Overview of donor/acceptor cells (types of cells) involved in mitochondrial transfer
| Donor cells | Acceptor cells | Type of transfer | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat neuroendocrine pheochromocytoma cells | Rat neuroendocrine pheochromocytoma cells | TNTs | Rustom et al., 2004 |
| Human embryonic kidney cells | Human embryonic kidney cells | TNTs | Rustom et al., 2004 |
| Normal rat kidney cells | Normal rat kidney cells | TNTs | Rustom et al., 2004 |
| Rat neonatal CMs | Human endothelial progenitor cells | Nanotubes | Koyanagi et al., 2005 |
| Human macrophage | Human macrophages | TNTs | Onfelt et al., 2006 |
| Human MSCs | Human alveolar adenocarcinoma cells | TNTs | Spees et al., 2006 |
| Human skin fibroblast | Human alveolar adenocarcinoma cells | TNTs | Spees et al., 2006 |
| Human MSCs | Rat CM | Nanotubes | Plotnikov et al., 2008 |
| Rat MSCs | Rat lung ECs | Cx43-based intercellular gap junctional communication | Otsu et al., 2009 |
| MSCs | Rat cardiomyoblasts | Nanotubes | Cselenyak et al., 2010 |
| Rat kidney renal tubular cells | Human MSCs | TNTs and gap junctions | Plotnikov et al., 2010 |
| Human MSCs | Rat kidney renal tubular cells | TNTs and gap junctions | Plotnikov et al., 2010 |
| Mouse endothelial progenitor cells | Human umbilical vein ECs | TNTs | Yasuda et al., 2010 |
| Human adipose-derived stem cells | Mouse CMs | Partial cell fusion | Acquistapace et al., 2011 |
| Human proximal tubular epithelial cells | Human proximal tubular epithelial cells | TNT-like structures | Domhan et al., 2011 |
| Rat ventricular CMs | Rat fibroblasts | Nanotubes | He et al., 2011 |
| Rat ventricular CMs | Rat ventricular CMs | Nanotubes | He et al., 2011 |
| Rat fibroblasts | Rat fibroblasts | Nanotubes | He et al., 2011 |
| Rat fibroblasts | Rat ventricular CMs | Nanotubes | He et al., 2011 |
| Rat hippocampal astrocytes | Rat hippocampal astrocytes | TNTs | Wang et al., 2011 |
| Human MSCs | Human osteosarcoma cells | Partial cell fusion | Cho et al., 2012 |
| Mouse BM-derived stromal cells | Mouse BM-derived stromal cells | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels, nanotubes, MVs | Islam et al., 2012 |
| Human BM-derived stromal cells | Human BM-derived stromal cells | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels, nanotubes, MVs | Islam et al., 2012 |
| Mouse BM-derived stromal cells* | Mouse alveolar epithelial cell* | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels, nanotubes, MVs | Islam et al., 2012 |
| Human BM-derived stromal cells* | Mouse alveolar epithelial cell* | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels, nanotubes, MVs | Islam et al., 2012 |
| Human pleural mesothelioma cells | Human pleural mesothelioma cells | TNTs | Lou et al., 2012 |
| Human MSCs | Human vascular smooth muscle cells | TNTs | Vallabhaneni et al., 2012 |
| Human vascular smooth muscle cells | Human MSCs | TNTs | Vallabhaneni et al., 2012 |
| Human retinal pigment epithelial cells | Human retinal pigment epithelial cells | TNTs | Witting et al., 2012) |
| Human ECs | Human ovarian cancer cells | TNTs | Pasquier et al., 2013 |
| Human ECs | Human breast cancer cells | TNTs | Pasquier et al., 2013 |
| MSC* | Bronchial epithelial cells* | TNTs | Ahmad et al., 2014 |
| Platelets | Neutrophils | ECVs | Boudreau et al., 2014 |
| Murine neuronal cells* | Murine glial cells* | Protrusions | Davis et al., 2014 |
| MSCs* | Lung epithelial cells* | TNTs | Li et al., 2014 |
| MSCs | Human umbilical vein ECs | TNTs | Li et al., 2014 |
| Human multipotent MSCs | Rat neuronal cells | Intercellular contacts | Babenko et al., 2015 |
| Human multipotent MSCs | Rat glial cells | Intercellular contacts | Babenko et al., 2015 |
