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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

Tumor Secretome to Adoptive Cellular Immunotherapy: Reduce Me Before I Make You My Partner.

Mikel Etxebeste-Mitxeltorena, Inés Del Rincón-Loza, Beatriz Martín-Antonio

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mikel Etxebeste-MitxeltorenaDepartment of Experimental Hematology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Diaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain.
Inés Del Rincón-LozaDepartment of Experimental Hematology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Diaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain.
Beatriz Martín-AntonioDepartment of Experimental Hematology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Diaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · ESHospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adoptive cellular immunotherapy using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells and Natural Killer (NK) cells are common immune cell sources administered to treat cancer patients. In detail, whereas CAR-T cells induce outstanding responses in a subset of hematological malignancies, responses are much more deficient in solid tumors. Moreover, NK cells have not shown remarkable results up to date. In general, immune cells present high plasticity to change their activity and phenotype depending on the stimuli they receive from molecules secreted in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Consequently, immune cells will also secrete molecules that will shape the activities of other neighboring immune and tumor cells. Specifically, NK cells can polarize to activities as diverse as angiogenic ones instead of their killer activity. In addition, tumor cell phagocytosis by macrophages, which is required to remove dying tumor cells after the attack of NK cells or CAR-T cells, can be avoided in the TME. In addition, chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatments can induce senescence in tumor cells modifying their secretome to a known as "senescence-associated secretory phenotype" (SASP) that will also impact the immune response. Whereas the SASP initially attracts immune cells to eliminate senescent tumor cells, at high numbers of senescent cells, the SASP becomes detrimental, impacting negatively in the immune response. Last, CAR-T cells are an attractive option to overcome these events. Here, we review how molecules secreted in the TME by either tumor cells or even by immune cells impact the anti-tumor activity of surrounding immune cells.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveSecretomeAnimalsBiomarkersCell DeathCellular SenescenceDisease ManagementHumansImmunityImmunologic SurveillanceKiller Cells, NaturalLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMacrophagesNeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-Lymphocyte SubsetsBiomarkersReceptors, Chimeric AntigenCAR-T cellsimmunotherapymacrophagesNK cellsSASPsenescenceT cellstumor secretome

Identifiers

PMID34447383
PMCPMC8382692
OpenAlexW3190607176

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