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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2019

Alternative mRNA splicing in cancer immunotherapy.

Luke Frankiw, David Baltimore, Guideng Li

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 172 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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172citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.2field-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

172 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 270 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Alternative splicing and cancer: a systematic review.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2021
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  20. XRCC1 is linked to poor prognosis in adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction after radiotherapy: transcriptome and alternative splicing events analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Luke FrankiwDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
David BaltimoreDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. baltimo@caltech.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8723-8190
Guideng LiCenter of Systems Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. lgd@ism.cams.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0840-7262
California Institute of Technology · USChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapies are yielding effective treatments for several previously untreatable cancers. Still, the identification of suitable antigens specific to the tumour that can be targets for cancer vaccines and T cell therapies is a challenge. Alternative processing of mRNA, a phenomenon that has been shown to alter the proteomic diversity of many cancers, may offer the potential of a broadened target space. Here, we discuss the promise of analysing mRNA processing events in cancer cells, with an emphasis on mRNA splicing, for the identification of potential new targets for cancer immunotherapy. Further, we highlight the challenges that must be overcome for this new avenue to have clinical applicability.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingAntigen PresentationHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID31363190
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