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Table 1 Composition of exosomes

From: Current status of research on exosomes in general, and for the diagnosis and treatment of kidney cancer in particular

Type

 

Cargoes

Reference

Protein

Tetraspanin

CD9, CD63, CD81, etc

[29,30,31]

Heat shock protein

Hsp70, Hsp90, etc

MVB formation

ALIX, TSG101, etc

Membrane transport and fusion proteins

Rab, Annexins (I, II, IV, V, VI), etc

Antigen presentation

MCH I, MCH II, etc

Adhesion molecules

integrins, ICAM-1, CD146, etc

Lipid raft

LAPA, Flotillin-1, Cholesterol, etc

Cytoskeletal proteins

 

Lipids

Cholesterol, ceramide, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin, ganglioside, etc

 

[32,33,34]

Nucleic acids

DNA, mRNA, miRNA, lncRNA, circRNA, etc

 

[35,36,37]