Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea; KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.
Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea.
Biomaterials. 2017 Mar;121:121-129. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.01.004. Epub 2017 Jan 3.
CD47, a "don't eat me" signal, is over-expressed on the surface of most tumors that interacts with signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα) on phagocytic cells. By engaging SIRPα, CD47 limits the ability of macrophages to engulf tumor cells, which acts as a major phagocytic barrier. In this study, we developed an exosome-based immune checkpoint blockade that antagonizes the interaction between CD47 and SIRPα. These exosomes harboring SIRPα variants (SIRPα-exosomes) were sufficient to induce remarkably augmented tumor phagocytosis, lead to prime effective anti-tumor T cell response. Given that clustering of native CD47 provides a high binding avidity to ligate dimerized SIRPα on macrophage, nature-derived exosomes could be appreciable platform to antagonize CD47. Disruption of CD47-SIRPα interaction by SIRPα-exosomes leads to an increase in cells being engulfed by macrophages and a concomitant inhibition of tumor growth in tumor-bearing mice. Moreover, SIRPα-exosomes therapy promotes an intensive T cell infiltration in syngeneic mouse models of cancer, raising the possibility of CD47-targeted therapies to unleash both an innate and adaptive anti-tumor response. Note that very small amount of exosomal SIRPα proteins could effectively lead to phagocytic elimination of tumor cells both in vitro and in vivo. Our results suggest that superlative exosome-based platform has broad potential to maximize the therapeutic efficacy of membrane-associated protein therapeutics.
CD47 是一种“不要吃我”信号,在大多数肿瘤表面过度表达,与吞噬细胞上的信号调节蛋白α(SIRPα)相互作用。通过与 SIRPα 结合,CD47 限制了巨噬细胞吞噬肿瘤细胞的能力,这是一种主要的吞噬障碍。在这项研究中,我们开发了一种基于外泌体的免疫检查点阻断剂,该阻断剂拮抗 CD47 和 SIRPα 之间的相互作用。这些携带 SIRPα 变体的外泌体(SIRPα-exosomes)足以诱导显著增强的肿瘤吞噬作用,导致有效的抗肿瘤 T 细胞反应。鉴于天然 CD47 的聚集为结合巨噬细胞上二聚化的 SIRPα 提供了高结合亲和力,天然衍生的外泌体可以成为拮抗 CD47 的有价值平台。SIRPα-exosomes 通过破坏 CD47-SIRPα 相互作用,导致被巨噬细胞吞噬的细胞增加,并抑制荷瘤小鼠的肿瘤生长。此外,SIRPα-exosomes 治疗促进了癌症同源小鼠模型中 T 细胞的浸润,这增加了 CD47 靶向治疗释放先天和适应性抗肿瘤反应的可能性。需要注意的是,非常少量的外泌体 SIRPα 蛋白可有效促进肿瘤细胞在体外和体内的吞噬消除。我们的研究结果表明,卓越的外泌体平台具有广泛的潜力,可以最大限度地提高膜相关蛋白治疗的治疗效果。
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