ReviewEMBO reports2022
Extracellular vesicles from malaria-infected red blood cells: not all are secreted equal.
Review in EMBO reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Elucidating the functional role of the novel BdP50 protein and extracellular vesicles in the human erythrocyte infection by Babesia divergens.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Extracellular Vesicle Abundance, but Not a High Aggregation-Prone Peptide Cargo, Is Associated with Dihydroartemisinin Exposure inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Chloroquine induces eryptosis inFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
- Peptide based vesicles for cancer immunotherapy: design, construction and applications.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Red blood cell extracellular vesicles: new frontiers in hematological biomarker discovery.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Extracellular Vesicles in Malaria: Shedding Light on Pathogenic Depths.ACS infectious diseases · 2024Review
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Abstract
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) mediate the transfer of molecules between cells and play diverse roles in host-pathogen interactions. Malaria is an important disease caused by intracellular Plasmodium species that invade red blood cells and these red blood cells release EVs. The EVs from infected cells have diverse functions in the disease and an obstacle in understanding how they exert their functions is that multiple EV types exist. In this issue of EMBO reports, Abou Karam and colleagues use sophisticated biophysical techniques to isolate and characterize two EV subpopulations produced by red blood cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum (Abou Karam et al, 2022). The authors show that these EV subpopulations have distinct sizes, protein content, membrane packing, and fusion capabilities, suggesting that EV subpopulations from infected cells could target different cell types and subcellular locations. This work underscores the concept that understanding EV heterogeneity will go hand in hand with understanding EV functions.
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