Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Albumin/vaccine nanocomplexes that assemble in vivo for combination cancer immunotherapy

  • Guizhi Zhu,
  • Geoffrey M. Lynn,
  • Orit Jacobson,
  • Kai Chen,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Huimin Zhang,
  • Ying Ma,
  • Fuwu Zhang,
  • Rui Tian,
  • Qianqian Ni,
  • Siyuan Cheng,
  • Zhantong Wang,
  • Nan Lu,
  • Bryant C. Yung,
  • Zhe Wang,
  • Lixin Lang,
  • Xiao Fu,
  • Albert Jin,
  • Ido D. Weiss,
  • Harshad Vishwasrao,
  • Gang Niu,
  • Hari Shroff,
  • Dennis M. Klinman,
  • Robert A. Seder,
  • Xiaoyuan Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02191-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Albumin conjugates can enhance drug delivery. Here, the authors repurpose albumin-binding Evans blue to develop nanovaccines that co-deliver adjuvants and tumor neoantigens to antigen-presenting cells in lymph nodes, resulting in potent and durable antitumour immunity in combination immunotherapy.