Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

A vaccine-based nanosystem for initiating innate immunity and improving tumor immunotherapy

  • Di-Wei Zheng,
  • Fan Gao,
  • Qian Cheng,
  • Peng Bao,
  • Xue Dong,
  • Jin-Xuan Fan,
  • Wen Song,
  • Xuan Zeng,
  • Si-Xue Cheng,
  • Xian-Zheng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15927-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) immunotherapy efficacy has still limitations. Here, the authors generate a vaccine that integrates CD274 siRNA into the L1 protein of human papillomavirus, which cooperates with ICB by activating innate immunity in breast cancer models.