ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2018
Pathological Proteins Are Transported by Extracellular Vesicles of Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients.
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- Extracellular vesicles as a liquid biopsy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Astrocyte-derived extracellular vesicle phosphorylated TDP-43 as a blood-based biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Neurobiology of disease · 2026Article
- Regenerative strategies for ALS: stem cells and extracellular vesicles.Discover nano · 2026Review
- Plasma exosomal HERV-K transcripts are increased in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.BMC neuroscience · 2026Article
- Dynamic integration of skeletal muscle signals via extracellular vesicles in motor neuron diseases.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2026Review
- TDP-43 Acetylation at the Neuroimmune Interface: A Hypothesis-Driven Framework for Peripheral Inflammatory Stratotypes in ALS.Neurochemical research · 2026Review
- Knowledge mapping of biomarkers in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a comprehensive bibliometric and visual analysis.Neurodegenerative disease management · 2026Review
- Co-localization of tau and TDP-43 after extracellular vesicle delivery to cells.The FEBS journal · 2026Article
- Implications of virus-induced stress granules in tauopathies.Translational neurodegeneration · 2026Review
- Stress granules as a central hub linking organelle stress, aging, and neurodegeneration.BMB reports · 2026Review
- Advancing Extracellular Vesicle Research: A Review of Systems Biology and Multiomics Perspectives.Proteomics · 2026Review
- The Dual Role of Exosome-Mediated Central-Peripheral Immune Dialogue in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Associated Neuroinflammation.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Review
- Unveiling the Proteomic Landscape of Extracellular Vesicles: Implications for Neurodegeneration and Neuroprotection.Journal of neurochemistry · 2026Review
- Exosome Proteomics of SOD1Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2026Article
- Non-cell autonomous autophagy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A new promising target?Neurobiology of disease · 2026Review
- Extracellular vesicles decoying across host immunity.Journal of leukocyte biology · 2025Review
- Sephin1 reduces TDP-43 cytoplasmic mislocalization and improves motor neuron survival in ALS models.Life science alliance · 2025Article
- Extracellular vesicles in TDP-43 proteinopathies: pathogenesis and biomarker potential.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2025Review
- Autophagy- and oxidative stress-related protein deregulation mediated by extracellular vesicles of human MJD/SCA3 iPSC-derived neuroepithelial stem cells and differentiated neural cultures.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
- Extracellular vesicles: translational research and applications in neurology.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive adult-onset neurodegenerative disease, that affects cortical, bulbar and spinal motor neurons, and it is considered a proteinopathy, in which pathological proteins (SOD1, TDP-43, and FUS) may accumulate and interfere with neuronal functions eventually leading to cell death. These proteins can be released from cells and transported in the body fluids by extracellular vesicles (EVs). EVs are spherical vesicles, which are classified mainly in microvesicles (MVs) and exosomes (EXOs) based on their biogenesis, size and surface markers. In this study we characterized MVs and EXOs isolated from plasma of sporadic ALS patients and healthy controls and determined their number, size and SOD1, TDP-43, and FUS protein composition. No variation was found in the number of EVs between ALS patients and controls. However, the mean size both for MVs and for EXOs resulted increased in ALS patients compared to controls. MVs derived from ALS patients were enriched in SOD1, TDP-43, phospho-TDP-43, and FUS proteins compared to CTRLs. SOD1 was generally more concentrated in EXOs than in MVs, while TDP-43 and FUS protein levels were slightly higher in MVs than in EXOs. We demonstrated that MVs and EXOs size were increased in ALS patients compared to controls and that MVs of ALS patients were enriched with toxic proteins compared to CTRLs. EXOs did not show any protein changes. These data may suggest that MVs can transport toxic proteins and might play a role in prion-like propagation of ALS disease.
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