Spherical nucleic acid vaccine structure markedly influences adaptive immune responses of clinically utilized prostate cancer targets

MH Teplensky, JW Dittmar, L Qin… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer vaccines, which activate the immune system against a target antigen, are attractive
for prostate cancer, where multiple upregulated protein targets are identified. However …

Development of spherical nucleic acids for prostate cancer immunotherapy

L Qin, S Wang, D Dominguez, A Long, S Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Although the strategy of therapeutic vaccination for the treatment of prostate cancer has
advanced to and is available in the clinic (Sipuleucel-T), the efficacy of such therapy remains …

Multi-antigen spherical nucleic acid cancer vaccines

MH Teplensky, M Evangelopoulos, JW Dittmar… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer vaccines must activate multiple immune cell types to be effective against aggressive
tumours. Here we report the impact of the structural presentation of two antigenic peptides …

Rational vaccinology with spherical nucleic acids

S Wang, L Qin, G Yamankurt… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
In the case of cancer immunotherapy, nanostructures are attractive because they can carry
all of the necessary components of a vaccine, including both antigen and adjuvant. Herein …

Chemically tuning the antigen release kinetics from spherical nucleic acids maximizes immune stimulation

K Skakuj, MH Teplensky, S Wang, JW Dittmar… - ACS central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cancer vaccine structure is emerging as an important design factor that offers tunable
parameters to enhance the targeted immune response. We report the impact of altering the …

Co-administration of a DNA vaccine encoding the prostate specific membrane antigen and CpG oligodeoxynucleotides suppresses tumor growth

J Ren, L Zheng, Q Chen, H Li, L Zhang… - Journal of Translational …, 2004 - Springer
Background Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a well characterized prostate-
specific tumor associated antigen. Its expression is elevated in prostate carcinoma …

DNA fusion gene vaccines induce cytotoxic T‐cell attack on naturally processed peptides of human prostate‐specific membrane antigen

GE Vittes, EL Harden, CH Ottensmeier… - European journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For long‐term attack on tumor cells in patients with prostate cancer, induction of cytolytic T
cells is desirable. Several lineage‐specific target proteins are known and algorithms have …

Novel mRNA adjuvant ImmunER enhances prostate cancer tumor-associated antigen mRNA therapy via augmenting T cell activity

Z Xu, ZX Xiao, J Wang, HW Qiu, F Cao… - …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Prostate cancer (PCa) is characterized as a “cold tumor” with limited immune responses,
rendering the tumor resistant to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). Therapeutic messenger …

An integrated polymeric mRNA vaccine without inflammation side effects for cellular immunity mediated cancer therapy

P Huang, L Jiang, H Pan, L Ding, B Zhou… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Among the few available mRNA delivery vehicles, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the most
clinically advanced but they require cumbersome four components and suffer from …

Tumor growth inhibition by mSTEAP peptide nanovaccine inducing augmented CD8+ T cell immune responses

Q Chen, Y Bao, D Burner, S Kaushal, Y Zhang… - Drug delivery and …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) has been successfully used in drug delivery
and biomaterial applications, but very little attention has been directed towards the potential …