通过将鱼精蛋白纳米疫苗与 PD-L1 基因沉默纳米颗粒联合使用,协同增强癌症免疫治疗。
Synergistically enhanced cancer immunotherapy by combining protamine-based nanovaccine with PD-L1 gene silence nanoparticle.
机构信息
College of Pharmacy, Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261053, China.
College of Pharmacy, Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261053, China.
出版信息
Int J Biol Macromol. 2023 Jul 1;242(Pt 4):125223. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.125223. Epub 2023 Jun 3.
Tumor vaccine has brought a new dawn for cancer immunotherapy, but disillusionary therapeutic outcomes have been achieved due to the inefficient in vivo vaccine delivery. Moreover, tumor cells customarily resort to various wily tricks to circumvent the recognition and sweeping of the immune system, the immune escape effect has badly aggravated the difficulty of cancer management. With respect to the foregoing, in this study, a promising combinational strategy which cooperated nanovaccine with immune escape inhibition was developed for synergistically enhancing the oncotherapy efficiency. On the one hand, natural polycationic macromolecule protamine (PRT) was utilized as the carrier to construct an antigen and adjuvant co-packaged nanovaccine for facilitating the ingestion in antigen-presenting cells, amplifying antigen cross-presentation and optimizing in vivo delivery. On the other hand, PD-L1 silence gene was selected and hitchhiked in a pH-responsive nanoparticle developed in our previous study. The therapeutic gene could be successfully delivered into the tumors to down-regulate PD-L1 expression and cripple tumor immune escape. The combination of nanovaccine with PD-L1 gene silence nanoparticle could synchronously stimulate antitumor immune responses and reduce immune escape, synergistically enhance the therapeutic efficiency. This study will furnish the prospective tactics for the research of cancer immunotherapy.
肿瘤疫苗为癌症免疫治疗带来了新的曙光,但由于体内疫苗传递效率低下,导致令人失望的治疗效果。此外,肿瘤细胞通常会采用各种狡猾的策略来规避免疫系统的识别和清除,免疫逃逸效应极大地增加了癌症治疗的难度。针对上述问题,本研究开发了一种有前景的联合策略,即纳米疫苗与免疫逃逸抑制联合应用,以协同增强肿瘤治疗效果。一方面,利用天然阳离子高分子鱼精蛋白(PRT)作为载体构建了一种同时包载抗原和佐剂的纳米疫苗,以促进抗原递呈细胞的摄取,放大抗原交叉呈递,优化体内传递。另一方面,选择 PD-L1 沉默基因并搭乘我们之前研究中开发的 pH 响应性纳米颗粒。治疗基因可以成功递送到肿瘤中,下调 PD-L1 的表达并削弱肿瘤免疫逃逸。纳米疫苗与 PD-L1 基因沉默纳米颗粒的联合应用可以同步刺激抗肿瘤免疫反应和减少免疫逃逸,协同增强治疗效果。本研究将为癌症免疫治疗的研究提供有前景的策略。