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ArticleCancer immunology research2014

Disruption of CD8+ Treg activity results in expansion of T follicular helper cells and enhanced antitumor immunity.

Diana A Alvarez Arias, Hye-Jung Kim, Penghui Zhou, Tobias A W Holderried, Xuan Wang, Glenn Dranoff, Harvey Cantor

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Article in Cancer immunology research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. An angel or a devil? Current view on the role of CD8Journal of translational medicine · 2024
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  10. Qa-1Molecular cancer research : MCR · 2021
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  12. CD8Frontiers in immunology · 2021
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  16. Regulatory CD8 T cells that recognize Qa-1 expressed by CD4 T-helper cells inhibit rejection of heart allografts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  18. Towards Clinical Translation of CD8International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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  19. Advances in the Study of CD8+ Regulatory T Cells.Critical reviews in immunology · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Diana A Alvarez AriasAuthors' Affiliations: Departments of Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Hye-Jung Kim
Penghui Zhou
Tobias A W Holderried
Xuan Wang
Glenn Dranoff
Harvey Cantor
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEHarvard University · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

IMMUNOLOGIC MECHANISMS THAT PREVENT AUTOIMMUNITYR01AI037562 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI CANTOR, HARVEY · 1996 to 2021
$9.4M
Postdoctoral Training Program in AIDS-related ResearchT32AI007386 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI CANTOR, HARVEY, ENGELMAN, ALAN N. · 1990 to 2023
$5.3M
Postdoctoral Training Program in Cancer ImmunologyT32CA070083 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI CANTOR, HARVEY · 1997 to 2012
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA070083NCI NIH HHS T32CA070083NIAID NIH HHS AI 037562NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI037562NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007386NIAID NIH HHS T32AI07386
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor growth is associated with the inhibition of host antitumor immune responses that can impose serious obstacles to cancer immunotherapy. To define the potential contribution of Qa-1-restricted CD8 regulatory T cells (Treg) to the development of tumor immunity, we studied B6.Qa-1 D227K mice that harbor a point mutation in the MHC class Ib molecule Qa-1 that impairs CD8 Treg suppressive activity. Here, we report that the growth of B16 melanoma is substantially delayed in these Qa-1-mutant mice after therapeutic immunization with B16 melanoma cells engineered to express granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor compared with Qa-1 B6-WT controls. Reduced tumor growth is associated with enhanced expansion of follicular T helper cells, germinal center B cells, and high titers of antitumor autoantibodies, which provoke robust antitumor immune responses in concert with tumor-specific cytolytic T cells. Analysis of tumor-infiltrating T cells revealed that the Qa-1 DK mutation was associated with an increase in the ratio of CD8(+) T effectors compared with CD8 Tregs. These data suggest that the CD8(+) T effector-Treg ratio may provide a useful prognostic index for cancer development and raise the possibility that depletion or inactivation of CD8 Tregs represents a potentially effective strategy to enhance antitumor immunity.

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Adoptive TransferAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell Line, TumorFemaleGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorHistocompatibility Antigens Class IMelanoma, ExperimentalMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMutationT-Lymphocytes, CytotoxicT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorHistocompatibility Antigens Class IQ surface antigens

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PMID24778317
PMCPMC4217219
OpenAlexW2143006617

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