Nanotubes, exosomes, and nucleic acid-binding peptides provide novel mechanisms of intercellular communication in eukaryotic cells: implications in health and disease.
The prevailing view that eukaryotic cells are restrained from intercellular exchange of genetic information has been challenged by recent reports on nanotubes, exosomes, apoptotic bodies, and nucleic acid-binding peptides that provide novel pathways for cell-cell communication, with implications in health and disease.
Belting
Mattias
M
Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Oncology, Barngatan 2:1, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden.
Wittrup
Anders
A
D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000378:metabolism; D002450:Cell Communication / Q000502:physiology*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D055354:Exosomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D043942:Nanotubes / Q000737:chemistry*; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D010455:Peptides / Q000378:metabolism*; D034622:RNA Interference; D013812:Therapeutics
D009696:Nucleic Acids; D010455:Peptides