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bioRxiv ; 2024 Mar 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38496556

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Potential systemic factors contributing to aging-associated breast cancer (BC) remain elusive. Here, we reveal that the polyploid giant cells (PGCs) that contain more than two sets of genomes prevailing in aging and cancerous tissues constitute 5-10% of healthy female bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (fBMSCs). The PGCs can repair DNA damage and stimulate neighboring cells for clonal expansion. However, dying PGCs in advanced-senescent fBMSCs can form "spikings" which are then separated into membraned mtDNA-containing vesicles (Senescent PGC-Spiking Bodies; SPSBs). SPSB-phagocytosed macrophages accelerate aging with diminished clearance on BC cells and protumor M2 polarization. SPSB-carried mitochondrial OXPHOS components are enriched in BC of elder patients and associated with poor prognosis. SPSB-incorporated breast epithelial cells develop aggressive characteristics and PGCs resembling the polyploid giant cancer cells (PGCCs) in clonogenic BC cells and cancer tissues. These findings highlight an aging BMSC-induced BC risk mediated by SPSB-induced macrophage dysfunction and epithelial cell precancerous transition. SIGNIFICANCE: Mechanisms underlying aging-associated cancer risk remain unelucidated. This work demonstrates that polyploid giant cells (PGCs) in bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BMSCs) from healthy female bone marrow donors can boost neighboring cell proliferation for clonal expansion. However, the dying-senescent PGCs in the advanced-senescent fBMSCs can form "spikings" which are separated into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-containing spiking bodies (senescent PGC-spiking bodies; SPSBs). The SPSBs promote macrophage aging and breast epithelial cell protumorigenic transition and form polyploid giant cancer cells. These results demonstrate a new form of ghost message from dying-senescent BMSCs, that may serve as a systemic factor contributing to aging-associated immunosuppression and breast cancer risk.

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Nat Commun ; 14(1): 7334, 2023 11 13.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37957174

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Despite improvements in medical and surgical therapies, a significant portion of patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) are considered as "no option" for revascularization. In this work, a nitric oxide (NO)-boosted and activated nanovesicle regeneration kit (n-BANK) is constructed by decorating stem cell-derived nanoscale extracellular vesicles with NO nanocages. Our results demonstrate that n-BANKs could store NO in endothelial cells for subsequent release upon pericyte recruitment for CLI revascularization. Notably, n-BANKs enable endothelial cells to trigger eNOS activation and form tube-like structures. Subsequently, eNOS-derived NO robustly recruits pericytes to invest nascent endothelial cell tubes, giving rise to mature blood vessels. Consequently, n-BANKs confer complete revascularization in female mice following CLI, and thereby achieve limb preservation and restore the motor function. In light of n-BANK evoking pericyte-endothelial interactions to create functional vascular networks, it features promising therapeutic potential in revascularization to reduce CLI-related amputations, which potentially impact regeneration medicine.


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Células Endoteliales , Pericitos , Humanos , Femenino , Ratones , Animales , Células Endoteliales/fisiología , Óxido Nítrico , Isquemia/terapia , Células Madre , Neovascularización Fisiológica/fisiología
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 120(41): e2304534120, 2023 10 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37782793

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Aberrant transcripts expression of the m6A methyltransferase complex (MTC) is widely found across human cancers, suggesting a dysregulated signaling cascade which integrates m6A epitranscriptome to drive tumorigenesis. However, the responsible transcriptional machinery directing the expression of distinct MTC subunits remains unclear. Here, we identified an unappreciated interplay between the histone acetyl-lysine reader BRD4 and the m6A writer complex across human cancers. BRD4 directly stimulates transcripts expression of seven MTC subunits, allowing the maintenance of the nuclear writer complex integrity. Upon BET inhibition, this BRD4-MTC signaling cascade accounts for global m6A reduction and the subsequent dynamic alteration of BRD4-dependent transcriptome, resulting in impaired DNA damage response that involves activation of homologous recombination (HR) repair and repression of apoptosis. We further demonstrated that the combined synergy upon BET/PARP inhibition largely relies on disrupted m6A modification of HR and apoptotic genes, counteracting PARP inhibitor (PARPi) resistance in patient-derived xenograft models. Our study revealed a widespread active cross-talk between BRD4-dependent epigenetic and MTC-mediated epitranscriptomic networks, which provides a unique therapeutic vulnerability that can be leveraged in combined DNA repair-targeted therapy.


