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ArticleScience advances2025

Programmable engineered bacteria as sustained-releasing antibody factory in situ for enhancing tumor immune checkpoint therapy.

Xiao-Ting Xie, Meng Guan, Kai Cheng, Yong Li, Bin Zhang, Yi-Tong Zhou, Lin-Fang Tan, Peng-Shuo Dong, Si Chen, Bo Liu and 2 more

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Xiao-Ting XieBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.ORCID 0009-0000-0247-4830
Meng GuanBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.ORCID 0009-0001-4252-6532
Kai ChengBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-7918-3465
Yong LiBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.
Bin ZhangBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.
Yi-Tong ZhouBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.
Lin-Fang TanBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.
Peng-Shuo DongBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.
Si ChenHubei Key Laboratory of Plasma Chemistry and Advanced Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, Hubei, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-9716-9966
Bo LiuBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-5450-5528
Yuan-Di ZhaoBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-4286-4275
Jin-Xuan FanBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-8434-7591

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) aims to block immune escape signals between tumor and immune cells. However, low delivery efficiency of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), narrow single-target approach, and reduced responsiveness notably hinder clinical development of ICT. Here, we developed a nanoliposome-bacteria hybrid system that acts as an antibody (Ab) factory, enabling precise tumor targeting and macrophage activation in hypoxic environments. We reprogrammed attenuated

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Escherichia coliImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsNeoplasmsAnimalsCD47 AntigenCell Line, TumorGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansImmunotherapyLiposomesMacrophage ActivationMacrophagesMiceTumor MicroenvironmentCD47 AntigenImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsLiposomes

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PMID40138400
PMCPMC11939038

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