title: Nanotubes, exosomes, and nucleic acid-binding peptides provide novel mechanisms of intercellular communication in eukaryotic cells: implications in health and disease.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Oncology, Barngatan 2:1, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Mattias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Belting
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wittrup
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D009696:Nucleic Acids; D010455:Peptides