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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2020

A dendritic cell receptor-targeted chimeric immunotherapeutic protein (C-HBV) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B.

Allan Ma, Bruce Motyka, Klaus Gutfreund, Yuenian Eric Shi, Rajan George

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Allan MaAkshaya Bio Inc., Edmonton, Canada.
Bruce MotykaDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8448-2777
Klaus GutfreundDepartment of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2944-7143
Yuenian Eric ShiDepartment of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Rajan GeorgeAkshaya Bio Inc., Edmonton, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5633-9754
University of Alberta · CAJiangsu Province Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infections HBV-specific T cells are functionally impaired. Immunotherapy may restore HBV-specific T cell responses essential for sustained disease remission off-treatment and induction of a functional cure. Chimigen® Molecules are fusion proteins of antigen(s) with the Fc fragment of a xenotypic antibody designed to target specific receptors on dendritic cells (DCs). Here we describe the production and pre-clinical evaluation of Chimigen® HBV (C-HBV), containing HBV PreS1 and PreS2 peptide fragments, HBV core and murine Fc, produced in insect cells. C-HBV binding to immature DCs and internalization by endocytosis was FcγRII (CD32) and mannose receptor (CD206) dependent and led to increased MHC I and MHC II surface expression. Upon exposure of human T cells isolated from HBV un-infected healthy and chronically HBV-infected donors to C-HBV-pulsed mature DCs

Indexed as

Dendritic CellsHepatitis B, ChronicImmunotherapyAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHepatitis B virusHumansLeukocytes, MononuclearMicechronic hepatitis Bdendritic cellsfusion proteinHepatitis B virusimmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID31687879
PMCPMC7227630
OpenAlexW2987167874

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