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ArticleMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2021

Aptamer-mediated transcriptional gene silencing of

Andrea J Manrique-Rincón, Luciana P Ruas, Carolinne T Fogagnolo, Randall J Brenneman, Alexey Berezhnoy, Bianca Castelucci, Sílvio R Consonni, Eli Gilboa, Marcio C Bajgelman

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Article in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Andrea J Manrique-RincónBrazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas 13083-100, Brazil.
Luciana P RuasBrazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas 13083-100, Brazil.
Carolinne T FogagnoloBrazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas 13083-100, Brazil.
Randall J BrennemanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dodson Interdisciplinary Immunotherapy Institute and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Alexey BerezhnoyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dodson Interdisciplinary Immunotherapy Institute and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Bianca CastelucciBrazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas 13083-100, Brazil.
Sílvio R ConsonniInstitute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas 13083-862, Brazil.
Eli GilboaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dodson Interdisciplinary Immunotherapy Institute and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Marcio C BajgelmanBrazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas 13083-100, Brazil.
Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory · BRSylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center · USUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) · BRBrazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials · BRUniversidade de São Paulo · BRUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inhibition of immunosuppressive mechanisms may switch the balance between tolerance and surveillance, leading to an increase in antitumor activity. Regulatory T cells play an important role in the control of immunosuppression, exhibiting the unique property of inhibiting T cell proliferation. These cells migrate to tumor sites or may be generated at the tumor site itself from the conversion of lymphocytes exposed to tumor microenvironment signaling. Because of the high similarity between regulatory T cells and other lymphocytes, the available approaches to inhibit this population are nonspecific and may antagonize antitumor response. In this work we explore a new strategy for inhibition of regulatory T cells based on the use of a chimeric aptamer targeting a marker of immune activation harboring a small antisense RNA molecule for transcriptional gene silencing of

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aptamerFoxP3immunotherapytranscriptional gene silencingTreg

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PMID34457999
PMCPMC8365334
OpenAlexW3162350421

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