| Breast cancer cells | Breast cancer cells | n.s. | Jayaprakash et al., 2015 |
| Normal fibroblast cells | Normal fibroblast cells | n.s. | Jayaprakash et al., 2015 |
| Human MSCs | Macrophages | MVs | Phinney et al., 2015 |
| Human MSCs* | Macrophages* | MVs | Phinney et al., 2015 |
| Pheochromocytoma cells | Pheochromocytoma cells | TNTs | Okafo et al., 2017 |
| MSCs | Rat cardiomyoblasts | TNTs | Han et al., 2016 |
| Astrocytes* | Neuronal cells* | Extracellular mitochondrial particles | Hayakawa et al., 2016 |
| MSCs* | Lung alveolar macrophages* | TNTs | Jackson et al., 2016a, b |
| MSCs | Corneal epithelial cells | TNTs | Jiang et al., 2016 |
| Mouse sister germ cells | Mouse oocytes | Microtubes | Lei and Spradling, 2016 |
| BM stromal cells | Acute myeloid leukemic cells | Endocytosis | Moschoi et al., 2016 |
| BM stromal cells* | Acute myeloid leukemic cells* | Endocytosis | Moschoi et al., 2016 |
| MSCs* | Murine CMs* | TNTs | Zhang et al., 2016 |
| MSCs | Murine CMs | TNTs | Zhang et al., 2016 |
| MSCs | MERRF cybrid cells | n.s. | Chuang et al., 2017 |
| Malignant urothelial carcinoma cells | Non-malignant urinary papillary urothelial tumor cells | TNTs | Lu et al., 2017 |
| Human MSCs | Human CMs | n.s. | Mahrouf-Yorgov et al., 2017 |
| Human MSCs | Human ECs | n.s. | Mahrouf-Yorgov et al., 2017 |
| Human CMs | Human MSCs | n.s. | Mahrouf-Yorgov et al., 2017 |
| Human ECs | Human MSCs | n.s. | Mahrouf-Yorgov et al., 2017 |
| BM stromal cells* | Acute myeloid leukemia cells* | TNTs | Marlein et al., 2017 |
| Mesenchymal stromal cells* | Macrophages* | EVs | Morrison et al., 2017 |
| Human healthy astrocytes | Human stressed astrocytes | TNTs | Rostami et al., 2017 |
| Human multipotent MSCs | Rat astrocytes | TNTs | Babenko et al., 2018 |
| Human multipotent MSCs | Neuron-like PC12 pheochromocytoma ρ0 cells | TNTs | Babenko et al., 2018 |
| MSCs | Neural stem cells | Actin-based intercellular structures | Boukelmoune et al., 2018 |
| Monkey kidney cells | Monkey kidney cells | TNTs | Guo et al., 2018 |
| Porcine alveolar macrophages | Porcine alveolar macrophages | TNTs | Guo et al., 2018 |
| Porcine umbilical cord MSCs | Porcine alveolar macrophages | TNTs | Guo et al., 2018 |
| Endothelial progenitor cells | Brain ECs | Endothelial progenitor cell–derived mitochondrial particles | Hayakawa et al., 2018 |
| Myeloid-derived regulatory cells | T Cells | ECVs | Hough et al., 2018 |
| Cardiac myofibroblasts | Cardiomyocytes | Nanotubes | Shen et al., 2018 |
| T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells | MSCs | TNTs | Wang e al., 2018 |
| MSCs | T Cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells | TNTs | Wang et al., 2018 |
| Human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived MSCs | Human bronchial epithelium cells | TNTs (Cx43 mediated) | Yao et al., 2018 |
| Human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived MSCs* | Murine epithelial cells* | TNTs (Cx43 mediated) | Yao et al., 2018 |
| Scattered tubular-like cells | Tubular epithelial cells | ECVs | Zou et al., 2018 |
| MSCs | Acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells | TNTs | Burt et al., 2019 |
| BM MSCs | Human ECs | TNTs | Feng et al., 2019 |
| Human astrocytes | Human astrocytes | n.s. | Gao et al., 2019 |
| Human neuronal cells | Human astrocytes | n.s. | Gao et al., 2019 |
| Cancer-associated fibroblasts | Prostate cancer cells | Cellular bridges | Ippolito et al., 2019 |
| Cancer-associated fibroblasts* | Prostate cancer cells* | Cellular bridges | Ippolito et al., 2019 |
| BM-derived MSCs | Proximal tubular epithelial cells | n.s. | Konari et al., 2019 |
| BM-derived MSCs* | Proximal tubular epithelial cells* | n.s. | Konari et al., 2019 |
