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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Extracellular Silica Nanomatrices Promote In Vitro Maturation of Anti-tumor Dendritic Cells via Activation of Focal Adhesion Kinase.

Sze Wah Tam, Allen Ka Loon Cheung, Ping Qin, Shiqing Zhang, Zhifeng Huang, Ken Kin Lam Yung

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Sze Wah TamDepartment of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Allen Ka Loon CheungDepartment of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Ping QinDepartment of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Shiqing ZhangState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Zhifeng HuangDepartment of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9613-9423
Ken Kin Lam YungDepartment of Science and Environmental Studies, the Education University of Hong Kong, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China.

Funding

Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province 2022B1515130007Chinese University of Hong Kong 3134308Chinese University of Hong Kong 3136014Chinese University of Hong Kong 4053558Hong Kong Baptist University 179206Hong Kong Research Grants Council/GRF 12301321Hong Kong Research Grants Council Research Matching Grant Scheme RMGS-2019-1-03Hong Kong Research Grants Council Research Matching Grant Scheme RMGS-2019-1-15Hong Kong Research Grants Council Research Matching Grant Scheme RMGS-2020-4-03
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The efficacy of dendritic cell (DC)-based cancer vaccines is critically determined by the functionalities of in vitro maturated DCs. The maturation of DCs typically relies on chemicals that are cytotoxic or hinder the ability of DCs to efficiently activate the antigen-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs) against tumors. Herein, the maturation chemicals are replaced with extracellular silica nanomatrices, fabricated by glancing angle deposition, to promote in vitro maturation of murine bone marrow-derived DCs (mBMDCs). The extracellular nanomatrices composed of silica nanozigzags (NZs) enable the generation of mature mBMDCs with upregulated levels of co-stimulatory molecules, C-C chemokine receptor type-7, X-C motif chemokine recetpor-1, DC-specific ICAM-3 grabbing nonintegrin, and enhanced endocytic capacity. The in vitro maturation is partially governed by focal adhesion kinase (FAK) that is mechanically activated in the curved cell adhesions formed at the DC-NZ interfaces. The NZ-maturated mBMDCs can prime the antigen-specific CTLs into programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1)

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Dendritic CellsFocal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine KinasesNanoparticlesSilicon DioxideAnimalsCancer VaccinesCell Line, TumorHumansMiceMice, Inbred C57BLT-Lymphocytes, CytotoxicCancer VaccinesFocal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine KinasesSilicon Dioxidecancer immunotherapydendritic cellsextracellular nanomatricesfocal adhesion kinaseglancing angle deposition

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PMID39268785
PMCPMC11733713

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