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ArticleMolecular cancer therapeutics2016

Macrophage-Mediated Trogocytosis Leads to Death of Antibody-Opsonized Tumor Cells.

Ramraj Velmurugan, Dilip K Challa, Sripad Ram, Raimund J Ober, E Sally Ward

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Article in Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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64citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

64 citing papers in PubMed, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Monocytes and Granulocytes Reduce CD38 Expression Levels on Myeloma Cells in Patients Treated with Daratumumab.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2017
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  4. Immune surveillance interrupted: how cancer exploits trogocytosis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  5. Trogocytosis in cancer immunity and cellular immunotherapy: mechanisms, therapeutic challenges, and translational opportunities.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  6. Adhesion-Related Macrophages Regulate Metabolic Homeostasis Through CAV-1 Dependency.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  7. Hyperactive Rac converts sublethal to lethal trogocytosis in vivo.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. Hyperactive Rac converts sublethal nibbling to lethal phagocytosisbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ramraj VelmuruganDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas. Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas. Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Dilip K ChallaDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas. Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas. Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Sripad RamDepartment of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Raimund J OberDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. sally.ward@medicine.tamhsc.edu raimund.ober@tamu.edu.
E Sally WardDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas. Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas. Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. sally.ward@medicine.tamhsc.edu raimund.ober@tamu.edu.
Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

High accuracy quantum dot tracking in live cellsR01GM085575 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI OBER, RAIMUND J · 2008 to 2016
$2.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM085575
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the complex behavior of effector cells such as monocytes or macrophages in regulating cancerous growth is of central importance for cancer immunotherapy. Earlier studies using CD20-specific antibodies have demonstrated that the Fcγ receptor (FcγR)-mediated transfer of the targeted receptors from tumor cells to these effector cells through trogocytosis can enable escape from antibody therapy, leading to the viewpoint that this process is protumorigenic. In the current study, we demonstrate that persistent trogocytic attack results in the killing of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer cells. Further, antibody engineering to increase FcγR interactions enhances this tumoricidal activity. These studies extend the complex repertoire of activities of macrophages to trogocytic-mediated cell death of HER2-overexpressing target cells and have implications for the development of effective antibody-based therapies. Mol Cancer Ther; 15(8); 1879-89. ©2016 AACR.

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AnimalsAntibodiesAntibody AffinityAntibody-Dependent Cell CytotoxicityAntigens, CD20Cell Line, TumorHumansMacrophagesMaleMiceMice, TransgenicPhagocytosisProtein BindingReceptors, IgGRituximabTrastuzumabAntibodiesAntigens, CD20Receptors, IgGRituximabTrastuzumab

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PMID27226489
PMCPMC4975628
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