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ReviewCell death and differentiation2021

The intrinsic immunogenic properties of cancer cell lines, immunogenic cell death, and how these influence host antitumor immune responses.

Tania Løve Aaes, Peter Vandenabeele

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Review in Cell death and differentiation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 169 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tania Løve AaesUnit for Cell Clearance in Health and Disease, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6813-8629
Peter VandenabeeleDepartment of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. peter.Vandenabeele@irc.vib-urgent.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6669-8822
Ghent University · BE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern cancer therapies often involve the combination of tumor-directed cytotoxic strategies and generation of a host antitumor immune response. The latter is unleashed by immunotherapies that activate the immune system generating a more immunostimulatory tumor microenvironment and a stronger tumor antigen-specific immune response. Studying the interaction between antitumor cytotoxic therapies, dying cancer cells, and the innate and adaptive immune system requires appropriate experimental tumor models in mice. In this review, we discuss the immunostimulatory and immunosuppressive properties of cancer cell lines commonly used in immunogenic cell death (ICD) studies being apoptosis or necroptosis. We will especially focus on the antigenic component of immunogenicity. While in several cancer cell lines the epitopes of endogenously expressed tumor antigens are known, these intrinsic epitopes are rarely determined in experimental apoptotic or necroptotic ICD settings. Instead by far the most ICD research studies investigate the antigenic response against exogenously expressed model antigens such as ovalbumin or retroviral epitopes (e.g., AH1). In this review, we will argue that the immune response against endogenous tumor antigens and the immunopeptidome profile of cancer cell lines affect the eventual biological readouts in the typical prophylactic tumor vaccination type of experiments used in ICD research, and we will propose additional methods involving immunopeptidome profiling, major histocompatibility complex molecule expression, and identification of tumor-infiltrating immune cells to document intrinsic immunogenicity following different cell death modalities.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmApoptosisCell Line, TumorHumansImmunodominant EpitopesImmunogenic Cell DeathImmunotherapyMiceNecroptosisNeoplasmsNeoplasms, ExperimentalAntigens, NeoplasmImmunodominant Epitopes

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PMID33214663
PMCPMC7937679
OpenAlexW3099307826

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