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ArticleACS nano2014

Magnetic field-induced T cell receptor clustering by nanoparticles enhances T cell activation and stimulates antitumor activity.

Karlo Perica, Ang Tu, Anne Richter, Joan Glick Bieler, Michael Edidin, Jonathan P Schneck

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Article in ACS nano, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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97citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

97 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 231 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Karlo PericaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, ‡Institute of Cell Engineering, §Department of Biology, ⊥Department of Pathology, and ∥Departments of Oncology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Ang Tu
Anne Richter
Joan Glick Bieler
Michael Edidin
Jonathan P Schneck
Johns Hopkins University · USMiltenyi Biotec (Germany) · DE

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007309 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI COX, ANDREA L · 1985 to 2019
$43.2M
The influence of TCR spatial organization on the T cell responsesP01AI072677 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SCHNECK, JONATHAN P · 2008 to 2012
$10.3M
Use of aAPC for Melanoma Adoptive ImmunotherapyR01CA108835 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SCHNECK, JONATHAN P · 2004 to 2015
$3.3M
ANTIGEN SPECIFIC MODULATION OF T CELL RESPONSESR01AI044129 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SCHNECK, JONATHAN P · 1999 to 2009
$3.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA108835NCI NIH HHS R01-CA108835NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI072677NIAID NIH HHS P01-AI072677NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI044129NIAID NIH HHS R01-AI44129NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007309
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Iron-dextran nanoparticles functionalized with T cell activating proteins have been used to study T cell receptor (TCR) signaling. However, nanoparticle triggering of membrane receptors is poorly understood and may be sensitive to physiologically regulated changes in TCR clustering that occur after T cell activation. Nano-aAPC bound 2-fold more TCR on activated T cells, which have clustered TCR, than on naive T cells, resulting in a lower threshold for activation. To enhance T cell activation, a magnetic field was used to drive aggregation of paramagnetic nano-aAPC, resulting in a doubling of TCR cluster size and increased T cell expansion in vitro and after adoptive transfer in vivo. T cells activated by nano-aAPC in a magnetic field inhibited growth of B16 melanoma, showing that this novel approach, using magnetic field-enhanced nano-aAPC stimulation, can generate large numbers of activated antigen-specific T cells and has clinically relevant applications for adoptive immunotherapy.

Indexed as

Magnetic FieldsNanoparticlesAnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsCD3 ComplexCell ProliferationDextransImmunotherapy, AdoptiveIronLymphocyte ActivationMelanoma, ExperimentalMiceProtein MultimerizationProtein Structure, QuaternaryReceptors, Antigen, T-CellT-LymphocytesCD3 ComplexDextransIronReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID24564881
PMCPMC4004316
OpenAlexW1965958391

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