Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201906623
Keywords
advanced melanoma; anti-PD-1 peptide depot; PD-1; PD-L1 blockade therapy; photothermal therapy; Salmonella
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81673362, 81690261]
- Science & Technology Major Project of Sichuan Province [2018SZDZX0018]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a promising cancer treatment, but it has so far proven successful only with relatively small subcutaneous tumors in animal models. Treating larger tumors (approximate to 200 mm(3)) is challenging because most PTT materials do not efficiently reach the hypoxic, avascular center of tumors, and the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment prevents T cells from fighting against residual tumor cells, thereby allowing recurrence and metastasis. Here, the widely used PTT material polydopamine is coated on the surface of the facultative anaerobe Salmonella VNP20009, which can penetrate deep into larger tumors. The coated bacteria are intravenously injected followed by near-infrared laser irradiation at the tumor site, combined with a local inoculation of phospholipid-based phase separation gel containing the anti-programmed cell death-1 peptide AUNP-12. The gel releases AUNP-12 sustainably during 42 days, maintaining the tumor microenvironment as immunopermissive. Using a mouse model of melanoma, this triple combination of biotherapy, PTT, and sustainable programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) blockade shows high efficiency on eliciting robust antitumor immune responses and eliminating relatively large tumors in 50% of animals within 80 days. Thus, the results shed new light on a previously unrecognized immunological facet of bacteria-mediated therapy, and this innovative triple therapy may be a powerful cancer immunotherapy tool.
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