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ArticleScience signaling2021

The injury response to DNA damage in live tumor cells promotes antitumor immunity.

Ganapathy Sriram, Lauren E Milling, Jung-Kuei Chen, Yi Wen Kong, Brian A Joughin, Wuhbet Abraham, Susanne Swartwout, Erika D Handly, Darrell J Irvine, Michael B Yaffe

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Article in Science signaling, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 46 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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ganapathy SriramDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1651-3607
Lauren E MillingDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1053-0887
Jung-Kuei ChenDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4964-2031
Yi Wen KongDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4223-971X
Brian A JoughinDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1022-9450
Wuhbet AbrahamDavid. H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Susanne SwartwoutDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Erika D HandlyDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8788-3050
Darrell J IrvineDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8637-1405
Michael B YaffeDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9547-3251
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

VIRUS PRODUCTION COREP30CA014051 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MATTHEW G. VANDER HEIDEN · 1985 to 2026
$93.9M
TOXICOLOGY CORE UNITP30ES002109 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LEVINE, STUART S · 1985 to 2020
$25.6M
Interdepartmental Biotechnology Training ProgramT32GM008334 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WITTRUP, KARL DANE · 1989 to 2018
$15.2M
Protein Kinase Signaling in the Genotoxic Stress ResponseR35ES028374 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI YAFFE, MICHAEL B · 2017 to 2024
$3.9M
RNA-Binding Proteins as Molecular Integrators that Control the Response of HGSOC to Ant-Cancer TherapiesR01CA226898 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B, HEMANN, MICHAEL · 2019 to 2023
$2.7M
Identifying and targeting evolutionary trajectories in cancerR01CA233477 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HEMANN, MICHAEL · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS P30 CA014051NCI NIH HHS R01 CA226898NCI NIH HHS R01 CA233477NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES002109NIEHS NIH HHS R35 ES028374NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has strong clinical benefit for treating some tumor types, it fails in others, indicating a need for additional modalities to enhance the ICB effect. Here, we identified one such modality by using DNA damage to create a live, injured tumor cell adjuvant. Using an optimized ex vivo coculture system, we found that treating tumor cells with specific concentrations of etoposide, mitoxantrone, or doxorubicin markedly enhanced dendritic cell–mediated T cell activation. These immune-enhancing effects of DNA damage did not correlate with immunogenic cell death markers or with the extent of apoptosis or necroptosis; instead, these effects were mediated by live injured cells with activation of the DNA-PK, ATR, NF-κB, p38 MAPK, and RIPK1 signaling pathways. In mice, intratumoral injection of ex vivo etoposide–treated tumor cells in combination with systemic ICB (by anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA4 antibodies) increased the number of intratumoral CD103

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DNA Damage

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PMID34665642
PMCPMC8791539
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