期刊
THERANOSTICS
卷 12, 期 14, 页码 6422-6436出版社
IVYSPRING INT PUBL
DOI: 10.7150/thno.77350
关键词
circular RNA; cancer vaccines; lipid nanoparticles; hard-to-treat malignancies; tumor immunotherapy
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31930039, 81630058, 91942303, 31821003, 22175107]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFA0508502]
- Tsinghua University Spring Breeze Fund [2021Z99CFZ007]
In this study, we successfully improved the stability of RNA vaccines by circularizing linear RNA molecules to form highly stable circRNA molecules. We established a novel circRNA vaccine platform capable of triggering robust immune activation and showing superior anti-tumor efficacy in multiple tumor models. This provides a new prospect for the development of cancer RNA vaccines in hard-to-treat malignancies.
Rationale: Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine outperforms other kinds of cancer immunotherapy due to its high response rates, easy preparation, and wide applicability, which is considered as one of the most promising forms of next-generation cancer therapies. However, the inherent instability and insufficient protein expression duration of mRNA limit the efficacy and widespread application of the vaccine. Methods: Here, we first tested the possibility of a novel circular RNA (circRNA) platform for protein expression and compare its duration with linear RNA. Then, we developed a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) system for circRNA delivery in vitro and in vivo. Next, the innate and adaptive immune response of circRNA-LNP complex was evaluated in vivo. The anti-tumor efficacy of circRNA-LNP was further confirmed in three tumor models. Finally, the possibility of combination therapy with circRNA-LNP and adoptive cell transfer therapy was further investigated in a late-stage tumor model. Results: We successfully increased the stability of the RNA vaccine by circularizing the linear RNA molecules to form highly stable circRNA molecules which exhibited durable protein expression ability. By encapsulating the antigen-coding circRNA in LNP enabling in vivo expression, we established a novel circRNA vaccine platform, which was capable of triggering robust innate and adaptive immune activation and showed superior anti-tumor efficacy in multiple mouse tumor models. Conclusions: Overall, our circRNA vaccine platform provides a novel prospect for the development of cancer RNA vaccines in a wide range of hard-to-treat malignancies.
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