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ArticlePharmaceutics2021

mRNA-Based Anti-TCR CDR3 Tumour Vaccine for T-Cell Lymphoma.

Marina Tusup, Severin Läuchli, Natalia Teresa Jarzebska, Lars E French, Yun-Tsan Chang, Maya Vonow-Eisenring, Andreas Su, Thomas M Kündig, Emmanuella Guenova, Steve Pascolo

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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

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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Marina TusupDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7746-1057
Severin LäuchliDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
Natalia Teresa JarzebskaDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
Lars E FrenchDepartment of Dermatology and Allergy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany.
Yun-Tsan ChangDepartment of Dermatology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), University of Lausanne, 1000 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Maya Vonow-EisenringDepartment of Immunology, University Hospital of Zürich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
Andreas SuBioNTech, 55131, Mainz, Germany.
Thomas M KündigDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
Emmanuella GuenovaDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5478-8735
Steve PascoloDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2946-5576
University of Zurich · CHBioNTech (Germany) · DEUniversity Hospital of Zurich · CHUniversity of Lausanne · CHUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efficient vaccination can be achieved by injections of in vitro transcribed mRNA (ivt mRNA) coding for antigens. This vaccine format is particularly versatile and allows the production of individualised vaccines conferring, T-cell immunity against specific cancer mutations. The CDR3 hypervariable regions of immune receptors (T-cell receptor, TCR or B-cell receptor, BCR) in the context of T- or B-cell leukaemia or lymphoma are targetable and specific sequences, similar to cancer mutations. We evaluated the functionality of an mRNA-based vaccine designed to trigger immunity against TCR CDR3 regions in an EL4 T-lymphoma cell line-derived murine in vivo model. Vaccination against the hypervariable TCR regions proved to be a feasible approach and allowed for protection against T-lymphoma, even though immune escape in terms of TCR downregulation paralleled the therapeutic effect. However, analysis of human cutaneous T-cell lymphoma samples indicated that, as is the case in B-lymphomas, the clonotypic receptor may be a driver mutation and is not downregulated upon treatment. Thus, vaccination against TCR CDR3 regions using customised ivt mRNA is a promising immunotherapy method to be explored for the treatment of patients with T-cell lymphomas.

Indexed as

CDR3CTCLin vitro transcribed mRNAivt mRNAT-cell lymphomaTCRvaccine

Identifiers

PMID34371731
PMCPMC8308944
OpenAlexW3181430019

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