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ArticleCell stem cell2021

Harnessing features of adaptive NK cells to generate iPSC-derived NK cells for enhanced immunotherapy.

Karrune V Woan, Hansol Kim, Ryan Bjordahl, Zachary B Davis, Svetlana Gaidarova, John Goulding, Brian Hancock, Sajid Mahmood, Ramzey Abujarour, Hongbo Wang and 21 more

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Article in Cell stem cell, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers.

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114citing papers in PubMed
10.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

114 citing papers in PubMed, 148 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

31 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Karrune V WoanUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Hansol KimUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Ryan BjordahlFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Zachary B DavisUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Svetlana GaidarovaFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
John GouldingFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Brian HancockFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Sajid MahmoodFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Ramzey AbujarourFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Hongbo WangUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Katie TuiningaUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Bin ZhangUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Cheng-Ying WuUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Behiye KodalUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Melissa KhawUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Laura BendzickUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Paul RogersFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Moyar Qing GeFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Greg BonelloFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Miguel MezaFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Martin FelicesUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Janel HuffmanFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Thomas DaileyFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Tom T LeeFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Bruce WalcheckUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Karl J MalmbergKG Jebsen Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Department of Cancer Immunotherapy, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bruce R BlazarUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Pediatrics, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Yenan T BrycesonBroegelmann Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Centre for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bahram ValamehrFate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Jeffrey S MillerUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Electronic address: mille011@umn.edu.
Frank CichockiUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Electronic address: cich0040@umn.edu.
University of Minnesota · USFate Therapeutics (United States) · USKarolinska University Hospital · SEOslo University Hospital · NO

Funding

Trial Design and Biostatistical Support CoreP01CA065493 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Mark J Osborn · 1995 to 2026
$48.2M
Therapeutic Potential of Adaptive NK Cells in Cancer and TransplantationP01CA111412 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI MILLER, JEFFREY S. · 2005 to 2025
$38.2M
Implementing and Sustaining Innovations in Criminal Justice-DATS 2 (TCU RC)U01DA016190 · NIDA · TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY · PI KNIGHT, KEVIN · 2002 to 2012
$6.9M
Enhancing Treg Therapeutic Efficacy in GVHDR01HL118979 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BLAZAR, BRUCE R, HIPPEN, KELI L · 2014 to 2025
$6.7M
Viral priming and targeting NK cells against solid tumor malignanciesR35CA197292 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI MILLER, JEFFREY S. · 2015 to 2021
$6.2M
In Vivo Prevention of Murine GVHDR37AI034495 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Bruce R Blazar · 2017 to 2026
$5.4M
Expression of recombinant Fc receptors by engineered NK cells to enhance cancer cell killingR01CA203348 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI WALCHECK, BRUCE K, WU, JIANMING · 2016 to 2025
$4.4M
Molecular Programming of Immunological Memory in Human Natural Killer CellsR00HL123638 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI CICHOCKI, FRANK · 2017 to 2019
$736k
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA065493NCI NIH HHS P01 CA111412NCI NIH HHS R01 CA203348NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197292NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL123638NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL118979NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI034495
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Select subsets of immune effector cells have the greatest propensity to mediate antitumor responses. However, procuring these subsets is challenging, and cell-based immunotherapy is hampered by limited effector-cell persistence and lack of on-demand availability. To address these limitations, we generated a triple-gene-edited induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC). The clonal iPSC line was engineered to express a high affinity, non-cleavable version of the Fc receptor CD16a and a membrane-bound interleukin (IL)-15/IL-15R fusion protein. The third edit was a knockout of the ecto-enzyme CD38, which hydrolyzes NAD

Indexed as

Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsNeoplasmsCells, CulturedHumansImmunotherapyImmunotherapy, AdoptiveKiller Cells, Naturalacute myeloid leukemiaadaptiveimmunotherapyinduced pluripotent stem celliPSCmultiple myelomanatural killer cellNK celloff-the-shelf

Identifiers

PMID34525347
PMCPMC8642276
OpenAlexW3200157938

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