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ReviewAnnual review of plant biology2021

Message in a Bubble: Shuttling Small RNAs and Proteins Between Cells and Interacting Organisms Using Extracellular Vesicles.

Qiang Cai, Baoye He, Shumei Wang, Stephen Fletcher, Dongdong Niu, Neena Mitter, Paul R J Birch, Hailing Jin

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Review in Annual review of plant biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

102 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Structural and Functional Characterization of EXPO-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Plants.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  15. Outer membrane vesicles inMicrobial cell (Graz, Austria) · 2026
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  17. Advanced small extracellular vesicles delivery systems forExtracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026
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  19. Terpenoid-enrichedExtracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026
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42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Qiang CaiDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92507, USA; email: hailingj@ucr.edu.
Baoye HeDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92507, USA; email: hailingj@ucr.edu.
Shumei WangDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92507, USA; email: hailingj@ucr.edu.
Stephen FletcherQueensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
Dongdong NiuCollege of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Neena MitterQueensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
Paul R J BirchDivision of Plant Sciences, School of Life Science, University of Dundee at James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, United Kingdom.
Hailing JinDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92507, USA; email: hailingj@ucr.edu.

Funding

Cross-kingdom RNA communications between plant and fungal pathogensR35GM136379 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI JIN, HAILING · 2020 to 2024
$2.1M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L026880/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/N009967/1NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136379
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Communication between plant cells and interacting microorganisms requires the secretion and uptake of functional molecules to and from the extracellular environment and is essential for the survival of both plants and their pathogens. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer-enclosed spheres that deliver RNA, protein, and metabolite cargos from donor to recipient cells and participate in many cellular processes. Emerging evidencehas shown that both plant and microbial EVs play important roles in cross-kingdom molecular exchange between hosts and interacting microbes to modulate host immunity and pathogen virulence. Recent studies revealed that plant EVs function as a defense system by encasing and delivering small RNAs (sRNAs) into pathogens, thereby mediating cross-species and cross-kingdom RNA interference to silence virulence-related genes. This review focuses on the latest advances in our understanding of plant and microbial EVs and their roles in transporting regulatory molecules, especially sRNAs, between hosts and pathogens. EV biogenesis and secretion are also discussed, as EV function relies on these important processes.

Indexed as

Extracellular VesiclesRNAPlantsRNAcell-to-cell communicationcross-kingdom RNAiexosomeextracellular vesiclesplant immunitysmall RNA

Identifiers

PMID34143650
PMCPMC8369896

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