This work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, grant number 2019/33/B/NZ5/00647. We would like to thank Professor Tomasz Gosiewski and Agnieszka Krawczyk from the Department of Molecular Medical Microbiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College for their invaluable help in the detection of bacterial DNA in EVs.

1. Preparation of ultracentrifuge tubes
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	<li>Use sterile, single-use tubes. If this is not possible, reuse the ultracentrifuge tubes after washing them with a detergent using a sterile Pasteur pipette or other single-use applicators. Remember that ultracentrifuge tubes should be dedicated to one type of centrifuged material (cell culture supernatant/serum/plasma) and species (human/mouse/etc.).</li>
	<li>After a detergent wash, rinse the ultracentrifuge tubes with deionized, LPS-free water 3x.<br ...

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In the last few years, methods for proper EVs isolation have become increasingly important, enabling their further reliable analyses, for example, in the context of obtaining reliable omics and functional data24. Based on previous research experience, it seems that not only the type of isolation method, but also other conditions during this procedure may be important. The use of EV-depleted FBS is widely recognized as a necessity25,26; how...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), according to the MISEV 2018 nomenclature, are a collective term describing various subtypes of cell-secreted membranous vesicles that play crucial roles in numerous physiological and pathological processes1,2. Moreover, EVs show promise as novel biomarkers for various diseases, as well as therapeutic agents and drug delivery vehicles. However, realizing their full potential is difficult as there are still many technical obstacles related to their acquisition3. One such challenge is the isolation of endotoxin-free EVs, which has been neglected in many cases. One of the most common endotoxins is lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which is a major component of gram-negative bacterial cell walls and can cause an acute inflammatory response, owing to the release of a large number of inflammatory cytokines by various cells4,5. LPS induces a response by binding to LPS binding protein, followed by interaction with the CD14/TLR4/MD2 complex on myeloid cells. This interaction leads to the activation of MyD88- and TRIF-dependent signaling pathways, which in turn triggers the nuclear factor kappa B (NFkB). Translocation of NFkB to the nucleus initiates the production of cytokines6. Monocytes and macrophages are highly sensitive to LPS, and their exposure to LPS results in a release of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines (e.g., IL-6, IL-12, CXCL8, and TNF-&#945;)7,8. The CD14 structure enables the binding of different LPS species with similar affinity and serves as a co-receptor for other toll-like receptors (TLRs) (TLR1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9)6. The number of studies being conducted on the effects of EVs on monocytes/macrophages is still increasing9,10,11. Especially from the perspective of studying the functions of monocytes, their subpopulations, and other immune cells, the presence of endotoxin and even their masked presence in EVs is of great importance12. The overlooked contamination of EVs with endotoxins may lead to misleading conclusions and hide their true biological activity. In other words, working with monocytic cells requires confidence in the absence of endotoxin contamination13. Potential sources of endotoxins can be water, commercially obtained media and sera, media components and additives, laboratory glassware, and plasticware5,14,15.
Therefore, this study aimed to develop a protocol for the isolation of low endotoxin-containing EVs. The protocol provides simple hints on how to avoid endotoxin contamination during EVs isolation instead of removing endotoxins from EVs. Previously, many protocols have been presented on how to remove endotoxins from, for example, engineered nanoparticles used in nanomedicine; however, none of them are useful for biological structures such as EVs. The effective depyrogenation of nanoparticles can be carried out by ethanol or acetic acid rinsing, heating at 175 &#176;C for 3 h, &#947; irradiation, or triton X-100 treatment; however, these procedures lead to the destruction of EVs16,17.
The presented protocol is a pioneering study focused on avoiding endotoxin impurities in EVs, unlike previous studies on the effect of EVs on monocytes9. Applying proposed principles to laboratory practice may help to obtain reliable research results, which can be crucial when considering the potential use of EVs as therapeutic agents in the clinic12.

