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ArticleMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2024

Engineering cGAS-agonistic oligonucleotides as therapeutics for cancer immunotherapy.

Shurong Zhou, Ting Su, Furong Cheng, Janet Cole, Xiang Liu, Bei Zhang, Shaheer Alam, Jinze Liu, Guizhi Zhu

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Article in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Design Considerations for Potent DNA-Platform-Based Cancer Vaccines.Current opinion in biomedical engineering · 2026
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  3. Therapeutic targeting of the cGAS-STING pathway in human disease.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026
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  7. cGAS-STING: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.Science China. Life sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shurong ZhouDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Ting SuDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Furong ChengDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Janet ColeDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Xiang LiuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Bei ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Shaheer AlamDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Jinze LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Guizhi ZhuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Virginia Commonwealth University · USUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

Virus Vector Shared ResourceP30CA016059 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI Kim Felder Rhoads · 1985 to 2026
$51.0M
VCU Neuroscience Center Core GrantP30NS047463 · NINDS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI POVLISHOCK, JOHN T · 2003 to 2013
$5.0M
Small Circular mRNA VaccinesR01AI168684 · NIAID · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI ZHU, GUIZHI · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
Nucleic Acid Modulators and Theranostics for ADARR35GM143014 · NIGMS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI ZHU, GUIZHI · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
Lymph Node-Targeted Codelivery of Albumin-Binding Peptide Antigens and Di-Adjuvant for Melanoma Combination ImmunotherapyR01CA266981 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI Guizhi Zhu · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Glioblastoma radioimmunotherapyR21NS114455 · NINDS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI VALERIE, KRISTOFFER CARL, ZHU, GUIZHI · 2020 to 2021
$427k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016059NCI NIH HHS R01 CA266981NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI168684NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM143014NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS047463NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS114455
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Activating cyclic GMP-AMP synthase-stimulator of interferon genes (cGAS-STING) holds great potential for cancer immunotherapy by eliciting type-I interferon (IFN-I) responses. Yet, current approaches to cGAS-STING activation rely on STING agonists, which suffer from difficult formulation, poor pharmacokinetics, and marginal clinical therapeutic efficacy. Here, we report nature-inspired oligonucleotide, Svg3, as a cGAS agonist for cGAS-STING activation in tumor combination immunotherapy. The hairpin-shaped Svg3 strongly binds to cGAS and enhances phase separation to form Svg3-cGAS liquid-like droplets. This results in cGAS-specific immunoactivation and robust IFN-I responses. Remarkably, Svg3 outperforms several state-of-the-art STING agonists in murine and human cells/tissues. Nanoparticle-delivered Svg3 reduces tumor immunosuppression and potentiates immune checkpoint blockade therapeutic efficacy of multiple syngeneic tumor models in wild-type mice, but in neither

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cancer vaccinescGAScombination immunotherapyimmunostimulantsMT: Novel therapeutic targets and biomarker development Special Issueoligonucleotide therapeutics

Identifiers

PMID38352859
PMCPMC10863322
OpenAlexW4391152028

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