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ACS MACRO LETTERS
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 337-344Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00046
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21674074, 21774084, 21704072]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20161208]
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The self-homing of cancer cells to primary or metastatic tumor sites indicates that they could serve as vehicles for self-targeted cancer therapy; this suggests a promising method for treating end-stage cancer. Inspired by this, we propose that engineering cancer cells to carry efficient coup molecules for in situ activation of immune cells in or near tumor sites to attack tumors is a promising strategy for cancer therapy. Therefore, herein we explored the potential of engineered tumor cells to enhance their anticancer activity by stimulating immune cells. We armed tumor cell surfaces with specific glycopolymer-ligands that bind to lectins on macrophages or dendritic cells by combining HaloTag protein (HTP) fusion technique with reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. We demonstrated that two synthetic well-defined glycopolymers containing, respectively, N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmannosamine units, were introduced and stably presented on the cell surfaces via the stable covalent binding of chloroalkane-terminated polymers with membrane-bound HTP. Furthermore, it was shown that the glycopolymer-engineered HeLa cells with HTP anchors increased expression of the typical marker for M1-type macrophages (CD86) and upregulated secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-12p70, TNF-alpha, and iNOS), thereby accelerating HeLa cell lysis. The maturation of dendritic cells was also promoted. This study demonstrates the strong potential of glycopolymer-engineered tumor cells in cancer immunotherapy.
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