Spleen targeted neoantigen DNA vaccine for personalized immunotherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma

ABSTRACT: Neoantigens are emerging as attractive targets to develop personalized cancer vaccines, but their immunization efficacy is severely hampered by their restricted accessibility to lymphoid tissues where immune responses are initiated. Leveraging the capability of red blood cells (RBCs) to capture and present pathogens in peripheral blood to the antigen presenting cells (APCs) in spleen, we developed a RBC-driven spleen targeting strategy to deliver DNA vaccine encoding hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) neoantigen. The DNA vaccine-encapsulating polymeric nanoparticles that were intentionally hitchhiked on the pre-isolated RBCs could preferentially accumulate in the spleen to promote the neoantigen expression by APCs, resulting in the burst of neoantigen-specific T cell immunity to prevent tumori

SUBMITTER: Dr. Ming Wu 

PROVIDER: S-SCDT-10_15252-EMMM_202216836 | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other