| Rat MSCs | Rat neurons | Gap junction intercellular communication | Li et al., 2019 |
| Rat MSCs* | Rat neurons* | Gap junction intercellular communication | Li et al., 2019 |
| Astrocytes | Primary rat neuronal cells | n.s. | Lippert and Borlongan, 2019 |
| BM stromal cells | MM cells | TNTs | Marlein et al., 2019 |
| BM stromal cells | Hematopoietic stem cells | Gap junction | Mistry et al., 2019 |
| BM stromal cells* | Hematopoietic stem cells* | Gap junction | Mistry et al., 2019 |
| Astrocytes | Neurons | n.s. | English et al., 2020 |
| Murine hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells* | Murine mesenchymal stromal cells* | Cell-contact dependent, Cx43-mediated | Golan et al., 2020 |
| Murine CMs* | Murine macrophages* | Cardiomyocyte-derived exophers (subcellular particles) | Nocolas-Avila et al., 2020 |
| Mesenchymal stromal cells | Islet β cells | TNTs | Rackham et al., 2020 |
| Murine white adipocytes* | Murine macrophages* | n.s. | Brestoff et al., 2021 |
| Human MSCs | Injured alveolar epithelial cells | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels | Huang et al., 2021 |
| Platelets | MSCs | Dynamin-dependent clathrin-mediated endocytosis | Levoux et al., 2021 |
| Platelets* | MSCs* | Dynamin-dependent clathrin-mediated endocytosis | Levoux et al., 2021 |
| BM stromal cells | Myeloma cells | TNTs and partial cell fusion | Matula et al., 2021 |
| Myeloma cells | BM stromal cells | TNTs and partial cell fusion | Matula et al., 2021 |
| Murine ovarian follicles | Murine ovarian follicles | Gap junction internalization | Norris, 2021 |
| Glioblastoma stem cells | Glioblastoma stem cells | TNTs | Pinto et al., 2021 |
| 3D-glioblastoma organoids | 3D-glioblastoma organoids | TNTs | Pinto et al., 2021 |
| Human breast epithelial cancer cells | Human breast epithelial cancer cells | ECVs | Rabas et al., 2021 |
| Murine high-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | Murine low-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | ECVs | Takenaga et al., 2021 |
| Murine low-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | Murine high-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | ECVs | Takenaga et al., 2021 |
| Murine high-metastatic lung carcinoma cells* | Murine low-metastatic lung carcinoma cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts* | ECVs | Takenaga et al., 2021 |
| MSCs | Neurons | Cell-to-cell contact | Tseng et al., 2021 |
| Human glioblastoma cells | Human primary astrocytes | TNTs | Valdebenito et al., 2021 |
| Human neurons | Human astrocytes | TNTs | Lampinen et al., 2022 |
| Murine neurons | Murine astrocytes | TNTs | Lampinen et al., 2022 |
| Murine brown adipocytes* | Murine adipocytes* | ECVs | Rosina et al., 2022 |
| Effector immune cells | Breast cancer cells | TNTs | Saha et al., 2022 |
| T cells* | Lung carcinoma cells* | TNTs | Saha et al., 2022 |
| T cells* | Melanoma cells* | TNTs | Saha et al., 2022 |
| Donor cells | Acceptor cells | Type of transfer | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat neuroendocrine pheochromocytoma cells | Rat neuroendocrine pheochromocytoma cells | TNTs | |
| Human embryonic kidney cells | Human embryonic kidney cells | TNTs | |
| Normal rat kidney cells | Normal rat kidney cells | TNTs | |
| Rat neonatal CMs | Human endothelial progenitor cells | Nanotubes | |
| Human macrophage | Human macrophages | TNTs | |
| Human MSCs | Human alveolar adenocarcinoma cells | TNTs | |
| Human skin fibroblast | Human alveolar adenocarcinoma cells | TNTs | |
| Human MSCs | Rat CM | Nanotubes | |
| Rat MSCs | Rat lung ECs | Cx43-based intercellular gap junctional communication | |
| MSCs | Rat cardiomyoblasts | Nanotubes | |
