Cancer is the leading cause that threatens human life expectancy due to the lack of effective therapies.Cancer immunotherapy has been explored to improve the body's immune system against cancer and accompanied by ...Cancer is the leading cause that threatens human life expectancy due to the lack of effective therapies.Cancer immunotherapy has been explored to improve the body's immune system against cancer and accompanied by promising results in recent years.Interleukin 15(IL-15),a pleiotropic immunomodulator,is critical for immune cells development and displays great anti-tumor potential in both preclinical and clinical trials.In this study,superagonist IL-15 plasmid(psIL-15)consisting of IL-15Rα-sushi-linker-IL-15 was constructed in order to secret superagonist IL-15(sIL-15)in tumor site.A gene delivery system through self-assembly by methylated polyethylene glycol-b-polylactic acid-b-methylated polyethylene glycol(m PEG-PLA-m PEG)and 1,2-dioleoyl-3-trimethylammonium-propane(DOTAP),named DMAM,was designed to deliver psIL-15.Further study showed that DMAM/psIL-15 could successfully deliver psIL-15 to tumor cells and the supernatants of the tumor cells could further stimulate lymphocytes proliferation as well as activation in vitro.Local delivery of DMAM/psIL-15 in animal models demonstrated significant tumor inhibition through enhancing immune cells responses,reducing angiogenesis,promoting tumor cell apoptosis and inhibiting proliferation,with no evidence of system toxicities.These results indicate that DMAM/psIL-15 may be a promising strategy for cancer immunotherapy.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82172630)the Key R&D Projects of the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province(No.2020YFS0256)the 1·3·5 Project for Disciplines of Excellence,West China Hospital,Sichuan University(Nos.ZYJC21022,ZYYC21001 and 2019HXFH017)。
文摘Cancer is the leading cause that threatens human life expectancy due to the lack of effective therapies.Cancer immunotherapy has been explored to improve the body's immune system against cancer and accompanied by promising results in recent years.Interleukin 15(IL-15),a pleiotropic immunomodulator,is critical for immune cells development and displays great anti-tumor potential in both preclinical and clinical trials.In this study,superagonist IL-15 plasmid(psIL-15)consisting of IL-15Rα-sushi-linker-IL-15 was constructed in order to secret superagonist IL-15(sIL-15)in tumor site.A gene delivery system through self-assembly by methylated polyethylene glycol-b-polylactic acid-b-methylated polyethylene glycol(m PEG-PLA-m PEG)and 1,2-dioleoyl-3-trimethylammonium-propane(DOTAP),named DMAM,was designed to deliver psIL-15.Further study showed that DMAM/psIL-15 could successfully deliver psIL-15 to tumor cells and the supernatants of the tumor cells could further stimulate lymphocytes proliferation as well as activation in vitro.Local delivery of DMAM/psIL-15 in animal models demonstrated significant tumor inhibition through enhancing immune cells responses,reducing angiogenesis,promoting tumor cell apoptosis and inhibiting proliferation,with no evidence of system toxicities.These results indicate that DMAM/psIL-15 may be a promising strategy for cancer immunotherapy.