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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Rational vaccinology with spherical nucleic acids.

Shuya Wang, Lei Qin, Gokay Yamankurt, Kacper Skakuj, Ziyin Huang, Peng-Cheng Chen, Donye Dominguez, Andrew Lee, Bin Zhang, Chad A Mirkin

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In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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69citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

69 citing papers in PubMed, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. In Vivo Interactions of Nucleic Acid Nanostructures With Cells.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shuya WangInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Lei QinDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611.
Gokay YamankurtInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Kacper SkakujDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Ziyin HuangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0002-7685-4278
Peng-Cheng ChenDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Donye DominguezDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611.
Andrew LeeDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; andrew.lee3@northwestern.edu bin.zhang@northwestern.edu chadnano@northwestern.edu.
Bin ZhangDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611; andrew.lee3@northwestern.edu bin.zhang@northwestern.edu chadnano@northwestern.edu.
Chad A MirkinDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; andrew.lee3@northwestern.edu bin.zhang@northwestern.edu chadnano@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6634-7627
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS)UL1TR001422 · NCATS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI D'AQUILA, RICHARD · 2015 to 2023
$56.8M
Project 3: Spherical Nucleic Acids as Immunotherapeutic Agents for Prostate CancerU54CA199091 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MIRKIN, CHAD A. · 2015 to 2019
$11.7M
Chemistry of Life Processes Predoctoral Training ProgramT32GM105538 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI KELLEHER, NEIL L · 2013 to 2022
$2.7M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001422NCI NIH HHS U54 CA199091NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM105538
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the case of cancer immunotherapy, nanostructures are attractive because they can carry all of the necessary components of a vaccine, including both antigen and adjuvant. Herein, we explore how spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), an emerging class of nanotherapeutic materials, can be used to deliver peptide antigens and nucleic acid adjuvants to raise immune responses that kill cancer cells, reduce (or eliminate) tumor growth, and extend life in three established mouse tumor models. Three SNA structures that are compositionally nearly identical but structurally different markedly vary in their abilities to cross-prime antigen-specific CD8

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesAnimalsMiceNeoplasms, ExperimentalNucleic AcidsCancer VaccinesNucleic Acidscancer vaccinologyimmunotherapynanotechnologyspherical nucleic acidsstructural design

Identifiers

PMID31068463
PMCPMC6535021
OpenAlexW2944299288

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