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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Cell engineering with microfluidic squeezing preserves functionality of primary immune cells in vivo.

Tia DiTommaso, Julie M Cole, Luke Cassereau, Joshua A Buggé, Jacquelyn L Sikora Hanson, Devin T Bridgen, Brittany D Stokes, Scott M Loughhead, Bruce A Beutel, Jonathan B Gilbert and 7 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 95 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
95citing papers in PubMed
13.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

95 citing papers in PubMed, 185 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Harnessing mRNA-lipid nanoparticles as innovative therapies for autoimmune diseases.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2025
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  13. The Rise of Mechanobiology for Advanced Cell Engineering and Manufacturing.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  16. Advancing Allogeneic NK Cell Immunotherapy through Microfluidic Gene Delivery.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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35 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Tia DiTommasoSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472; tia.ditommaso@sqzbiotech.com.
Julie M ColeSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Luke CassereauSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Joshua A BuggéSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Jacquelyn L Sikora HansonSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Devin T BridgenSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Brittany D StokesSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Scott M LoughheadSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Bruce A BeutelSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Jonathan B GilbertSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Kathrin NussbaumOncology Discovery Translational Area, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, 8952 Schlieren, Switzerland.
Antonio SorrentinoOncology Discovery Translational Area, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, 8952 Schlieren, Switzerland.
Janine ToggweilerOncology Discovery Translational Area, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, 8952 Schlieren, Switzerland.
Tobias SchmidtOncology Discovery Translational Area, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, 8952 Schlieren, Switzerland.
Gabor GyuelvesziOncology Discovery Translational Area, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, 8952 Schlieren, Switzerland.
Howard BernsteinSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
Armon ShareiSQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA 02472.
SQZ Biotech (United States) · USRoche (Switzerland) · CH

Funding

Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute - U ProgramU54TR001012 · NCATS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI CENTER, DAVID M. · 2014 to 2014
$3.9M
A Vector-free Intracellular Delivery Platform for Drug DiscoveryR44GM116312 · NIGMS · SQZ BIOTECHNOLOGIES COMPANY, INC. · PI GILBERT, JONATHAN BRIAN · 2016 to 2017
$1.5M
NCATS NIH HHS U54 TR001012NIGMS NIH HHS R44 GM116312
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The translational potential of cell-based therapies is often limited by complications related to effectively engineering and manufacturing functional cells. While the use of electroporation is widespread, the impact of electroporation on cell state and function has yet to be fully characterized. Here, we use a genome-wide approach to study optimized electroporation treatment and identify striking disruptions in the expression profiles of key functional transcripts of human T cells. These genetic disruptions result in concomitant perturbation of cytokine secretion including a 648-fold increase in IL-2 secretion (

Indexed as

Cell EngineeringDendritic CellsElectroporationHumansMicrofluidicsRNA, MessengerT-LymphocytesTranscriptomeRNA, Messengercell therapyintracellular deliverymicrofluidicsT cell engineering

Identifiers

PMID30381459
PMCPMC6243275
OpenAlexW2898894410

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