Macrophages are important antigen-presenting cells to combat tumor via both innate and adaptive immunity,while they are programmed toM2 phenotype in established tumors and instead promote cancer development and metast...Macrophages are important antigen-presenting cells to combat tumor via both innate and adaptive immunity,while they are programmed toM2 phenotype in established tumors and instead promote cancer development and metastasis.Here,we develop a nanomedicine that can re-educate M2 polarized macrophages to restore their anti-tumor activities.The nanomedicine has a core-shell structure to co-load IPI549,a PI3Kγinhibitor,and CpG,a Toll-like receptor 9 agonist.Specifically,the hydrophobic IPI549 is self-assembled into a pure drug nano-core,while MOF shell layer is coated for CpG encapsulation,achieving extra-high total drugs loading of 44%.Such nanosystem could facilitate intracellular delivery of the payloads but without any cytotoxicity,displaying excellent biocompatibility.After entering macrophages,the released IPI549 and CpG exert a synergistic effect to switch macrophages from M2 to M1 phenotype,which enables anti-tumor activities via directly engulfing tumor cells or excreting tumor killing cytokines.Moreover,tumor antigens released from the dying tumor cells could be effectively presented by the re-educated macrophages owing to the up-regulation of various antigen presenting mediators,resulting in infiltration and activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes.As a result,the nanosystem triggers a robust antitumor immune response in combination with PD-L1 antibody to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis.This work provides a non-cytotoxic nanomedicine to modulate tumor immune microenvironment by reprograming macrophages.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21804144, 81974000, U1903125, 82073799)Natural Science Foundation of Hunan province in China (Nos. 2021JJ10077, 2021JJ20084, 2022JJ30903)+1 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Changsha City in Hunan province,China (No. kq2202421)the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province (No. 2021RC3020)
文摘Macrophages are important antigen-presenting cells to combat tumor via both innate and adaptive immunity,while they are programmed toM2 phenotype in established tumors and instead promote cancer development and metastasis.Here,we develop a nanomedicine that can re-educate M2 polarized macrophages to restore their anti-tumor activities.The nanomedicine has a core-shell structure to co-load IPI549,a PI3Kγinhibitor,and CpG,a Toll-like receptor 9 agonist.Specifically,the hydrophobic IPI549 is self-assembled into a pure drug nano-core,while MOF shell layer is coated for CpG encapsulation,achieving extra-high total drugs loading of 44%.Such nanosystem could facilitate intracellular delivery of the payloads but without any cytotoxicity,displaying excellent biocompatibility.After entering macrophages,the released IPI549 and CpG exert a synergistic effect to switch macrophages from M2 to M1 phenotype,which enables anti-tumor activities via directly engulfing tumor cells or excreting tumor killing cytokines.Moreover,tumor antigens released from the dying tumor cells could be effectively presented by the re-educated macrophages owing to the up-regulation of various antigen presenting mediators,resulting in infiltration and activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes.As a result,the nanosystem triggers a robust antitumor immune response in combination with PD-L1 antibody to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis.This work provides a non-cytotoxic nanomedicine to modulate tumor immune microenvironment by reprograming macrophages.
