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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2023

Engineering cGAS-agonistic oligonucleotides as therapeutics and vaccine adjuvants for cancer immunotherapy.

Shurong Zhou, Ting Su, Furong Cheng, Janet Cole, Xiang Liu, Bei Zhang, Shaheer Alam, Jinze Liu, Guizhi Zhu

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shurong ZhouDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy; Biointerfaces Institute. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Ting SuDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Furong ChengDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Janet ColeDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Xiang LiuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy; Biointerfaces Institute. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Bei ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Medicine; Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Massey Cancer Center; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Shaheer AlamDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Jinze LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Medicine; Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Massey Cancer Center; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Guizhi ZhuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy; Biointerfaces Institute. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Virginia Commonwealth University · USUniversity of Michigan · US

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 GM143014NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS047463NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS114455
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current cancer immunotherapy (e.g., immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)) has only benefited a small subset of patients. Cyclic GMP-AMP synthase-stimulator of interferon genes (cGAS-STING) activation holds the potential to improve cancer immunotherapy by eliciting type-I interferon (IFN-I) responses in cancer cells and myeloid cells. Yet, current approaches to this end, mostly by targeting STING, have marginal clinical therapeutic efficacy. Here, we report a cGAS-specific agonistic oligonucleotide, Svg3, as a novel approach to cGAS-STING activation for versatile cancer immunotherapy. Featured with a hairpin structure with consecutive guanosines flanking the stem, Svg3 binds to cGAS and enhances cGAS-Svg3 phase separation to form liquid-like droplets. This results in cGAS activation by Svg3 for robust and dose-dependent IFN-I responses, which outperforms several state-of-the-art STING agonists in murine and human immune cells, and human tumor tissues. Nanocarriers efficiently delivers Svg3 to tissues, cells, and cytosol where cGAS is located. Svg3 reduces tumor immunosuppression and potentiates ICB therapeutic efficacy of multiple syngeneic tumors, in wildtype but neither

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cancer vaccinescGAScombination immunotherapyimmunostimulantoligonucleotide therapeutics

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PMID37502970
PMCPMC10369979
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