Du Fanfan, Yuk Simseok A, Qian Yuan, Mbaye El Hadji Arona, Vincent Michael P, Bobbala Sharan, Abbott Tirzah M, Kim Hyeohn, Li Yang, Li Haoyu, Yi Sijia, Qiao Baofu, Scott Evan A
Department of Biomedical Engineering, NanoSTAR Institute, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 1;16(1):5443. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-60416-x.
The development of subunit vaccines that mimic the molecular complexity of attenuated vaccines has been limited by the difficulty of intracellular co-delivery of multiple chemically diverse payloads at controllable concentrations. We report on hierarchical hydrogel depots employing simple poly(propylene sulfone) homopolymers to enable ratiometric loading of a protein antigen and four physicochemically distinct adjuvants in a hierarchical manner. The optimized vaccine consisted of immunostimulants either adsorbed to or encapsulated within nanogels, which were capable of noncovalent anchoring to subcutaneous tissues. In female BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice, these 5-component nanogel vaccines demonstrated enhanced humoral and cell-mediated immune responses compared to formulations with standard single adjuvant and antigen pairing. The use of a single simple homopolymer capable of rapid and stable loading and intracellular delivery of diverse molecular cargoes holds promise for facile development and optimization of scalable subunit vaccines and complex therapeutic formulations for a wide range of biomedical applications.
模拟减毒疫苗分子复杂性的亚单位疫苗的开发受到限制,原因在于难以在可控浓度下将多种化学性质不同的有效载荷进行细胞内共递送。我们报道了一种分级水凝胶储存库,它采用简单的聚(丙烯砜)均聚物,能够以分级方式对蛋白质抗原和四种物理化学性质不同的佐剂进行比例加载。优化后的疫苗由吸附在纳米凝胶上或包裹在纳米凝胶内的免疫刺激剂组成,这些纳米凝胶能够非共价锚定到皮下组织。在雌性BALB/c和C57BL/6小鼠中,与标准单佐剂和抗原配对的制剂相比,这些五组分纳米凝胶疫苗表现出更强的体液免疫和细胞介导免疫反应。使用一种能够快速、稳定地加载和进行细胞内递送多种分子货物的单一简单均聚物,有望为广泛的生物医学应用轻松开发和优化可扩展的亚单位疫苗及复杂治疗制剂。
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