{"title":"The biogenesis and biological roles of migrasomes in human diseases.","authors":"Yifan Zhang, Wei Chen, Jiageng Zhu, Luwei Xu","doi":"10.1038/s41420-025-02569-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Migrasomes are recently identified extracellular vesicles that are specifically generated by migrating cells. These pomegranate-like, membrane-bound organelles are released at the trailing edge during cell migration and play crucial roles in cell-to-cell communication, intercellular signaling, and tissue remodeling. Migrasomes selectively package various molecular components, including proteins, lipids, and RNA, facilitating a unique form of cellular communication known as migracytosis. They are involved in numerous physiological and pathological processes, including immune responses, cancer metastasis, tissue repair, and embryonic development. In this review, we provide an in-depth analysis of the biogenesis, structural features, and molecular composition of migrasomes. We further explore the emerging roles of migrasomes in disease pathogenesis, particularly their potential in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and immune modulation. Overall, this review aims to offer comprehensive insights into the latest research on migrasomes, while addressing the challenges in their study and potential avenues for future clinical implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":9735,"journal":{"name":"Cell Death Discovery","volume":"11 1","pages":"296"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12219052/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cell Death Discovery","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41420-025-02569-8","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CELL BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Migrasomes are recently identified extracellular vesicles that are specifically generated by migrating cells. These pomegranate-like, membrane-bound organelles are released at the trailing edge during cell migration and play crucial roles in cell-to-cell communication, intercellular signaling, and tissue remodeling. Migrasomes selectively package various molecular components, including proteins, lipids, and RNA, facilitating a unique form of cellular communication known as migracytosis. They are involved in numerous physiological and pathological processes, including immune responses, cancer metastasis, tissue repair, and embryonic development. In this review, we provide an in-depth analysis of the biogenesis, structural features, and molecular composition of migrasomes. We further explore the emerging roles of migrasomes in disease pathogenesis, particularly their potential in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and immune modulation. Overall, this review aims to offer comprehensive insights into the latest research on migrasomes, while addressing the challenges in their study and potential avenues for future clinical implementation.
期刊介绍:
Cell Death Discovery is a multidisciplinary, international, online-only, open access journal, dedicated to publishing research at the intersection of medicine with biochemistry, pharmacology, immunology, cell biology and cell death, provided it is scientifically sound. The unrestricted access to research findings in Cell Death Discovery will foster a dynamic and highly productive dialogue between basic scientists and clinicians, as well as researchers in industry with a focus on cancer, neurobiology and inflammation research. As an official journal of the Cell Death Differentiation Association (ADMC), Cell Death Discovery will build upon the success of Cell Death & Differentiation and Cell Death & Disease in publishing important peer-reviewed original research, timely reviews and editorial commentary.
Cell Death Discovery is committed to increasing the reproducibility of research. To this end, in conjunction with its sister journals Cell Death & Differentiation and Cell Death & Disease, Cell Death Discovery provides a unique forum for scientists as well as clinicians and members of the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industry. It is committed to the rapid publication of high quality original papers that relate to these subjects, together with topical, usually solicited, reviews, editorial correspondence and occasional commentaries on controversial and scientifically informative issues.