Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

An inhalable nanoparticulate STING agonist synergizes with radiotherapy to confer long-term control of lung metastases

  • Yang Liu,
  • William N. Crowe,
  • Lulu Wang,
  • Yong Lu,
  • W. Jeffrey Petty,
  • Amyn A. Habib,
  • Dawen Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13094-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Successful anticancer immunotherapy should induce robust systemic immunity against metastases. Here, the authors engineer an inhalable nano-STING agonist, which synergizes with fractionated radiation to control lung metastases and confers long-term systemic antitumor immunity in mice.