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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Delivery of mRNA vaccine with a lipid-like material potentiates antitumor efficacy through Toll-like receptor 4 signaling.

Hongxia Zhang, Xinru You, Xiaojuan Wang, Lei Cui, Zining Wang, Feifei Xu, Mengyun Li, Zhenggang Yang, Jinyun Liu, Peng Huang and 3 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers.

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130citing papers in PubMed
14.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

130 citing papers in PubMed, 236 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hongxia ZhangState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Xinru YouKey Laboratory of Sensing Technology and Biomedical Instrument of Guangdong Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Xiaojuan WangState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9825-5567
Lei CuiState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Zining WangState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Feifei XuState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Mengyun LiState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Zhenggang YangState Key Laboratory for Diagnostic and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China.
Jinyun LiuState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4763-2684
Peng HuangState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Yang KangKey Laboratory of Sensing Technology and Biomedical Instrument of Guangdong Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Jun WuState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China; wujun29@mail.sysu.edu.cn xiaxj@sysucc.org.cn.
Xiaojun XiaState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China; wujun29@mail.sysu.edu.cn xiaxj@sysucc.org.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-4444-7472
Sun Yat-sen University · CNZhejiang University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular delivery of messenger RNA (mRNA)-based cancer vaccine has shown great potential to elicit antitumor immunity. To achieve robust antitumor efficacy, mRNA encoding tumor antigens needs to be efficiently delivered and translated in dendritic cells with concurrent innate immune stimulation to promote antigen presentation. Here, by screening a group of cationic lipid-like materials, we developed a minimalist nanovaccine with C1 lipid nanoparticle (LNP) that could efficiently deliver mRNA in antigen presenting cells with simultaneous Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) activation and induced robust T cell activation. The C1 nanovaccine entered cells via phagocytosis and showed efficient mRNA-encoded antigen expression and presentation. Furthermore, the C1 lipid nanoparticle itself induced the expression of inflammatory cytokines such as IL-12 via stimulating TLR4 signal pathway in dendritic cells. Importantly, the C1 mRNA nanovaccine exhibited significant antitumor efficacy in both tumor prevention and therapeutic vaccine settings. Overall, our work presents a C1 LNP-based mRNA cancer nanovaccine with efficient antigen expression as well as self-adjuvant property, which may provide a platform for developing cancer immunotherapy for a wide range of tumor types.

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Signal TransductionAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsBone Marrow CellsCytokinesDendritic CellsEndocytosisFemaleHEK293 CellsHumansImmunity, InnateLipidsLymphocyte ActivationMelanoma, ExperimentalMiceMice, Inbred C57BLAntineoplastic AgentsCytokinesLipidsRNA, MessengerToll-Like Receptor 4cancer immunotherapylipid-like materialmRNA nanovaccineself-adjuvantTLR4

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PMID33547233
PMCPMC8017939
OpenAlexW3129166185

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