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Antineoplásicos , Proteínas que Contienen Bromodominio , Proteínas Nucleares , Humanos , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/genética , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/metabolismo , Línea Celular Tumoral , Reparación del ADN , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Proteínas Nucleares/metabolismo , Inhibidores de Poli(ADP-Ribosa) Polimerasas/farmacología , Factores de Transcripción/genética , Factores de Transcripción/metabolismo , Epigénesis Genética , Proteínas que Contienen Bromodominio/genética , Proteínas que Contienen Bromodominio/metabolismo , Animales
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Biomaterials ; 299: 122145, 2023 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37172536

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Cancer is a complex pathological phenomenon that needs to be treated from different aspects. Herein, we developed a size/charge dually transformable nanoplatform (PDR NP) with multiple therapeutic and immunostimulatory properties to effectively treat advanced cancers. The PDR NPs exhibit three different therapeutic modalities (chemotherapy, phototherapy and immunotherapy) that can be used to effectively treat primary and distant tumors, and reduce recurrent tumors; the immunotherapy is simultaneously activated by three major pathways, including toll-like receptor, stimulator of interferon genes and immunogenic cell death, effectively suppresses the tumor development in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. In addition, PDR NPs show size and charge responsive transformability in the tumor microenvironment, which overcomes various biological barriers and efficiently delivers the payloads into tumor cells. Taking these unique characteristics together, PDR NPs effectively ablate primary tumors, activate strong anti-tumor immunity to suppress distant tumors and reduce tumor recurrence in bladder tumor-bearing mice. Our versatile nanoplatform shows great potential for multimodal treatments against metastatic cancers.


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Nanopartículas , Neoplasias , Animales , Ratones , Línea Celular Tumoral , Nanopartículas/uso terapéutico , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia , Neoplasias/terapia , Fototerapia , Inmunoterapia , Microambiente Tumoral
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J Control Release ; 357: 274-286, 2023 05.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36958401

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The application of numerous chemotherapeutic drugs has been limited due to poor solubility, adverse side effects, and even multidrug resistance in patients. Polymeric micelles with reversibly cross-linked structures provide a promising solution to these issues. Herein, we optimized and synthesized programable-released disulfide cross-linked micelle (PDCM) based on our previous well-defined dendrimers to deliver the antitumor drug betulinic acid (BA) and paclitaxel (PDCM@PTX) and evaluated the therapeutic efficacy of multidrug-resistant (MDR) simulative orthotopic intraperitoneal ovarian cancer mice models. Comprehensive results demonstrated that PDCM@PTX formed stable nanoparticles able to improve the pharmacokinetic profile and circulation time of PTX, allowing for increased tumor penetration. Furthermore, in the tumor microenvironment, the programable-switches (ester bonds and disulfide cross-linking) of PDCM@PTX were cleaved by the high concentration of glutathione (tumor microenvironment) and esterase (intracellular) present in the tumor, allowing for in situ release of PTX and BA, resulting in intensive therapeutic efficacy in MDR ovarian cancer.


