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Research Article

Exosomes derived from cancer cells relieve inflammatory bowel disease in mice

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Received 07 May 2024, Accepted 13 Jun 2024, Published online: 03 Jul 2024
 

Abstract

Exosome therapy has garnered significant attention due to its natural delivery capabilities, low toxicity, high biocompatibility, and potential for personalised treatment through engineering modifications. Recent studies have highlighted the ability of tumour cell-derived exosomes (TDEs) to interact with immune cells or modify the immune microenvironment to suppress host immune responses, as well as their unique homing ability to parental cells. The core question of this study is whether this immunomodulatory property of TDEs can be utilised for the immunotherapy of inflammatory diseases. In our experiments, we prepared exosomes derived from murine colon cancer cells CT26 (CT26 exo) using ultracentrifugation, characterised them, and conducted proteomic analysis. The therapeutic potential of CT26 exo was evaluated in our dextran sulphate sodium salt (DSS)-induced inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) mouse model. Compared to the control and 293 T exo treatment groups, mice treated with CT26 exo showed a reduction in the disease activity index (DAI) and colon shortening rate, with no noticeable weight loss. Haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining of colon paraffin sections revealed reduced inflammatory infiltration and increased epithelial goblet cells in the colons of CT26 exo-treated group. Furthermore, we conducted preliminary mechanistic explorations by examining the phenotyping and function of CD4+ T cells and dendritic cells (DCs) in the colonic lamina propria of mice. The results indicated that the ameliorative effect of CT26 exosomes might be due to their inhibition of pro-inflammatory cytokine secretion by colonic DCs and selective suppression of Th17 cell differentiation in the colon. Additionally, CT26 exo exhibited good biosafety. Our findings propose a novel exosome-based therapeutic approach for IBD and suggest the potential application of TDEs in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

Acknowledgements

The authors greatly appreciate all authors for their contribution to this manuscript.

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All authors agree to be published.

Disclosure statement

No potential competing interest was reported by the author(s).

Ethical approval

All experiments of animals in this study were approved by the Committee on Ethics of Medicine of Naval Medical University (20S11906600).

Data availability statement

The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author.

Additional information

Funding

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 82322055, 81773261, 31970882, 81903140, 82041012 and 92169115); the Shanghai Rising-Star Program (grant number 19QA1411400); the Shanghai Sailing Program (19YF1438600); the Shanghai Chenguang Program (grant number 17CG35); and the Shanghai Biomedical Technology Support Project (20S11906600).

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