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

Autoimmune antibodies correlate with immune checkpoint therapy-induced toxicities.

Salahaldin A Tahir, Jianjun Gao, Yuji Miura, Jorge Blando, Rebecca S S Tidwell, Hao Zhao, Sumit K Subudhi, Hussein Tawbi, Emily Keung, Jennifer Wargo and 2 more

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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 151 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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151citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
10.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

151 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 236 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Immune-Mediated Hypophysitis: An Updated Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026
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  11. Pulmonary toxicity of immune checkpoint inhibitors.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2026
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  12. When Checkpoint Inhibitors Break Barriers: Mechanisms and Challenges of irAEs of the Skin, Gastrointestinal Tract, and Lung.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Salahaldin A TahirDepartment of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
Jianjun GaoDepartment of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
Yuji MiuraDepartment of Medical Oncology, Toranomon Hospital, Toranomon, Tokyo 105-8470, Japan.
Jorge BlandoThe Immunotherapy Platform, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
Rebecca S S TidwellDepartment of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
Hao ZhaoThe Immunotherapy Platform, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
Sumit K SubudhiDepartment of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
Hussein TawbiDepartment of Melanoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
Emily KeungDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
Jennifer WargoDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
James P AllisonThe Immunotherapy Platform, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030; jallison@mdanderson.org padsharma@mdanderson.org.
Padmanee SharmaDepartment of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030; jallison@mdanderson.org padsharma@mdanderson.org.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USToranomon Hospital · JP

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Fabien Delerue · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
Targeting Tumor Microenvironment-Induced Therapy Resistance in Prostate Cancer Bone MetastasisP50CA140388 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI THOMPSON, TIMOTHY CHARLES · 2009 to 2022
$23.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NCI NIH HHS P50 CA140388
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune checkpoint (IC) therapy provides substantial benefits to cancer patients but can also cause distinctive toxicities termed immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Biomarkers to predict toxicities will be necessary to improve management of patients receiving IC therapy. We relied on serological analysis of recombinant cDNA expression libraries to evaluate plasma samples from patients treated with IC therapy and identified autoantibodies, both in pretreatment and on-treatment samples prior to the development of irAEs, which correlate with the development of immune-related hypophysitis (anti-GNAL and anti-ITM2B autoantibodies) and pneumonitis (anti-CD74 autoantibody). We developed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and tested additional patient samples to confirm our initial findings. Collectively, our data suggest that autoantibodies may correlate with irAEs related to IC therapy, and specific autoantibodies may be detected early for the management of irAEs.

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Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAgedAutoantibodiesAutoimmune HypophysitisBiomarkersFemaleGTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-GoHumansImmunotherapyMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsPneumoniaAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAutoantibodiesBiomarkersGTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-GoITM2B protein, humanautoimmune antibodyhypophysitisimmune checkpoint therapyimmune-related adverse eventspneumonitis

Identifiers

PMID31611368
PMCPMC6825284
OpenAlexW2980505578

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