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MOLECULAR THERAPY
卷 29, 期 10, 页码 2931-2948出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2021.05.017
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [81973700, 81873137]
- Clinical Specialized Disease Construction Project of Shanghai Putuo District Municipal Health Comission [2019tszb01]
- Shanghai Key Medical Specialty Construction Project [ZK2019B18]
Recent studies show that photodynamic therapy (PDT) can enhance the therapeutic effects of PD-L1 blockade in colorectal cancer (CRC) by inducing tumor cell death, stimulating immune response, and preventing tumor recurrence through upregulation of PD-L1 expression via the hypoxia-inducible factor 1a (HIF-1a) signaling pathway. This combination therapy using multifunctional nanoparticles loaded with photosensitized mTHPC (mTHPC@VeC/T-RGD NPs) shows promise in improving the response rate of anti-PD-L1 checkpoint blockade immunotherapies in CRC.
Checkpoint inhibitors, such as anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies, have been shown to be extraordinarily effective, but their dura-ble response rate remains low, especially in colorectal cancer (CRC). Recent studies have shown that photodynamic therapy (PDT) could effectively enhance PD-L1 blockade therapeutic effects, although the reason is still unclear. Here, we report the use of multifunctional nanoparticles (NPs) loaded with photosensitized mTHPC (mTHPC@VeC/T-RGD NPs)-medi-ated PDT treatment to potentiate the anti-tumor efficacy of PD-L1 blockade for CRC treatment and investigate the under-lying mechanisms of PDT enhancing PD-L1 blockade thera-peutic effect in this combination therapy. In this study, the mTHPC@VeC/T-RGD NPs under the 660-nm near infrared (NIR) laser could kill tumor cells by inducing apoptosis and/ or necrosis and stimulating systemic immune response, which could be further promoted by the PD-L1 blockade to inhibit primary and distant tumor growth, as well as building long-term host immunological memory to prevent tumor recur-rence. Furthermore, we detected that mTHPC@VeC/T-RGD NP-mediated PDT sensitizes tumors to PD-L1 blockade ther-apy mainly because PDT-mediated hypoxia could induce the hypoxia-inducible factor 1a (HIF-1a) signaling pathway that upregulates PD-L1 expression in CRC. Taken together, our work demonstrates that mTHPC@VeC/T-RGD NP-mediated PDT is a promising strategy that may potentiate the response rate of anti-PD-L1 checkpoint blockade immunotherapies in CRC.
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