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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2023

Targeting Lymph Nodes for Systemic Immunosuppression Using Cell-Free-DNA-Scavenging And cGAS-Inhibiting Nanomedicine-In-Hydrogel for Rheumatoid Arthritis Immunotherapy.

Furong Cheng, Ting Su, Yangtengyu Liu, Shurong Zhou, Jialong Qi, Weisheng Guo, Guizhi Zhu

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Cell-Free DNA-Based Theranostics for Inflammatory Disorders.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  15. [Research progress on the cGAS-STING signaling pathway in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in children].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2025
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  18. Advances in cfDNA research for pregnancy-related diseases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Furong ChengState Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Ting SuDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The Developmental Therapeutics Program, Massey Cancer Center., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA.
Yangtengyu LiuDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China.
Shurong ZhouDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The Developmental Therapeutics Program, Massey Cancer Center., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA.
Jialong QiDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The Developmental Therapeutics Program, Massey Cancer Center., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA.
Weisheng GuoTranslational Medicine Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510260, China.
Guizhi ZhuDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The Developmental Therapeutics Program, Massey Cancer Center., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2945-7982
Virginia Commonwealth University · USCentral South University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University · CNShanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

Funding

Virus Vector Shared ResourceP30CA016059 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI Kim Felder Rhoads · 1985 to 2026
$51.0M
VCU Neuroscience Center Core GrantP30NS047463 · NINDS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI POVLISHOCK, JOHN T · 2003 to 2013
$5.0M
Small Circular mRNA VaccinesR01AI168684 · NIAID · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI ZHU, GUIZHI · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
Nucleic Acid Modulators and Theranostics for ADARR35GM143014 · NIGMS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI ZHU, GUIZHI · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
Lymph Node-Targeted Codelivery of Albumin-Binding Peptide Antigens and Di-Adjuvant for Melanoma Combination ImmunotherapyR01CA266981 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI Guizhi Zhu · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Glioblastoma radioimmunotherapyR21NS114455 · NINDS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI VALERIE, KRISTOFFER CARL, ZHU, GUIZHI · 2020 to 2021
$427k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016059NCI NIH HHS R01 CA266981NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI168684NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM143014NIH HHS R01AI168684NIH HHS R01CA266981NIH HHS R21NS114455NIH HHS R35GM143014NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS047463NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS114455
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease with pathogenic inflammation caused partly by excessive cell-free DNA (cfDNA). Specifically, cfDNA is internalized into immune cells, such as macrophages in lymphoid tissues and joints, and activates pattern recognition receptors, including cyclic guanosine monophosphate-adenosine monophosphate synthase (cGAS), resulting in overly strong proinflammation. Here, nanomedicine-in-hydrogel (NiH) is reported that co-delivers cGAS inhibitor RU.521 (RU) and cfDNA-scavenging cationic nanoparticles (cNPs) to draining lymph nodes (LNs) for systemic immunosuppression in RA therapy. Upon subcutaneous injection, NiH prolongs LN retention of RU and cNPs, which pharmacologically inhibit cGAS and scavenged cfDNA, respectively, to inhibit proinflammation. NiH elicits systemic immunosuppression, repolarizes macrophages, increases fractions of immunosuppressive cells, and decreases fractions of CD4

Indexed as

Arthritis, RheumatoidCell-Free Nucleic AcidsAnimalsDNAHydrogelsImmunosuppression TherapyImmunotherapyLymph NodesMiceNanomedicineNucleotidyltransferasesCell-Free Nucleic AcidsDNAHydrogelsNucleotidyltransferasescell-free DNA scavengingcGAS inhibitionimmunotherapylymph node targetingnanoparticle-in-hydrogelsrheumatoid arthritis

Identifiers

PMID37435620
PMCPMC10502670
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