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Antineoplásicos , Neoplasias Ováricas , Humanos , Femenino , Animales , Ratones , Sistemas de Liberación de Medicamentos/métodos , Neoplasias Ováricas/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias Ováricas/patología , Paclitaxel/química , Antineoplásicos/uso terapéutico , Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Micelas , Disulfuros , Línea Celular Tumoral , Resistencia a Antineoplásicos , Microambiente Tumoral
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Nanoscale Adv ; 5(4): 1011-1022, 2023 Feb 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36798503

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Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is a small lipoprotein that plays a vital role in controlling lipid metabolism. LDL has a delicate nanostructure with unique physicochemical properties: superior payload capacity, long residence time in circulation, excellent biocompatibility, smaller size, and natural targeting. In recent decades, the superiority and feasibility of LDL particles as targeted delivery carriers have attracted much attention. In this review, we introduce the structure, composition, advantages, defects, and reconstruction of LDL delivery systems, summarize their research status and progress in targeted diagnosis and therapy, and finally look forward to the clinical application of LDL as an effective delivery vehicle.

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Ann Transl Med ; 11(2): 83, 2023 Jan 31.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36819490

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Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide, and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has the worst prognosis. Standard systemic treatment includes chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors are considered in breast cancer (BRCA) susceptibility genes mutated tumors. The role of antiangiogenic drugs is controversial. Immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitor is now a standard of care for TNBC in the US, but its use in combination with anlotinib, an inhibitor of angiogenesis, on TNBC cells was never investigated. Methods: We tested the effects of anlotinib and programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitor on the proliferation, apoptosis, migration, and invasion of MDA-MB-468 and BT-549 TNBC cells through 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-Yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assays, cell apoptosis assay, wound healing and transwell matrix assays, and verified whether the combination of the two drugs had synergistic effect. Western blotting was used to detect the effect of anlotinib and PD-L1 inhibitor on the protein expression levels of PI3K, p-PI3K, AKT, p-AKT, Bcl-xl in MDA-MB-468 and BT-549 cells. The effects of anlotinib, PD-L1 inhibitor and the combination of the two drugs on the transplanted tumor of TNBC mice were tested by animal experiments. Results: Anlotinib and PD-L1 inhibitor inhibited the proliferation and promote cell apoptosis of MDA-MB-468 and BT-549 cells, and the combination demonstrated the synergetic effect. Anlotinib and PD-L1 inhibitor inhibited cell migration and invasion, and the effect was strongest in the combination group. Both anlotinib and PD-L1 inhibitor reduced the expression of p-PI3K, p-AKT and Bcl-xl proteins in cells and the effects were the strongest in the combination group. Both anlotinib and PD-L1 inhibitor inhibited the growth of transplanted tumors in mice, and the combined group demonstrated the strongest growth suppression. Conclusions: Anlotinib and PD-L1 inhibitor can inhibit cell proliferation, migration, and invasion of TNBC and promote cell apoptosis, and the two drugs show combined anti-tumor effects in vivo and in vitro. The combination of anlotinib and PD-L1 inhibitor may promote apoptosis of TNBC cells through PI3K/AKT/Bcl-xl signaling pathways, which might offer potential clinical treatment roles for these.

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Nanoscale Adv ; 4(21): 4470-4480, 2022 Oct 25.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36341301

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Nanomedicine based drug delivery platforms provide an interesting avenue to explore for the future of cancer treatment. Here we discuss the barriers for drug delivery in cancer therapeutics and how nanomaterials have been designed to bypass these blockades through stimuli responsive transformation in the most recent update. Nanomaterials that address the challenges of each step provide a promising solution for new cancer therapeutics.

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RSC Chem Biol ; 3(11): 1320-1324, 2022 Nov 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36349223

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Post-translational modifications (PTMs) play important roles in modulating the biological functions of proteins. Stoichiometry, which quantifies the modification percentage, is a critical factor for any given PTM. In this work, we developed a chemoproteomic strategy called "STO-MS" to systematically quantify the PTM stoichiometry in complex biological samples. This strategy employs a resolvable mass tag to differentiate proteoforms with different numbers of modifications and utilizes liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) techniques to measure PTM stoichiometry at the proteomic level. As a proof-of-concept, we successfully determined the stoichiometry of 197 proteins modified by 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE), a well-characterized lipid-derived electrophile and biomarker for oxidative stress. Our work expands the toolbox for quantification of PTM stoichiometry and sheds light on understanding the biological significance of PTMs in oxidative stress.

