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    100% prevention of lung cancer in mice, Su Da Liu Mi's team developed a nano-vaccine prepared from cancer cells

    • Last Update: 2021-10-10
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    ▎Editor of WuXi AppTec's content team Cancer vaccine is one of the main methods of cancer immunotherapy and prevention
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    Recently, a research team led by Professor Liu Mi from the Department of Pharmacy of the School of Pharmacy of Soochow University published a research paper online in Advanced Materials, reporting a method for preparing a universal cancer vaccine
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    This method reassembles the whole cell components of cancer cells or tumor tissues into a nano-scale vaccine through PLGA nanoparticles, which is used for the prevention and immunotherapy of various types of cancer
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    The current results obtained in mouse model experiments show that the prepared nano-vaccine can prevent lung cancer 100%, and the prevention and cure rate of melanoma can reach 70%.
    In addition, it can effectively treat melanoma and triple-negative breast cancer
    .

    Professor Liu Mi introduced that the research team has applied for more than 10 international and domestic invention patents for the preparation method of the nano-vaccine, related vaccine system and pharmaceutical dosage system
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    ▲(a) Schematic diagram of reorganizing whole cell components of cancer cells or tumor tissues into nano-vaccine; (b) Preparation scheme of reorganizing whole-cell components of cancer cells or tumor tissues into nano-vaccine; (c) Nano vaccine causes cancer cells Diagram of the mechanism of specific immune response
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    (Image source: Reference [1]) According to the researchers, the limitations of traditional vaccine preparation techniques make it impossible to prepare cancer vaccines with whole-cell components of cancer cells and tumor tissues
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    Because many of the non-water-soluble components in the whole cell component cannot be loaded into the vaccine dosage form for effective drug delivery
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    However, a large number of non-water-soluble components (such as membrane proteins) contain many cancer-specific and cancer-related mutations and neo-antigens (Neo-antigens), which can provide important antigens for the immune system to recognize and eliminate cancer cells
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    In order to solve the above limitations, this study used 8M urea to solubilize the non-water-soluble components produced by the lysis of cancer cells or tumor tissues, and loaded both the water-soluble and non-water-soluble components in the nano-vaccine.
    The whole cell components of the cell or tumor tissue are reorganized into a nano-vaccine (a and b above)
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    In order to maximize the loading of cancer antigens, whole cell components are loaded on the inside and on the surface of the nano-vaccine at the same time
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    Immune adjuvants and whole-cell components are co-loaded in the nano-vaccine to enhance the ability of the nano-vaccine to activate antigen-specific T cells
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    Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) like to swallow nano-scale substances, so nano-vaccines are more likely to be swallowed by antigen-presenting cells and activate cancer-specific immune responses (above c)
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    The results of cancer prevention experiments show that the nano-vaccine prepared by this method can prevent 100% of lung cancer in mice and 70% of melanoma
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    The results of cancer therapeutic experiments found that the nano-vaccine can effectively treat melanoma and triple-negative breast cancer in mice, and can make some mice (25%) heal
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    The use of anti-PD-1 antibody at the same time can increase the cure rate of the nano-vaccine in the treatment of melanoma tumor-bearing mice to 40%
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    In addition, metformin can further improve the therapeutic effect of nano-vaccine
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    ▲The vaccination process and experimental results of the nano-vaccine to prevent lung cancer and melanoma (picture source: reference [1]) Researchers have also explored the mechanism of the nano-vaccine causing a specific immune response
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    They found that the nano-vaccine can efficiently induce tumor-specific T cells, and at the same time activate the adaptive and innate immune response against tumor cells
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    Fluorescence multi-target immunoassay analysis shows that nano-vaccine promotes the formation of tertiary lymphatic structure in the tumor site by increasing the content of immune cells, especially B cells, in the tumor microenvironment.
    Recent studies have shown that the formation of tertiary lymphatic structure in the tumor site It is essential for the effect of cancer immunotherapy
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    In addition, the nano-vaccine increased the content of central memory T cells (Tcm), effector memory T cells (Tem) and tissue-resident memory T cells (Trm) in mice
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    In this way, the mice have long-term immune memory that can recognize and kill cancer cells
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    Professor Liu Mi pointed out that the steps of preparing the nano-vaccine in this study are simple and can be completed in one or a few days (depending on whether freeze-drying is required)
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    The PLGA and urea used in the preparation of the nano-vaccine are all pharmaceutical excipients approved by the FDA, and the prepared nano-vaccine has a simple dosage form
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    These advantages make the nano vaccine safer and convenient for clinical transformation and application
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    And because the nano-vaccine has a simple dosage form, it is convenient for production and quality control of the production process
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    The researchers concluded that this study has found a universal method for preparing cancer vaccines, which can produce nano-vaccine based on cancer cells or tumor tissues.
    The nano-vaccine can be used for cancer immunotherapy to prevent the occurrence, recurrence and recurrence of cancer.
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    Reference materials: [1] Lin Ma et al.
    , (2021) Immunotherapy and prevention of cancer by nanovaccines loaded with whole-cell components of tumour tissues or cells, Advanced Materials, 2021, DOI:10.
    1002/adma.
    202104849
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