Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Nanoparticle anchoring targets immune agonists to tumors enabling anti-cancer immunity without systemic toxicity

  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Na Li,
  • Heikyung Suh,
  • Darrell J. Irvine

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02251-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Immunostimulatory agents used in cancer treatment often elicit serious toxicities, limiting their clinical application. Here, the authors show that the use of liposomes to intravenously deliver surface-anchored IL-2 and anti-CD137 proteins enables anti-cancer immunity and reduces the toxic side effects.