| Rat kidney renal tubular cells | Human MSCs | TNTs and gap junctions | |
| Human MSCs | Rat kidney renal tubular cells | TNTs and gap junctions | |
| Mouse endothelial progenitor cells | Human umbilical vein ECs | TNTs | |
| Human adipose-derived stem cells | Mouse CMs | Partial cell fusion | |
| Human proximal tubular epithelial cells | Human proximal tubular epithelial cells | TNT-like structures | |
| Rat ventricular CMs | Rat fibroblasts | Nanotubes | |
| Rat ventricular CMs | Rat ventricular CMs | Nanotubes | |
| Rat fibroblasts | Rat fibroblasts | Nanotubes | |
| Rat fibroblasts | Rat ventricular CMs | Nanotubes | |
| Rat hippocampal astrocytes | Rat hippocampal astrocytes | TNTs | |
| Human MSCs | Human osteosarcoma cells | Partial cell fusion | |
| Mouse BM-derived stromal cells | Mouse BM-derived stromal cells | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels, nanotubes, MVs | |
| Human BM-derived stromal cells | Human BM-derived stromal cells | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels, nanotubes, MVs | |
| Mouse BM-derived stromal cells | Mouse alveolar epithelial cell | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels, nanotubes, MVs | |
| Human BM-derived stromal cells | Mouse alveolar epithelial cell | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels, nanotubes, MVs | |
| Human pleural mesothelioma cells | Human pleural mesothelioma cells | TNTs | |
| Human MSCs | Human vascular smooth muscle cells | TNTs | |
| Human vascular smooth muscle cells | Human MSCs | TNTs | |
| Human retinal pigment epithelial cells | Human retinal pigment epithelial cells | TNTs | |
| Human ECs | Human ovarian cancer cells | TNTs | |
| Human ECs | Human breast cancer cells | TNTs | |
| MSC | Bronchial epithelial cells | TNTs | |
| Platelets | Neutrophils | ECVs | |
| Murine neuronal cells | Murine glial cells | Protrusions | |
| MSCs | Lung epithelial cells | TNTs | |
| MSCs | Human umbilical vein ECs | TNTs | |
| Human multipotent MSCs | Rat neuronal cells | Intercellular contacts | |
| Human multipotent MSCs | Rat glial cells | Intercellular contacts | |
| Breast cancer cells | Breast cancer cells | n.s. | |
| Normal fibroblast cells | Normal fibroblast cells | n.s. | |
| Human MSCs | Macrophages | MVs | |
| Human MSCs | Macrophages | MVs | |
| Pheochromocytoma cells | Pheochromocytoma cells | TNTs | |
| MSCs | Rat cardiomyoblasts | TNTs | |
| Astrocytes | Neuronal cells | Extracellular mitochondrial particles | |
| MSCs | Lung alveolar macrophages | TNTs | |
| MSCs | Corneal epithelial cells | TNTs | |
| Mouse sister germ cells | Mouse oocytes | Microtubes | |
| BM stromal cells | Acute myeloid leukemic cells | Endocytosis | |
| BM stromal cells | Acute myeloid leukemic cells | Endocytosis | |
| MSCs | Murine CMs | TNTs | |
| MSCs | Murine CMs | TNTs | |
| MSCs | MERRF cybrid cells | n.s. | |
| Malignant urothelial carcinoma cells | Non-malignant urinary papillary urothelial tumor cells | TNTs | |
| Human MSCs | Human CMs | n.s. | |
| Human MSCs | Human ECs | n.s. | |
| Human CMs | Human MSCs | n.s. | |
| Human ECs | Human MSCs | n.s. | |
| BM stromal cells | Acute myeloid leukemia cells | TNTs | |
| Mesenchymal stromal cells | Macrophages | EVs | |
| Human healthy astrocytes | Human stressed astrocytes | TNTs | |
| Human multipotent MSCs | Rat astrocytes | TNTs | |
| Human multipotent MSCs | Neuron-like PC12 pheochromocytoma ρ0 cells | TNTs | |
| MSCs | Neural stem cells | Actin-based intercellular structures | |
| Monkey kidney cells | Monkey kidney cells | TNTs | |
| Porcine alveolar macrophages | Porcine alveolar macrophages | TNTs | |
| Porcine umbilical cord MSCs | Porcine alveolar macrophages | TNTs | |
| Endothelial progenitor cells | Brain ECs | Endothelial progenitor cell–derived mitochondrial particles | |
