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ArticleClinical and translational medicine2020

Calreticulin couples with immune checkpoints in pancreatic cancer.

Xing Huang, Tianyu Tang, Xun Wang, Xueli Bai, Tingbo Liang

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Article in Clinical and translational medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xing HuangZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8886-2777
Tianyu TangZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Xun WangZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Xueli BaiZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Tingbo LiangZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Zhejiang Medicine (China) · CN

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2015M581693China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2016T90413National Natural Science Foundation of China 31970696National Natural Science Foundation of China 81502975National Natural Science Foundation of China 81830089SEU-Alphamab Joint Center SA2015001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although immune checkpoint blockade is considered to be the dominant approach in future cancer immunotherapy, whether it will apply to pancreatic cancer remains largely unknown. To address this issue, pancreatic cancer-associated datasets were individually collected by Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis 2 (GEPIA2), cBioPortal, and Tumor and Immune System Interaction Database (TISIDB), and subsequently subjected to prognostic, genomic, and immunologic analyses of all well-established immune checkpoints. The results indicate that immune checkpoints might not be ideal targets for pancreatic cancer therapy. Intriguingly, the genomic alteration of calreticulin, the key mediator of chemotherapy-induced cancer immunogenic cell death, was found to couple with immune checkpoints in pancreatic cancer. Moreover, calreticulin was observed to be highly expressed in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and high calreticulin expression significantly favors both overall survival and disease-free survival of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Importantly, calreticulin was further revealed to be closely related to anti-tumor immunity in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, including multiple immune effector molecules and T-cell signatures. Taken together, calreticulin-based therapy may represent a more promising prospect for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy than immune checkpoint blockade therapy.

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calreticulincancer immunotherapyimmune checkpointimmunogenic cell deathimmunogenic chemotherapypancreatic cancer

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PMCPMC7239268
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