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Biomaterials ; 290: 121852, 2022 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36270058

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Nanocarriers have great potential to enhance drug delivery efficiency and therapeutic effect for various cancers. However, premature drug leakage and non-specific targeting still limit the delivery efficiency. Here, we present a smart on-demand targeting nanotheranostic system (PO-PB@SPIOs) with stimuli-responsive releasing property to improve the delivery efficiency for ovarian cancer. This delivery system prevents premature drug leakage via boronate ester linkages and shields the targeting moieties (phenylboronic acid) from non-specific binding when circulating in the blood. The PO-PB@SPIOs would release the tumor-targeting payload (PB) in response to the tumor microenvironment. Then, PB was able to target the overexpressed sialic acids on tumor cells. The significant improvement of delivery efficiency was demonstrated in vivo by a significantly enhanced signal in near-infrared-fluorescence (NIRF)/magnetic-resonance (MR) imaging (5-fold higher) and a remarkable photo-thermal therapeutic effect (complete cure rate (CCR) up to 80%). Furthermore, due to the on-demand targeting and stimuli-responsive releasing strategy, this nanotheranostic system shows a greater delivery efficiency even than the active-targeting small molecules or control nanoformulations. We believe this delicate design has great potential to develop novel drug nanoformulation.


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Nanopartículas , Neoplasias Ováricas , Femenino , Humanos , Doxorrubicina/uso terapéutico , Sistemas de Liberación de Medicamentos , Nanomedicina Teranóstica , Neoplasias Ováricas/tratamiento farmacológico , Nanopartículas/química , Microambiente Tumoral
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Nat Commun ; 13(1): 6350, 2022 10 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36289222

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The methyltransferase like 3 (METTL3) has been generally recognized as a nuclear protein bearing oncogenic properties. We find predominantly cytoplasmic METTL3 expression inversely correlates with node metastasis in human cancers. It remains unclear if nuclear METTL3 is functionally distinct from cytosolic METTL3 in driving tumorigenesis and, if any, how tumor cells sense oncogenic insults to coordinate METTL3 functions within these intracellular compartments. Here, we report an acetylation-dependent regulation of METTL3 localization that impacts on metastatic dissemination. We identify an IL-6-dependent positive feedback axis to facilitate nuclear METTL3 functions, eliciting breast cancer metastasis. IL-6, whose mRNA transcript is subjected to METTL3-mediated m6A modification, promotes METTL3 deacetylation and nuclear translocation, thereby inducing global m6A abundance. This deacetylation-mediated nuclear shift of METTL3 can be counterbalanced by SIRT1 inhibition, a process that is further enforced by aspirin treatment, leading to ablated lung metastasis via impaired m6A methylation. Intriguingly, acetylation-mimetic METTL3 mutant reconstitution results in enhanced translation and compromised metastatic potential. Our study identifies an acetylation-dependent regulatory mechanism determining the subcellular localization of METTL3, which may provide mechanistic clues for developing therapeutic strategies to combat breast cancer metastasis.


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Neoplasias de la Mama , Metiltransferasas , Humanos , Femenino , Metiltransferasas/metabolismo , Acetilación , Sirtuina 1/metabolismo , Interleucina-6/metabolismo , ARN Mensajero/metabolismo , Carcinogénesis , Neoplasias de la Mama/genética , Proteínas Nucleares/metabolismo , Aspirina
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Biomaterials ; 289: 121769, 2022 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36084485

