Our paper entitled “Irradiation conditioning of adjuvanted, autologous cancer cell membrane  nanoparticle vaccines ” has been published in Chemical Engineering Journal.

By Zhan Tuo, Qianyuan He, Zhanjie Zhang,Yiyu Wang,Jinfeng Sun,Qi Wei,Yu Hu,Jonathan F Lovell,Honglin Jin*,Kunyu Yang*

Congratulations to all contributors!

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Cancer vaccines systems based on autologous cancer cell membrane fragments (CMs) have attracted attention  due to broad antigen coverage, however, the lack of immunogenicity of conventional cancer CMs bring the  limitations of application. Here, the next-generation nanovaccines is constructed using irradiated cancer cell  membrane (RM) coated on a polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) nanoscale delivery system loaded with a TLR-7  agonist (R837) to generate the RP@RMs vaccine with prophylactic and therapeutic anti-cancer properties.  Irradiation of cell results in enhanced expression of major histocompatibility complex I (MHCI) on the cell  membrane. Compared with regular CMs, RMs carry more 8–11 amino-acid MHC-I epitopes and enrich with more  damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). When combined with R837, RP@RMs promoted maturation of  dendritic cells (DCs) and induced DCs secreting cytokines for immune activation. Following subcutaneous injection in mice, RP@RMs accumulated in lymph nodes (LNs) and induced antitumor immune responses which  further prevented tumor growth. In addition, RP@RMs enhanced the therapeutic efficacy of anti-PD-1 treatment.  This work provides a new strategy for improving the antitumor immune response and the efficacy of anti-PD-1  treatment. Taken together, our data showed that irradiation of cancer cells and formulation of RMs into adjuvanted nanoparticles would be a promising strategy for generating autologous cancer vaccines.