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ArticleSmall methods2025

Lipid Nanoparticle-mRNA Engineered Dendritic Cell Based Adoptive Cell Therapy Enhances Cancer Immune Response.

Riddha Das, Xinying Ge, Fan Fei, Sepideh Parvanian, Ralph Weissleder, Christopher S Garris

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Article in Small methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Riddha DasCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9258-5488
Xinying GeCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0124-3138
Fan FeiCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-1622-9462
Sepideh ParvanianCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3884-9961
Ralph WeisslederCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0828-4143
Christopher S GarrisCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5764-6203

Funding

Training Grant in Molecular Imaging Research (MGH/HMS)T32CA079443 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2000 to 2025
$10.1M
Strategies to Overcome Immune Resistance in Head and Neck CancersP01CA240239 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI PAI, SARA ISABEL · 2019 to 2023
$8.4M
Cue-101 and TCR-T cell Combinatorial Strategy for HPV+ Head and Neck CancersR01CA278212 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Sara Isabel Pai · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
Bioorthogonal probe development for highly parallel in vivo imagingR33CA277820 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2023 to 2025
$1.2M
CSB Development FundKarin Grunebaum Cancer Research FoundationNCI NIH HHS P01 CA240239NCI NIH HHS R01 CA278212NCI NIH HHS R33 CA277820NCI NIH HHS T32 CA079443NCI NIH HHS T32CA079443
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid nanoparticles encapsulating mRNA (LNP-mRNA) revolutionized medicine over the past several years. While clinically approved indications currently focus on infectious disease vaccination, LNP-mRNA based treatments also hold promise for cancer immunotherapy. However, the route of dosing may impact treatment efficacy, safety, and dose. To minimize adverse effects, it is hypothesized that LNP-mRNA can be used to activate and engineer dendritic cells (DC) ex vivo before re-administration of these cells. Here, it is shown that LNP-mRNA engineered DCs can indeed vaccinate recipient mice. Vaccinated mice showed strong anti-tumor T cell responses, rejected tumor challenge, and displayed no evidence of toxicity. Further, it is found that DC specific ablation of the immune activating kinase NFkB inducing kinase (NIK) abrogated vaccination efficacy, demonstrating that adoptively transferred DCs can be functionally modified in addition to their antigen presentation capacity. Collectively, these studies show that ex vivo LNP-mRNA engineering of DCs is a feasible and robust therapeutic strategy for cancer.

Indexed as

Dendritic CellsImmunotherapy, AdoptiveLipidsNanoparticlesNeoplasmsRNA, MessengerAnimalsCancer VaccinesCell Line, TumorFemaleLiposomesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLCancer VaccinesLipid NanoparticlesLipidsLiposomesRNA, Messengeradoptive cell therapycancerdendritic cellslipid nanoparticles

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PMID39039995
PMCPMC11740962

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