Extracellular Vesicles as Molecular Regulators of Viral Infection: Implications for COVID-19 and Future Viral Pandemics
Saugata Dutta, Sauradeep Dutta, Yohan Han, Yin Zhu, Sultan Almuntashiri, Payaningal R. Somanath, S. Priya Narayanan, Shaheen Islam, Xiaoyun Wang, Duo Zhang · 2026
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Saugata Dutta and co-authors review the double life of extracellular vesicles in viral infection in a 2026 paper. Vesicles are tiny parcels that cells release, loaded with proteins and genetic scraps. In an infection they can help the virus, ferrying its parts or muting defenses, or hinder it, carrying alarms and decoys. Which way they lean depends on their cargo.
COVID-19 is the test case. The pandemic exposed how poorly the world was prepared, with drugs that reached their targets badly and immune responses that overshot. The review gathers what is known about vesicles in that disease and asks how they could be turned into therapy: as delivery trucks for antivirals, or as levers on the immune response. The lessons are aimed at the next pandemic as much as the last one.
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| CREATOR | Saugata Dutta, Sauradeep Dutta, Yohan Han, Yin Zhu, Sultan Almuntashiri, Payaningal R. Somanath, S. Priya Narayanan, Shaheen Islam, Xiaoyun Wang, Duo Zhang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |