The term secretome was coined by Tjalsma and colleagues in 2004 to denote all the factors secreted by a cell, along with the secretory pathway constituents.[1] In 2010, this definition of secretome was revised to include only proteins secreted into the extracellular space.[2] Related concepts include the
matrisome, which is the subset of the secretome that includes
extracellular matrix proteins and their associated proteins;[3] the
receptome, which includes all membrane receptors,[4] and the
adhesome, which includes all proteins involved in
cell adhesion.[5][6]
Quantification
The secreted proteins in humans account for 13–20% of the entire
proteome and include growth factors, chemokines, cytokines, adhesion molecules, proteases and shed receptors.[2]Human protein-coding genes (39%, 19613 genes[7]) are predicted to have either a signal peptide and/or at least one transmembrane region suggesting active transport of the corresponding protein out of the cell (secretion) or location in one of the numerous membrane systems in the cell. Increasing evidence showed that, in addition to the protein cargo, non-protein components, such as lipid, micro-RNAs and messenger-RNA, could also be secreted by cells via both
microvesicles (100–>1000 nm diameter) − shedding from the plasma membrane − and
exosomes (30–150 nm diameter) − released via endosomal-exocytosis event.[8] Factors present in both these organelles accounts for up to 42% of the secretome and have been incorporated as the collective secretome.[9] There is a vast array of methodologies available to study cell secretomes of plant cells, mammalian cells, stem cells and cancer cells.[9]
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