Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21698301›Full record

ArticlePloS one2011

Therapeutic potential and challenges of targeting receptor tyrosine kinase ROR1 with monoclonal antibodies in B-cell malignancies.

Jiahui Yang, Sivasubramanian Baskar, Ka Yin Kwong, Michael G Kennedy, Adrian Wiestner, Christoph Rader

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Phase I Study of ROR1-Specific CAR-T Cells in Advanced Hematopoietic and Epithelial Malignancies.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Review

2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jiahui YangExperimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
Sivasubramanian Baskar
Ka Yin Kwong
Michael G Kennedy
Adrian Wiestner
Christoph Rader
Center for Cancer Research · USNational Cancer Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Immunotherapy of low grade lymphoid malignanciesZIAHL006070 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI WIESTNER, ADRIAN U · 2010 to 2025
$15.9M
Discovery of Drugs, Targets, and Target Strategies for Immunotherapy of CLLZIABC010648 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI RADER, CHRISTOPH · 2009 to 2011
$1.4M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBased on its selective cell surface expression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), receptor tyrosine kinase ROR1 has recently emerged as a promising target for therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). To further assess the suitability of ROR1 for targeted therapy of CLL and MCL, a panel of mAbs was generated and its therapeutic utility was investigated. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL

findingsA chimeric rabbit/human Fab library was generated from immunized rabbits and selected by phage display. Chimeric rabbit/human Fab and IgG1 were investigated for their capability to bind to human and mouse ROR1, to mediate antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), and internalization, and to agonize or antagonize apoptosis using primary CLL cells from untreated patients as well as MCL cell lines. A panel of mAbs demonstrated high affinity and specificity for a diverse set of epitopes that involve all three extracellular domains of ROR1, are accessible on the cell surface, and mediate internalization. The mAb with the highest affinity and slowest rate of internalization was found to be the only mAb that mediated significant, albeit weak, ADCC. None of the mAbs mediated CDC. Alone, they did not enhance or inhibit apoptosis. CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE: Owing to its relatively low cell surface density, ROR1 may be a preferred target for armed rather than naked mAbs. Provided is a panel of fully sequenced and thoroughly characterized anti-ROR1 mAbs suitable for conversion to antibody-drug conjugates, immunotoxins, chimeric antigen receptors, and other armed mAb entities for preclinical and clinical studies.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibody-Dependent Cell CytotoxicityApoptosisHumansLeukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-CellMolecular Sequence DataRabbitsReceptor Tyrosine Kinase-like Orphan ReceptorsSequence Homology, Amino AcidAntibodies, MonoclonalReceptor Tyrosine Kinase-like Orphan ReceptorsROR1 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID21698301
PMCPMC3115963
OpenAlexW2009811887

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC0
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.