DNA‐Capturing Manganese‐Coordinated Chitosan Microparticles Potentiate Radiotherapy via Activating the cGAS‐STING Pathway and Maintaining Tumor‐Infiltrating CD8+ T‐Cell Stemness
Advanced Materials,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 16, 2025
The
radiotherapy-induced
release
of
DNA
fragments
can
stimulate
the
cyclic
guanosine
monophosphate-adenosine
monophosphate
synthase-stimulator
interferon
genes
(cGAS-STING)
pathway
to
prime
antitumor
immunity,
but
this
is
expected
be
less
potent
because
inefficient
cytosolic
delivery
negatively
charged
fragments.
In
study,
manganese-coordinated
chitosan
(CS-Mn)
microparticles
with
selective
DNA-capturing
capacity
are
concisely
prepared
via
a
coordination-directed
one-pot
synthesis
process
potentiate
immunogenicity
radiotherapy.
obtained
CS-Mn
that
undergo
rapid
disassembly
under
physiological
conditions
selectively
bind
form
positively
DNA-CS
assemblies
strong
electrostatic
interaction
between
linear
and
molecules.
They
thus
enable
efficient
in
presence
serum
cooperate
Mn2+
activate
cGAS-STING
dendritic
cells.
Upon
intratumoral
injection,
markedly
enhance
efficacy
radiotherapy
against
both
irradiated
distal
tumors
different
tumor
models
collectively
promoting
tumor-infiltrating
CD8+
T-cell
stemness
activation
innate
immunity.
radiosensitization
effect
further
augmented
by
concurrently
applying
anti-programmed
cell
death
protein
1
(anti-PD-1)
immunotherapy.
This
work
highlights
an
ingenious
strategy
prepare
Trojan
horse-like
as
cGAS-STING-activating
radiosensitizers
for
effective
radioimmunotherapy.
Language: Английский
Artificial intelligence‐assisted design, synthesis and analysis of smart biomaterials
BMEMat,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 25, 2025
Abstract
Smart
biomaterials
that
can
self‐adapt
or
respond
to
microenvironmental
factors
external
signals
hold
excellent
potential
for
a
variety
of
biomedical
applications,
from
biosensing,
drug
delivery,
and
cell
therapy
tissue
engineering.
The
complexity
smart
biomaterials,
including
the
rational
design
their
structure
composition,
accurate
analysis
prediction
properties,
automatic
scale‐up
synthesis
remains
critical
challenge
but
be
addressed
by
recent
rise
artificial
intelligence
(AI).
To
bridge
literature
gap,
current
mini‐review
will
introduce
background
why
marrying
AI
with
is
essential
how
biomaterial
scientists
integrate
machine
learning
(ML)
discovery,
design,
analysis,
biomaterials.
For
this
purpose,
basic
principles
ML
first
introduced
so
use
as
tool
research.
Next,
representative
examples
using
high
throughput
screen
establish
big
data
structure‐function
relationship
responding
both
chemical,
biological,
physical
signals.
Most
importantly,
applications
AI‐designed
AI‐discovered
overviewed,
focus
on
field
Lastly,
new
directions,
such
robot‐chemists‐assisted
fabrication
highlighted.
Taken
together,
engaging
most
updates
in
material
science,
we
expect
observe
continuous
growth
science
benefit
clinical
translation
treating
diseases.
Language: Английский