# Magnesium Structure‐Function Integration Platform for Spatiotemporal Multi‐Modality Therapy: Combining Hormonotherapy and Immunotherapy in Prostate Cancer

**Authors:** Rui Zan, Qianping Mao, Keyi Wang, Guodong Zou, Shi Yang, Hua Qiu, Xiang Fang, Guiqing Wang, Xinyi Zhou, Jiexia Wen, Shuai Jiang, Ran Huang, Qiuming Peng, Tao Suo

PMC · DOI: 10.1002/advs.202515235 · Advanced Science · 2025-12-23

## TL;DR

A new magnesium-based platform combines hormone and immunotherapy for prostate cancer, enabling precise drug release and immune activation.

## Contribution

A spatiotemporal drug delivery system using magnesium and CMV for combined hormone-immunotherapy in prostate cancer.

## Key findings

- The platform uses HA-SH and CMV to improve structural stability and enable controlled drug release.
- Ginsenoside Rb1 inhibits androgen receptor signaling and induces immunogenic cell death.
- The system promotes tertiary lymphoid structures and synergistic immune activation.

## Abstract

Metal‐based immunotherapy represents a promising strategy for enhancing antitumor efficacy; however, its clinical application is limited by challenges such as inefficient drug delivery, low specificity, and suboptimal therapeutic outcomes. In this study, a therapeutic platform is constructed on a magnesium (Mg) surface utilizing self‐healing thiolated hyaluronic acid (HA‐SH) and cell membrane‐derived vesicle (CMV) drug system, which improves structural stability, enables spatiotemporal drug release, and facilitates immune‐hormone combination therapy for prostate cancer. CMV with phospholipid bilayers promotes HA‐SH disulfide bond interactions through weak hydrophobic interactions, mitigating corrosion and ensuring structural integrity. Additionally, HA‐SH exhibits glutathione (GSH)‐responsive drug release within the tumor microenvironment. CMV facilitates pH‐sensitive drug delivery and enables efficient cytoplasmic entry via membrane fusion mechanisms, ensuring precise spatiotemporal control. Through drug library screening, ginsenoside Rb1 is identified as a key therapeutic agent, competitively inhibiting androgen receptor signaling. Coupled with hydrogen release from Mg, it induces immunogenic cell death and promotes the formation of tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) via inhibiting the PI3K‐AKT pathway, achieving synergistic androgen deprivation therapy and immune activation. This implantable drug delivery system effectively tackles mechanical stability, local drug delivery, and systemic immune activation concerns, demonstrating substantial translational promise for various malignancies to improve treatment effectiveness and reduce structural failure risks.

The schematic illustration of the MHSCG platform for spatiotemporal responsive GRb1 release to induce androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and immunogenic cell death (ICD) multimodal therapy in prostate cancer.

## Linked entities

- **Proteins:** PIK3CA (phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase catalytic subunit alpha), AKT1 (AKT serine/threonine kinase 1)
- **Chemicals:** ginsenoside Rb1 (PubChem CID 9898279), glutathione (PubChem CID 124886), hydrogen (PubChem CID 783)
- **Diseases:** prostate cancer (MONDO:0005159)

## Full-text entities

- **Genes:** PIK3CB (phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase catalytic subunit beta) [NCBI Gene 5291] {aka P110BETA, PI3K, PI3KBETA, PIK3C1}, AKT1 (AKT serine/threonine kinase 1) [NCBI Gene 207] {aka AKT, PKB, PKB-ALPHA, PRKBA, RAC, RAC-ALPHA}, AR (androgen receptor) [NCBI Gene 367] {aka AIS, AR8, DHTR, HPCX3, HUMARA, HYSP1}
- **Diseases:** malignancies (MESH:D009369), Prostate Cancer (MESH:D011471)
- **Chemicals:** phospholipid (MESH:D010743), thiolated (-), hyaluronic acid (MESH:D006820), Metal (MESH:D008670), Magnesium (MESH:D008274), disulfide (MESH:D004220), ginsenoside Rb1 (MESH:C442759), hydrogen (MESH:D006859), GSH (MESH:D005978)

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