Yue Xianlin, Cui Jie, Ren Shifeng, Zhang Yajun, Li Ying, Cui Hongjuan, Huard Johnny, Robbins Paul D, Mu Xiaodong
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Delivery and Release Systems, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China.
State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Medical Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
J Extracell Vesicles. 2025 Jul;14(7):e70123. doi: 10.1002/jev2.70123.
Osteosarcoma (OS) is a type of bone tumour characterized by high risk of metastatic progression and recurrence after therapy. Traditional tumour treatment methods such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy can lead to the accumulation of senescent cells in tumours. Treatment-induced senescence (TIS) can lead to incomplete tumour clearance and potential recurrence. Recently, the combination of chemotherapy drugs and senolytics drugs ('one-two punch' therapy) has become a promising strategy for improved tumour treatment, but this method also faces challenges in terms of safety and targeting specificity. In order to further improve the efficacy of chemotherapy on OS, here we developed a senolytic drug delivery system based on engineered Natural killer (NK) cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) that can target OS cells. EVs were engineered to contain doxorubicin (Dox), termed iRGD-EVs-Dox, and used to induce cellular senescence in OS cells, followed by delivery of the Bcl-2 family inhibitor ABT-263 in similar engineered EVs (iRGD-EVs-ABT-263), to specifically eliminate the senescent OS cells induced by Dox. Our results demonstrate that iRGD-EVs have efficient targeting ability to OS cells and iRGD-EVs-ABT-263 effectively induced senolysis of Dox-induced senescent OS cells in vitro and repressed tumour growth in OS cell xenograft mouse models. Taken together, our results demonstrate the therapeutic efficiency of using engineered EVs from NK cells to deliver first a chemotherapeutic agent to induce senescent OS cells followed by a senolytic drug to eliminate chemotherapy-induced senescent OS cells, providing a novel strategy for more effective cancer treatment.
骨肉瘤(OS)是一种骨肿瘤,其特征是治疗后转移进展和复发风险高。放疗和化疗等传统肿瘤治疗方法会导致肿瘤中衰老细胞的积累。治疗诱导的衰老(TIS)会导致肿瘤清除不完全和潜在复发。最近,化疗药物和衰老细胞溶解药物的联合使用(“双管齐下”疗法)已成为改善肿瘤治疗的一种有前景的策略,但这种方法在安全性和靶向特异性方面也面临挑战。为了进一步提高化疗对骨肉瘤的疗效,我们在此开发了一种基于工程化自然杀伤(NK)细胞衍生的细胞外囊泡(EVs)的衰老细胞溶解药物递送系统,该系统可以靶向骨肉瘤细胞。将EVs工程化使其包含阿霉素(Dox),称为iRGD-EVs-Dox,并用于诱导骨肉瘤细胞发生细胞衰老,随后在类似的工程化EVs(iRGD-EVs-ABT-263)中递送Bcl-2家族抑制剂ABT-263,以特异性消除由Dox诱导的衰老骨肉瘤细胞。我们的结果表明,iRGD-EVs对骨肉瘤细胞具有有效的靶向能力,并且iRGD-EVs-ABT-263在体外有效诱导了Dox诱导的衰老骨肉瘤细胞的衰老细胞溶解,并在骨肉瘤细胞异种移植小鼠模型中抑制了肿瘤生长。综上所述,我们的结果证明了使用NK细胞来源的工程化EVs先递送化疗药物以诱导衰老的骨肉瘤细胞,然后递送衰老细胞溶解药物以消除化疗诱导的衰老骨肉瘤细胞的治疗效果,为更有效的癌症治疗提供了一种新策略。
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