Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
Specificities of exosome versus small ectosome secretion revealed by live intracellular tracking of CD63 and CD9
Abstract
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a role in intercellular communication, however the precise biogenesis of different populations of EVs are not clear. Here, the authors follow the intracellular trafficking of two proteins before their secretion in EVs and report the biogenesis and protein markers of EV subtypes: ectosomes budding from the plasma membrane as well as exosomes from late endosomes.