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ReviewBiology of the cell2025

Protrusion-Derived Extracellular Vesicles (PD-EVs) and Their Diverse Origins: Key Players in Cellular Communication, Cancer Progression, and T Cell Modulation.

Mireia Gomez Duro, Lucas Alves Tavares, Izadora Peter Furtado, Julien Saint-Pol, Gisela D'Angelo

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Review in Biology of the cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Does extracellular vesicle specificity truly exist?Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mireia Gomez DuroInstitut Curie, CNRS, UMR144, PSL University, Structure and Membrane Compartments, Paris Cedex, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5534-7878
Lucas Alves TavaresCenter for Virology Research and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP), University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
Izadora Peter FurtadoCenter for Cell-Based Therapy, Hemotherapy Center of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-9514
Julien Saint-PolUniv. Artois, UR 2465, Blood-Brain Barrier laboratory (LBHE), Lens, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2676-0791
Gisela D'AngeloInstitut Curie, CNRS, UMR144, PSL University, Structure and Membrane Compartments, Paris Cedex, France.

Funding

Centre National de la Recherche Scienyifique (CNRS)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)EVCA Twining project HorizonGAno.101079264French National Research Agency JSP ANR-21-CE14-0002Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) to I.P.F. 22/09926-2and23/13501-0Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) to L.A.T. 21/01182-1and23/12126-0Mireia Gomez Duro Institut Curie EuReCa (Europe Research & Care) to M.G.D. GAno.847718
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protrusion-derived extracellular vesicles (PD-EVs) are a specialized subset of extracellular vesicles (EVs) generated from dynamic cellular extensions. These structures play a crucial role in cellular communication and have emerged as pivotal mediators in various biological processes, including cancer progression and immune modulation. In cancer, PD-EVs facilitate tumor growth, invasion, and metastasis by delivering oncogenic cargo that remodels the tumor microenvironment, promotes angiogenesis, and supports immune evasion. They are also implicated in establishing pre-metastatic niches and enabling cancer cells to colonize distant organs. PD-EVs are characterized by a distinct molecular signature linked to their origin from specialized plasma membrane domains. Their unique composition makes them promising biomarkers for early cancer detection, disease monitoring, metastatic potential assessment, and therapeutic response evaluation. Targeting PD-EV biogenesis, release, or uptake represents a novel therapeutic strategy to disrupt tumor progression and overcome resistance to current treatments. However, distinguishing PD-EVs from other EV subtypes remains challenging due to overlapping characteristics. This review consolidates the latest evidence on PD-EVs, focusing on their biogenesis, limitations in their study, functional roles in cancer, and potential applications in diagnostics and therapeutics, especially concerning immune modulation and T-cell activation.

Indexed as

Cell CommunicationExtracellular VesiclesNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesAnimalsDisease ProgressionHumansTumor Microenvironmentcancer progressioncell‐cell communicationcellular protrusionsimmune responsePD‐EV biogenesisprotrusion‐derived extracellular vesicles (PD‐EVs)T‐cell activation

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PMID40500981
PMCPMC12159518

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