Ca2+-driven self-amplified nanoplatform targeting ER-mitochondrial calcium crosstalk for synergistic apoptosis induction and tumor immune microenvironment remodeling

Yucui Ding, Xinyu Liu, Jianlong Fu, Jianyue Xue, Xueni Fan, Yundong Wang, Xinrui Li, Sirui Liu, Yunchao Yang, Xiaopeng Xu, Gangqiang Yang, Hongbo Wang, Peng Zhang · 2026

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Yucui Ding and colleagues report a 2026 study of a nano-sized drug carrier built to overwhelm breast cancer cells with calcium. Drug resistance and spread limit chemotherapy for breast cancer. The carrier wraps a plant compound, oridonin, in a manganese-based mineral sheet inside a fat shell aimed at tumors. Once inside a cell, it sets off a self-feeding loop of stress.

Stress in the cell's protein workshop forces calcium into its power plants, which then fail and burst out damaging oxygen chemicals. Manganese adds more of those chemicals and wakes an immune alarm pathway. Immune cells inside the tumor shifted to an attacking mode, and killer T cells moved in. In mice, the carrier strongly shrank tumors with no clear whole-body harm.

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CREATORYucui Ding, Xinyu Liu, Jianlong Fu, Jianyue Xue, Xueni Fan, Yundong Wang, Xinrui Li, Sirui Liu, Yunchao Yang, Xiaopeng Xu, Gangqiang Yang, Hongbo Wang, Peng Zhang
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE54583
LICENSEhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13267731

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