Improving combination cancer immunotherapy by manipulating dual immunomodulatory signals with enzyme-triggered, cell-penetrating peptide-mediated biomodulators
Immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments challenge the effectiveness of protein-based biopharmaceuticals in cancer immunotherapy. Reestablishing tumor cell immunogenicity by enhancing calreticulin (CRT) exposure is expected to improve tumor immunotherapy. Given that CRT translocation is inherently...
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Published in | Biomaterials science Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 776 - 789 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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England
Royal Society of Chemistry
30.01.2024
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Summary: | Immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments challenge the effectiveness of protein-based biopharmaceuticals in cancer immunotherapy. Reestablishing tumor cell immunogenicity by enhancing calreticulin (CRT) exposure is expected to improve tumor immunotherapy. Given that CRT translocation is inherently modulated by phosphorylated eIF2α, the selective inhibition of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) emerges as an effective strategy to augment tumor immunogenicity. To harness the PP1-disrupting potential of GADD34-derived motifs and address their limited intracellular delivery, we integrated these sequences into an enzyme-triggered, cell-penetrating peptide-mediated chimeric protein scaffold. This design not only facilitates efficient cytoplasmic delivery of these immunostimulatory motifs to induce "eat-me" signaling, but also provides a versatile platform for combination immunotherapy. Fabrication of biomodulators with cytotoxic BLF1 provides additional "eat-me" signaling through phosphatidylserine exposure or that with an immunomodulatory designed ankyrin repeat protein disables "don't-find-me" signaling by antagonizing PD-L1. Notably, these bifunctional biomodulators exhibit remarkable ability to induce macrophage phagocytosis, dendritic cell maturation, and CD8
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T activation, ultimately substantially inhibiting tumor growth. This study presents a modular genetic coding strategy for PP1-centered therapies that enables seamless integration of immunostimulatory sequences into protein-based anti-tumor cocktail therapies, thereby offering novel alternatives for improving antitumor efficacy.
Bifunctional chimeric protein containing PP1-disrupting sequence induced calreticulin exposure and reversed immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, thereby enhancing antitumor effect. |
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Bibliography: | https://doi.org/10.1039/d3bm01605f Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 2047-4830 2047-4849 |
DOI: | 10.1039/d3bm01605f |