Inorganic nanosheets facilitate humoral immunity against medical implant infections by modulating immune co-stimulatory pathways

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Abstract

Strategies to manipulate immune cell co-inhibitory or co-activating signals have revolutionized immunotherapy. However, certain immunologically cold diseases, such as bacterial biofilm infections of medical implants are hard to target due to the complexity of the immune co-stimulatory pathways involved. Here we show that two-dimensional manganese chalcogenophosphates MnPSe3 (MPS) nanosheets modified with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) are capable of triggering a strong anti-bacterial biofilm humoral immunity in a mouse model of surgical implant infection via modulating antigen presentation and costimulatory molecule expression in the infectious microenvironment (IME). Mechanistically, the PVP-modified MPS (MPS-PVP) damages the structure of the biofilm which results in antigen exposure by generating reactive oxidative species, while changing the balance of immune-inhibitory (IL4I1 and CD206) and co-activator signals (CD40, CD80 and CD69). This leads to amplified APC priming and antigen presentation, resulting in biofilm-specific humoral immune and memory responses. In our work, we demonstrate that pre-surgical neoadjuvant immunotherapy utilizing MPS-PVP successfully mitigates residual and recurrent infections following removal of the infected implants. This study thus offers an alternative to replace antibiotics against hard-to-treat biofilm infections.

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Yang, C., Luo, Y., Shen, H., Ge, M., Tang, J., Wang, Q., … Zhang, X. (2022). Inorganic nanosheets facilitate humoral immunity against medical implant infections by modulating immune co-stimulatory pathways. Nature Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32405-x

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