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ArticleCancer immunology research2021

Rationally Designed Transgene-Encoded Cell-Surface Polypeptide Tag for Multiplexed Programming of CAR T-cell Synthetic Outputs.

Adam J Johnson, Jia Wei, James M Rosser, Annette Künkele, Cindy A Chang, Aquene N Reid, Michael C Jensen

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Article in Cancer immunology research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Mapping the clinical landscape of multifunctional CAR T cells: Targets, trends, and synergies.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  9. Novel strategies to manage CAR-T cell toxicity.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Adam J JohnsonBen Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.
Jia WeiBen Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.
James M RosserBen Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.
Annette KünkeleBen Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.ORCID 0000-0002-8406-5412
Cindy A ChangBen Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.
Aquene N ReidBen Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.
Michael C JensenBen Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington. michael.jensen@seattlechildrens.org.
Seattle Children's Hospital · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Targeted therapy of B cell malignances with CAR-T cells of defined compositionR01CA136551 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI JENSEN, MICHAEL C, RIDDELL, STANLEY R. · 2009 to 2018
$5.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA136551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic immunology, as exemplified by chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy, has transformed the treatment of relapsed/refractory B cell-lineage malignancies. However, there are substantial barriers-including limited tumor homing, lack of retention of function within a suppressive tumor microenvironment, and antigen heterogeneity/escape-to using this technology to effectively treat solid tumors. A multiplexed engineering approach is needed to equip effector T cells with synthetic countermeasures to overcome these barriers. This, in turn, necessitates combinatorial use of lentiviruses because of the limited payload size of current lentiviral vectors. Accordingly, there is a need for cell-surface human molecular constructs that mark multi-vector cotransduced T cells, to enable their purification

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AnimalsCell Line, TumorCytotoxicity, ImmunologicFemaleGenetic VectorsHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveLentivirusMicePeptidesPrecursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-LymphomaReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric AntigenTransduction, GeneticTrastuzumabXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysPeptidesReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric AntigenTrastuzumab

Identifiers

PMID34244298
PMCPMC8415133
OpenAlexW3179118015

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