Rheumatoid arthritis(RA)is an autoimmune disease characterized by severe synovial inflammation and cartilage damage.Despite great progress in RA therapy,there still lacks the drugs to completely cure RA patients.Herei...Rheumatoid arthritis(RA)is an autoimmune disease characterized by severe synovial inflammation and cartilage damage.Despite great progress in RA therapy,there still lacks the drugs to completely cure RA patients.Herein,we propose a reprogrammed neutrophil cytopharmaceuticals loading with TNFα-targeting-siRNA(siTNFα)as an alternative anti-inflammatory approach for RA treatment.The loaded siTNFαact as not only the gene therapeutics to inhibit TNFαproduction by macrophages in inflamed synovium,but also the editors to reprogram neutrophils to anti-inflammatory phenotypes.Leveraging the active tendency of neutrophils to inflammation,the reprogrammed siTNFα/neutrophil cytopharmaceuticals(siTNFα/TP/NEs)can rapidly migrate to the inflamed synovium,transfer the loaded siTNFαto macrophages followed by the significant reduction of TNFαexpression,and circumvent the pro-inflammatory activity of neutrophils,thus leading to the alleviated synovial inflammation and improved cartilage protection.Our work provides a promising cytopharmaceutical for RA treatment,and puts forward a living neutrophil-based gene delivery platform.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81930099,82073785,82130102,92159304,81773664)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20212011,China)+3 种基金“Double First-Class”University project(CPU2018GY47,China)111 Project from the Ministry of Education of Chinathe State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs of China(No.111-2-07,B17047,China)the Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines(No.SKLNMZZ202223,China)。
文摘Rheumatoid arthritis(RA)is an autoimmune disease characterized by severe synovial inflammation and cartilage damage.Despite great progress in RA therapy,there still lacks the drugs to completely cure RA patients.Herein,we propose a reprogrammed neutrophil cytopharmaceuticals loading with TNFα-targeting-siRNA(siTNFα)as an alternative anti-inflammatory approach for RA treatment.The loaded siTNFαact as not only the gene therapeutics to inhibit TNFαproduction by macrophages in inflamed synovium,but also the editors to reprogram neutrophils to anti-inflammatory phenotypes.Leveraging the active tendency of neutrophils to inflammation,the reprogrammed siTNFα/neutrophil cytopharmaceuticals(siTNFα/TP/NEs)can rapidly migrate to the inflamed synovium,transfer the loaded siTNFαto macrophages followed by the significant reduction of TNFαexpression,and circumvent the pro-inflammatory activity of neutrophils,thus leading to the alleviated synovial inflammation and improved cartilage protection.Our work provides a promising cytopharmaceutical for RA treatment,and puts forward a living neutrophil-based gene delivery platform.
