Extracellular vesicles as carriers of microRNA, proteins and lipids in tumor microenvironment

P Penfornis, KC Vallabhaneni, J Whitt… - … journal of cancer, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
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In recent years, the knowledge about the control of tumor microenvironment has increased
and emerged as an important player in tumorigenesis. The role of normal stromal cells in the
tumor initiation and progression has brought our vision in to the forefront of cell‐to‐cell
communication. In this review, we focus on the mechanism of communication between
stromal and tumor cells, which is based on the exchange of extracellular vesicles (EVs). We
describe several, evergrowing, pieces of evidence that EVs transfer messages through their …
In recent years, the knowledge about the control of tumor microenvironment has increased and emerged as an important player in tumorigenesis. The role of normal stromal cells in the tumor initiation and progression has brought our vision in to the forefront of cell‐to‐cell communication. In this review, we focus on the mechanism of communication between stromal and tumor cells, which is based on the exchange of extracellular vesicles (EVs). We describe several, evergrowing, pieces of evidence that EVs transfer messages through their miRNA, lipid, protein and nucleic acid contents. A better understanding of this sophisticated method of communication between normal cancer cells may lead to developing novel approaches for personalized diagnostics and therapeutics.
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