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“#Study unveils new mechanism for long-distance cell communication<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Extracellular vesicles (EVs) can move through denser matrices that can relax over time, including those found in the body. Aquaporin-1, a membrane protein that allows water to come in and out of EVs, is essential for this transport ability. Credit: Shin, et al.
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An extracellular vesicle\u2014a nanoparticle released by cells\u2014can use jerky movements similar to a car weaving in and out of traffic to navigate the obstacle-filled environment outside of cells, according to new discoveries made by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.<\/p>\n

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Their findings, published in Nature Nanotechnology<\/a><\/i>, are a key first step to efficiently use extracellular vesicles, or EVs, as a therapeutic that targets diseases, such as lung injury and cancer.<\/p>\n

“Although EVs were discovered over 30 years ago, many believed that EVs were cellular junk that was trapp<\/a>ed in the extracellular matrix,” said senior author Jae-Won Shin, UIC assistant professor of pharmacology and bioengineering at the College of Medicine. “Within the last 10 years, the field has learned that EVs aren’t junk. They play a critical role in sending signals for long-distance communication between cells.”
\nThe extracellular matrix is a gel-like net of compacted protein chains and sugars that surrounds cells. To understand how billions of EVs navigate through the matrix, Shin’s lab used improved imaging, vesicle labeling and motion capturing technologies that weren’t available decades ago.
\n“We saw that the gaps in the matrix were smaller than the size of EVs and thought travel<\/a> would be difficult,” Shin said. “It was a surprise when we observed that the EVs traveled much more readily than we thought in certain conditions.”
\nThe researchers utilized an artificial matrix, called a hydrogel, to study whether its structure played a role in EV navigation. They customize the hydrogel’s stiffness and how well the hydrogel could relax after being stressed by an object in order to make the hydrogel more or less like the matrix in the body.
\n“The EVs became stuck when the hydrogel couldn’t relax over time, like rubber,” said Stephen Lenzini, first author and UIC graduate student in the College of Engineering. “The hydrogel needed to have a stiff backbone to provide some sort of structure, but after a stress it also had to relax enough to rearrange itself over time, which allowed the EVs to move around. The interesting finding was that this ability to move that occurred for EVs in some materials did not occur for synthetic particles of similar size.”
\nThe same membrane that EVs use to protect their cargo also was essential for its own flexibility in tight spaces. When aquaporin-1\u2014a membrane protein that allows water in and out of EVs\u2014stopped functioning, the EVs became stuck. The permeation of water through aquaporin-1 in the membrane was essential for EVs to slip through the hydrogel gaps.
\n“This study has opened new avenues into studying the distribution of EVs and their contents through tissues,” Lenzini said.
\nThe findings advance the UIC research group closer to engineering effective delivery systems, according to Shin.
\n“There are a range of diseases that undergo substantial changes in their environment. In fibrosis and some cancers, the tissues and matrix become more rigid as time progresses. In some cancers, the distribution of EVs have led to disease spreading,” he said. “So, understanding how EVs are dispersed is critical for developing these cell-free therapeutics and stopping disease progression.”<\/p>\n

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\n Stephen Lenzini et al. Matrix mechanics and water permeation regulate extracellular vesicle transport, Nature Nanotechnology<\/i> (2020). DOI: 10.1038\/s41565-020-0636-2\n <\/div>\n

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