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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2020

Targeting B7-H3 Immune Checkpoint With Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Engineered Natural Killer Cells Exhibits Potent Cytotoxicity Against Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Shuo Yang, Bihui Cao, Guangyu Zhou, Lipeng Zhu, Lu Wang, Li Zhang, Hang Fai Kwok, Zhenfeng Zhang, Qi Zhao

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Shuo YangCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.
Bihui CaoDepartment of Radiology, Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenviroment, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Guangyu ZhouCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.
Lipeng ZhuCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.
Lu WangDepartment of Radiology, Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenviroment, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Li ZhangDepartment of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Hang Fai KwokCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.
Zhenfeng ZhangDepartment of Radiology, Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenviroment, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Qi ZhaoCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.
University of Macau · MOSecond Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University · CNGuangzhou Medical University · CNThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified natural killer (NK) cell therapy represents a kind of promising anti-cancer treatment because CAR renders NK cells activation and recognition specificity toward tumor cells. An immune checkpoint molecule, B7-H3, plays an inhibitory role in modulation of NK cells. To enhance NK cell functions, we generated NK-92MI cells carrying anti-B7-H3 CAR by lentiviral transduction. The expression of anti-B7-H3 CAR significantly enhanced the cytotoxicity of NK-92MI cells against B7-H3-positive tumor cells. In accordance with enhanced cytotoxicity, the secretions of perforin/granzyme B and expression of CD107a were highly elevated in anti-B7-H3 CAR-NK-92MI cells. Moreover, compared to unmodified NK-92MI cells, anti-B7-H3 CAR-NK-92MI cells effectively limited tumor growth in mouse xenografts of non-small cell lung cancer and significantly prolonged the survival days of mice. This study provides the rationale and feasibility of B7-H3-specific CAR-NK cells for application in adoptive cancer immunotherapy.

Indexed as

B7-H3chimeric antigen receptorimmune checkpointnatural killer cellNK-92

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PMID32848731
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