Selective Tumor-Specific Antigen Delivery to Dendritic Cells Using Mannose-Labeled Poly(d, l-lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles for Cancer Immunotherapy

Tae In Wi, Yeongseon Byeon, Ji Eun Won, Jae Myeong Lee, Tae Heung Kang, Jeong Won Lee, Young Joo Lee, Anil K. Sood, Hee Dong Han, Yeong Min Park

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Abstract

A key issue in dendritic cell (DC)-based cancer immunotherapy is the effective delivery of tumor-specific antigens to DCs. To deliver antigens, non-viral vaccine system has been used in ex vivo manipulation. However, ex vivo manipulation is time-consuming, lacks quality control of DCs, and demonstrates low antigen delivery efficiency, which implicates that there are serious problems in therapeutic DC preparations. Therefore, we developed mannose (MN)-labeled poly(d, l-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) nanoparticles (MN-PLGA-NPs) encapsulating tumor-specific antigens for targeted delivery to mannose receptors (MN-R) on DC surfaces without ex vivo manipulation. The MN-PLGA-NPs showed DC-selective delivery in tumor-bearing mice, leading to highly mature and activated DCs, which migrated to lymphoid organs, resulting in activation of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells. Additionally, MN-PLGA-NPs showed significant therapeutic efficacy in EG7 lymphoma tumorbearing mice. Our nano-platform technology can be used as a vaccine system to bypass ex vivo manipulation and enhance targeted delivery of tumor-specific antigens to DCs, which is well-suited for cancer immunotherapy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)201-211
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of biomedical nanotechnology
Volume16
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Bioengineering
  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • General Materials Science
  • Pharmaceutical Science

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