Department of Urology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Adv Mater. 2023 Jun;35(22):e2212267. doi: 10.1002/adma.202212267. Epub 2023 Apr 2.
Cuproptosis is a new cell death that depends on copper (Cu) ionophores to transport Cu into cancer cells, which induces cell death. However, existing Cu ionophores are small molecules with a short blood half-life making it hard to transport enough Cu into cancer cells. Herein, a reactive oxygen species (ROS)-sensitive polymer (PHPM) is designed, which is used to co-encapsulate elesclomol (ES) and Cu to form nanoparticles (NP@ESCu). After entering cancer cells, ES and Cu, triggered by excessive intracellular ROS, are readily released. ES and Cu work in a concerted way to not only kill cancer cells by cuproptosis, but also induce immune responses. In vitro, the ability of NP@ESCu to efficiently transport Cu and induce cuproptosis is investigated. In addition, the change in the transcriptomes of cancer cells treated with NP@ESCu is explored by RNA-Seq. In vivo, NP@ESCu is found to induce cuproptosis in the mice model with subcutaneous bladder cancer, reprograming the tumor microenvironment. Additionally, NP@ESCu is further combined with anti-programmed cell death protein ligand-1 antibody (αPD-L1). This study provides the first report of combining nanomedicine that can induce cuproptosis with αPD-L1 for enhanced cancer therapy, thereby providing a novel strategy for future cancer therapy.
铜死亡是一种新的细胞死亡方式,依赖于铜(Cu)载体将 Cu 运输到癌细胞中,从而诱导细胞死亡。然而,现有的 Cu 载体是小分子,其血液半衰期短,难以将足够的 Cu 运输到癌细胞中。在此,设计了一种活性氧(ROS)敏感聚合物(PHPM),用于共包封依立替康(ES)和 Cu 以形成纳米颗粒(NP@ESCu)。进入癌细胞后,ES 和 Cu 在细胞内过量 ROS 的触发下,很容易被释放出来。ES 和 Cu 协同作用,不仅通过铜死亡杀死癌细胞,还诱导免疫反应。体外,研究了 NP@ESCu 有效运输 Cu 和诱导铜死亡的能力。此外,通过 RNA-Seq 探索了 NP@ESCu 处理的癌细胞转录组的变化。体内研究发现,NP@ESCu 可在皮下膀胱癌小鼠模型中诱导铜死亡,重塑肿瘤微环境。此外,NP@ESCu 进一步与抗程序性死亡蛋白配体-1 抗体(αPD-L1)结合。本研究首次报道了将能诱导铜死亡的纳米医学与 αPD-L1 结合用于增强癌症治疗,为未来的癌症治疗提供了一种新策略。
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