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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2008

Rapid tolerization of virus-activated tumor-specific CD8+ T cells in prostate tumors of TRAMP mice.

Ailin Bai, Eileen Higham, Herman N Eisen, K Dane Wittrup, Jianzhu Chen

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ailin BaiKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Eileen Higham
Herman N Eisen
K Dane Wittrup
Jianzhu Chen
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research At MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Engineered Antibody EGFR Antagonist Cancer TherapeuticsR01CA096504 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WITTRUP, KARL DANE · 2002 to 2017
$9.7M
Regulation of T Cell HomeostasisR01AI050631 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI CHEN, JIANZHU · 2002 to 2006
$1.6M
Mechanisms of T Cell TumorigenesisR01CA100875 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI CHEN, JIANZHU · 2004 to 2008
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS CA100875NCI NIH HHS CA96504NCI NIH HHS R01 CA096504NCI NIH HHS R01 CA100875NIAID NIH HHS AI50631NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050631
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To study T cell responses to tumors in an autochthonous model, we expressed a CD8 T cell epitope SIYRYYGL (SIY) in the prostate of transgenic adenocarcinoma (TRAMP) mice (referred to as TRP-SIY), which spontaneously develop prostate cancer. Naïve SIY-specific CD8 T cells adoptively transferred into TRP-SIY mice became tolerized in the prostate draining lymph nodes. Vaccination of TRP-SIY mice intranasally with influenza virus that expresses the SIY epitope resulted in generation of SIY-specific effector T cells in the lung-draining lymph nodes. These effector T cells expressed TNFalpha and IFNgamma, eliminated SIY peptide-loaded target cells in vivo, and infiltrated prostate tumors, where they rapidly lost the ability to produce effector cytokines. A population of these T cells persisted in prostate tumors but not in lymphoid organs and could be induced to re-express effector functions following cytokine treatment in vitro. These findings suggest that T cells of a given clone can be activated and tolerized simultaneously in different microenvironments of the same host and that effector T cells are rapidly tolerized in the tumors. Our model provides a system to study T cell-tumor interactions in detail and to test the efficacy of cancer immunotherapeutic strategies.

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AdenocarcinomaAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCross-PrimingCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalEpitopes, T-LymphocyteImmune ToleranceLymphocyte ActivationMaleMiceOrthomyxoviridaeOrthomyxoviridae InfectionsProstate-Specific AntigenProstatic NeoplasmsRatsCytokinesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteProstate-Specific Antigen

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PMID18723683
PMCPMC2519043
OpenAlexW1984270170

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