Deng Hao, Huang Jinliang, Gao Ning, Liu Zhi, Yi Zhenglin, Xiao Jiatong, Gao Xin, Zhang Chunyu, Juliet Matsika, Hu Jiao, Chen Jinbo, Zu Xiongbing
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Biomater Res. 2024 Sep 10;28:0077. doi: 10.34133/bmr.0077. eCollection 2024.
Currently, the prognosis for patients with advanced bladder cancer remains poor, with only a minority being sensitive to immune checkpoint inhibitors. There is a need to develop additional treatment strategies. Microwave therapy, as a promising approach for some inoperable tumors, still faces challenges such as limited efficacy and high recurrence rates. Additionally, the cell damage and necrosis induced by conventional microwave treatment only act as weak immunostimulatory factors for antitumor immunity, failing to activate effective antitumor immune responses. Recent discoveries have shown that inducing pyroptosis can provide a good opportunity for enhancing systemic immune responses and alleviating immune suppression in cancer therapy. Here, we have developed Mn-ZrMOF@DAC, a microwave-sensitized nanoparticle loaded with the DNA methylation inhibitor decitabine. The Mn-ZrMOF@DAC can enhance the effect of microwave thermal therapy and generate reactive oxygen species under microwave irradiation, causing thermal and oxidative damage to cancer cells. Furthermore, there was an important up-regulation of the key pyroptosis protein GSDME, with a marked increase in pyroptotic cell numbers. In vivo experiments demonstrated that mice injected with Mn-ZrMOF@DAC nanoparticles followed by microwave radiation treatment exhibited potent antitumor effects and enhanced the efficacy of anti-PD-1 therapy. This therapy not only enhanced the efficacy of microwave treatment, exhibiting significant antitumor effects, but also activated antitumor immunity by inducing pyroptosis, thus enhancing the efficacy of immunotherapy for bladder cancer. It holds promise for providing new avenues in the treatment of bladder cancer.
目前,晚期膀胱癌患者的预后仍然很差,只有少数患者对免疫检查点抑制剂敏感。因此,需要开发更多的治疗策略。微波治疗作为一种对某些无法手术的肿瘤有前景的治疗方法,仍然面临疗效有限和复发率高的挑战。此外,传统微波治疗引起的细胞损伤和坏死仅作为抗肿瘤免疫的弱免疫刺激因子,无法激活有效的抗肿瘤免疫反应。最近的研究发现,诱导细胞焦亡可为增强癌症治疗中的全身免疫反应和减轻免疫抑制提供良好机会。在此,我们开发了一种负载DNA甲基化抑制剂地西他滨的微波敏化纳米颗粒Mn-ZrMOF@DAC。Mn-ZrMOF@DAC可增强微波热疗的效果,并在微波照射下产生活性氧,对癌细胞造成热损伤和氧化损伤。此外,关键的细胞焦亡蛋白GSDME显著上调,细胞焦亡数量明显增加。体内实验表明,注射Mn-ZrMOF@DAC纳米颗粒后进行微波辐射治疗的小鼠表现出强大的抗肿瘤作用,并增强了抗PD-1治疗的疗效。这种治疗方法不仅增强了微波治疗的疗效,表现出显著的抗肿瘤作用,还通过诱导细胞焦亡激活抗肿瘤免疫,从而提高了膀胱癌免疫治疗的疗效。它有望为膀胱癌的治疗提供新途径。