Abstract
The immune system has evolved to protect multicellular organisms from the attack of a variety of pathogens. To exert this function efficiently, thesystemhas developed the capacity to coordinate the function of different cell types and the ability to down-modulate the response when the foreign attack is over. For decades, immunologists believed that these two characteristics were primarily related to cytokine/chemokine-based communication and cell-to-cell direct contact. More recently, it has been shown that immune cells also communicate by transferring regulatory RNAs, microRNAsin particular, from one cell to the other. Several studies have suggested a functional role of extracellular regulatory RNAs in cell-to-cellcommunicationin different cellular contexts. This minireview focuses on the potential role of extracellularRNAtransfer in the regulation of adaptive immune response, also contextualizing it in a broader field of what is known of cell-free RNAs in communication among different organisms in the evolutionary scale.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 7221-7228 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Biological Chemistry |
| Volume | 291 |
| Issue number | 14 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 1 2016 |
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Extracellular RNAs : A secret arm of immune system regulation. / De Candia, Paola; De Rosa, Veronica; Casiraghi, Maurizio; Matarese, Giuseppe.
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AU - De Candia, Paola
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