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ReviewmBio2025

mGem: Guides or triggers? Extracellular RNAs beyond vesicular miRNAs.

Juan Pablo Tosar, Amy H Buck

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Review in mBio, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Juan Pablo TosarFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.ORCID 0000-0002-2021-2479
Amy H BuckInstitute of Immunology & Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-2645-7191

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite a huge expansion in the last decades, several assumptions have directed, and perhaps pigeonholed, the evolution of the extracellular RNA (exRNA) field. For example, extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been assumed to be the main carriers of RNA molecules between cells. In parallel, microRNAs (miRNAs) have been assumed to be the main EV RNA cargo. However, from mammals to microbes, these assumptions do not seem to fall out of the data. In addition, miRNAs need to localize to the cytosol to be active but are likely to start in endosomes in most EV entry pathways. The mechanisms for their endosomal escape and the quantities of imported miRNAs required for their functions are not always considered. Without questioning the empirical evidence supporting EV-miRNA-mediated intercellular communication, we would like to shed light on the overlooked aspects of the exRNA biology that may bear important insights into how cells and organisms interact and sense one another.

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Extracellular VesiclesMicroRNAsRNAAnimalsCell CommunicationEndosomesHumansMicroRNAsRNAexosomesexRNAextracellular miRNAsextracellular tRNAsextracellular vesiclesintercellular communicationnonvesicular RNATLR signaling

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PMID40956091
PMCPMC12505971

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