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ArticleMolecular & cellular proteomics : MCP2017

Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Analysis of PD-L1 Protein Expression,

Carlos A Morales-Betanzos, Hyoungjoo Lee, Paula I Gonzalez Ericsson, Justin M Balko, Douglas B Johnson, Lisa J Zimmerman, Daniel C Liebler

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Article in Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carlos A Morales-BetanzosFrom the ‡Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
Hyoungjoo LeeFrom the ‡Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
Paula I Gonzalez Ericsson§Hematology/Oncology Division, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.
Justin M Balko§Hematology/Oncology Division, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.
Douglas B Johnson§Hematology/Oncology Division, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.
Lisa J ZimmermanFrom the ‡Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
Daniel C LieblerFrom the ‡Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; daniel.liebler@vanderbilt.edu.
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

Vanderbilt Clinical Oncology Research Career Development ProgramK12CA090625 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Debra L. Friedman, Paula Jill Hurley · 2001 to 2026
$16.9M
Vanderbilt Proteome Characterization CenterU24CA159988 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI LIEBLER, DANIEL C · 2011 to 2016
$13.9M
Predicting and profiling long-term survival after immune checkpoint inhibitionK23CA204726 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI JOHNSON, DOUGLAS B · 2016 to 2020
$756k
NCI NIH HHS K12 CA090625NCI NIH HHS K23 CA204726NCI NIH HHS U24 CA159988
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative assessment of key proteins that control the tumor-immune interface is one of the most formidable analytical challenges in immunotherapeutics. We developed a targeted MS platform to quantify programmed cell death-1 (PD-1), programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1), and programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L2) at fmol/microgram protein levels in formalin fixed, paraffin-embedded sections from 22 human melanomas. PD-L1 abundance ranged 50-fold, from ∼0.03 to 1.5 fmol/microgram protein and the parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) data were largely concordant with total PD-L1-positive cell content, as analyzed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) with the E1L3N antibody. PD-1 was measured at levels up to 20-fold lower than PD-L1, but the abundances were not significantly correlated (r

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PMCPMC5629259
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