1. Identification of the exosomal PD-L1 inhibitor to promote the PD-1 targeting therapy of gastric cancer.
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Sun, Jian-Gang, Gao, Ya, Gao, Yong-Shun, Dai, Xing-Jie, and Chen, Peng
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STOMACH cancer , *PROGRAMMED death-ligand 1 , *EXOSOMES , *CHEMICAL libraries , *CANCER treatment , *T cells - Abstract
Programmed death 1/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) targeting therapy is widely applied in clinics for gastric cancer treatment. Nevertheless, the clinical response is not well acceptable due to the exosomal PD-L1. Hence, abrogation of the exosomal PD-L1 may be a strategy to sensitize the gastric cancer cell to PD-1 targeting therapy. With the aid of CD63 targeting antibody and PD-L1 targeting aptamer, HTRF based assay was established to quantify the exosomal PD-L1, and applied to our in-house compound library, resulting in the identification of moclobemide. Further optimization of moclobemide lead to EP16, which can inhibit the generation of exosomal PD-L1 with IC 50 = 0.108 μM. By applying EP16 to gastric cancer cell line coupled with T-cell activity related experiment, it was validated to activate T-cell and can promote the response of PD-1 targeting therapy for gastric cancer treatment in vitro and in vivo. Collectively, our findings give a promising tool to promote the sensitivity of anti-PD-1 for gastric cancer treatment, and EP16 can serve as a leading compound for exosomal PD-L1 abrogation. [Display omitted] • EP16 was designed by using phenotype-based assay and our in-house compound library. • EP16 inhibited the generation of exosomal PD-L1 with an IC 50 value of 0.108 μM. • EP16 promoted the response to PD-1/PD-L1 targeted therapy in vitro and in vivo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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