He Meng, Xu Wei, Dan Yuxin, Pan Yue, Li Yingying, Chen Mingsheng, Dong Chang-Ming
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P. R. China.
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, P. R. China.
Adv Healthc Mater. 2024 Dec;13(30):e2401354. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202401354. Epub 2024 Sep 5.
It is challenging for nanovaccines (NVs) to effectively deliver antigens/neoantigens to prime specifically potent immunities and remodel immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) for combating immune "cold" cancers. Herein, a novel kind of mannosylated fluoropolypeptide NVs of MFPCOFG (i.e., mannosylated fluoropoly(-cysteine) ovalbumin-loaded Fe-gallic acid) is designed that synergistically integrates triple antigen-metal-thermoimmunity to remodel immunosuppressive TME and achieve highly potent immunities. MFPCOFG plus near-infrared irradiation (NIR) effectively facilitated antigen uptake and escape, induced the maturation and antigen cross-presentations of dendritic cells and macrophages, polarized anti-inflammatory macrophage phenotype M2 into tumoricial M1, primed potent CD4/CD8T cells responses, proinflammatory cytokines secretion and immune memory effects, showcasing triple antigen-metal-thermoimmunity outperforming combo/mono-immunity. Importantly, both MFPCOFG + NIR and personalized NVs can remarkably enhance the tumor infiltration of CD4/CD8T and NK cells to boost potent immunities and long-lasting memory effects, reduce regulatory T (Tregs) and M2 to remodel immunosuppressive TME in B16-OVA and 4T1 models, achieving superior tumor prevention, ablation, and tumor relapse and metastasis inhibition, as further orchestrated with anti-PD-1. Consequently, this work opens up a new avenue to design biocompatible polypeptide nanovaccines with potent immune-priming and TME-remodeling capabilities, holding great potentials to combat immune "cold" cancers with clinic-used anti-PD-1 for cancer immunotherapy and personalized immunotherapy.
纳米疫苗(NVs)要有效地递送抗原/新抗原以引发特异性强效免疫反应,并重塑免疫抑制性肿瘤微环境(TME)来对抗免疫“冷”癌具有挑战性。在此,设计了一种新型的甘露糖基化氟多肽NVs,即MFPCOFG(即负载甘露糖基化氟聚(半胱氨酸)卵清蛋白的铁-没食子酸),它协同整合了三重抗原-金属-热免疫,以重塑免疫抑制性TME并实现高效免疫。MFPCOFG加上近红外辐射(NIR)有效地促进了抗原摄取和逃逸,诱导了树突状细胞和巨噬细胞的成熟和抗原交叉呈递,将抗炎巨噬细胞表型M2极化为促肿瘤的M1,引发了强效的CD4/CD8T细胞反应、促炎细胞因子分泌和免疫记忆效应,表明三重抗原-金属-热免疫优于联合/单一免疫。重要的是,MFPCOFG + NIR和个性化NVs都可以显著增强CD4/CD8T和NK细胞的肿瘤浸润,以增强强效免疫和持久记忆效应,在B16-OVA和4T1模型中减少调节性T细胞(Tregs)和M2以重塑免疫抑制性TME,实现卓越的肿瘤预防、消融以及肿瘤复发和转移抑制,与抗PD-1进一步协同作用效果更佳。因此,这项工作开辟了一条新途径,可设计具有强效免疫启动和TME重塑能力的生物相容性多肽纳米疫苗,在与临床使用的抗PD-1联合用于癌症免疫治疗和个性化免疫治疗以对抗免疫“冷”癌方面具有巨大潜力。