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A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biomarkers".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 3927

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Dr. Mebarek Saida

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University Lyon, Université. Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5246, ICBMS, F-69622 Lyon, France
Interests: lipid signaling and signal transduction; prostate cancer; bone metastasis; vascular calcification; atherosclerosis; extracellular vesicles
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Dr. Leyre Brizuela

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Dear Colleagues,

This issue aims at summarizing the most recent literature on extracellular vesicles (EVs) as disease biomarkers, as well as candidates for cell-free therapeutic approaches.

EVs (a terminology that encompasses microparticles, exosomes, and apoptotic bodies among others) are active players of cell-to-cell communication and convey fundamental information between cells. These microstructures contain proteins, lipids, and genetic information able to modify the phenotype and function of the target cells. EVs carry specific markers of the cell of origin, which could reveal the state of the cell and could be used to diagnose diseases. Indeed, EVs have attracted considerable interest in the metabolic diseases such as obesity or diabetes, in cardiovascular diseases field as reservoirs of molecules produced during arterial remodelling, in the pathogenesis of neuro-degenerative diseases such as Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases, but also in the cancer domain. In this Special Issue, we would like to receive experimental and clinical articles or reviews about how EVs can be identified as biomarkers of diseases.

Dr. Mebarek Saida
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Keywords

extracellular vesicles
metabolic syndrome
cancer
cardiovascular diseases
neurodegenerative diseases
biomarkers

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Circulating Small Extracellular Vesicles Reflect the Severity of Myocardial Damage in STEMI Patients

by Marta Zarà, Andrea Baggiano, Patrizia Amadio, Jeness Campodonico, Sebastiano Gili, Andrea Annoni, Gianluca De Dona, Maria Ludovica Carerj, Francesco Cilia, Alberto Formenti, Laura Fusini, Cristina Banfi, Paola Gripari, Calogero Claudio Tedesco, Maria Elisabetta Mancini, Mattia Chiesa, Riccardo Maragna, Francesca Marchetti, Marco Penso, Luigi Tassetti, Alessandra Volpe, Alice Bonomi, Giancarlo Marenzi, Gianluca Pontone and Silvia Stella Barbieri Show full author list Hide full author list

Biomolecules 2023, 13(10), 1470; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/biom13101470 - 29 Sep 2023

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Circulating small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) contribute to inflammation, coagulation and vascular injury, and have great potential as diagnostic markers of disease. The ability of sEVs to reflect myocardial damage assessed by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is unknown. To fill this gap, plasma sEVs were isolated from 42 STEMI patients treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) and evaluated by CMR between days 3 and 6. Nanoparticle tracking analysis showed that sEVs were greater in patients with anterior STEMI (p = 0.0001), with the culprit lesion located in LAD (p = 0.045), and in those who underwent late revascularization (p = 0.038). A smaller sEV size was observed in patients with a low myocardial salvage index (MSI, p = 0.014). Patients with microvascular obstruction (MVO) had smaller sEVs (p < 0.002) and lower expression of the platelet marker CD41–CD61 (p = 0.039). sEV size and CD41–CD61 expression were independent predictors of MVO/MSI (OR [95% CI]: 0.93 [0.87–0.98] and 0.04 [0–0.61], respectively). In conclusion, we provide evidence that the CD41–CD61 expression in sEVs reflects the CMR-assessed ischemic damage after STEMI. This finding paves the way for the development of a new strategy for the timely identification of high-risk patients and their treatment optimization. Full article

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Emerging Roles of Extracelluar Vesicles Derived from Bacteria, Mammalian or Plant Cells in the Pathogenesis and Clinical Application of Neurodegenerative Diseases

by Yihong Li, Chenglong Zhou, Huina Liu, Ting Cai and Huadong Fan

Biomolecules 2024, 14(3), 312; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/biom14030312 - 06 Mar 2024

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A growing number of studies have indicated that extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes, are involved in the development of neurodegenerative diseases. Components of EVs with biological effects like proteins, nucleic acids, or other molecules can be delivered to recipient cells to mediate physio-/pathological processes. For instance, some aggregate-prone proteins, such as β-amyloid and α-synuclein, had been found to propagate through exosomes. Therefore, either an increase of detrimental molecules or a decrease of beneficial molecules enwrapped in EVs may fully or partly indicate disease progression. Numerous studies have demonstrated that dysbiosis of the gut microbiota and neurodegeneration are tightly correlated, well-known as the “gut–brain axis”. Accumulating evidence has revealed that the gut bacteria-derived EVs play a pivotal role in mediating microbe–host interactions and affect the function of the “gut–brain axis”, which subsequently contributes to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. In this review, we first briefly discuss the role of EVs from mammalian cells and microbes in mediating the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, and then propose a novel strategy that employs EVs of plants (plant cell-derived exosome-like nanoparticles) for treating neurodegeneration. Full article

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Do Media Extracellular Vesicles and Extracellular Vesicles Bound to the Extracellular Matrix Represent Distinct Types of Vesicles?

by Saida Mebarek, Rene Buchet, Slawomir Pikula, Agnieszka Strzelecka-Kiliszek, Leyre Brizuela, Giada Corti, Federica Collacchi, Genevieve Anghieri, Andrea Magrini, Pietro Ciancaglini, Jose Luis Millan, Owen Davies and Massimo Bottini

Biomolecules 2024, 14(1), 42; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/biom14010042 - 28 Dec 2023

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Mineralization-competent cells, including hypertrophic chondrocytes, mature osteoblasts, and osteogenic-differentiated smooth muscle cells secrete media extracellular vesicles (media vesicles) and extracellular vesicles bound to the extracellular matrix (matrix vesicles). Media vesicles are purified directly from the extracellular medium. On the other hand, matrix vesicles are purified after discarding the extracellular medium and subjecting the cells embedded in the extracellular matrix or bone or cartilage tissues to an enzymatic treatment. Several pieces of experimental evidence indicated that matrix vesicles and media vesicles isolated from the same types of mineralizing cells have distinct lipid and protein composition as well as functions. These findings support the view that matrix vesicles and media vesicles released by mineralizing cells have different functions in mineralized tissues due to their location, which is anchored to the extracellular matrix versus free-floating. Full article

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