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			<td>Cell Signaling Technology</td>
			<td>2171</td>
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			<td>1250ul Filter Universal Pipette Tips, Clear, Polypropylene, Non-Pyrogenic</td>
			<td>GoogLab Scientific</td>
			<td>GBFT1250-R-NS</td>
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			<td>BD FACSCanto II Flow Cytometr</td>
			<td>BD Biosciences</td>
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			<td></td>
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			<td>CBA Human Th1/Th2 Cytokine Kit II</td>
			<td>BD Biosciences</td>
			<td>551809</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>CD9 (D8O1A) Rabbit mAb</td>
			<td>Cell Signaling Technology</td>
			<td>13174</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>ChemiDoc Imaging System</td>
			<td>Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.&#160;</td>
			<td>17001401</td>
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			<td>DMEM (Dulbecco&#8217;s Modified Eagle&#8217;s Medium)&#160;</td>
			<td>Corning</td>
			<td>10-013-CV</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>ELX800NB, Universal Microplate Reader</td>
			<td>BIO-TEK INSTRUMENTS, INC</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Fetal Bovine Serum</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>16000044</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Fetal Bovine Serum South America Ultra Low Endotoxin</td>
			<td>&#160;Biowest</td>
			<td>&#160;S1860-500</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Gentamicin, 50 mg/mL</td>
			<td>&#160;PAN &#8211; Biotech</td>
			<td>P06-13100</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Goat anti-Mouse IgG- HRP</td>
			<td>Santa Cruz Biotechnology</td>
			<td>sc-2004</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Goat anti-Rabbit IgG- HRP</td>
			<td>Santa Cruz Biotechnology</td>
			<td>sc-2005</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Immun-Blot PVDF Membrane</td>
			<td>Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.&#160;</td>
			<td>1620177</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>LPS from Salmonella abortus equi S-form (TLRGRADE)</td>
			<td>&#160;Enzo Life Sciences, Inc.</td>
			<td>ALX-581-009-L002</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Mini Trans-Blot Electrophoretic Transfer Cell</td>
			<td>Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.&#160;</td>
			<td>1703930</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis&#160;</td>
			<td>Malvern Instruments Ltd</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>NuPAGE LDS Sample Buffer (4X)</td>
			<td>&#160;Invitrogen</td>
			<td>&#160;NP0007</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>NuPAGE Sample Reducing Agent (10x)</td>
			<td>&#160;Invitrogen</td>
			<td>NP0004</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Parafilm</td>
			<td>Sigma Aldrich</td>
			<td>P7793</td>
			<td>transparent film</td>
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			<td>Perfect 100-1000 bp DNA Ladder</td>
			<td>EURx</td>
			<td>E3141-01&#160;</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>PierceTM Chromogenic Endotoxin Quant Kit</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>A39552</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>PP Oak Ridge Tube with sealing caps</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>3929, 03613</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>RPMI 1640</td>
			<td>RPMI-1640 (Gibco)</td>
			<td>11875093</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>SimpliAmp Thermal Cycler</td>
			<td>Applied Biosystem</td>
			<td>A24811</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Sorvall wX+ ULTRA SERIES Centrifuge with T-1270 rotor</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>75000100</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Sub-Cell GT Horizontal Electrophoresis System</td>
			<td>Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.&#160;</td>
			<td>1704401</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>SuperSignal West Pico PLUS Chemiluminescent Substrate</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>34577</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>SW480 cell line</td>
			<td>American Type Culture Collection(ATCC)</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>SW480 cell line</td>
			<td>American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Syringe filter 0.22 um</td>
			<td>TPP</td>
			<td>99722</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Trans-Blot SD Semi-Dry Transfer Cell</td>
			<td>Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.&#160;</td>
			<td>1703940</td>
			<td>Transfer machine</td>
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			<td>Transfer pipette, 3.5 mL</td>
			<td>SARSTEDT</td>
			<td>86.1171.001</td>
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isolation of low endotoxin content extracellular vesicles derived from cancer cell lines

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a heterogeneous population of membrane vesicles released by cells in vitro and in vivo. Their omnipresence and significant role as carriers of biological information make them intriguing study objects, requiring reliable and repetitive protocols for their isolation. However, realizing their full potential is difficult as there are still many technical obstacles related to their research (like proper acquisition). This study presents a protocol for the isolation of small EVs (according to the MISEV 2018 nomenclature) from the culture supernatant of tumor cell lines based on differential centrifugation. The protocol includes guidelines on how to avoid contamination with endotoxins during the isolation of EVs and how to properly evaluate them. Endotoxin contamination of EVs can significantly hinder subsequent experiments or even mask their true biological effects. On the other hand, the overlooked presence of endotoxins may lead to incorrect conclusions. This is of particular importance when referring to cells of the immune system, including monocytes, because monocytes constitute a population that is especially sensitive to endotoxin residues. Therefore, it is highly recommended to screen EVs for endotoxin contamination, especially when working with endotoxin-sensitive cells such as monocytes, macrophages, myeloid-derived suppressor cells, or dendritic cells.

A prerequisite or obligatory step for this protocol is the exclusion of possible endotoxin contamination from reagents. All the reagents being used, such as FBS, DMEM, RPMI, PBS, and even ultracentrifuge tubes, must be endotoxin-free (&#60;0.005 EU/mL). Maintaining the regime of no endotoxin contamination is not easy as, for example, the regular/standard serum for cell culture can be its rich source (0.364 EU/mL; see Table 1).
Although this protocol was developed to isolate EV...

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Isolation of Low Endotoxin Content Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Cancer Cell Lines

The proposed protocol includes guidelines on how to avoid contamination with endotoxin during the isolation of extracellular vesicles from cell culture supernatants, and how to properly evaluate them.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a heterogeneous population of membrane vesicles released by cells in vitro and in vivo. Their omnipresence and ...