| Myeloid-derived regulatory cells | T Cells | ECVs | |
| Cardiac myofibroblasts | Cardiomyocytes | Nanotubes | |
| T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells | MSCs | TNTs | |
| MSCs | T Cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells | TNTs | |
| Human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived MSCs | Human bronchial epithelium cells | TNTs (Cx43 mediated) | |
| Human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived MSCs | Murine epithelial cells | TNTs (Cx43 mediated) | |
| Scattered tubular-like cells | Tubular epithelial cells | ECVs | |
| MSCs | Acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells | TNTs | |
| BM MSCs | Human ECs | TNTs | |
| Human astrocytes | Human astrocytes | n.s. | |
| Human neuronal cells | Human astrocytes | n.s. | |
| Cancer-associated fibroblasts | Prostate cancer cells | Cellular bridges | |
| Cancer-associated fibroblasts | Prostate cancer cells | Cellular bridges | |
| BM-derived MSCs | Proximal tubular epithelial cells | n.s. | |
| BM-derived MSCs | Proximal tubular epithelial cells | n.s. | |
| Rat MSCs | Rat neurons | Gap junction intercellular communication | |
| Rat MSCs | Rat neurons | Gap junction intercellular communication | |
| Astrocytes | Primary rat neuronal cells | n.s. | |
| BM stromal cells | MM cells | TNTs | |
| BM stromal cells | Hematopoietic stem cells | Gap junction | |
| BM stromal cells | Hematopoietic stem cells | Gap junction | |
| Astrocytes | Neurons | n.s. | |
| Murine hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells | Murine mesenchymal stromal cells | Cell-contact dependent, Cx43-mediated | |
| Murine CMs | Murine macrophages | Cardiomyocyte-derived exophers (subcellular particles) | |
| Mesenchymal stromal cells | Islet β cells | TNTs | |
| Murine white adipocytes | Murine macrophages | n.s. | |
| Human MSCs | Injured alveolar epithelial cells | Cx43-containing gap junctional channels | |
| Platelets | MSCs | Dynamin-dependent clathrin-mediated endocytosis | |
| Platelets | MSCs | Dynamin-dependent clathrin-mediated endocytosis | |
| BM stromal cells | Myeloma cells | TNTs and partial cell fusion | |
| Myeloma cells | BM stromal cells | TNTs and partial cell fusion | |
| Murine ovarian follicles | Murine ovarian follicles | Gap junction internalization | |
| Glioblastoma stem cells | Glioblastoma stem cells | TNTs | |
| 3D-glioblastoma organoids | 3D-glioblastoma organoids | TNTs | |
| Human breast epithelial cancer cells | Human breast epithelial cancer cells | ECVs | |
| Murine high-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | Murine low-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | ECVs | |
| Murine low-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | Murine high-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | ECVs | |
| Murine high-metastatic lung carcinoma cells | Murine low-metastatic lung carcinoma cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts | ECVs | |
| MSCs | Neurons | Cell-to-cell contact | |
| Human glioblastoma cells | Human primary astrocytes | TNTs | |
| Human neurons | Human astrocytes | TNTs | |
| Murine neurons | Murine astrocytes | TNTs | |
| Murine brown adipocytes | Murine adipocytes | ECVs | |
| Effector immune cells | Breast cancer cells | TNTs | |
| T cells | Lung carcinoma cells | TNTs | |
| T cells | Melanoma cells | TNTs |
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Note: TNTs, nanotubes, protrusions, microtubes, actin-based intercellular structures, cellular bridges—types of filamentous tubes that function as intercellular bridges. n.s., not specified in original paper.
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