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Low dose non-toxic disulfide cross-linked micelle (DCM) encapsulated paclitaxel (PTX) was found to be highly efficacious as a radiosensitizer against oral cancer preclinical model. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy was locally administered for three consecutive days 24 h after intravascular injection of DCM-[PTX] at 5 mg/kg PTX. DCM-[PTX] NPs combined with conventional radiotherapy (2 Gy) resulted in a 1.7-fold improvement in therapeutic efficacy compared to conventional PTX plus radiotherapy. Interestingly, we found that radiotherapy can decrease tight junctions and increase the accumulation of DCM-[PTX] in tumor sites. Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) given at 6 Gy was used to further investigate the synergistic anti-tumor effect. Tumor tissues were collected to analyze the relationship between the time interval after SBRT and the biodistribution of the nanomaterials. Compared to combination DCM-[PTX] with conventional radiation dose, combination DCM-PTX with SBRT was found to be more efficacious in inhibiting tumor growth.


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Micelas , Neoplasias de la Boca , Línea Celular Tumoral , Disulfuros , Humanos , Neoplasias de la Boca/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias de la Boca/radioterapia , Paclitaxel/farmacología , Paclitaxel/uso terapéutico , Distribución Tisular
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Pharmaceutics ; 14(9)2022 Sep 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36145668

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Tumor-targeted therapy based on nanoparticles is a popular research direction in the biomedical field. After decades of research and development, both the passive targeting ability of the inherent properties of NPs and the active targeting based on ligand receptor interaction have gained deeper understanding. Unfortunately, most targeted delivery strategies are still in the preclinical trial stage, so it is necessary to further study the biological fate of particles in vivo and the interaction mechanism with tumors. This article reviews different targeted delivery strategies based on NPs, and focuses on the physical and chemical properties of NPs (size, morphology, surface and intrinsic properties), ligands (binding number/force, activity and species) and receptors (endocytosis, distribution and recycling) and other factors that affect particle targeting. The limitations and solutions of these factors are further discussed, and a variety of new targeting schemes are introduced, hoping to provide guidance for future targeting design and achieve the purpose of rapid transformation of targeted particles into clinical application.

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Clin Cancer Res ; 28(21): 4820-4831, 2022 11 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35921526

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PURPOSE: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in general have shown poor efficacy in bladder cancer. The purpose of this project was to determine whether photodynamic therapy (PDT) with bladder cancer-specific porphyrin-based PLZ4-nanoparticles (PNP) potentiated ICI. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: SV40 T/Ras double-transgenic mice bearing spontaneous bladder cancer and C57BL/6 mice carrying syngeneic bladder cancer models were used to determine the efficacy and conduct molecular correlative studies. RESULTS: PDT with PNP generated reactive oxygen species, and induced protein carbonylation and dendritic cell maturation. In SV40 T/Ras double-transgenic mice carrying spontaneous bladder cancer, the median survival was 33.7 days in the control, compared with 44.8 (P = 0.0123), 52.6 (P = 0.0054), and over 75 (P = 0.0001) days in the anti-programmed cell death-1 antibody (anti-PD-1), PNP PDT, and combination groups, respectively. At Day 75 when all mice in other groups died, only 1 in 7 mice in the combination group died. For the direct anti-tumor activity, compared with the control, the anti-PD-1, PNP PDT, and combination groups induced a 40.25% (P = 0.0003), 80.72% (P < 0.0001), and 93.03% (P < 0.0001) tumor reduction, respectively. For the abscopal anticancer immunity, the anti-PD-1, PNP PDT, and combination groups induced tumor reduction of 45.73% (P = 0.0001), 54.92% (P < 0.0001), and 75.96% (P < 0.0001), respectively. The combination treatment also diminished spontaneous and induced lung metastasis. Potential of immunotherapy by PNP PDT is multifactorial. CONCLUSIONS: In addition to its potential for photodynamic diagnosis and therapy, PNP PDT can synergize immunotherapy in treating locally advanced and metastatic bladder cancer. Clinical trials are warranted to determine the efficacy and toxicity of this combination.


