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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2021

RNA cancer vaccines: developing mRNA nanovaccine with self-adjuvant property for cancer immunotherapy.

Hongxia Zhang, Xiaojun Xia

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Microenvironment-based immunotherapy in oral cancer: a comprehensive review.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025
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  8. mRNA vaccines and their delivery strategies: A journey from infectious diseases to cancer.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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  9. Tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy of oral cancer.European journal of medical research · 2022
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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.

Hongxia ZhangDepartment of Experiment Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
Xiaojun XiaDepartment of Experiment Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4444-7472
Sun Yat-sen University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Messenger RNA (mRNA)-based cancer vaccine has become a popular approach for developing personalized and effective antitumor immunotherapy. To achieve robust antitumor efficacy, mRNA-encoding tumor antigens needs to be efficiently delivered and translated in dendritic cells for efficient antigen presentation; meanwhile, the vaccine would have adjuvant effect by stimulating innate immune response to boost the full activation of adaptive immunity. Recently, we reported a minimalist nanovaccine by formulating tumor antigen-encoding mRNA with a lipid-like material named C1, which could efficiently deliver mRNA into dendritic cells with simultaneous Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) stimulation, together induced T cell activation. Importantly, C1 mRNA nanovaccine exhibited significant antitumor efficacy on several tumor mouse models. Here, we discuss the nanovector-facilitated mRNA delivery and translation in dendritic cells, the self-adjuvant property of nanovectors, the challenges of personalized tumor antigen selection, and the potential strategies for developing efficacious mRNA cancer vaccines targeting the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.

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Cancer VaccinesNanoparticlesNeoplasmsAnimalsDendritic CellsImmunotherapyMiceMice, Inbred C57BLRNARNA, MessengerTumor MicroenvironmentCancer VaccinesRNARNA, Messengerinnate immunitymRNA vaccinenanoparticleself-adjuvant

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PMID33945399
PMCPMC8381784
OpenAlexW3157395483

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