Enrichment of sweat-derived extracellular vesicles of human and bacterial origin for biomarker identification
Artem Zhyvolozhnyi, Anatoly Samoylenko, Geneviève Bart, Anna Kaisanlahti, Jenni Hekkala, Olha Makieieva, Feby Wijaya Pratiwi, Ilkka Miinalainen, Mika Kaakinen, Ulrich Bergman, Prateek Singh, Tuomas Nurmi, Elham Khosrowbadi, Eslam Abdelrady, Sakari Kellokumpu, Susanna Kosamo, Justus Reunanen, Juha Röning, Jussi Hiltunen, Seppo Vainio
Abstract
We showed that sweat-derived EVs provide a rich source of potential biomarkers of human and bacterial origin. Use of commercially available alginate skin patches selectively enrich for human derived material with very little microbial material collected.
Topics & Concepts
SWEATExosomeExtracellular vesiclesHuman skinBiomarkerChemistryCD63BacteriaMicrovesiclesBiologyMicrobiologyBiochemistryCell biologyGeneGeneticsPaleontologymicroRNAExtracellular vesicles in disease