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Trial reportCancer discovery2013

Multifunctional T-cell analyses to study response and progression in adoptive cell transfer immunotherapy.

Chao Ma, Ann F Cheung, Thinle Chodon, Richard C Koya, Zhongqi Wu, Charles Ng, Earl Avramis, Alistair J Cochran, Owen N Witte, David Baltimore and 5 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readClinical TrialClinical Trial, Phase II
In one paragraph

Trial report in Cancer discovery, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers.

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95citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

95 citing papers in PubMed, 146 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Adoptive transfer of MART-1 T-cell receptor transgenic lymphocytes and dendritic cell vaccination in patients with metastatic melanoma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2014
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  5. Spatiotemporal dynamics of adoptively transferred stem-like CD8bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  14. Three-dimensional isotropic imaging of live suspension cells enabled by droplet microvortices.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Chao MaNanoSystems Biology Cancer Center, Division of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Ann F Cheung
Thinle Chodon
Richard C Koya
Zhongqi Wu
Charles Ng
Earl Avramis
Alistair J Cochran
Owen N Witte
David Baltimore
Bartosz Chmielowski
James S Economou
Begonya Comin-Anduix
Antoni Ribas
James R Heath
University of California, Los Angeles · USBroad Center · USCalifornia Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Women's CancersP30CA016042 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Samuel Wheeler French · 1985 to 2026
$134.5M
Virology CoreP30AI028697 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ANTON, PETER A · 1991 to 2018
$39.9M
Transductionally Redirected /Transcriptionally RestricteP50CA086306 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HERSCHMAN, HARVEY R. · 2000 to 2014
$29.0M
QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS SPECIALIZED RESOURCE COREU54CA119347 · NCI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WITTE, OWEN N. · 2005 to 2009
$17.8M
Transduction of Hematopoietic Stem Cells for Enhanced Immunotherapy of MelanomaP01CA132681 · NCI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BALTIMORE, DAVID · 2010 to 2014
$14.4M
Strategies for Distinguishing Success in Immunotherapy Treatments (PQ20)R01CA170689 · NCI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HEATH, JAMES R., RIBAS, ANTONI · 2012 to 2015
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS 5U54 CA119347NCI NIH HHS CA-16042NCI NIH HHS P01 CA132681NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016042NCI NIH HHS P50 CA086306NCI NIH HHS R01 CA170689NCI NIH HHS R01 CA170689-01NCI NIH HHS U54 CA119347NIAID NIH HHS AI-28697NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI028697
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledAdoptive cell transfer (ACT) of genetically engineered T cells expressing cancer-specific T-cell receptors (TCR) is a promising cancer treatment. Here, we investigate the in vivo functional activity and dynamics of the transferred cells by analyzing samples from 3 representative patients with melanoma enrolled in a clinical trial of ACT with TCR transgenic T cells targeted against the melanosomal antigen MART-1. The analyses included evaluating 19 secreted proteins from individual cells from phenotypically defined T-cell subpopulations, as well as the enumeration of T cells with TCR antigen specificity for 36 melanoma antigens. These analyses revealed the coordinated functional dynamics of the adoptively transferred, as well as endogenous, T cells, and the importance of highly functional T cells in dominating the antitumor immune response. This study highlights the need to develop approaches to maintaining antitumor T-cell functionality with the aim of increasing the long-term efficacy of TCR-engineered ACT immunotherapy. SIGNIFICANCE: A longitudinal functional study of adoptively transferred TCR–engineered lymphocytes yielded revealing snapshots for understanding the changes of antitumor responses over time in ACT immunotherapy of patients with advanced melanoma.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveAdultFemaleHumansMaleMART-1 AntigenMelanomaMiddle AgedReceptors, Antigen, T-CellSkin NeoplasmsT-LymphocytesMART-1 AntigenReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

Identifiers

PMID23519018
PMCPMC3716460
OpenAlexW2100634642

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