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NATURE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
卷 4, 期 11, 页码 1090-+出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-020-0597-7
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- Johns Hopkins University Discovery Award
- NIH [GM111682, AI137719]
- Career in Immunology Fellowship from AAI
Intratumoural injection of a self-assembling supramolecular hydrogel that slowly releases a STING agonist and a chemotherapeutic agent reduces tumour immunosuppression and increases antitumour responses in mice. Tumours with an immunosuppressive microenvironment respond poorly to therapy. Activation of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway can enhance intratumoural immune activation, but STING agonists are associated with high toxicity and degrade prematurely, which limits their effectiveness. Here, we show that the extended intratumoural release of the STING agonist cyclic di-AMP transforms the tumour microenvironment from immunosuppressive to immunostimulatory, increasing the efficacy of antitumour therapies. The STING agonist was electrostatically complexed with nanotubes comprising a peptide-drug conjugate (a peptide that binds to the protein neuropilin-1, which is highly expressed in tumours, and the chemotherapeutic agent camptothecin) that self-assemble in situ into a supramolecular hydrogel. In multiple mouse models of murine tumours, a single low dose of the STING agonist led to tumour regression and increased animal survival, and to long-term immunological memory and systemic immune surveillance, which protected the mice against tumour recurrence and the formation of metastases. Locally delivered STING agonists could help to reduce tumour immunosuppression and enhance the efficacy of a wide range of cancer therapies.
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