A next generation sequencing based approach to identify extracellular vesicle mediated mRNA transfers between cells

BMC Genomics. (2017) 18: 987

Authors: Jialiang Yang, Jacob Hagen, Kalyani V. Guntur, Kimaada Allette, Sarah Schuyler, Jyoti Ranjan, Francesca Petralia, Stephane Gesta, Robert Sebra, Milind Mahajan, Bin Zhang, Jun Zhu, Sander Houten, Andrew Kasarskis, Vivek K. Vishnudas, Viatcheslav R. Akmaev, Rangaprasad Sarangarajan, Niven R. Narain, Eric E. Schadt, Carmen A. Argmann, Zhidong Tu

Exosomes and other extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as an important mechanism of cell-to-cell communication. However, previous studies either did not fully resolve what genetic materials were shuttled by exosomes or only focused on a specific set of miRNAs and mRNAs. A more systematic method is required to identify the genetic materials that are potentially transferred during cell-to-cell communication through EVs in an unbiased manner.

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