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ArticleJournal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society2024

Plasmid DNA ionisable lipid nanoparticles as non-inert carriers and potent immune activators for cancer immunotherapy.

Yue Qin, Nadia Rouatbi, Julie Tzu-Wen Wang, Rafal Baker, James Spicer, Adam A Walters, Khuloud T Al-Jamal

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Article in Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Integrating Metabolic Modulation and Nanomedicine for Cancer Immunotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  10. In vivo generation of CAR macrophages via the enucleated mesenchymal stem cell delivery system for glioblastoma therapy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yue QinInstitute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK.
Nadia RouatbiInstitute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK.
Julie Tzu-Wen WangInstitute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK.
Rafal BakerInstitute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK.
James SpicerDepartment of Medical Oncology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT), London SE1 9RT, UK; School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Adam A WaltersInstitute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK. Electronic address: adam.walters@kcl.ac.uk.
Khuloud T Al-JamalInstitute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK. Electronic address: khuloud.al-jamal@kcl.ac.uk.
King's College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy is currently a standard of care in the treatment of many malignancies. However, predictable side effects caused by systemic administration of highly immunostimulatory molecules have been a serious concern within this field. Intratumoural expression or silencing of immunogenic and immunoinhibitory molecules using nucleic acid-based approaches such as plasmid DNA (pDNA) and small interfering RNA (siRNA), respectively, could represent a next generation of cancer immunotherapy. Here, we employed lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to deliver either non-specific pDNA and siRNA, or constructs targeting two prominent immunotherapeutic targets OX40L and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-1 (IDO), to tumours in vivo. In the B16F10 mouse model, intratumoural delivery of LNP-formulated non-specific pDNA and siRNA led to strong local immune activation and tumour growth inhibition even at low doses due to the pDNA immunogenic nature. Replacement of these non-specific constructs by pOX40L and siIDO resulted in more prominent immune activation as evidenced by increased immune cell infiltration in tumours and tumour-draining lymph nodes. Consistently, pOX40L alone or in combination with siIDO could prolong overall survival, resulting in complete tumour regression and the formation of immunological memory in tumour rechallenge models. Our results suggest that intratumoural administration of LNP-formulated pDNA and siRNA offers a promising approach for cancer immunotherapy.

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DNAImmunotherapyMice, Inbred C57BLNanoparticlesPlasmidsRNA, Small InterferingAnimalsCell Line, TumorDrug CarriersFemaleIndoleamine-Pyrrole 2,3,-DioxygenaseLipidsMelanoma, ExperimentalMiceDNADrug CarriersIndoleamine-Pyrrole 2,3,-DioxygenaseLipidsRNA, Small InterferingCancer immunotherapyCombinatoryLipid nanoparticlesPlasmid DNAsiRNA

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PMID38493950
PMCPMC11464404
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