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ReviewCancers2023

Empowering the Potential of CAR-T Cell Immunotherapies by Epigenetic Reprogramming.

Maria Alvanou, Memnon Lysandrou, Panayota Christophi, Nikoleta Psatha, Alexandros Spyridonidis, Anastasia Papadopoulou, Evangelia Yannaki

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2023. 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
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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, 26 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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria AlvanouHematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, George Papanikolaou Hospital, 570 10 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Memnon LysandrouBone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Institute of Cell Therapy, University of Patras, 265 04 Rio, Greece.
Panayota ChristophiHematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, George Papanikolaou Hospital, 570 10 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nikoleta PsathaDepartment of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 570 10 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Alexandros SpyridonidisBone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Institute of Cell Therapy, University of Patras, 265 04 Rio, Greece.
Anastasia PapadopoulouHematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, George Papanikolaou Hospital, 570 10 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5385-8738
Evangelia YannakiHematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, George Papanikolaou Hospital, 570 10 Thessaloniki, Greece.
University of Patras · GRAristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRG. Papanikolaou General Hospital · GRUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitive-ness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation T2EDK-00474
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T-cell-based, personalized immunotherapy can nowadays be considered the mainstream treatment for certain blood cancers, with a high potential for expanding indications. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-Ts), an ex vivo genetically modified T-cell therapy product redirected to target an antigen of interest, have achieved unforeseen successes in patients with B-cell hematologic malignancies. Frequently, however, CAR-T cell therapies fail to provide durable responses while they have met with only limited success in treating solid cancers because unique, unaddressed challenges, including poor persistence, impaired trafficking to the tumor, and site penetration through a hostile microenvironment, impede their efficacy. Increasing evidence suggests that CAR-Ts' in vivo performance is associated with T-cell intrinsic features that may be epigenetically altered or dysregulated. In this review, we focus on the impact of epigenetic regulation on T-cell differentiation, exhaustion, and tumor infiltration and discuss how epigenetic reprogramming may enhance CAR-Ts' memory phenotype, trafficking, and fitness, contributing to the development of a new generation of potent CAR-T immunotherapies.

Indexed as

CAR-T cellsepigenetic reprogrammingepigeneticsexhaustionimmunotherapymemory T cellsT-cell persistencetumor infiltration

Identifiers

PMID37046597
PMCPMC10093039
OpenAlexW4360863122

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