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ArticleHuman gene therapy2013

Innovative DNA vaccine to break immune tolerance against tumor self-antigen.

Tae Heung Kang, Chih-Ping Mao, Victor La, Alexander Chen, Chien-Fu Hung, T-C Wu

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Article in Human gene therapy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. DNA vaccine for cancer immunotherapy.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2014
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  6. NK cells in immunotolerant organs.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2013
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tae Heung KangDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.
Chih-Ping Mao
Victor La
Alexander Chen
Chien-Fu Hung
T-C Wu
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Tumor Suppressor Gene Promoter Hypermethylation for Detection of Head/Neck CancerP50CA096784 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SIDRANSKY, DAVID · 2002 to 2006
$11.3M
CELLULAR &MOLECULAR MECH OF INFLAMMATORY REACTIONST32AI007247 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Joel L Pomerantz · 1985 to 2026
$10.2M
ENHANCING HPV-16 E6-SPECIFIC ANTITUMOR IMMUNITYR01CA114425 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WU, TZYY-CHOOU · 2005 to 2016
$3.0M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA96784-06NCI NIH HHS R0-1CA114425-01NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccination is, in theory, a safe and effective approach for controlling disseminated or metastatic cancer due to the specificity of the mammalian immune system, yet its success in the clinic has been hampered thus far by the problem of immune tolerance to tumor self-antigen. Here we describe a DNA vaccination strategy that is able to control cancer by overcoming immune tolerance to tumor self-antigen. We engineered a DNA construct encoding a dimeric form of a secreted single-chain trimer of major histocompatibility complex class I heavy chain, β2-microglobulin, and peptide antigen linked to immunoglobulin G (SCT-Ag/IgG). The chimeric protein was able to bind to antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells with nearly 100% efficiency and strongly induce their activation and proliferation. In addition, the chimeric protein was able to coat professional antigen-presenting cells through the F(c) receptor to activate antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells. Furthermore, intradermal vaccination with DNA-encoding SCT-Ag/IgG could generate significant numbers of cytotoxic effector T cells against tumor self-antigen and leads to successful therapeutic outcomes in a preclinical model of metastatic melanoma. Our data suggest that the DNA vaccine strategy described in the current study is able to break immune tolerance against endogenous antigen from melanoma and result in potent therapeutic antitumor effects. Such strategy may be used in other antigenic systems for the control of infections and/or cancers.

Indexed as

Immune ToleranceAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsAutoantigensbeta 2-MicroglobulinCancer VaccinesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationEpitopesFemaleGenes, MHC Class IImmunoglobulin GIntramolecular OxidoreductasesLymphocyte ActivationMiceAntineoplastic AgentsAutoantigensbeta 2-MicroglobulinCancer Vaccinesdopachrome isomeraseEpitopesImmunoglobulin GIntramolecular OxidoreductasesRecombinant Fusion ProteinsVaccines, DNA

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PMID23268564
PMCPMC3581028
OpenAlexW2004686491

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