School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
Key Laboratory of Targeting Therapy and Diagnosis for Critical Diseases, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2024 Sep;11(33):e2402199. doi: 10.1002/advs.202402199. Epub 2024 Jul 4.
Therapeutic cancer vaccines are among the first FDA-approved cancer immunotherapies. Among them, it remains a major challenge to achieve robust lymph-node (LN) accumulation. However, delivering cargo into LN is difficult owing to the unique structure of the lymphatics, and clinical responses have been largely disappointing. Herein, inspired by the Migrated-DCs homing from the periphery to the LNs, an injectable hydrogel-based polypeptide vaccine system is described for enhancing immunostimulatory efficacy, which could form a local niche of vaccine "hitchhiking" on DCs. The OVA peptide modified by lipophilic DSPE domains in the hydrogel is spontaneously inserted into the cell membrane to achieve "antigen anchoring" on DCs in vivo. Overall, OVA peptide achieves active access LNs through recruiting and "hitchhiking" subcutaneous Migrated-DCs. Remarkably, it is demonstrated that the composite hydrogel enhances LNs targeting efficacy by approximately six-fold compared to free OVA peptide. Then, OVA peptide can be removed from the cell surface under a typical acidic microenvironment within the LNs, further share them with LN-resident APCs via the "One-to-Many" strategy (One Migrated-DC corresponding to Many LN-resident APCs), thereby activating powerful immune stimulation. Moreover, the hydrogel vaccine exhibits significant tumor growth inhibition in melanoma and inhibits pulmonary metastatic nodule formation.
治疗性癌症疫苗是首批获得美国食品药品监督管理局批准的癌症免疫疗法之一。在这些疫苗中,如何实现大量淋巴结(LN)积累仍然是一个主要挑战。然而,由于淋巴管的独特结构,将 cargo 递送到 LN 中很困难,并且临床反应在很大程度上令人失望。受从外周迁移到 LN 的迁移树突状细胞(DCs)归巢的启发,本文描述了一种可注射水凝胶基多肽疫苗系统,用于增强免疫刺激效果,该系统可以在 DCs 上形成疫苗“搭便车”的局部小生境。水凝胶中亲脂性 DSPE 结构域修饰的 OVA 肽自发插入细胞膜中,从而在体内实现 DCs 上的“抗原锚定”。总的来说,OVA 肽通过募集和“搭便车”皮下迁移的 DCs 主动进入 LN。值得注意的是,与游离 OVA 肽相比,复合水凝胶使 OVA 肽进入 LN 的靶向效率提高了约 6 倍。然后,OVA 肽可以在 LN 内典型的酸性微环境下从细胞表面去除,通过“一对多”策略(一个迁移的 DC 对应多个 LN 内驻留的 APCs)与 LN 内驻留的 APCs 进一步共享,从而激活强大的免疫刺激。此外,水凝胶疫苗在黑色素瘤中显著抑制肿瘤生长,并抑制肺转移结节形成。
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