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ArticleNature communications2021

Adjuvant oncolytic virotherapy for personalized anti-cancer vaccination.

D G Roy, K Geoffroy, M Marguerie, S T Khan, N T Martin, J Kmiecik, D Bobbala, A S Aitken, C T de Souza, K B Stephenson and 5 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

D G RoyCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6044-0118
K GeoffroyCRCHUM: "Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal" Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6093-349X
M MarguerieCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
S T KhanCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
N T MartinCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
J KmiecikTurnstone Biologics, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
D BobbalaTurnstone Biologics, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
A S AitkenCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
C T de SouzaCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
K B StephensonTurnstone Biologics, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
B D LichtyTurnstone Biologics, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
R C AuerCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
D F StojdlDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
J C BellCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9083-357X
M-C Bourgeois-DaigneaultCRCHUM: "Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal" Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada. marie-claude.bourgeois-daigneault@umontreal.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-9091-2235
University of Ottawa · CACentre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal · CAOttawa Hospital · CAChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario · CAMcMaster University Medical Centre · CA

Funding

CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By conferring systemic protection and durable benefits, cancer immunotherapies are emerging as long-term solutions for cancer treatment. One such approach that is currently undergoing clinical testing is a therapeutic anti-cancer vaccine that uses two different viruses expressing the same tumor antigen to prime and boost anti-tumor immunity. By providing the additional advantage of directly killing cancer cells, oncolytic viruses (OVs) constitute ideal platforms for such treatment strategy. However, given that the targeted tumor antigen is encoded into the viral genomes, its production requires robust infection and therefore, the vaccination efficiency partially depends on the unpredictable and highly variable intrinsic sensitivity of each tumor to OV infection. In this study, we demonstrate that anti-cancer vaccination using OVs (Adenovirus (Ad), Maraba virus (MRB), Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and Vaccinia virus (VV)) co-administered with antigenic peptides is as efficient as antigen-engineered OVs and does not depend on viral replication. Our strategy is particularly attractive for personalized anti-cancer vaccines targeting patient-specific mutations. We suggest that the use of OVs as adjuvant platforms for therapeutic anti-cancer vaccination warrants testing for cancer treatment.

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Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCell Line, TumorClinical Trials, Phase I as TopicClinical Trials, Phase II as TopicDisease Models, AnimalFemaleHumansMiceNeoplasmsOncolytic VirotherapyOncolytic VirusesPoly I-CVaccines, SubunitAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesPoly I-CVaccines, Subunit

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PMID33976179
PMCPMC8113265
OpenAlexW3162562489

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