51P - Nanoengineered sonosensitive platelets for synergistically augmented sonodynamic breast tumour therapy by glutamine deprivation and cascading thrombosis

Background

Ultrasound (US)-activated sonodynamic therapy (SDT) stands for a distinct antitumor modality because of its attractive characteristics including intriguing noninvasiveness, desirable safety, and high tissue penetration depth, which, unfortunately, suffers from compromised therapeutic efficacy due to cancer cell-inherent adaptive mechanisms, such as glutathione (GSH) neutralization response to reactive oxygen species (ROS), and glutamine addictive properties of tumors.

Methods

In this work, we developed a biological sonosensitive platelet (PLT) pharmacytes for favoring US/GSH-responsive combinational therapeutic of glutamine deprivation and augmented SDT. The amino acid transporter SLC6A14 blockade agent α-methyl-DL-tryptophan (α-MT)-loaded and MnO2-coated por- phyrinic metal-organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles were encapsulated in the PLTs through the physical adsorption of electrostatic attraction and the intrinsic endocytosis of PLTs.

Results

When the sonosensitive PLT phar- macytes reached tumor sites through their natural tendencies to TME, US stimulated the PLTs-loaded porphyrinic MOF to generate ROS, resulting in morphological changes of the PLTs and the release of nanoparticles. Subse- quently, intracellular high concentration of GSH and extracellular spatio-temporal controlled US irradiation programmatically triggered the release of α-MT, which enabled the synergistically amplified SDT by inducing amino acid starvation, inhibiting mTOR, and mediating ferroptosis. In addition, US stimulation achieved the targeted activation of PLTs at tumor vascular site, which evolved from circulating PLTs to dendritic PLTs, effectively blocking the blood supply of tumors through thrombus formation, and revealing the encouraging potential to facilitate tumor therapeutics.

Conclusions

It offers a bioinspired design strategy to improve SDT efficiency, and rends an innovative paradigm for cooperatively ablating refractory tumor.

Clinical trial identification

Legal entity responsible for the study

University of Macau.

Funding

University of Macau.

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.