Chimeric antigen receptor macrophage therapy for breast tumours mediated by targeting the tumour extracellular matrix

BACKGROUND: The extracellular matrix (ECM) is essential for malignant tumour progression, as it is a physical barrier to various kinds of anticancer therapies. Matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs) can degrade almost all ECM components, and macrophages are an important source of MMPs. Studies using macrophages to treat tumours have shown that macrophages can enter tumour tissue to play a regulatory role.

METHODS: We modified macrophages with a designed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which could be activated after recognition of the tumour antigen HER2 to trigger the internal signalling of CD147 and increase the expression of MMPs.

RESULTS: Although CAR-147 macrophage treatment did not affect tumour cell growth in vitro compared with control treatment. However, we found that the infusion of CAR-147 macrophages significantly inhibited HER2-4T1 tumour growth in BALB/c mice. Further investigation showed that CAR-147 macrophages could reduce tumour collagen deposition and promote T-cell infiltration into tumours, which were consistent with expectations. Interestingly, the levels of the inflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-6, which are key factors in cytokine release syndrome, were significantly decreased in the peripheral blood in CAR-147 macrophage-transfused mice.

CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that targeting the ECM by engineered macrophages would be an effective treatment strategy for solid tumours.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:121

Enthalten in:

British journal of cancer - 121(2019), 10 vom: 30. Nov., Seite 837-845

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Wenlong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Su, HuiFang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qin [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Hanren [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Weijie [VerfasserIn]
Bei, Yuncheng [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Pingping [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-34-5
Collagen
EC 2.7.10.1
EC 3.4.24.-
ERBB2 protein, human
Journal Article
Matrix Metalloproteinases
Receptor, ErbB-2
Receptors, Chimeric Antigen
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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Date Completed 11.06.2020

Date Revised 09.02.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41416-019-0578-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM301782458