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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Immunotherapy for breast cancer using EpCAM aptamer tumor-targeted gene knockdown.

Ying Zhang, Xuemei Xie, Pourya Naderi Yeganeh, Dian-Jang Lee, David Valle-Garcia, Karla F Meza-Sosa, Caroline Junqueira, Jiayu Su, Hongbo R Luo, Winston Hide and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Ying ZhangProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-1116-2182
Xuemei XieDepartment of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0001-7966-2733
Pourya Naderi YeganehBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-4693-8331
Dian-Jang LeeProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.
David Valle-GarciaDivison of Newborn Medicine and Epigenetics Program, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-3397-3103
Karla F Meza-SosaProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-0095-2357
Caroline JunqueiraProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.
Jiayu SuDepartment of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Hongbo R LuoDepartment of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Winston HideBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-8621-3271
Judy LiebermanProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; judy.lieberman@childrens.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6200-4715
Boston Children's Hospital · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

VectorP30CA006516 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI A. Heather Eliassen · 1985 to 2026
$330.6M
Gasdermin E and pyroptosis in cancerR01CA240955 · NCI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LIEBERMAN, JUDY · 2020 to 2024
$2.5M
Aptamer-siRNA gene knockdown to treat epithelial triple negative breast cancerR01CA184718 · NCI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LIEBERMAN, JUDY · 2015 to 2019
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006516NCI NIH HHS R01 CA184718NCI NIH HHS R01 CA240955
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New strategies for cancer immunotherapy are needed since most solid tumors do not respond to current approaches. Here we used epithelial cell adhesion molecule EpCAM (a tumor-associated antigen highly expressed on common epithelial cancers and their tumor-initiating cells) aptamer-linked small-interfering RNA chimeras (AsiCs) to knock down genes selectively in EpCAM

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigen PresentationAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalAptamers, NucleotideB7-H1 AntigenCD47 AntigenDNA-(Apurinic or Apyrimidinic Site) LyaseEpithelial Cell Adhesion MoleculeErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansImmunoconjugatesImmunotherapyMammary Neoplasms, ExperimentalMiceAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalApex1 protein, mouseAptamers, NucleotideB7-H1 AntigenCd274 protein, mouseCD47 AntigenCd47 protein, mouseDNA-(Apurinic or Apyrimidinic Site) LyaseEpithelial Cell Adhesion MoleculeErbb2 protein, mouseErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesImmunoconjugatesMcl1 protein, mouseMyeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 ProteinNeoplasm ProteinsParp1 protein, mousePoly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1RNA-Binding ProteinsUpf2 protein, mouseCD47checkpoint blockadeEpCAM aptamergene knockdownimmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID33627408
PMCPMC7936362
OpenAlexW3133082488

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