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Fotoquimioterapia , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria , Ratones , Animales , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria/terapia , Línea Celular Tumoral , Ratones Endogámicos C57BL , Inmunoterapia , Fototerapia , Factores Inmunológicos , Ratones Transgénicos
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Sensors (Basel) ; 22(16)2022 Aug 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36015805

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Control-flow attestation (CFA) is a mechanism that securely logs software execution paths running on remote devices. It can detect whether a device is being control-flow hijacked by launching a challenge-response process. In the growing landscape of the Internet of Things, more and more peer devices need to communicate to share sensed data and conduct inter-operations without the involvement of a trusted center. Toward the scalability of CFA mechanisms and mitigating the single-point failure, it is important to design a decentralized CFA schema. This paper proposed a decentralized schema (CFRV) to verify the control flow on remote devices. Moreover, it introduces a token (asymmetric secret slices) into peer devices to make the attestation process mutual. In this case, CFRV can mitigate a particular kind of man-in-the-middle attack called response defraud. We built our prototype toolbox on Raspberry-Pi to formulate our proof of concept. In our evaluation, CFRV protects the verification process from malicious verifiers and the man-in-the-middle attack. The proposed mechanism can also limit the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) usage to a single stage to save the peer devices' computational cost. Compared to related decentralized schemes, the cryptographic operation's duration is reduced by 40%.


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Seguridad Computacional , Programas Informáticos , Humanos
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Nano Lett ; 22(17): 6866-6876, 2022 09 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35926215

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Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has revolutionized clinical oncology. However, the efficacy of ICB therapy is limited by the ineffective infiltration of T effector (Teff) cells to tumors and the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Here, we report a programmable tumor cells/Teff cells bispecific nano-immunoengager (NIE) that can circumvent these limitations to improve ICB therapy. The peptidic nanoparticles (NIE-NPs) bind tumor cell surface α3ß1 integrin and undergo in situ transformation into nanofibrillar network nanofibers (NIE-NFs). The prolonged retained nanofibrillar network at the TME captures Teff cells via the activatable α4ß1 integrin ligand and allows sustained release of resiquimod for immunomodulation. This bispecific NIE eliminates syngeneic 4T1 breast cancer and Lewis lung cancer models in mice, when given together with anti-PD-1 antibody. The in vivo structural transformation-based supramolecular bispecific NIE represents an innovative class of programmable receptor-mediated targeted immunotherapeutics to greatly enhance ICB therapy against cancers.


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Neoplasias , Microambiente Tumoral , Animales , Inmunomodulación , Integrinas , Ratones , Neoplasias/tratamiento farmacológico , Linfocitos T
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Front Oncol ; 12: 890154, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35785187

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To date, driver genes for pancreatic cancer treatment are difficult to pursue therapeutically. Targeting mutated KRAS, the most renowned driver gene in pancreatic cancer, is an active area of study. We discovered a gene named SEMA3C was highly expressed in pancreatic cancer cell lines and patients with a G12D mutation in KRAS. High expression of SEMA3C in patients was significantly associated with the decreased survival of pancreatic cancer patients based on the TCGA database. In pancreatic cancer cells, SEMA3C knockdown or inhibition exhibited growth/colony inhibition and cell cycle arrest. In addition, SEMA3C inhibition sensitized KRAS or MEK1/2 inhibition in pancreatic cancer cells. Overexpression of SEMA3C resulted in the induction of autophagy, whereas depletion of SEMA3C compromised induction of autophagy. SEMA3C modified the PD-L1 expression in tumor and immune cells and is correlated with the M2-like macrophage marker ARG1/CD163 expression, which could reshape the tumor microenvironment. Inhibition of SEMA3C decreased tumor formation in the xenograft model in vivo. Taken together, our data suggest that SEMA3C plays a substantial role in promoting cancer cell survival by regulating the autophagy process and impacting the tumor environment immune response. SEMA3C can be used as a novel target or marker with therapeutic or diagnostic potential in pancreatic cancer especially in tumors harboring the specific KRAS G12D mutation.

