Abstract
It is becoming well-known that bacterial cells produce membrane vesicles (MVs) from the cell surface in a budding manner, whereas the detailed mechanisms of MV biogenesis remain unclear. MVs are not authentic cells, since they are observed to be between 20 and 300nm in size but have a structure close to the subcellular compartments. In a sense, the structure of MVs containing biogenic and cellular substances and their behavior look similar to those of viruses. Due to these scientific facts, several potent applications employing MVs as a promising tool have been proposed and reported. This review introduces a few outstanding examples for promising applications of MVs to biotechnology.
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