Title
Preclinical evaluation of mRNA trimannosylated lipopolyplexes as therapeutic cancer vaccines targeting dendritic cells
Date Issued
28 May 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Le Moignic A.
Malard V.
Benvegnu T.
Lemiègre L.
Berchel M.
Jaffrès P.A.
Baillou C.
Delost M.
Rochefort J.
Lescaille G.
Pichon C.
Lemoine F.M.
Midoux P.
Mateo V.
Centre d'Immunologie et Maladies Infectieuses (CIMI-Paris)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Clinical trials with direct administration of synthetic mRNAs encoding tumor antigens demonstrated safety and induction of tumor-specific immune responses. Their proper delivery to dendritic cells (DCs) requires their protection against RNase degradation and more specificity for dose reduction. Lipid-Polymer-RNA lipopolyplexes (LPR) are attractive mRNA delivery systems and their equipment with mannose containing glycolipid, specific of endocytic receptors present on the membrane of DCs is a valuable strategy. In this present work, we evaluated the capacity of LPR functionalized with a tri-antenna of α-D-mannopyranoside (triMN-LPR) concerning (i) their binding to CD209/DC-SIGN and CD207/Langerin expressing cell lines, human and mouse DCs and other hematopoietic cell populations, (ii) the nature of induced immune response after in vivo immunization and (iii) their therapeutic anti-cancer vaccine efficiency. We demonstrated that triMN-LPR provided high induction of a local inflammatory response two days after intradermal injection to C57BL/6 mice, followed by the recruitment and activation of DCs in the corresponding draining lymph nodes. This was associated with skin production of CCR7 and CXCR4 at vaccination sites driving DC migration. High number of E7-specific T cells was detected after E7-encoded mRNA triMN-LPR vaccination. When evaluated in three therapeutic pre-clinical murine tumor models such as E7-expressing TC1 cells, OVA-expressing EG7 cells and MART-1-expressing B16F0 cells, triMN-LPR carrying mRNA encoding the respective antigens significantly exert curative responses in mice vaccinated seven days after initial tumor inoculation. These results provide evidence that triMN-LPR give rise to an efficient stimulatory immune response allowing for therapeutic anti-cancer vaccination in mice. This mRNA formulation should be considered for anti-cancer vaccination in Humans.
Start page
110
End page
121
Volume
278
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología relacionada con la salud
Biotecnología médica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85045275676
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Controlled Release
ISSN of the container
01683659
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank the microscopy platform « Plate-forme d'Imagerie Cellulaire Pitié Salpêtrière » (Pitié Salpêtrière hospital, Paris, France) and Béatrice Bault Levacher (UPMC, UMR-S INSERM U959, Paris) for her helpful assistance. The authors would like to thank Dr. Bertrand Bellier (UPMC, UMR-S INSERM U959, Paris, France), Pr Kris Thielemans (Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Therapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium) for his kind gift of pcDNA3-OVA and pGEM4Z-Sig-LAMP plasmids and Dr. Franck Fieschi (Institut de biologie structurale, Grenoble, France) for pCEV4M-langerin plasmid. We would like to thank Dr. Olivier Schwartz (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France) for his kind gift of the lentiviral vector encoding the human DC-SIGN. We are grateful to Dr. Alexandre Boissonas (CIMI-Paris, UMR-S INSERM 1135, Paris, France) for providing us CD11c-YFP transgenic mice. This work was granted by “Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer”. ALM is recipient of fellowship from the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research (MENESR).
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