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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Targeting Cytosolic Nucleic Acid-Sensing Pathways for Cancer Immunotherapies.

Sandra Iurescia, Daniela Fioretti, Monica Rinaldi

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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77citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

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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

77 citing papers in PubMed, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sandra IuresciaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
Daniela FiorettiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
Monica RinaldiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
National Research Council · ITIstituto di Farmacologia Traslazionale · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The innate immune system provides the first line of defense against pathogen infection though also influences pathways involved in cancer immunosurveillance. The innate immune system relies on a limited set of germ line-encoded sensors termed pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), signaling proteins and immune response factors. Cytosolic receptors mediate recognition of danger damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) signals. Once activated, these sensors trigger multiple signaling cascades, converging on the production of type I interferons and proinflammatory cytokines. Recent studies revealed that PRRs respond to nucleic acids (NA) released by dying, damaged, cancer cells, as danger DAMPs signals, and presence of signaling proteins across cancer types suggests that these signaling mechanisms may be involved in cancer biology. DAMPs play important roles in shaping adaptive immune responses through the activation of innate immune cells and immunological response to danger DAMPs signals is crucial for the host response to cancer and tumor rejection. Furthermore, PRRs mediate the response to NA in several vaccination strategies, including DNA immunization. As route of double-strand DNA intracellular entry, DNA immunization leads to expression of key components of cytosolic NA-sensing pathways. The involvement of NA-sensing mechanisms in the antitumor response makes these pathways attractive drug targets. Natural and synthetic agonists of NA-sensing pathways can trigger cell death in malignant cells, recruit immune cells, such as DCs, CD8

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ImmunotherapySignal TransductionAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsCancer VaccinesCytosolDEAD Box Protein 58Drug Evaluation, PreclinicalHumansImmunity, InnateInterferon-Induced Helicase, IFIH1Membrane ProteinsNeoplasmsNucleic AcidsReceptors, ImmunologicSTING ProteinAntineoplastic AgentsCancer VaccinesDEAD Box Protein 58Interferon-Induced Helicase, IFIH1Membrane ProteinsNucleic AcidsReceptors, ImmunologicSTING1 protein, humanSTING ProteinVaccines, DNAagonistantitumor responseclinical trialscytosolic nucleic acid receptorsDAMPsinnate immune systemRIG-1STING

Identifiers

PMID29686682
PMCPMC5900005
OpenAlexW2798153162

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