Key Laboratory of Novel Targets and Drug Study for Neural Repair of Zhejiang Province, School of Medicine, Hangzhou City University, Hangzhou 310015, China; State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Ningbo Institute of Life and Health Industry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315010, China; School of Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Key Laboratory of Novel Targets and Drug Study for Neural Repair of Zhejiang Province, School of Medicine, Hangzhou City University, Hangzhou 310015, China; Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 211200, China.
J Control Release. 2023 Feb;354:770-783. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2023.01.043. Epub 2023 Jan 27.
The poor cancer immunotherapy outcome has been closely related to immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME), which usually inactivates the antitumor immune cells and leads to immune tolerance. Metalloimmunotherapy by supplementing nutritional metal ions into TME has emerged as a potential strategy to activate the tumor-resident immune cells. Herein, we engineered a magnesium-contained nano-aluminum adjuvant (NanoAlum) through hydrolyzing a mixture of Mg(OH) and Al(OH), which has highly similar components to commercial Imject Alum. Peritumoral injection of NanoAlum effectively neutralized the acidic TME while releasing Mg to activate the tumor-resident T cells. Meanwhile, NanoAlum also blocked the autophagy pathway in tumor cells and subsequently induced cell apoptosis. The in vivo studies showed that merely peritumoral injection of NanoAlum successfully inhibited the growth of solid tumors in mice. On this basis, NanoAlum combined with chemical drug methotrexate or immunomodulatory adjuvant CpG further induced potent antigen-specific antitumor immunity. Overall, our study first provides a rational design for engineering tumor-targeted nanomodulator from clinical adjuvants to achieve effective cancer metalloimmunotherapy against solid tumors.
较差的癌症免疫疗法疗效与免疫抑制性肿瘤微环境(TME)密切相关,TME 通常会使抗肿瘤免疫细胞失活,导致免疫耐受。通过向 TME 中补充营养金属离子的金属免疫疗法已成为激活肿瘤驻留免疫细胞的一种潜在策略。在此,我们通过水解 Mg(OH)和 Al(OH)的混合物来设计一种含镁的纳米铝佐剂(NanoAlum),其成分与商业 Imject Alum 高度相似。肿瘤周围注射 NanoAlum 可有效中和酸性 TME,同时释放 Mg 以激活肿瘤驻留 T 细胞。同时,NanoAlum 还阻断了肿瘤细胞中的自噬途径,随后诱导细胞凋亡。体内研究表明,仅肿瘤周围注射 NanoAlum 即可成功抑制小鼠的实体瘤生长。在此基础上,NanoAlum 与化学药物甲氨蝶呤或免疫调节佐剂 CpG 联合使用,进一步诱导了有效的抗原特异性抗肿瘤免疫。总的来说,我们的研究首次为从临床佐剂工程肿瘤靶向纳米调节剂以实现有效的针对实体瘤的癌症金属免疫疗法提供了合理的设计。
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