Use of BMP9 in combination with NK cell and PD-L1 antibody in preparing medicament for treating liver cancer
AssigneesSun Yat-Sen University, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center
InventorsTong Xiang, Jianchuan Xia, Yulong Han, Yao Zhu
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Abstract
A method of using BMP9 in combination with an NK cell and a PD-L1 antibody in preparing a medicament for treating liver cancer is provided. Specifically, BMP9 is loaded on a drug carrier microbubble to give a BMP9-carrying microbubble (MB-BMP9), and administered in combination with a natural killer cell (NK cell) and a programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) antibody for treating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The present invention can significantly enhance the efficacy of existing programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) antibody therapies and significantly inhibit the growth of HCC cell graft tumors with significant efficacy.
Claims2
A method for treating HBV-positive liver cancer comprising administering a BMP9 in combination with an NK cell and a PD-L1 antibody to a subject in need thereof, wherein
- the BMP9 is loaded on a drug-carrying microbubble (MB-BMP9);
- and
- the MB-BMP9 is prepared by the following steps:
- S1:
- dissolving 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC), 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DSPE)-polyethylene glycol 2000 (PEG2000), and stearic acid-modified branched polyethylenimine-600 (Stearic-PEI600) in an organic solvent to obtain a first resulting mixture, and stirring the first resulting mixture for half an hour to give a phospholipid suspension;
- S2:
- uniformly mixing the phospholipid suspension, and removing the organic solvent from the phospholipid suspension to obtain a second resulting mixture;
- S3:
- adding phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) in the second resulting mixture to obtain a resulting solution, and incubating the resulting solution in a 60° C. water bath for 15 min to obtain an incubated solution;
- S4:
- shaking the incubated solution for 40 s in a bio-inert gas atmosphere, centrifuging the incubated solution to give an ultrasound microbubble, and washing the ultrasound microbubble to remove a phospholipid not forming the ultrasound microbubble;
- and
- S5:
- adding the BMP9 into a washed microbubble to obtain a third resulting mixture, and incubating the third resulting mixture for 1.5 h at room temperature to give the MB-BMP9;
- wherein
- in S1, a mass ratio of the DSPC, the DSPE-PEG2000, and the Stearic-PEI600 is 82:9:9;
- in S1 and S2, the organic solvent is a mixture of chloroform and methanol in a volume ratio of 9:1;
- in S4, the bio-inert gas atmosphere is perfluoropropane;
- in S4, a centrifugation condition is 400 g/min for 4 min;
- in S4, a method for washing is centrifugal floating;
- and
- in S5, an amount ratio of the BMP9 to the washed microbubble is 20 μg:108.
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