Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34108686›Full record

ArticleNature2021

TIM-3 restrains anti-tumour immunity by regulating inflammasome activation.

Karen O Dixon, Marcin Tabaka, Markus A Schramm, Sheng Xiao, Ruihan Tang, Danielle Dionne, Ana C Anderson, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Aviv Regev, Vijay K Kuchroo

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 243 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
243citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
20.6field-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

243 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 350 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Combined Targeting of PD-1 and TIM-3 in Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: AMBER Part 2B.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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  12. Regulatory T cells in cancer and inflammation.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  16. Programmed Cell Death Protein 1-Interleukin-2 Bispecific Agents for Cancer Therapy.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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183 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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Karen O DixonEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7811-5439
Marcin TabakaKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Markus A SchrammEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3513-3842
Sheng XiaoEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Ruihan TangEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Danielle DionneKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ana C AndersonEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-2932
Orit Rozenblatt-RosenKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6313-3570
Aviv RegevKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3293-3158
Vijay K KuchrooEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. vkuchroo@evergrande.hms.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7177-2110
Broad Institute · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

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
Understanding and Overcoming T cell Immunosuppression in GlioblastomaP01CA236749 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI E. Antonio Chiocca · 2020 to 2026
$19.5M
Transgenic / Knock-out mouse coreP01AI073748 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BEHAR, SAMUEL M · 2008 to 2019
$17.1M
Role of Tim-3 in determining T cell immunityR01CA187975 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ANDERSON, ANA C · 2015 to 2025
$3.9M
Role of Tim-3:Bat-3 pathway in inducing tolerogenic DCs and peripheral toleranceR01AI144166 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI VIJAY K. KUCHROO · 2020 to 2026
$3.2M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA236749NCI NIH HHS R01 CA187975NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI039671NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI056299NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI073748NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI144166
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-containing molecule 3 (TIM-3), first identified as a molecule expressed on interferon-γ producing T cells

Indexed as

AnimalsDendritic CellsFemaleHepatitis A Virus Cellular Receptor 2InflammasomesInterleukin-18Interleukin-1betaMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeoplasmsNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinT-LymphocytesHavcr2 protein, mouseHepatitis A Virus Cellular Receptor 2InflammasomesInterleukin-18Interleukin-1betaNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinNlrp3 protein, mouse

Identifiers

PMID34108686
PMCPMC8627694
OpenAlexW3168169234

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