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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ; 61(35): e202204567, 2022 08 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35791769

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Smart conversion of supramolecular structures in vivo is an attractive strategy in cancer nanomedicine, which is usually achieved via specific peptide sequences. Here we developed a lysosomal targeting small-molecule conjugate, PBC, which self-assembles into nanoparticles at physiological pH and smartly converts to nanofibrils in lysosomes of tumor cells. Such a transformation mechanically leads to lysosomal dysfunction, autophagy inhibition, and unusual cytoplasmic vacuolation, thus granting PBC a unique anticancer activity as a monotherapy. Importantly, the photo-activated PBC elicits significant phototoxicity to lysosomes and shows enormous advantages in overcoming autophagy-caused treatment resistance frequently occurring in conventional phototherapy. This improved phototherapy achieves a complete cure of oral cancer xenografts upon limited administration. Our work provides a new paradigm for the construction of nonpeptide nanotransformers with biomedical activities.


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Antineoplásicos , Neoplasias , Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Antineoplásicos/uso terapéutico , Autofagia , Humanos , Concentración de Iones de Hidrógeno , Lisosomas , Neoplasias/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias/patología
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Acta Pharm Sin B ; 12(6): 2672-2682, 2022 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35755275

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Hybrid lipid‒nanoparticle complexes have shown attractive characteristics as drug carriers due to their integrated advantages from liposomes and nanoparticles. Here we developed a kind of lipid-small molecule hybrid nanoparticles (LPHNPs) for imaging and treatment in an orthotopic glioma model. LPHNPs were prepared by engineering the co-assembly of lipids and an amphiphilic pheophorbide a‒quinolinium conjugate (PQC), a mitochondria-targeting small molecule. Compared with the pure nanofiber self-assembled by PQC, LPHNPs not only preserve the comparable antiproliferative potency, but also possess a spherical nanostructure that allows the PQC molecules to be administrated through intravenous injection. Also, this co-assembly remarkably improved the drug-loading capacity and formulation stability against the physical encapsulation using conventional liposomes. By integrating the advantages from liposome and PQC molecule, LPHNPs have minimal system toxicity, enhanced potency of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and visualization capacities of drug biodistribution and tumor imaging. The hybrid nanoparticle demonstrates excellent curative effects to significantly prolong the survival of mice with the orthotopic glioma. The unique co-assembly of lipid and small molecule provides new potential for constructing new liposome-derived nanoformulations and improving cancer treatment.

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Front Oncol ; 12: 819714, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35251986

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Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor (PARPi) resistance is a new challenge for antitumor therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reversal effects of chidamide on fluzoparib resistance, a PARPi, and its mechanism of action. A fluzoparib-resistant triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell line was constructed, and the effects of chidamide and fluzoparib on drug-resistant cells were studied in vitro and in vivo. The effects of these drugs on cell proliferation, migration, invasiveness, the cell cycle, and apoptosis were detected using an MTT assay, wound-healing and transwell invasion assays, and flow cytometry. Bioinformatics was used to identify hub drug resistance genes and Western blots were used to assess the expression of PARP, RAD51, MRE11, cleaved Caspase9, and P-CDK1. Xenograft models were established to analyze the effects of these drugs on nude mice. In vivo results showed that chidamide combined with fluzoparib significantly inhibited the proliferation, migration, and invasiveness of drug-resistant cells and restored fluzoparib sensitivity to drug-resistant cells. The combination of chidamide and fluzoparib significantly inhibited the expression of the hub drug resistance genes RAD51 and MRE11, arrested the cell cycle at the G2/M phase, and induced cell apoptosis. The findings of this work show that chidamide combined with fluzoparib has good antineoplastic activity and reverses TNBC cell resistance to fluzoparil by reducing the expression levels of RAD51 and MRE11.

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