Multichannel Immune Nanoregulators Suppress Lactic Acid Metabolism and Lactic Acid‐Shaped Acidic Microenvironment to Uproot Anti‐Tumor Immunosuppression
Lactic acid (LA) itself and the LA-shaped acidic tumor microenvironment (TME) are identified as root causes of cancer immunosuppression, and no effective strategies address them. Here a multichannel immune nanoregulator is engineered to dampen acidic TME and repolarize non-inflammatory macrophages to uproot this source of cancer immunosuppression, wherein fluorocarbon chains (FC)-modified mesoporous silica (FM) serves as nanoreactors and carriers to in situ synthesize CaO<sub>2</sub> and load R848, respectively, followed by liposome coating, anti-CD105 modification and FC-mediated O<sub>2</sub> binding in sequence. Both liposome shell and intraparticle FC ensure safe CaO<sub>2</sub> delivery. Ultrasound-triggered FC-binding O<sub>2</sub> burst and liposomes-destruction-enhanced CaO<sub>2</sub> reactions with H<sup>+</sup> and H<sub>2</sub>O produce O<sub>2</sub>. This process depletes pre-existing H<sup>+</sup> and inhibits glycolysis LA production to cut off acidic TME source, and uproots their actions in reshaping cancer immunosuppression, e.g., removing the polarization impetus toward non-inflammatory M2 ones, addressing both symptoms and root causes of cytotoxic T lymphocytes and PD1+ T cells inactivation, etc. The cancer immunosuppression uprooting encourages the anti-tumor efficacy of cancer calcification and intratumoral H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> accumulation in the immune nanoregulators especially after anti-CD105-mediated active targeting accumulation. Collectively, this work presents a solution to uproot LA and non-inflammatory macrophages-induced cancer immunosuppression.
Authors
- Litao Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4724-0971)
- Chao Fang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9898-4893)
- Qiuxia Peng
- Xiao Qu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0436-427X)
- Lulu Cai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5678-1112)
- Binxu Yin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8367-7971)
- Xiulin Dong
- Kun Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6971-1164)
- Yi Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8298-0350)
- Zi Qiao
- Lujia Xiao
Institutions
- Tongji University (CN)
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital (CN)
- Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital (CN)
- Hangzhou Medical College (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2025-09-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202512230
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.72