Fig. 1

Characterisation of prostate cancer-derived extracellular vesicles. EVs post differential ultracentrifugation were characterised using nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), immunoblotting analysis, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). a). Particle concentration and size of which three replicates of each sample were analysed by NTA independently. Data analysed by one-way ANOVA test and presented as mean bars (n = 3) ± SEM, the significant p-value is reported; * indicates p < 0.05, ** indicates p < 0.01. n.s. = not significant. b) Representative graphs of prostate cancer EVs distribution from NTA software. c)Immunoblotting analysis of EVs from PC-3, LNCaP and DU 145 cells and cell lysates. Detection of EVs associated positive markers, syntenin, CD63, and negative marker calnexin. SEM images of d) PC-3 EVs, e) LNCaP EVs and f) DU 145 EVs with a range of 90 nm to 130 nm (magnification 62000x).