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ReviewJournal of microbiology and biotechnology2025

Standardizing Bacterial Extracellular Vesicle Purification: A Call for Consensus.

Dongsic Choi, Eun-Young Lee

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Review in Journal of microbiology and biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Dongsic ChoiDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Cheonan 31151, Republic of Korea.
Eun-Young LeeDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Cheonan 31151, Republic of Korea.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria constitutively produce extracellular vesicles (EVs), which play a pivotal role in linking bacterial physiology to therapeutics. Despite significant advances over the past decade, critical challenges persist in isolating EVs due to the absence of standardized purification methods. While the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles provides well-defined minimal guidelines for human EVs, bacterial EV research still faces inconsistencies across laboratories, limiting reproducibility and broader utility. This review provides an in-depth overview of technical aspects of bacterial EV purification and gives future perspectives for achieving high-purity and reproducibility when isolating EVs from diverse bacterial species. It further addresses the necessity of distinguishing bacterial EVs from host-derived vesicles and potential contaminants, particularly in clinical and microbiota contexts. Establishing gold-standard protocols and defining

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BacteriaExtracellular VesiclesConsensusGuidelines as TopicHost Microbial InteractionsHumansMicrobiotaReproducibility of ResultsbacteriaExtracellular vesiclemicrobiotaouter membrane vesiclepurification

Identifiers

PMID41016819
PMCPMC12535865

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