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ReviewClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2016

Molecular Pathways: Breaking the Epithelial Cancer Barrier for Chimeric Antigen Receptor and T-cell Receptor Gene Therapy.

Christian S Hinrichs

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Review in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. T-Cell Receptor Gene Therapy for Human Papillomavirus-Associated Epithelial Cancers: A First-in-Human, Phase I/II Study.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2019
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  2. A Phase II Study of Tumor-infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy for Human Papillomavirus-associated Epithelial Cancers.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2019
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  4. Recent advances in immunotherapy for cervical cancer.International journal of clinical oncology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christian S HinrichsExperimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Hinrichs@nih.gov.
National Cancer Institute · US

Funding

T-cell receptor gene therapy for human papillomavirus-positive cancersZIABC011479 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HINRICHS, CHRISTIAN · 2013 to 2021
$13.5M
Tumor infiltrating lymphocyte therapy for human papillomavirus-positive cancersZIABC011478 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HINRICHS, CHRISTIAN · 2013 to 2017
$3.2M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA BC011479
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adoptive transfer of T cells genetically engineered to express a tumor-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) or T-cell receptor (TCR) can mediate cancer regression in some patients. CARs are synthetic single-chain proteins that use antibody domains to target cell surface antigens. TCRs are natural heterodimeric proteins that can target intracellular antigens through recognition of peptides bound to human leukocyte antigens. CARs have shown promise in B-cell malignancies and TCRs in melanoma, but neither approach has achieved clear success in an epithelial cancer. Treatment of epithelial cancers may be particularly challenging because of a paucity of target antigens expressed by carcinomas and not by important healthy tissues. In addition, epithelial cancers may be protected by inhibitory ligands and soluble factors in the tumor microenvironment. One strategy to overcome these negative regulators is to modulate expression of T-cell genes to enhance intrinsic T-cell function. Programmable nucleases, which can suppress inhibitory genes, and inducible gene expression systems, which can enhance stimulatory genes, are entering clinical testing. Other work is delineating whether control of genes for immune checkpoint receptors (e.g.,PDCD1, CTLA4) and cytokine and TCR signaling regulators (e.g.,CBLB, CISH, IL12, IL15) can increase the antitumor activity of therapeutic T cells.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, NeoplasmCarcinomaGene ExpressionGene Knockdown TechniquesGene SilencingGenetic TherapyHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoplasmsProtein BindingReceptors, Antigen, T-CellRecombinant Fusion ProteinsT-Lymphocyte SubsetsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, NeoplasmReceptors, Antigen, T-CellRecombinant Fusion Proteins

Identifiers

PMID27037253
PMCPMC4877620
OpenAlexW2324623447

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