Name: Extraction of Peptides from Isolated Small Extracellular Vesicles (sEVs)
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extraction of peptides from isolated small extracellular vesicles (sevs)

Isolating Small Extracellular Vesicles and Extracting Their Peptidome

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) with a diameter of less than 200 nm are present in almost all types of body fluids and secreted by all kinds of cells, including urine, sweat, tears, cerebrospinal fluid, and amniotic fluid1. Initially, sEVs were considered as receptacles for disposing of cellular waste, which led to minimal research in the subsequent decade2. Recently, increasing evidence indicates that sEVs contain specific proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and other metabolites. These molecules are transported to target cells3, contributing to intercellular communication, through which they participate in various biological processes, such as tissue repair, angiogenesis, immunity4 and inflammation5,6, tumor development and metastasis7,8,9, etc.
To facilitate the study of sEVs, it is imperative to isolate sEVs from complex samples. Different sEVs isolation methods have been developed based on the physical and chemical properties of sEVs, such as their density, particle size, and surface marker proteins. These techniques include ultracentrifugation-based methods, particle size-based methods, immunoaffinity capture-based methods, sEVs precipitation-based methods, and microfluidics-based methods10,11,12. Among these techniques, the ultracentrifugation-based method is widely recognized as the gold standard for sEVs isolation and is the most commonly used technique13.
An increasing amount of evidence suggests the presence of a multitude of undiscovered biologically active peptides in the peptidomes of various organisms. These peptides significantly contribute to numerous physiological processes by regulating growth, development, stress response14,15, and signal transduction16. The objective of sEVs&#39; peptidome is to uncover the peptides carried by these sEVs and provide clues to their biological functions. Here, we present a protocol of isolating sEVs through differential ultracentrifugation, followed by extraction of peptides from these sEVs for further analysis of their peptidome.

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We explore the functional roles of extracellular vesicles in innate immunity. We have developed a protocol to isolate small extracellular vesicles, or sEVs, via differential ultracentrifugation and identify the peptidome by LC-MS/MS, revealing the key biological functions of the peptides in sEVs. The extracellular vesicles have been shown to mediate intercellular communication by transporting cargo to recipient cells, such as proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.By releasing antimicrobial components, they act the first line of defense against invading microbes in innate immunity. While differential ultracentrifugation yields highly pure small extracellular sEVs, it can be time-consuming and often results in low yields. In our study, these are major challenges for the stable identification of low-abundance peptides in the sEVs.

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Extraction of Peptides from Isolated Small Extracellular Vesicles (sEVs)

To begin, wash the isolated small extracellular vesicles or SEVs twice by ultracentrifugation at 110, 000 G and four degrees Celsius for 70 minutes. Re-suspend the vesicles in 500 microliters of phosphate buffered saline or PBS. Then, add five microliters of 100X protease inhibitor to it.Subject the sample to ultrasonic crushing at 40 watts for 10 minutes, with three second ultrasonic time, and five second interval time. Centrifuge the crushed mixture at 13, 700 G for 15 minutes at four degrees Celsius. To the obtained supernatant, add dithiothreitol to a final concentration of 50 millimolar.And incubate it in a water bath at 56 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes. Then add 50 microliters of one molar iodoacetamide to the supernatant. And allow it to react at room temperature for 20 minutes in the dark.Centrifuge the mixture at 13, 700 G and four degrees Celsius for 15 minutes. And transfer the supernatant containing the crude peptide extract to a 10 kilodalton ultracentrifuge tube. Remove protein from the crude peptide by centrifuging the ultra filtration tube at 13, 700 G and four degrees Celsius for one hour.Dry the collected effluent in a vacuum centrifugal concentrator at 45 degrees Celsius. For desalting, use mass spectrometry grade pure water as a solvent for all reagents. First, dissolve the dry peptides in 100 microliters of 0.1%trifluoracetic acid or TFA, and keep it aside.Then add 100 microliters of pure acetonitrile to each desalting column. Centrifuge the columns at 400 G for three minutes at room temperature, and discard the effluent. Then add 100 microliters of 50%acetonitrile per desalting column, and repeat the centrifugation as mentioned previously before discarding the effluent.Next, add 100 microliters of 0.1%TFA to each desalting column before centrifuging as mentioned previously. Once again, discard the effluent. Now, pipet the desalt peptides into the desalting column.Centrifuge the columns as mentioned previously to load the sample. Add the recovered effluent back to the desalting column to repeat the loading. Then, add 100 microliters of 0.1%TFA.Centrifuge as mentioned previously, and discard the effluent. Finally, add 50 microliters of 50%acetonitrile containing 0.1%TFA to the peptide in the desalting column. After centrifusion, as mentioned previously, collect the effluent in a new mass spectrometry grade centrifuge tube.

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Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are typically secreted by the exocytosis of multivesicular bodies (MVBs). These nanovesicles with a diameter of ...