Cold atmospheric plasma–engineered nanovaccine with spatiotemporal sequential immunization reprograms antitumor immunity
Cancer immunotherapy remains limited by insufficient antigen presentation and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. Here, we present a vaccine strategy based on cold atmospheric plasma (CAP)-engineered tumor cell-derived immune reprogramming nanovesicles (CAPTURE) that integrates spatiotemporal sequential immunization to potentiate antitumor immunity. CAPTURE is engineered from tumor cells pretreated with CAP, which up-regulates major histocompatibility complex class I expression via p62-mediated autophagy to promote full-spectrum epitope antigen presentation, and surface-functionalized anti-CD28 (αCD28) on CAPTURE provides costimulatory signals to directly activate T cells through αCD28-CD28, bypassing B7-CTLA-4-mediated T cell inhibition. Under spatiotemporal sequential immunity, CAPTURE exhibits homologous tumor targeting and lymph node accumulation, enhancing antigen presentation for CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell activation and tumor immunogenic remodeling. In mouse models, CAPTURE achieved near-complete tumor suppression, driven by amplified cytotoxic T cell responses, increased T cell clonal diversity, and CXCR3-mediated tumor infiltration. This study presents a universal biomimetic nanovaccine strategy that can reshape both T cells' immunity and tumor cells' immunogenicity, induce broad-spectrum immune responses to overcome immune evasion, and offer unique insights and innovative technologies for precision cancer immunotherapy.
Authors
- Dingwei Gan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4257-2213)
- Liqian Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5068-3688)
- Xiunan Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4070-4101)
- Xiaoyong Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6048-6100)
- D. T. Sun
- Qianwen Mu
- Yue Xi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8001-8969)
- Xi Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6741-4094)
- Peiyu Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7021-3939)
- Hao Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7987-6002)
- Zhenyu Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3773-4254)
- Xiaoyu An (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5975-0727)
- C. Chuanwang Zhang
- NiNa Liu
- Qihang Huang
- Gang Liu
- Ziqi Zhuang
- Chao Liu
- Renwu Zhou
- Yan Li
- Shuo Li
Institutions
- Xiamen University (CN)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2026-03-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb5894
- Primary Topic
- Plasma Applications and Diagnostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00