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ReviewSeminars in immunology2021

Emerging concepts in PD-1 checkpoint biology.

Kristen E Pauken, James A Torchia, Apoorvi Chaudhri, Arlene H Sharpe, Gordon J Freeman

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Review in Seminars in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers.

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123citing papers in PubMed
11.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

123 citing papers in PubMed, 175 citations in OpenAlex.

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63 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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Kristen E PaukenDepartment of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
James A TorchiaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Apoorvi ChaudhriDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA; Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Arlene H SharpeDepartment of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Gordon J FreemanDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. Electronic address: gordon_freeman@dfci.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USBroad Institute · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

Treating the P13-Kinase/AKTP50CA101942 · NCI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI Wanling Xie · 2003 to 2026
$53.4M
Role of Negative Costimulation in Regulation of AutoimmunityP01AI039671 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI David A. Hafler · 1996 to 2026
$51.7M
Transgenic/KnockoutP01AI056299 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI SHARPE, ARLENE H. · 2003 to 2023
$42.5M
Synergies among inhibitory receptors in tolerance, cancer & antiviral immunityP01AI108545 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI E. John Wherry · 2015 to 2026
$30.8M
Understanding and Overcoming T cell Immunosuppression in GlioblastomaP01CA236749 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI E. Antonio Chiocca · 2020 to 2026
$19.5M
Physician Scientist Training in Cancer ResearchT32CA009172 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI Jennifer R Brown, James A. DeCaprio · 1985 to 2026
$17.1M
Targeting SYK Kinase in AMLP50CA206963 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI ASTER, JON C. · 2017 to 2021
$10.6M
Regulators of Cancer Immunotherapy ResponseR01CA234018 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI BROWN, MYLES A · 2019 to 2022
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA236749NCI NIH HHS P50 CA101942NCI NIH HHS P50 CA206963NCI NIH HHS R01 CA234018NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009172NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI039671NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI056299NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI108545
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The PD-1 pathway is a cornerstone in immune regulation. While the PD-1 pathway has received considerable attention for its role in contributing to the maintenance of T cell exhaustion in chronic infection and cancer, the PD-1 pathway plays diverse roles in regulating host immunity beyond T cell exhaustion. Here, we discuss emerging concepts in the PD-1 pathway, including (1) the impact of PD-1 inhibitors on diverse T cell differentiation states including effector and memory T cell development during acute infection, as well as T cell exhaustion during chronic infection and cancer, (2) the role of PD-1 in regulating Treg cells, NK cells, and ILCs, and (3) the functions of PD-L1/B7-1 and PD-L2/RGMb/neogenin interactions. We then discuss the emerging use of neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade in the treatment of early-stage cancers and how the timing of PD-1 blockade may improve clinical outcomes. The diverse binding partners of PD-1 and its associated ligands, broad expression patterns of the receptors and ligands, differential impact of PD-1 modulation on cells depending on location and state of differentiation, and timing of PD-1 blockade add additional layers of complexity to the PD-1 pathway, and are important considerations for improving the efficacy and safety of PD-1 pathway therapeutics.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsKiller Cells, NaturalLymphocyte ActivationProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorCancer immunotherapyImmune regulationNeoadjuvantPD-1 pathwayT cell exhaustion

Identifiers

PMID34006473
PMCPMC8545711
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