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ArticleCancer discovery2021

Inhibition of CDK4/6 Promotes CD8 T-cell Memory Formation.

Max Heckler, Lestat R Ali, Eleanor Clancy-Thompson, Li Qiang, Katherine S Ventre, Patrick Lenehan, Kevin Roehle, Adrienne Luoma, Kelly Boelaars, Vera Peters and 14 more

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Article in Cancer discovery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 99 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
99citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

99 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. A Phase II Study of Abemaciclib for Patients with Retinoblastoma-Positive, Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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  12. CDK4/6 inhibition enhances CAR-T cell therapy in solid tumors.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  13. Adaptive resistance in cancer immunotherapy.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2026
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  15. Cell Cycle Sensing Shapes Human T Cell Fate and Exhaustion Programs.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  19. Regulation of the immune CD155-CD226-TIGIT axis by cyclin D-CDK4/6.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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39 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Max Heckler *Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Lestat R Ali *Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0003-2673-1592
Eleanor Clancy-ThompsonDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Li QiangDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-2354-177X
Katherine S VentreDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-7675-7355
Patrick LenehanDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Kevin RoehleDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Adrienne LuomaDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Kelly BoelaarsDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Vera PetersDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Julia McCrearyDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Tamara BoschertDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Eric S WangDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Shengbao SuoDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Francesco MarangoniDepartment of Medicine, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Thorsten R MempelDepartment of Medicine, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0001-8635-5424
Henry W LongCenter for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0001-6849-6629
Kai W WucherpfennigDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-1829-302X
Michael DouganDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Nathanael S GrayDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0001-5354-7403
Guo-Cheng YuanDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Shom GoelPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8329-9084
Sara M TolaneyDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Stephanie K DouganDepartment of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Stephanie_dougan@dfci.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USChild Health and Development Institute · USPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre · AU

Funding

Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM007753 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALENSKY, LOREN DAVID · 1985 to 2021
$50.0M
Pilot & Feasibility ProgramP30DK043351 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI RAYMOND T CHUNG · 1991 to 2026
$35.3M
Tissue and Pathology CoreP50CA168504 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI Nabihah Tayob · 2013 to 2026
$30.1M
Strategies to Overcome Immune Resistance in Head and Neck CancersP01CA240239 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MEMPEL, THORSTEN ROMAN · 2019 to 2023
$8.4M
Cellular mechanisms by which exhausted T cell responses are restoredR01AI123349 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Thorsten Roman Mempel · 2017 to 2026
$4.5M
Systematic interrogation of the pancreatic cancer microenvironment in patient-derived specimensU01CA224146 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI HAHN, WILLIAM C. · 2017 to 2021
$3.0M
A mechanism to minimize auto-reactivity in the tissue-resident memory T cell poolR01AI163223 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MEMPEL, THORSTEN ROMAN · 2021 to 2025
$2.4M
Cancer Immunology Training GrantT32CA207021 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI WUCHERPFENNIG, KAI W · 2016 to 2020
$2.4M
CDK4/6 inhibition during CD8 T cell priming potentiates memory formation in mice and humansR01AI158488 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI DOUGAN, STEPHANIE · 2021 to 2025
$2.2M
Regulation of brown fat metabolism by the immune receptor PD-L1K08DK114563 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DOUGAN, MICHAEL LAWRENCE · 2017 to 2021
$868k
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA240239NCI NIH HHS P50 CA168504NCI NIH HHS T32 CA207021NCI NIH HHS U01 CA224146NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI123349NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI158488NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI163223NIDDK NIH HHS K08 DK114563NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK043351NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CDK4/6 inhibitors are approved to treat breast cancer and are in trials for other malignancies. We examined CDK4/6 inhibition in mouse and human CD8

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AdultAgedAminopyridinesAnimalsBenzimidazolesBreast NeoplasmsBreast Neoplasms, MaleCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell Line, TumorCyclin-Dependent Kinase 4Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 6FemaleHumansMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLabemaciclibAminopyridinesBenzimidazolesCyclin-Dependent Kinase 4Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 6palbociclibPiperazinesProtein Kinase InhibitorsPyridines

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PMID33941591
PMCPMC8487897
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