For exosome isolation, MFF-1 cells grown in 150 mm cell culture dishes were washed thrice with PBS at approximately 80% confluence and cultivated with DMEM containing 10% FBS depleted bovine serum extracellular vehicles (EVs) by overnight ultracentrifugation at 100,000×
g at 4 °C after transfection with plasmids. After 48 h, the conditioned medium (CM) was collected and first pre-cleared by centrifugation at 300×
g for 10 min at RT to remove the floating cells. Additionally, all subsequent centrifugation steps were performed at 4 °C. Next, the supernatant was spun at 20,000×
g for 20 min to remove dead cells and shedding vesicles. Then, to collect exosomes, the supernatant was isolated by ultracentrifugation at 110,000×
g for 70 min (Ti70, Beckman-Coulter, Inc., Brea, CA, USA) and the supernatant was removed. Furthermore, the precipitate was resuspended in a large volume of PBS and passed through a
0.22 μm pore PES filter (Merck Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA). Then, this supernatant (pre-cleared medium) was next followed by ultracentrifugated at 110,000×
g for 70 min (SW40, Beckman-Coulter, Inc., Brea, CA, USA) to sediment the exosomes. The precipitate was resuspended with PBS and subjected to the same ultracentrifugation conditions to wash the sample.
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