Zhu Yujie, Yang Zhijuan, Dong Ziliang, Gong Yimou, Hao Yu, Tian Longlong, Yang Xianzhu, Liu Zhuang, Feng Liangzhu
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Institutes for Life Sciences, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
Nanomicro Lett. 2020 Nov 22;13(1):29. doi: 10.1007/s40820-020-00549-4.
Due to the negative roles of tumor microenvironment (TME) in compromising therapeutic responses of various cancer therapies, it is expected that modulation of TME may be able to enhance the therapeutic responses during cancer treatment. Herein, we develop a concise strategy to prepare pH-responsive nanoparticles via the CaCO-assisted double emulsion method, thereby enabling effective co-encapsulation of both doxorubicin (DOX), an immunogenic cell death (ICD) inducer, and alkylated NLG919 (aNLG919), an inhibitor of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1). The obtained DOX/aNLG919-loaded CaCO nanoparticles (DNCaNPs) are able to cause effective ICD of cancer cells and at the same time restrict the production of immunosuppressive kynurenine by inhibiting IDO1. Upon intravenous injection, such DNCaNPs show efficient tumor accumulation, improved tumor penetration of therapeutics and neutralization of acidic TME. As a result, those DNCaNPs can elicit effective anti-tumor immune responses featured in increased density of tumor-infiltrating CD8 cytotoxic T cells as well as depletion of immunosuppressive regulatory T cells (Tregs), thus effectively suppressing the growth of subcutaneous CT26 and orthotopic 4T1 tumors on the Balb/c mice through combined chemotherapy & immunotherapy. This study presents a compendious strategy for construction of pH-responsive nanoparticles, endowing significantly enhanced chemo-immunotherapy of cancer by overcoming the immunosuppressive TME.
由于肿瘤微环境(TME)在损害各种癌症治疗的治疗反应方面具有负面作用,因此预计调节TME可能能够增强癌症治疗期间的治疗反应。在此,我们开发了一种简洁的策略,通过CaCO辅助双乳液法制备pH响应性纳米颗粒,从而能够有效共包封阿霉素(DOX),一种免疫原性细胞死亡(ICD)诱导剂,以及烷基化NLG919(aNLG919),一种吲哚胺2,3-双加氧酶1(IDO1)的抑制剂。所获得的负载DOX/aNLG919的CaCO纳米颗粒(DNCaNPs)能够引起癌细胞的有效ICD,同时通过抑制IDO1来限制免疫抑制性犬尿氨酸的产生。静脉注射后,这种DNCaNPs显示出高效的肿瘤积累、改善的治疗剂肿瘤渗透以及酸性TME的中和。结果,那些DNCaNPs能够引发有效的抗肿瘤免疫反应,其特征在于肿瘤浸润性CD8细胞毒性T细胞密度增加以及免疫抑制性调节性T细胞(Tregs)的消耗,从而通过联合化疗和免疫疗法有效抑制Balb/c小鼠皮下CT26和原位4T1肿瘤的生长。本研究提出了一种构建pH响应性纳米颗粒的简明策略,通过克服免疫抑制性TME赋予癌症显著增强的化学免疫疗法。
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