School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Nano Lett. 2021 Dec 8;21(23):9939-9950. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03243. Epub 2021 Nov 15.
Agonists of the stimulator of interferon gene (STING) are considered as promising therapeutics for cancer immunotherapy. However, drug-delivery barriers and adverse effects limit the clinical application of STING agonists. Therefore, it is an urgent need to develop an ideal delivery system to deliver STING agonists and avoid side effects. Here, we discovered that STING agonists significantly stimulated type I interferon (IFN) secretion in Clec9a dendritic cells (DCs). Then, we designed an engineered peptide-expressed biomimetic cancer cell membrane (EPBM)-coated nanovaccine drug-delivery system (PLGA/STING@EPBM) to deliver STING agonists and tumor antigens to Clec9a DCs. The PLGA/STING@EPBM nanovaccine significantly enhanced IFN-stimulated expression of genes and antigen cross-presentation of Clec9a DCs, thus eliciting strong antitumor effects in both anti-PD-1-responsive and -resistant tumor models without obvious cytotoxicity. Moreover, the PLGA/STING@EPBM nanovaccine combined with radiotherapy exhibited remarkable synergistic antitumor effects. Our work highlights the great potential of a EPBM-coated nanovaccine for systemic STING agonist delivery as an attractive tool for cancer immunotherapy.
STING 激动剂被认为是癌症免疫治疗有前途的治疗药物。然而,药物传递障碍和不良反应限制了 STING 激动剂的临床应用。因此,迫切需要开发一种理想的传递系统来传递 STING 激动剂并避免副作用。在这里,我们发现 STING 激动剂可显著刺激 Clec9a 树突状细胞(DCs)中 I 型干扰素(IFN)的分泌。然后,我们设计了一种表达工程肽的仿生癌细胞膜(EPBM)包被的纳米疫苗药物传递系统(PLGA/STING@EPBM),以将 STING 激动剂和肿瘤抗原递送至 Clec9a DCs。PLGA/STING@EPBM 纳米疫苗显著增强了 Clec9a DCs 的 IFN 刺激基因表达和抗原交叉呈递,从而在抗 PD-1 反应性和耐药性肿瘤模型中均引发强烈的抗肿瘤作用,而无明显的细胞毒性。此外,PLGA/STING@EPBM 纳米疫苗联合放射治疗显示出显著的协同抗肿瘤作用。我们的工作强调了 EPBM 包被的纳米疫苗作为一种有吸引力的癌症免疫治疗工具,用于全身 STING 激动剂传递的巨大潜力。
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