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 …

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 …

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 …

Autophagy in healthy aging and disease

Y Aman, T Schmauck-Medina, M Hansen, RI Morimoto… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Autophagy is a fundamental cellular process that eliminates molecules and subcellular
elements, including nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and organelles, via lysosome-mediated …

Mitochondria are secreted in extracellular vesicles when lysosomal function is impaired

W Liang, S Sagar, R Ravindran, RH Najor… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondrial quality control is critical for cardiac homeostasis as these organelles are
responsible for generating most of the energy needed to sustain contraction. Dysfunctional …

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 …

Mitophagy in human health, ageing and disease

A Picca, J Faitg, J Auwerx, L Ferrucci, D D'Amico - Nature Metabolism, 2023 - nature.com
Maintaining optimal mitochondrial function is a feature of health. Mitophagy removes and
recycles damaged mitochondria and regulates the biogenesis of new, fully functional ones …

Mitochondria as cellular and organismal signaling hubs

K Shen, CL Pender, R Bar-Ziv, H Zhang… - Annual review of cell …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria are traditionally known as the powerhouse of the cell, but their functions
extend far beyond energy production. They are vital in cellular and organismal pathways …

A network of macrophages supports mitochondrial homeostasis in the heart

JA Nicolás-Ávila, AV Lechuga-Vieco… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cardiomyocytes are subjected to the intense mechanical stress and metabolic demands of
the beating heart. It is unclear whether these cells, which are long-lived and rarely renew …

Mitocytosis, a migrasome-mediated mitochondrial quality-control process

H Jiao, D Jiang, X Hu, W Du, L Ji, Y Yang, X Li, T Sho… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Damaged mitochondria need to be cleared to maintain the quality of the mitochondrial pool.
Here, we report mitocytosis, a migrasome-mediated mitochondrial quality-control process …