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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2018

RNA-Based Immunostimulatory Liposomal Spherical Nucleic Acids as Potent TLR7/8 Modulators.

Chenxia Guan, Natalia Chernyak, Donye Dominguez, Lisa Cole, Bin Zhang, Chad A Mirkin

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Controlling timing and location in vaccines.Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2020
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  2. Decoding Undesirable Inflammatory Responses of Nucleic Acid-Delivering Lipid Nanoparticles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. Structural immunotherapy: Harnessing chemical design to build powerful next-generation therapeutics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Recent advances in the liposomal nanovesicles based immunotherapy in the treatment of cancer: A review.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2023
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  18. Activation of Innate Immunity by Therapeutic Nucleic Acids.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Chenxia GuanDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9776-4733
Natalia ChernyakInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3847-7360
Donye DominguezDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4413-9376
Lisa ColeInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4760-144X
Bin ZhangDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6631-7647
Chad A MirkinDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6634-7627
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniela E Matei · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
Project 3: Spherical Nucleic Acids as Immunotherapeutic Agents for Prostate CancerU54CA199091 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ODOM, TERI WANG · 2015 to 2019
$11.7M
Cancer Nanotechnology Training ProgramT32CA186897 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WOLOSCHAK, GAYLE E. · 2015 to 2019
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NCI NIH HHS T32 CA186897NCI NIH HHS U54 CA199091
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunostimulatory spherical nucleic acids (IS-LSNAs) comprised of RNA selective for toll-like receptors (TLRs) 7/8 are synthesized and characterized. These structures consist of liposomal cores functionalized with a dense shell of RNA inserted into the wall of the lipid core via hydrophobic cholesterol moieties. IS-LSNAs potently activate TLR7/8 via NF-κΒ signaling in reporter cell lines and in primary immune cells as evidenced by cytokine production and the upregulation of costimulatory receptors. Importantly, they are preferentially taken up by plasmacytoid dendritic cells, an observation that makes them potentially useful for immunotherapy. In addition, these structures contain a core that can be loaded with antigens and used to prime T cells. In this regard, it is shown that dendritic cells treated with IS-SNAs loaded with ovalbumin peptide can prime ova specific CD8

Indexed as

AnimalsCancer VaccinesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCells, CulturedHumansLiposomesMiceNanoparticlesNucleic AcidsToll-Like Receptor 7Toll-Like Receptor 8Cancer VaccinesLiposomesNucleic AcidsToll-Like Receptor 7Toll-Like Receptor 8cancer vaccineimmunomodulationliposomenanoparticleSNAsspherical nucleic acidsTLR7/8 agonist

Identifiers

PMID30370991
PMCPMC6397047
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