Nawaz Muhammad, Fatima Farah, Vallabhaneni Krishna C, Penfornis Patrice, Valadi Hadi, Ekström Karin, Kholia Sharad, Whitt Jason D, Fernandes Joseph D, Pochampally Radhika, Squire Jeremy A, Camussi Giovanni
Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Avenue Bandeirantes, 3900 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil ; Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Box 480, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Cancer Institute, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
Stem Cells Int. 2016;2016:1073140. doi: 10.1155/2016/1073140. Epub 2015 Nov 16.
Stem cells are proposed to continuously secrete trophic factors that potentially serve as mediators of autocrine and paracrine activities, associated with reprogramming of the tumor microenvironment, tissue regeneration, and repair. Hitherto, significant efforts have been made to understand the level of underlying paracrine activities influenced by stem cell secreted trophic factors, as little is known about these interactions. Recent findings, however, elucidate this role by reporting the effects of stem cell derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) that mimic the phenotypes of the cells from which they originate. Exchange of genetic information utilizing persistent bidirectional communication mediated by stem cell-EVs could regulate stemness, self-renewal, and differentiation in stem cells and their subpopulations. This review therefore discusses stem cell-EVs as evolving communication factors in stem cell biology, focusing on how they regulate cell fates by inducing persistent and prolonged genetic reprogramming of resident cells in a paracrine fashion. In addition, we address the role of stem cell-secreted vesicles in shaping the tumor microenvironment and immunomodulation and in their ability to stimulate endogenous repair processes during tissue damage. Collectively, these functions ensure an enormous potential for future therapies.
干细胞被认为能持续分泌营养因子,这些因子可能充当自分泌和旁分泌活动的介质,与肿瘤微环境的重编程、组织再生和修复相关。迄今为止,人们已付出巨大努力来了解干细胞分泌的营养因子所影响的潜在旁分泌活动水平,因为对这些相互作用知之甚少。然而,最近的研究结果通过报道干细胞衍生的细胞外囊泡(EVs)的作用阐明了这一角色,这些囊泡模拟了其来源细胞的表型。利用干细胞-EVs介导的持续双向通讯进行遗传信息交换,可以调节干细胞及其亚群的干性、自我更新和分化。因此,本综述将干细胞-EVs作为干细胞生物学中不断演变的通讯因子进行讨论,重点关注它们如何通过以旁分泌方式诱导驻留细胞进行持续和长期的基因重编程来调节细胞命运。此外,我们还探讨了干细胞分泌的囊泡在塑造肿瘤微环境和免疫调节以及在组织损伤期间刺激内源性修复过程的能力方面的作用。总的来说,这些功能为未来的治疗提供了巨大的潜力。