Issue 10, 2023

Moringa oleifera leaf polysaccharides exert anti-lung cancer effects upon targeting TLR4 to reverse the tumor-associated macrophage phenotype and promote T-cell infiltration

Abstract

Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) participate in tumorigenesis, growth, invasion as well as metastasis by facilitating an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. Reversing the pro-tumoral M2 phenotype of TAMs has become a hot spot in advancing cancer immunotherapy. In the current study, the content of Moringa oleifera leaf polysaccharides (MOLP) was determined and characterized, along with the anti-cancer mechanism of MOLP studied in a Lewis lung cancer (LLC) tumor-bearing mouse model and bone marrow-derived macrophages. The monosaccharide composition and gel permeation chromatography analyses show that MOLP are mainly composed of galactose, glucose, and arabinose, with approximately 17.35 kDa average molecular weight (Mw). In vivo studies demonstrate that MOLP convert TAMs from the immunosuppressive M2 phenotype to the antitumor M1 phenotype, thus inducing CXCL9 and CXCL10 expression and increasing T-cell infiltration in the tumor. Furthermore, macrophage depletion and T cell suppression demonstrated that the tumor suppressive effect of MOLP was reliant on reprogramming macrophage polarization and T cell infiltration. In vitro studies revealed that MOLP could induce the phenotypic switch from M2 macrophages to M1 by targeting TLR4. The current study highlights that MOLP are promising anticancer plant-derived polysaccharides with potential in modulating the immune microenvironment and have a bright application prospect in the immunotherapy of lung cancer.

Graphical abstract: Moringa oleifera leaf polysaccharides exert anti-lung cancer effects upon targeting TLR4 to reverse the tumor-associated macrophage phenotype and promote T-cell infiltration

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Nov 2022
Accepted
22 Apr 2023
First published
25 Apr 2023

Food Funct., 2023,14, 4607-4620

Moringa oleifera leaf polysaccharides exert anti-lung cancer effects upon targeting TLR4 to reverse the tumor-associated macrophage phenotype and promote T-cell infiltration

S. Wang, Q. Hu, Z. Chang, Y. Liu, Y. Gao, X. Luo, L. Zhou, Y. Chen, Y. Cui, Z. Wang, B. Wang, Y. Huang, Y. Liu, R. Liu and L. Zhang, Food Funct., 2023, 14, 4607 DOI: 10.1039/D2FO03685A

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