Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are secreted nano-sized vesicles that contain cellular proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. Although EVs are expected to be biologically diverse, current analyses cannot adequately characterize this diversity because most are ensemble methods that inevitably average out information from diverse EVs. Here we describe a single vesicle analysis, which directly visualizes marker expressions of individual EVs using a total internal-reflection microscopy and analyzes their co-localization to investigate EV subpopulations. The single-vesicle imaging and co-localization analysis successfully illustrated the diversity of EVs and revealed distinct patterns of tetraspanin expressions. Application of the analysis demonstrated similarities and dissimilarities between the EV fractions that had been acquired from different conventional EV isolation methods. The analysis method developed in this study will provide a new and reliable tool for investigating characteristics of single EVs, and the findings of the analysis might increase understanding of the characteristics of EVs.
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