Hu Hongmei, Wang Qun, Yu Dianping, Tao Xiaoyu, Guo Mengmeng, Tian Saisai, Zhang Qing, Xu Mengting, Geng Xiangxin, Zhang Hongwei, Xu Hanchi, Li Linyang, Xie Shize, Chen Kaixian, Zhu Weiliang, Li Xu-Wen, Xu Hanchen, Li Bo, Zhang Weidong, Liu Sanhong
Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of TCM Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, China.
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery and Design Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2025 Feb;12(7):e2413122. doi: 10.1002/advs.202413122. Epub 2024 Dec 25.
Promoting tumor cell senescence arrests the cell cycle of tumor cells and activates the immune system to eliminate these senescent cells, thereby suppressing tumor growth. Nevertheless, PD-L1 positive senescent tumor cells resist immune clearance and possess the ability to secret various cytokines and inflammatory factors that stimulate the growth of tumor cells. Consequently, drugs capable of both triggering senescence in tumor cells and concurrently diminishing the expression of PD-L1 to counteract immune evasion are urgently needed. Here, a berberine derivative B68 is developed, which specifically induces tumor cell senescence by targeting BMI1. B68 also involves the degradation of PD-L1 by targeting CSN5, thereby disrupting the immunosuppressive PD-1/PD-L1 interaction and enabling rapid clearance of senescent tumor cells. This approach simultaneously inhibits tumor progression and activates T cell immunity, as evidenced by the robust antitumor response following B68-induced immunization of senescent cancer cells. Moreover, the synergistic effect of B68 with anti-CTLA4 therapy further enhances antitumor immunity, and its ability to induce senescence in cancer cells triggers a strong protective response by dendritic and CD8 T cells. These findings provide a scientific basis for developing a new tumor treatment strategy based on senescence induction and lay the foundation for further preclinical research.
促进肿瘤细胞衰老可使肿瘤细胞的细胞周期停滞,并激活免疫系统以清除这些衰老细胞,从而抑制肿瘤生长。然而,程序性死亡受体配体1(PD-L1)阳性的衰老肿瘤细胞可抵抗免疫清除,并具有分泌各种细胞因子和炎症因子的能力,这些因子会刺激肿瘤细胞生长。因此,迫切需要既能诱导肿瘤细胞衰老,又能同时降低PD-L1表达以对抗免疫逃逸的药物。在此,开发了一种小檗碱衍生物B68,它通过靶向BMI1特异性诱导肿瘤细胞衰老。B68还通过靶向COP9信号复合体亚基5(CSN5)介导PD-L1的降解,从而破坏免疫抑制性的程序性死亡受体1(PD-1)/PD-L1相互作用,并能快速清除衰老肿瘤细胞。这种方法同时抑制肿瘤进展并激活T细胞免疫,B68诱导衰老癌细胞免疫后产生的强烈抗肿瘤反应证明了这一点。此外,B68与抗细胞毒性T淋巴细胞相关蛋白4(CTLA4)疗法的协同作用进一步增强了抗肿瘤免疫力,其诱导癌细胞衰老的能力引发了树突状细胞和CD8 T细胞的强烈保护性反应。这些发现为开发基于衰老诱导的新型肿瘤治疗策略提供了科学依据,并为进一步的临床前研究奠定了基础。
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