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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2025

A Simplified Method for the Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Probiotic Bacteria and Their Characterization.

Harshal Sawant, Ji Bihl, Alip Borthakur

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Harshal SawantDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25701, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-7908-4050
Ji BihlDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25701, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2404-1782
Alip BorthakurDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25701, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5792-1279

Funding

West Virginia IDEA-CTRU54GM104942 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI JUDITH FEINBERG · 2012 to 2026
$81.0M
WV INBRE: The Inhibitor of Growth Family Member 4 (ING4) inhibits L-Type Amino Acid Transporter 1 (LAT1) expression to suppress Breast CancerP20GM103434 · NIGMS · MARSHALL UNIVERSITY · PI GARY O RANKIN · 2012 to 2026
$61.1M
Regulation of Tight Junction Molecular Composition by Na/K-ATPaseP20GM121299 · NIGMS · MARSHALL UNIVERSITY · PI HAYNES, JENNIFER · 2018 to 2022
$10.6M
Exosomes from miR-primed endothelial progenitor cells for treating ischemic strokeR01NS102720 · NINDS · WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BIHL, JI CHEN · 2018 to 2022
$1.6M
Establishment of a human enteroid model of cryptosporidiosisR21AI130790 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI BORTHAKUR, ALIP · 2018 to 2019
$426k
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease AI130790-03NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI130790NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103434NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM121299NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM 121299-04NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104942NINDS NIH HHS 1R01NS102720NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102720Pilot grants from WV-INBRE P20GM103434West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute 2U54GM104942
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Probiotic bacteria are normal inhabitants of a healthy human gut, conferring multiple beneficial effects on the gut and beyond. Under various disease states, the abundance and diversity of beneficial bacteria are significantly decreased, a process called dysbiosis. Among the intra- and extracellular components of probiotics, the extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by them have recently garnered significant attention as potential mediators of probiotics' effects on host health. Further, these nanosized particles that encapsulate a wide range of bioactive molecules (proteins, lipids, RNA, and DNA) are standing out as key factors that could mediate gut microbiota-host communication and confer ameliorating effects in experimental inflammatory, metabolic, and cardiovascular disease models. However, a standard protocol of EV isolation from probiotic bacteria, not varying from lab to lab, must be established to achieve consistency in the experimental results in these pre-clinical models. Our current study compared two commonly used methods for EV isolation from biological samples, ultracentrifugation and precipitation, to develop a standard protocol for isolating EVs from the probiotics

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Escherichia coliExtracellular VesiclesLactobacillus acidophilusProbioticsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansUltracentrifugationEscherichia coli NissleLactobacillus acidophilusnanoparticle-tracking analysisprecipitationprobiotic extracellular vesiclesultracentrifugation

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PMID39940832
PMCPMC11817318

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