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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Controlling intracellular processing to enhance spherical nucleic acid immune stimulation.

Janice Kang, Michelle H Teplensky, Jasper W Dittmar, Michael Evangelopoulos, Jeongmin Hwang, Chad A Mirkin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Design Considerations for Potent DNA-Platform-Based Cancer Vaccines.Current opinion in biomedical engineering · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Janice KangDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0009-0007-0837-2406
Michelle H TeplenskyDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0003-4664-420X
Jasper W DittmarDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Michael EvangelopoulosDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0002-5300-4289
Jeongmin HwangDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Chad A MirkinDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0002-6634-7627

Funding

Innovative Research for Cancer Nanotechnology (IRCN) for Enhancing Melanoma-specific Immune Responses by the Rational Design of Spherical Nucleic AcidsR01CA257926 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI CHAD A. MIRKIN, Bin Zhang · 2022 to 2026
$2.5M
Cancer Nanotechnology Training ProgramT32CA186897 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WOLOSCHAK, GAYLE E. · 2015 to 2019
$1.2M
HHS | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01CA257926NCI NIH HHS R01 CA257926NCI NIH HHS T32 CA186897
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To mount a robust and durable immune response, the antigen in a vaccine must be processed efficiently in the appropriate intracellular compartment. Here, we report an approach for optimizing the antigen processing pathway and efficiency by using the modular design of spherical nucleic acid (SNA) nanostructures. We utilized the substrate specificity of endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase1 (ERAP1), a protease known to generate major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC I) epitopes in the endoplasmic reticulum, to design two ERAP1-responsive peptide linkers (EPLs). The peptide linkers append the peptide antigen onto the SNAs to bias the processing pathway toward ERAP1 and to vary the antigen processing efficiency. The two EPLs varied ERAP1 antigen processing efficiency by 10-fold. Subsequently, the EPLs increased colocalization of the antigen with ERAP1 by up to

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AminopeptidasesAntigen PresentationNucleic AcidsAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesEndoplasmic ReticulumHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHumansMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMinor Histocompatibility AntigensNanostructuresPeptidesAminopeptidasesERAP1 protein, humanHistocompatibility Antigens Class IMinor Histocompatibility AntigensNucleic AcidsPeptidesantigen cross presentationantigen processingpeptidasesstructural immunotherapy

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PMID41183209
PMCPMC12625926

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