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ArticleOncoimmunology2016

Dual targeting of glioblastoma with chimeric antigen receptor-engineered natural killer cells overcomes heterogeneity of target antigen expression and enhances antitumor activity and survival.

Sabrina Genßler, Michael C Burger, Congcong Zhang, Sarah Oelsner, Iris Mildenberger, Marlies Wagner, Joachim P Steinbach, Winfried S Wels

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Article in Oncoimmunology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 133 papers.

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133citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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133 citing papers in PubMed, 186 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sabrina GenßlerGeorg-Speyer-Haus, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy , Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Michael C BurgerInstitute for Neurooncology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) partner site Frankfurt/Mainz, Germany; German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Congcong ZhangGeorg-Speyer-Haus, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) partner site Frankfurt/Mainz, Germany; German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Sarah OelsnerGeorg-Speyer-Haus, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy , Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Iris MildenbergerGeorg-Speyer-Haus, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Institute for Neurooncology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Marlies WagnerInstitute of Neuroradiology, Goethe University , Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Joachim P SteinbachInstitute for Neurooncology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) partner site Frankfurt/Mainz, Germany.
Winfried S WelsGeorg-Speyer-Haus, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) partner site Frankfurt/Mainz, Germany.
Frankfurt Cancer Institute · DEGeorg Speyer Haus · DEGoethe University Frankfurt · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and its mutant form EGFRvIII are overexpressed in a large proportion of glioblastomas (GBM). Immunotherapy with an EGFRvIII-specific vaccine has shown efficacy against GBM in clinical studies. However, immune escape by antigen-loss variants and lack of control of EGFR wild-type positive clones limit the usefulness of this approach. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered natural killer (NK) cells may represent an alternative immunotherapeutic strategy. For targeting to GBM, we generated variants of the clinically applicable human NK cell line NK-92 that express CARs carrying a composite CD28-CD3ζ domain for signaling, and scFv antibody fragments for cell binding either recognizing EGFR, EGFRvIII, or an epitope common to both antigens.

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Cetuximabchimeric antigen receptorEGFREGFRvIIIglioblastomanatural killer cells

Identifiers

PMID27141401
PMCPMC4839317
OpenAlexW2260497117

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