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ArticleJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2008

CD4+CD25- T cells transduced to express MHC class I-restricted epitope-specific TCR synthesize Th1 cytokines and exhibit MHC class I-restricted cytolytic effector function in a human melanoma model.

Arvind Chhabra, Lili Yang, Pin Wang, Begoña Comin-Anduix, Raja Das, Nitya G Chakraborty, Swagatam Ray, Shikhar Mehrotra, Haiguang Yang, Cinnamon L Hardee and 8 more

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Article in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Arvind ChhabraDepartment of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA. arvindac@yahoo.com
Lili Yang
Pin Wang
Begoña Comin-Anduix
Raja Das
Nitya G Chakraborty
Swagatam Ray
Shikhar Mehrotra
Haiguang Yang
Cinnamon L Hardee
Roger Hollis
David I Dorsky
Richard Koya
Donald B Kohn
Antoni Ribas
James S Economou
David Baltimore
Bijay Mukherji
UConn Health · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USChildren's Hospital of Los Angeles · USCalifornia Institute of Technology · USUniversity of Southern California · USMedical University of South Carolina · US

Funding

ZONISAMIDE VERSUS PLACEBOM01RR006192 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI DRAZINIC, CAROLYN M · 1994 to 2008
$22.1M
TCR Engineered CD4 Cells as Helpers in Tumor ImmunityR01CA088059 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI MUKHERJI, BIJAY · 2001 to 2012
$2.0M
PET IMAGING OF MART TCR-ENGINEERED CD8 T CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY IN MANR01CA129816 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ECONOMOU, JAMES S. · 2007 to 2011
$1.4M
T CELL RESPONSE TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED AND MATURED DCR01CA083130 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI MUKHERJI, BIJAY · 1999 to 2003
$956k
PEPTIDE AND APC BASED MELANOMA VACCINER01CA061398 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI MUKHERJI, BIJAY · 1997 to 2001
$461k
NCI NIH HHS CA129816NCI NIH HHS CA 83130NCI NIH HHS CA 88059NCI NIH HHS R01 CA061398NCI NIH HHS R01 CA083130NCI NIH HHS R01 CA088059NCI NIH HHS R01 CA129816NCRR NIH HHS MO1RR06192
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytolytic T cell-centric active specific and adoptive immunotherapeutic approaches might benefit from the simultaneous engagement of CD4(+) T cells. Considering the difficulties in simultaneously engaging CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in tumor immunotherapy, especially in an Ag-specific manner, redirecting CD4(+) T cells to MHC class I-restricted epitopes through engineered expression of MHC class I-restricted epitope-specific TCRs in CD4(+) T cells has emerged as a strategic consideration. Such TCR-engineered CD4(+) T cells have been shown to be capable of synthesizing cytokines as well as lysing target cells. We have conducted a critical examination of functional characteristics of CD4(+) T cells engineered to express the alpha- and beta-chains of a high functional avidity TCR specific for the melanoma epitope, MART-1(27-35), as a prototypic human tumor Ag system. We found that unpolarized CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells engineered to express the MART-1(27-35) TCR selectively synthesize Th1 cytokines and exhibit a potent Ag-specific lytic granule exocytosis-mediated cytolytic effector function of comparable efficacy to that of CD8(+) CTL. Such TCR engineered CD4(+) T cells, therefore, might be useful in clinical immunotherapy.

Indexed as

Cytotoxicity, ImmunologicCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell Line, TumorCytokinesEpitopesGenetic VectorsHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHumansMelanomaNeoplasm ProteinsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellTh1 CellsTransduction, GeneticTransgenesCytokinesEpitopesHistocompatibility Antigens Class IMART-1-Melan-A(27-35) epitopeNeoplasm ProteinsReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

Identifiers

PMID18606658
PMCPMC2715965
OpenAlexW1479988914

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