自组装绿原酸铜纳米颗粒:诱导细胞焦亡和铜死亡以激活抗肿瘤免疫
Self-assembled copper chlorogenic acid nanoparticles: Inducing pyroptosis and cuproptosis to activate antitumor immunity.
作者信息
Zhou Yuxin, Wang Qian, Wang Qian, Zhou Ziyi, Peng Xiaoyang, Qu Botao, Zhang Ruiping
机构信息
Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, PR China.
School of Forensic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, PR China.
出版信息
J Control Release. 2025 Aug 10;384:113941. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2025.113941. Epub 2025 Jun 9.
Currently, the tumor treatment faces many challenges. Although chemotherapy is the most effective and economical choice, most chemotherapy drugs lack tumor specificity, have low bioavailability, and face many obstacles in clinical application. Significantly, the tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment (TIME) and low immunogenicity in solid tumors also seriously affect the clinical effect of tumor therapy. Here, metal-phenolic network nanoparticles self-assembled by copper-coordinated natural drug chlorogenic acid (ChA) (ChA-Cu NPs) are designed to amplify cell immunogenic death mediated by cuproptosis and pyroptosis for antitumor immunotherapy. Specifically, the synthesized ChA-Cu NPs can disintegrate and release Cu and the polyphenol drug ChA in the tumor microenvironment, realizing the combined chemotherapy/chemodynamic kinetics in the treatment of tumors. Importantly, the release of Cu and ChA can drive the cascade reaction, which can disturb redox homeostasis by producing reactive oxygen species (ROS) and depleting GSH, and induce pyroptosis and make tumor cells more sensitive to cuproptosis. Furthermore, pyroptosis and cuproptosis can evoke immunogenic cell death (ICD) and release damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), stimulating dendritic cells (DCs) to mature and activate CD8 T cells. It is encouraging that ChA-Cu NPs can reprogram TIME to achieve significant tumor growth inhibition.
目前,肿瘤治疗面临诸多挑战。尽管化疗是最有效且经济的选择,但大多数化疗药物缺乏肿瘤特异性,生物利用度低,在临床应用中面临诸多障碍。值得注意的是,实体瘤中的肿瘤免疫抑制微环境(TIME)和低免疫原性也严重影响肿瘤治疗的临床效果。在此,由铜配位的天然药物绿原酸(ChA)自组装形成的金属-酚网络纳米颗粒(ChA-Cu NPs)被设计用于放大由铜死亡和焦亡介导的细胞免疫原性死亡,以进行抗肿瘤免疫治疗。具体而言,合成的ChA-Cu NPs可在肿瘤微环境中分解并释放铜和多酚药物ChA,实现肿瘤治疗中的联合化疗/化学动力学。重要的是,铜和ChA的释放可驱动级联反应,通过产生活性氧(ROS)和消耗谷胱甘肽(GSH)来扰乱氧化还原稳态,并诱导焦亡,使肿瘤细胞对铜死亡更敏感。此外,焦亡和铜死亡可引发免疫原性细胞死亡(ICD)并释放损伤相关分子模式(DAMPs),刺激树突状细胞(DCs)成熟并激活CD8 T细胞。令人鼓舞的是,ChA-Cu NPs可重编程TIME以实现显著的肿瘤生长抑制。