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ArticleCell chemical biology2016

Whole-Cell Cancer Vaccines Induce Large Antibody Responses to Carbohydrates and Glycoproteins.

Li Xia, David S Schrump, Jeffrey C Gildersleeve

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Article in Cell chemical biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Li XiaChemical Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 376 Boyles Street, Room 208, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
David S SchrumpThoracic Oncology Section, Thoracic and GI Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Jeffrey C GildersleeveChemical Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 376 Boyles Street, Room 208, Frederick, MD 21702, USA. Electronic address: gildersj@mail.nih.gov.
Center for Cancer Research · USFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Structural Basis of Immune Recognition of Glycosylated AntigensU54GM062116 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI SASISEKHARAN, RAM · 2001 to 2010
$80.3M
Serum Antibody Profiling with a Carbohydrate MicroarrayZIABC011055 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI GILDERSLEEVE, JEFFREY · 2009 to 2025
$6.3M
Serum Antibody Profiling with a Carbohydrate MicroarrayZ01BC011055 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI GILDERSLEEVE, JEFF · 2008 to 2008
$386k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC011055NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM062116
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whole-cell cancer vaccines are a promising strategy for treating cancer, but the characteristics of a favorable immune response are not fully understood. New insights could enable development of better vaccines, discovery of new antigens, and identification of biomarkers of efficacy. Using glyco-antigen microarrays, we demonstrate that GVAX Pancreas (a granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor-modified whole-cell tumor vaccine) induces large immunoglobulin G and immunoglobulin M responses to many antigens, including tumor-associated carbohydrates, blood group antigens, α-Gal, and bovine fetuin. Antibody responses to α-Gal, a glycan found in fetal bovine serum (FBS) used to produce the vaccine, correlated inversely with overall survival and appear to compete with productive responses to the vaccine. H1299 lysate vaccine, produced with FBS, also induced responses to α-Gal and fetuin but not K562-GM, which is produced in serum-free medium. Our results provide new potential biomarkers to evaluate productive/unproductive immune responses and suggest that removal/reduction of FBS could improve the efficacy of whole-cell vaccines.

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anti-glycan antibodycarbohydrate antigenglycan microarrayimmunotherapywhole-cell vaccine

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PMID27889407
PMCPMC5182097
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