Localized NIR-II photo-immunotherapy through the combination of photothermal ablation and in situ generated interleukin-12 cytokine for efficiently eliminating primary and abscopal tumors
- 10 December 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Nanoscale
- Vol. 13 (3), 1745-1758
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d0nr06182d
Abstract
Recently, photothermal therapy (PTT) in the second near-infrared (NIR-II) biowindow has emerged as a promising treatment modality; however, its therapeutic outcomes are still limited by heterogeneous heat distribution and insufficient control of metastatic lesions. Tremendous efforts have been made to overcome the PTT's shortcomings by combining PTT with immunotherapy, but unfortunately current strategies still suffer from low response rates, primary/acquired resistance or severe immune-related adverse events. Herein, a novel photothermal agent and gene co-delivery nanoparticle (CSP), with CuS inside the SiO2 pore channels and PDMAEMA polycation on the outside of SiO2 surface, is explored for tumor localized NIR-II PTT and in situ immunotherapy through local generation of IL-12 cytokine. The resulting CSP integrated with the plasmid encoding IL-12 gene (CSP@IL-12) exhibited good gene transfection efficiency, outstanding NIR-II PTT effect and excellent therapeutic outcomes both in vitro and in vivo. Meanwhile, such an in situ joint therapy modality could significantly induce systemic immune responses including promoting DC maturation, CD8+ T cell proliferation and infiltration to efficiently eliminate possible metastatic lesions through abscopal effects. Hence, this creative combinational strategy of NIR-II PTT and IL-12 cytokine therapy might provide a more efficient, controllable and safer alternative strategy for future photo-immunotherapy.Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61727823, 61775178)
- Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology (2019Y0013)
- Science Foundation of Fuzhou (2019-S-86)
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