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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (10): 1129-1133.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2018.10.018

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Research progress of Mycobacterium tuberculosis exosome

Xin-yang WANG1,Ying-me FU1,Yan-lin ZHAO2,Feng-min ZHANG1,()   

  1. 1. Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medicine, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China
  • Received:2018-09-10 Online:2018-10-10 Published:2018-10-18
  • Contact: Feng-min ZHANG E-mail:fengminzhang@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Since exosomes have been discovered in 1983, research on exosomes has been deepening, and their functions have been discovered constantly, such as diagnosing the occurrence of diseases as molecular markers and affecting the body’s immune function. Exosomes also exist in bacteria, which can affect the host immunity. When bacteria infect the host, the exosomes produced by the host also play a very important role in the host immunity. The function of exosomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reviewed. In addition, the function of bacteria exosomes, represented by mycobacterium, is described.

Key words: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium, Exosomes, Biological markers, Biomedical research, Functions