This protocol provide guidelines on how to avoid contamination with endotoxin during the isolation of extracellular vesicles from cell culture supernatants, and how to properly evaluate them. The main advantage of this protocol is that every lab concerned with EVs may limit endotoxin contamination by keeping an aseptic procedure and using simple and widely available equipment. Everyone who is trying this technique for the first time should start with new media, reagents, and plasticware which are low-endotoxin, non-pyrogenic labeled.For this protocol, use endotoxin-free reagents, water, culture media, filtered PBS, ultra low-endotoxin FBS, and ultracentrifuge tubes. To begin, collect the supernatant from previously cultured SW480 and SW620 cell lines into appropriately labeled 15-milliliter tubes. Remove cell debris by centrifuging the supernatant at 500 x g for five minutes at room temperature.Without disturbing the debris, collect the supernatant into a new labeled tube, and centrifuge at 3, 200 x g for 12 minutes at four degrees Celsius. Carefully transfer 45 milliliters of the supernatant into a vertically-placed sterile 50-milliliter tube, without wetting the edges of the tube. Wrap the tube's cap with a sterile, transparent film, and store it vertically at minus 80 degrees Celsius for subsequent isolation of extracellular vesicles.Begin isolation by preparing 0.22-micrometer syringe filters, syringes, and tubes containing approximately 90 milliliters of supernatant. Fill a syringe with the supernatant, and fix the filter to the needle adapter. Filter the supernatant through the filter into a 50-milliliter tube.Pipette seven milliliters of the filtrate into a prepared ultracentrifuge tube, and centrifuge at 100, 000 x g for two hours at four degrees Celsius. Use a sterile Pasteur pipette to discard the supernatant. Pull the pellets into an ultracentrifuge tube using a long filtered pipette tip.Rinse the extracellular vesicles by adding seven milliliters of filtered endotoxin-free PBS. After ultracentrifugation, discard the supernatant using a sterile Pasteur pipette and resuspend the pellet in 200 microliters of endotoxin-free PBS. Transfer the suspension to a sterile 1.5-milliliter low protein binding test tube.Then transfer 10 microliters of suspension to a new 1.5-milliliter tube for further analysis. Wrap the cap of the tube, and store it at minus 80 degrees Celsius. Now, into a new tube, dilute one microliter of suspension using filtered PBS at a ratio of 1 to 1000 for nanoparticle tracking analysis.To perform blotting analysis, first mix 20 micrograms of the samples with a loading buffer. Incubate the samples at 70 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Then load 20 micrograms of the sample into each well of a 10 to 14%polyacrylamide gel with SDS, and perform electrophoresis for 45 minutes at 150 volts, with running buffer.Next, place the gel in a transfer machine with Towbin buffer, and perform a semi-dry transfer of proteins onto a polyvinylidene difluoride membrane at 25 volts for one hour. Block the membrane with 1%BSA by incubating it for one hour on a rocker. Add BSA diluted antibodies, anti-CD9 or anti-Alix, to the membrane, and incubate overnight at four degrees Celsius on a rocker.After removing the antibodies, wash the membrane thrice with 10 milliliters of TBST for 10 minutes. Now add goat anti-rabbit or anti-mouse secondary antibody, and incubate again on a rocker for one hour at room temperature. Discard the antibody, and wash the membrane as demonstrated previously.Pour one milliliter of the solution containing substrate and luminol at an equal ratio on the membrane. Immediately place the membrane in an imaging system, and visualize the protein bands on the screen. In the present study, western blot analysis confirmed the presence of two extracellular vesicle markers, CD9 and Alix.The mean size and concentrations of the vesicles isolated from both SW480 and SW620 were similar. Stimulation of monocyte with different doses of lipopolysaccharide, or LPS, showed the lowest dose of LPS enabling the secretion of interleukin 10 and tumor necrosis factor in monocytes was 50 picogram per milliliter. The chromogenic LAL test indicated that LPS contamination of the extracellular vesicles was around 50 picograms per milliliter for both cell lines.The most important thing to remember is the use of LPS-free or depleted reagents, and routine LPS measurement at each step of the procedure. Preventing endotoxin contamination is easier than eliminating it. The proposed protocol limits the possibility of false results due to the contamination of EVs with endotoxin, and allows for assessing the EVs activity per cell.The proposed protocol is useful for researchers working with endotoxin-sensitive cells, like monocytes, dendritic cells, and macrophages.

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893 vues.  Jagiellonian University Medical College. Ce protocole fournit des lignes directrices sur la façon d’éviter la contamination par l’endotoxine lors de l’isolement des vésicules extracellulaires à partir de surnageants de culture cellulaire, et comment les évaluer correctement. Le principal avantage de ce protocole est que chaque laboratoire concerné par les VE peut limiter la contamination par les endotoxines en conservant une procédure aseptique et en utilisant un équipement simple et largement disponible. Tous ceux qui...