ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025
A New Strategy to Functionalize Exosomes via Enzymatic Engineering of Surface Glycans and its Application to Profile Exosomal Glycans and Endocytosis.
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- Exosomes as Disease-Informed Nanoplatforms for Pulmonary Fibrosis: From Pathogenic Signaling to Precision Diagnosis and Therapy.Pharmaceutics · 2026Review
- The 'sugar' side of extracellular vesicle-glycome: a panorama from basic characteristics, deciphering technologies, functions, to applications.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Review
- Profiling the pancreatic cancer secretome with metabolic glycoengineering.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Article
- Exosomes Enhance Diagnosis and Therapy of Ischemic Heart Disease: Insights and Advances.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2026Review
- Advancing Extracellular Vesicle Research: A Review of Systems Biology and Multiomics Perspectives.Proteomics · 2026Review
- Investigation of Intercellular Trafficking of Global Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-Anchored Proteins Using Cell Metabolic Engineering and Transwell Coculture.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Glycosylated RNAs: discovery and implications in cancer biology.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Knocking on Cells' Door: Strategic Approaches for miRNA and siRNA in Anticancer Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- A New Strategy to Functionalize Exosomes via Enzymatic Engineering of Surface Glycans and its Application to Profile Exosomal Glycans and Endocytosis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Stem Cell Exosomes for Osteoarthritis in Veterinary Medicine.Stem cells international · 2025Review
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Abstract
Exosomes are membrane-enclosed nanoparticles secreted by cells to mediate intercellular communication. Hence, functionalized exosomes are powerful tools in biology and medicine, and efficient methods to functionalize exosomes are highly desired. In this work, a novel approach is developed to modify and functionalize exosomes based on enzymatic engineering of their surface glycans. It employs a sialyltransferase and an azide-modified sialyl donor to enzymatically install azido-sialic acids onto exosomal glycans. The azide tags serve as universal molecular handles to attach various probes, e.g., biotin, protein, fluorophore, etc., by simple and biocompatible click chemistry. This approach is easy and effective, and the modified exosomes are readily retrieved from the plate, enabling the production of functional exosomes in practical scales for various studies and applications. The functionalized exosomes obtained are employed to profile exosomal glycans, disclosing the diverse glycosylation patterns of exosomes of different origins. They also facilitated comprehensive investigations on the cellular uptake of exosomes to disclose macropinocytosis as the main and general uptake route, while other endocytosis pathways are also partially involved in specific exosomes. Additionally, the new exosome functionalization approach has been demonstrated to be widely applicable to exosomes of different origins.
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