The relationship between molecular content of mesenchymal stem cells derived exosomes and their potentials: Opening the way for exosomes based therapeutics

Abstract

At least, more than half of our understanding of extracellular vesicles owes to the studies conducted over the past few years. When it became clear that the exosomes have various potentials in medicine, extensive research has focused on these potentials in a variety of areas including cancer, drug delivery and regenerative medicine. The growing understanding of molecular structure and functions of exosomes causes the vision to become brighter in the exosomes complexity, and our attitude toward these vesicles has undergone changes accordingly. Proteomic and transcriptomic studies on exosomes have highlighted their molecular diversity. In this review, we explicitly examine the exosomes composition, molecular structure and their therapeutic potentials in some diseases. Due to the very heterogeneous nature of exosomes, the process of their use as a therapeutic agent in the clinic has been challenged. We are still at the beginning of recognizing the molecular composition of exosomes and mechanisms that affect their physiology and biology. The growing trend of engineering of exosomes has shown a promising future to further utilize them in a different field. Molecular profiling of exosomes and their content for their related potentials in regenerative medicine should be done exactly for further defining a minimum content for specific therapeutic potentials.