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ArticleBlood2018

Antitumor activity of CAR-T cells targeting the intracellular oncoprotein WT1 can be enhanced by vaccination.

Yasushi Akahori, Linan Wang, Motohiro Yoneyama, Naohiro Seo, Satoshi Okumura, Yoshihiro Miyahara, Yasunori Amaishi, Sachiko Okamoto, Junichi Mineno, Hiroaki Ikeda and 5 more

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Article in Blood, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Yasushi AkahoriDepartment of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Linan WangDepartment of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Motohiro YoneyamaDepartment of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Naohiro SeoDepartment of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Satoshi OkumuraDepartment of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Yoshihiro MiyaharaDepartment of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Yasunori AmaishiTakara Bio Inc., Shiga, Japan.
Sachiko OkamotoTakara Bio Inc., Shiga, Japan.
Junichi MinenoTakara Bio Inc., Shiga, Japan.
Hiroaki IkedaDepartment of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Takehiro MakiDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery II, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan.
Hiroshi FujiwaraDepartment of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan.
Yoshiki AkatsukaDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan.
Takuma KatoDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan; and.
Hiroshi ShikuDepartment of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Mie University · JPTakara (Japan) · JPEhime University · JPFujita Health University · JPHokkaido University · JPNagasaki University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy for treatment of hematologic malignancies supports further development of treatments for both liquid and solid tumors. However, expansion of CAR-T cell therapy is limited by the availability of surface antigens specific for the tumor while sparing normal cells. There is a rich diversity of tumor antigens from intracellularly expressed proteins that current and conventional CAR-T cells are unable to target. Furthermore, adoptively transferred T cells often suffer from exhaustion and insufficient expansion, in part, because of the immunosuppressive mechanisms operating in tumor-bearing hosts. Therefore, it is necessary to develop means to further activate and expand those CAR-T cells in vivo. The Wilms tumor 1 (WT1) is an intracellular oncogenic transcription factor that is an attractive target for cancer immunotherapy because of its overexpression in a wide range of leukemias and solid tumors, and a low level of expression in normal adult tissues. In the present study, we developed CAR-T cells consisting of a single chain variable fragment (scFv) specific to the WT1

Indexed as

Immunity, CellularImmunotherapy, AdoptiveVaccinationAnimalsCell Line, TumorHumansNeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-LymphocytesWT1 ProteinsXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysReceptors, Chimeric AntigenWT1 protein, humanWT1 Proteins

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PMID30045840
PMCPMC6148344
OpenAlexW2884946612

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