Abstract
Growing attention is drawn toward the role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in infectious diseases. EVs, which are small vesicles released by cells, are involved in cellular communication, immune regulation, and pathogenesis. EVs act as messenger carrying functional cargoes, including RNA, DNA, lipids and proteins from a donor cell to regulate the function of a recipient cell. In malaria, EVs play a key role in regulating the progression from the blood to the transmission stage by promoting the switch between asexual and sexual stages that are taken up by mosquitoes. In addition to their role in parasite communication, EVs modulate the immune system and regulate endothelial cell function.
In this chapter, we describe protocols to isolate, purify and characterize EVs derived from Plasmodium falciparum infected red blood cell culture.
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This work was supported by grants from the Novartis Foundation for Medical-Biological Research, from the Research Pool and Fund of the University of Fribourg, as well as from the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner foundation (to M.W. and P.Y.M.).
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Mbagwu, S., Walch, M., Filgueira, L., Mantel, PY. (2017). Production and Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles in Malaria. In: Kuo, W., Jia, S. (eds) Extracellular Vesicles. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1660. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7253-1_31
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