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ArticleMolecular therapy oncolytics2019

Recombinant AAV-CEA Tumor Vaccine in Combination with an Immune Adjuvant Breaks Tolerance and Provides Protective Immunity.

Jonathan A Hensel, Vinayak Khattar, Reading Ashton, Selvarangan Ponnazhagan

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Article in Molecular therapy oncolytics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonathan A HenselDepartment of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Vinayak KhattarDepartment of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Reading AshtonDepartment of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Selvarangan PonnazhaganDepartment of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

XRAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA013148 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Robert S Welner · 1985 to 2026
$165.9M
Targeted therapy for breast cancer with osteolytic bone damageR01CA184770 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI PONNAZHAGAN, SELVARANGAN · 2015 to 2019
$1.7M
Targeted Stem Cell Therapy Coupling Angiogenesis and Osteogenesis for Bone DefectR01AR060948 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI PONNAZHAGAN, SELVARANGAN · 2011 to 2016
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA013148NCI NIH HHS R01 CA184770NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR060948
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a human glycoprotein involved in cellular adhesion and expressed during human fetal development. Although expression of CEA largely ceases prior to birth, several human epithelial cancers, including colorectal, gastric, squamous esophageal, and breast carcinomas have been known to overexpress CEA, suggesting its potential as an immunotherapeutic target. Using a transgenic mouse model constitutively expressing human CEA in a spatiotemporal manner as a self-protein and a syngeneic mouse colon cancer cell line, MC38-CEA, overexpressing CEA, we tested the potential of a novel genetic immunotherapy approach against CEA-expressing tumors, using recombinant adeno-associated virus vector encoding CEA (rAAV-CEA) and appropriately timed immune adjuvant application. Results of the study demonstrated breaking of immune tolerance for CEA with this vaccine regimen and an anti-tumor response, resulting in tumor-free survival. Furthermore, tumor challenge of CEA-vaccinated mice with parental MC38 cells not expressing CEA did not result in protection from tumor development, confirming that the protection against tumor development is CEA specific. The study illustrates the feasibility of utilizing rAAV vectors in combination with an immunostimulatory adjuvant to break tolerance to weakly immunogenic self-antigens and for an anti-tumor response.

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carcinoembryonic antigencolon cancerimmunotherapymemory T cellrecombinant AAVtolerance

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PMID30666318
PMCPMC6329706
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