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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 31, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202006220
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cancer immunotherapy; efferocytosis; innate immune checkpoints; macrophage phagocytosis; nanomedicine; TAM receptors
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- NIH [CA198999]
Macrophages, important in tumor immunity, can engulf tumor cells and present antigens; tumor cells evade macrophage phagocytosis through anti-phagocytic molecules, while macrophages' efferocytosis of apoptotic cells promotes tumor immune escape; blocking anti-phagocytic signals or inhibiting tumor efferocytosis is a potential strategy for cancer immunotherapy.
Macrophages are one of the most abundant non-malignant cells in the tumor microenvironment, playing critical roles in mediating tumor immunity. As important innate immune cells, macrophages possess the potential to engulf tumor cells and present tumor-specific antigens for adaptive antitumor immunity induction, leading to growing interest in targeting macrophage phagocytosis for cancer immunotherapy. Nevertheless, live tumor cells have evolved to evade phagocytosis by macrophages via the extensive expression of anti-phagocytic molecules, such as CD47. In addition, macrophages also rapidly recognize and engulf apoptotic cells (efferocytosis) in the tumor microenvironment, which inhibits inflammatory responses and facilitates immune escape of tumor cells. Thus, intervention of macrophage phagocytosis by blocking anti-phagocytic signals on live tumor cells or inhibiting tumor efferocytosis presents a promising strategy for the development of cancer immunotherapies. Here, the regulation of macrophage-mediated tumor cell phagocytosis is first summarized, followed by an overview of strategies targeting macrophage phagocytosis for the development of antitumor therapies. Given the potential off-target effects associated with the administration of traditional therapeutics (for example, monoclonal antibodies and small molecule inhibitors), the opportunity for nanomedicine in macrophage phagocytosis intervention is highlighted.
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