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ArticleJournal of extracellular vesicles2024

Plasma-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) as biomarkers of sepsis in burn patients via label-free Raman spectroscopy.

Hannah J O'Toole, Neona M Lowe, Vishalakshi Arun, Anna V Kolesov, Tina L Palmieri, Nam K Tran, Randy P Carney

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Hannah J O'TooleDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1843-9332
Neona M LoweDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7426-0273
Vishalakshi ArunDepartment of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Anna V KolesovDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-3870-7644
Tina L PalmieriDivision of Burn Surgery, University of California, Davis Health, Firefighters Burn Institute Regional Burn Center, Sacramento, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6340-1715
Nam K TranDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1565-0025
Randy P CarneyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8193-1664

Funding

UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Core CenterP30ES023513 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI Irva Hertz-Picciotto · 2015 to 2026
$26.0M
TRAINING IN COMPARATIVE LUNG BIOLOGY AND MEDICINET32HL007013 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI Elena Goncharova, Nicholas J. KENYON · 1985 to 2026
$10.1M
SERS diagnostics platform for liquid bioapsy analysis of tumor-associated exosomesR01CA241666 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CARNEY, RANDY · 2020 to 2024
$2.5M
UC Davis Training Program in Chemical BiologyT32GM136597 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI SHEILA Sue DAVID, Marie C. Heffern · 2021 to 2026
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA241666NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007013NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES023513NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM136597NIH/NCI R00GM080249NIH/NCI T32GM136597NIH/NCI T32HL007013
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Abstract

Sepsis following burn trauma is a global complication with high mortality, with ∼60% of burn patient deaths resulting from infectious complications. Diagnosing sepsis is complicated by confounding clinical manifestations of the burn injury, and current biomarkers lack the sensitivity and specificity required for prompt treatment. There is a strong rationale to assess circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs) from patient liquid biopsy as sepsis biomarkers due to their release by pathogens from bacterial biofilms and roles in the subsequent immune response. This study applies Raman spectroscopy to patient plasma-derived EVs for rapid, sensitive, and specific detection of sepsis in burn patients, achieving 97.5% sensitivity and 90.0% specificity. Furthermore, spectral differences between septic and non-septic burn patient EVs could be traced to specific glycoconjugates of bacterial strains associated with sepsis morbidity. This work illustrates the potential application of EVs as biomarkers in clinical burn trauma care and establishes Raman analysis as a fast, label-free method to specifically identify features of bacterial EVs relevant to infection amongst the host background.

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BiomarkersBurnsExtracellular VesiclesSepsisSpectrum Analysis, RamanAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedBiomarkersbacterial EVs (bEVs)diagnosticsexosomessystemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)

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PMID39300768
PMCPMC11529045

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