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Tailoring Tumor Cell Golgi Apparatus-Targeting Self-Assembled Peptide for Effective Immunotherapy via Reshaping MIF-Mediated Immunosuppressive Network

  • Adv Sci (Weinh). 2025 Feb 5:e2415133. doi: 10.1002/advs.202415133.
Xiang Li 1 Chengxinqiao Wang 1 2 Junhan Liu 1 Guifang Deng 1 Yongqiang Deng 3 Fang Hu 4 Yupeng Wang 1 Dongfang Zhou 1 2 5
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Affiliations

  • 1 NMPA Key Laboratory for Research and Evaluation of Drug Metabolism & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening & Guangdong-Hongkong-Macao Joint Laboratory for New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510 515, P. R. China.
  • 2 Department of Ultrasonic Diagnosis & Orthopedic and Traumatology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510 515, P. R. China.
  • 3 Department of Pathophysiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Proteomics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510 515, P. R. China.
  • 4 Biomaterials Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510 515, P. R. China.
  • 5 Key Laboratory of Mental Health of the Ministry of Education, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510 515, P. R. China.
Abstract

The immunosuppressive network formed by the enhanced crosstalk between tumor cells and various types of immune cells may ultimately lead to the formation of tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment (TIME). The Golgi apparatus (GA) of tumor cells is a key organelle in the formation of a tumor immunosuppressive network. However, there are no studies to show whether interfering with the GA of tumor cells can reshape the immunosuppressive network to enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapy. Therefore, the tumor cell GA-targeting self-assembled peptide (NF-1) is tailored, and confirmed that NF-1 treatment can achieve an effective immunotherapy and found that tumor cell-derived GA-dependent migration inhibitory factor (MIF) mediates the formation of immunosuppressive network in breast Cancer (BRCA) through multi-omics analysis, in vivo, and in vitro experiments. NF-1 treatment-induced MIF reduction can reshape the immunosuppressive network and convert a "cold" tumor into a "hot" tumor, thus enabling immunotherapy in BRCA and enhancing the ICB efficacy in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD). This study presents a general strategy for interfering with tumor GA for effective immunotherapy in BRCA, COAD, and Other cancers characterized by a "cold" immune microenvironment.

Keywords

Golgi apparatus; immunotherapy; migration inhibitory factor; self‐assembled peptide; tumor immunosuppressive network.

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