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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2022

4-1BB: A promising target for cancer immunotherapy.

Alyssa Min Jung Kim, Macy Rose Nemeth, Seung-Oe Lim

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alyssa Min Jung KimDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Macy Rose NemethDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Seung-Oe LimDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy, powered by its relative efficacy and safety, has become a prominent therapeutic strategy utilized in the treatment of a wide range of diseases, including cancer. Within this class of therapeutics, there is a variety of drug types such as immune checkpoint blockade therapies, vaccines, and T cell transfer therapies that serve the purpose of harnessing the body's immune system to combat disease. Of these different types, immune checkpoint blockades that target coinhibitory receptors, which dampen the body's immune response, have been widely studied and established in clinic. In contrast, however, there remains room for the development and improvement of therapeutics that target costimulatory receptors and enhance the immune response against tumors, one of which being the 4-1BB (CD137/ILA/TNFRSF9) receptor. 4-1BB has been garnering attention as a promising therapeutic target in the setting of cancer, amongst other diseases, due to its broad expression profile and ability to stimulate various signaling pathways involved in the generation of a potent immune response. Since its discovery and demonstration of potential as a clinical target, major progress has been made in the knowledge of 4-1BB and the development of clinical therapeutics that target it. Thus, we seek to summarize and provide a comprehensive update and outlook on those advancements in the context of cancer and immunotherapy.

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4-1BBcancerCD137immunotherapyposttranslational modificationtherapeutic antibody

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PMID36185242
PMCPMC9515902

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