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Antibodies designed as effective cancer vaccines.

R L Metheringham, V A Pudney, B Gunn, M Towey, I Spendlove, L G Durrant

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Article in mAbs. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Peptide-Based Treatment: A Promising Cancer Therapy.Journal of immunology research · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

R L MetheringhamScancell Limited, Department of Clinical Oncology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
V A Pudney
B Gunn
M Towey
I Spendlove
L G Durrant
University of Nottingham · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antigen/antibody complexes can efficiently target antigen presenting cells to allow stimulation of the cellular immune response. Due to the difficulty of manufacture and their inherent instability complexes have proved inefficient cancer vaccines. However, anti-idiotypic antibodies mimicking antigens have been shown to stimulate both antibody and T cell responses. The latter are due to T cell mimotopes expressed within the complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) of antibodies that are efficiently presented to dendritic cells in vivo. Based on this observation we have designed a DNA vaccine platform called ImmunoBody, where cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) and helper T cell epitopes replace CDR regions within the framework of a human IgG1 antibody. The ImmunoBody expression system has a number of design features which allow for rapid production of a wide range of vaccines. The CDR regions of the heavy and light chain have been engineered to contain unique restriction endonuclease sites, which can be easily opened, and oligonucleotides encoding the T cell epitopes inserted. The variable and constant regions of the ImmunoBody are also flanked by restriction sites, which permit easy exchange of other IgG subtypes. Here we show a range of T cell epitopes can be inserted into the ImmunoBody vector and upon immunization these T cell epitopes are efficiently processed and presented to stimulate high frequency helper and CTL responses capable of anti-tumor activity.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAmino Acid SubstitutionAnimalsAntibodies, Anti-IdiotypicCancer VaccinesComplementarity Determining RegionsEpitopes, T-LymphocyteGenetic VectorsHumansImmunization ScheduleImmunoglobulin GInjections, IntradermalLymphocyte ActivationMelanoma, ExperimentalMiceMice, Inbred BALB CAntibodies, Anti-IdiotypicCancer VaccinesComplementarity Determining RegionsEpitopes, T-LymphocyteImmunoglobulin GVaccines, DNAcancer vaccinesCTLDNA vaccineshelper T cellsmelanoma

Identifiers

PMID20046577
PMCPMC2715183
OpenAlexW2127311253

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