CHF). Objectives: Our goal was to test other cellular sources of EV and to explore their mechanism of action.
Project description:Exosomes and microvesicles (i.e., extracellular vesicles; EVs) have been identified within ovarian follicular fluid, and recent evidence suggests that EVs are able to elicit profound effects on ovarian cell function. While existence of miRNA within EVs has been reported, it remains unknown if EV size and concentration as well as their cargos (i.e., proteins and RNA) change during antral follicle growth. Extracellular vesicles isolated from follicular fluid of small, medium and large bovine follicles were similar in size, while concentration of EVs decreased progressively as follicle size increased. Electron microscopy indicated a highly purified population of the lipid bilayer enclosed vesicles that were enriched in exosome biomarkers including CD81 and Alix. Small RNA sequencing identified a large number of known and novel miRNAs that changed in the EVs of different size follicles. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) indicated that miRNA abundant in small follicle EV preparations were associated with cell proliferation pathways, while those miRNA abundant in large follicle preparations were related to inflammatory response pathways. These studies are the first to demonstrate that EVs change in their levels and makeup during antral follicle development and point to the potential for a unique vesicle-mediated cell-to-cell communication network within the ovarian follicle. Examination of small RNA population in bovine follicular fluid extracellular vesicles isolated from antral follicles
Project description:A growing body of evidence in mammalian cells indicates that secreted vesicles can be used to mediate intercellular communication processes by transferring various bioactive molecules, including mRNAs and microRNAs. Based on these findings, we decided to analyze whether T. cruzi-derived extracellular vesicles contain RNA molecules and performed a deep sequencing and genome-wide analysis of a size-fractioned cDNA library (16M-bM-^@M-^S40 nt) from extracellular vesicles secreted by noninfective epimastigote and infective metacyclic trypomastigote forms. Our data show that the small RNAs contained in these extracellular vesicles originate from multiple sources, including tRNAs. In addition, our results reveal that the variety and expression of small RNAs are different between parasite stages, suggesting diverse functions. Taken together, these observations call attention to the potential regulatory functions that these RNAs might play once transferred between parasites and/or to mammalian host cells. Small RNAs profiles (16-40 nt) of epimastigote-derived extracellular vesicles, metacyclic trypomastigote-derived extracellular vesicles and metacyclic trypomastigote parental cells.
Project description:Objective. To investigate the epigenetic footprint of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) through characterization of circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs) and the expression of EV-derived small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs).
Project description:We performed small RNA sequencing of exosomes and extracellular vesicles collected from breast cancer cells as well as human mammary epithelial cells (HUMEC) in biological replicates (using Norgen's cell culture media exosme purification and RNA isoaltion kits).
Project description:The fetal brain is thought to be dependent upon the placenta for factors that play a specific role in its early development. The tight linkage between the two organs has given rise to the term, the placenta-brain axis. The mouse placenta produces a unique signature pattern of miRNAs target transcripts associated with early fetal brain development, including ones regulating neurogenesis. We hypothesize that placenta-derived extracellular vesicles (EV) transport their molecular cargo, including small RNA, from the placenta to the brain, whereupon their contents can induce pleiotropic effects. We isolated EV from human trophoblast (TB) differentiated in vitro and the parental induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from which the TB was derived, and small RNAseq was done to characterize small RNA profiles within these EV. Human neural progenitor cells (NPC) generated from the same iPSC were exposed to EV derived from TB or iPSC or only treated with control media. Results indicate EV derived from human TB cells contain unique profiles of miRNA and long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) relative to EV isolated from parental iPS cells. Human TB-derived EV readily internalized by human NPC. EV from TB cells induce transcripts in NPC associated with forebrain formation and neurogenesis, suggesting that such EV might program early fetal brain development. Results shed light on the inner workings of the placenta-brain axis. Understanding how contents of TB-derived EV, namely small RNA, affect NPC might yield new insights and potential treatment strategies for neurobehavioral disorders that originate in utero, such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The fetal brain is thought to be dependent upon the placenta for factors that play a specific role in its early development. The tight linkage between the two organs has given rise to the term, the placenta-brain axis. The mouse placenta produces a unique signature pattern of miRNAs target transcripts associated with early fetal brain development, including ones regulating neurogenesis. We hypothesize that placenta-derived extracellular vesicles (EV) transport their molecular cargo, including small RNA, from the placenta to the brain, whereupon their contents can induce pleiotropic effects. We isolated EV from human trophoblast (TB) differentiated in vitro and the parental induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from which the TB was derived, and small RNAseq was done to characterize small RNA profiles within these EV. Human neural progenitor cells (NPC) generated from the same iPSC were exposed to EV derived from TB or iPSC or only treated with control media. Results indicate EV derived from human TB cells contain unique profiles of miRNA and long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) relative to EV isolated from parental iPS cells. Human TB-derived EV readily internalized by human NPC. EV from TB cells induce transcripts in NPC associated with forebrain formation and neurogenesis, suggesting that such EV might program early fetal brain development. Results shed light on the inner workings of the placenta-brain axis. Understanding how contents of TB-derived EV, namely small RNA, affect NPC might yield new insights and potential treatment strategies for neurobehavioral disorders that originate in utero, such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD).