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ArticleBlood2011

A transgene-encoded cell surface polypeptide for selection, in vivo tracking, and ablation of engineered cells.

Xiuli Wang, Wen-Chung Chang, ChingLam W Wong, David Colcher, Mark Sherman, Julie R Ostberg, Stephen J Forman, Stanley R Riddell, Michael C Jensen

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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 418 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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418citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

418 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 591 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiuli WangDepartment of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
Wen-Chung Chang
ChingLam W Wong
David Colcher
Mark Sherman
Julie R Ostberg
Stephen J Forman
Stanley R Riddell
Michael C Jensen
City Of Hope National Medical Center · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Transplant for Lymphoma:Therapy-Related LeukemiaP50CA107399 · NCI · CITY OF HOPE/BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI FORMAN, STEPHEN J, KWAK, LARRY W · 2004 to 2022
$35.5M
Vaccine-Induced Immunity to CMVP01CA030206 · NCI · CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER · PI FORMAN, STEPHEN J · 1985 to 2010
$31.8M
Targeted immunotherapy of breast cancer with central memory T cellsP50CA138293 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI PORTER, PEGGY L. · 2010 to 2014
$11.0M
Targeted therapy of B cell malignances with CAR-T cells of defined compositionR01CA136551 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI JENSEN, MICHAEL C, RIDDELL, STANLEY R. · 2009 to 2018
$5.5M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA030206NCI NIH HHS P01 CA30206NCI NIH HHS P50 CA107399NCI NIH HHS P50 CA138293NCI NIH HHS R01 CA136551NCRR NIH HHS M01 RR0004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An unmet need in cell engineering is the availability of a single transgene encoded, functionally inert, human polypeptide that can serve multiple purposes, including ex vivo cell selection, in vivo cell tracking, and as a target for in vivo cell ablation. Here we describe a truncated human EGFR polypeptide (huEGFRt) that is devoid of extracellular N-terminal ligand binding domains and intracellular receptor tyrosine kinase activity but retains the native amino acid sequence, type I transmembrane cell surface localization, and a conformationally intact binding epitope for pharmaceutical-grade anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody, cetuximab (Erbitux). After lentiviral transduction of human T cells with vectors that coordinately express tumor-specific chimeric antigen receptors and huEGFRt, we show that huEGFRt serves as a highly efficient selection epitope for chimeric antigen receptor(+) T cells using biotinylated cetuximab in conjunction with current good manufacturing practices (cGMP)-grade anti-biotin immunomagnetic microbeads. Moreover, huEGFRt provides a cell surface marker for in vivo tracking of adoptively transferred T cells using both flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry, and a target for cetuximab-mediated antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity and in vivo elimination. The versatility of huEGFRt and the availability of pharmaceutical-grade reagents for its clinical application denote huEGFRt as a significant new tool for cellular engineering.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, SurfaceApoptosisCellsCells, CulturedCell SeparationCell TrackingGenes, erbB-1Genes, ReporterGenes, Transgenic, SuicideHumansInterleukin Receptor Common gamma SubunitMiceMice, Inbred NODMice, SCIDMice, TransgenicAntigens, SurfaceIl2rg protein, mouseInterleukin Receptor Common gamma SubunitPeptides

Identifiers

PMID21653320
PMCPMC3152493
OpenAlexW2066186103

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