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ArticleBlood2011

A CpG-loaded tumor cell vaccine induces antitumor CD4+ T cells that are effective in adoptive therapy for large and established tumors.

Matthew J Goldstein, Bindu Varghese, Joshua D Brody, Ranjani Rajapaksa, Holbrook Kohrt, Debra K Czerwinski, Shoshana Levy, Ronald Levy

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Article in Blood, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew J GoldsteinDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Bindu Varghese
Joshua D Brody
Ranjani Rajapaksa
Holbrook Kohrt
Debra K Czerwinski
Shoshana Levy
Ronald Levy
Stanford University · US

Funding

MOLECULAR &CELLULAR IMMUNOBIOLOGYT32AI007290 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Sean Curtis Bendall, Olivia M Martinez · 1985 to 2026
$27.0M
TRIGGERING CELL DEATH IN B CELL LYMPHOMAP01CA034233 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FELSHER, DEAN W · 1985 to 2010
$19.5M
ANTIIDIOTYPE THERAPY OF HUMAN B CELL MALIGNANCYR37CA033399 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LEVY, RONALD · 1988 to 2007
$4.5M
HUMAN ANTITUMOR THERAPY WITH MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIESR01CA033399 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LEVY, RONALD · 1985 to 1998
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Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS CA33399NCI NIH HHS CA34233NCI NIH HHS P01 CA034233NCI NIH HHS R37 CA033399NIAID NIH HHS 5 T32 AI07290NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007290
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We designed a whole tumor cell vaccine by "loading" lymphoma tumor cells with CG-enriched oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG), a ligand for the Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9). CpG-loaded tumor cells were phagocytosed, delivering both tumor antigen(s) and the immunostimulatory CpG molecule to antigen-presenting cells (APCs). These APCs then expressed increased levels of costimulatory molecules and induced T-cell immunity. TLR9 was required in the APCs but not in the CpG-loaded tumor cell. We demonstrate that T cells induced by this vaccine are effective in adoptive cellular therapy for lymphoma. T cells from vaccinated mice transferred into irradiated, syngeneic recipients protected against subsequent lymphoma challenge and, remarkably, led to regression of large and established tumors. This therapeutic effect could be transferred by CD4(+) but not by CD8(+) T cells. A CpG-loaded whole-cell vaccination is practical and has strong potential for translation to the clinical setting. It is currently being tested in a clinical trial of adoptive immunotherapy for mantle-cell lymphoma.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveAnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsCancer VaccinesCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesColonic NeoplasmsCpG IslandsFemaleFlow CytometryLung NeoplasmsLymphomaMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLPhagocytosisT-Lymphocytes, CytotoxicCancer Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID20876455
PMCPMC3037739
OpenAlexW2114858875

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