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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2018

Multiparametric Analysis of Circulating Exosomes and Other Small Extracellular Vesicles by Advanced Imaging Flow Cytometry.

Sotiris Mastoridis, Giuliana Minani Bertolino, Gavin Whitehouse, Francesco Dazzi, Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, Marc Martinez-Llordella

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sotiris MastoridisMRC Centre for Transplantation, Institute of Liver Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Giuliana Minani BertolinoRegenerative Medicine, Division of Cancer Studies and Cancer Research UK King's Health Partners, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Gavin WhitehouseMRC Centre for Transplantation, Institute of Liver Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Francesco DazziRegenerative Medicine, Division of Cancer Studies and Cancer Research UK King's Health Partners, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Alberto Sanchez-FueyoMRC Centre for Transplantation, Institute of Liver Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Marc Martinez-LlordellaMRC Centre for Transplantation, Institute of Liver Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_15108
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are responsible for a multitude of physiological functions, including immunomodulation. A heterogenous mixture of small EV (sEV) subsets, including putative exosomes, is derived when commonly used "exosome" isolation techniques are employed. Subset diversity relates in part to their different intracellular origins, and can be associated with distinct functional properties. Recent progress in the EV field has enabled the categorization of such subsets based on their surface composition. For the first time, we combine such emerging subset-specific markers with advanced imaging flow cytometry (iFCM) to perform high-throughput, multiparametric, vesicle-by-vesicle characterization, and functional assessment of specific small EV subsets, and exosomes in particular. The approach allows researchers to address three important applications. First, it is known that different isolation techniques result in the divergent recovery of particular vesicle subsets. Taking three commonly used "exosome" isolation techniques as test cases (ultracentrifugation, size-exclusion chromatography, and polymer-based precipitation), the capacity for convenient and accurate isolate compositional analysis by iFCM is demonstrated. The approach was able to corroborate and to quantify the known skewing of subtype recovery among different isolation approaches. Second, exosomes are a particularly widely studied EV subset. Applying exosome-specific markers to samples collected from an optimal clinical transplantation model, we verify the capacity for iFCM to detect exosomes in circulation, to establish their tissue of origin, and to provide insights as to their functional immunological potential. Finally, we describe a technique for establishing whether the transfer of a molecule of interest to a target cell is exosomally mediated. In so doing, we highlight the approach's utility in assessing the functional

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