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ArticleNature2025

Engineered receptors for soluble cellular communication and disease sensing.

Dan I Piraner, Mohamad H Abedi, Maria J Duran Gonzalez, Adam Chazin-Gray, Annie Lin, Iowis Zhu, Pavithran T Ravindran, Thomas Schlichthaerle, Buwei Huang, Tyler H Bearchild and 5 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

15 authors.

Dan I Piraner *Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Mohamad H Abedi *Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Maria J Duran Gonzalez *Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Adam Chazin-Gray *Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-9310-1891
Annie LinJoint Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California San Francisco and University of California Berkeley, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Iowis ZhuDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7852-0987
Pavithran T RavindranDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Thomas SchlichthaerleDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Buwei HuangDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Tyler H BearchildDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
David LeeDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6539-4272
Sarah WymanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Young-Wook JunDepartment of Otolaryngology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3182-5366
David BakerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. dabaker@uw.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7896-6217
Kole T RoybalDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. kole.roybal@ucsf.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3030-7954

Funding

MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGYT32AI007334 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CYSTER, JASON G · 1988 to 2023
$11.0M
Synthetic toolkit for precision gene expression control and signal processing in mammalian cellsR01EB029483 · NIBIB · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI Ahmad Samir Khalil · 2020 to 2026
$5.0M
Spatiotemporal interrogation of molecular mechanobiololgy at the cell-cell interface with nanotechnology toolsR35GM134948 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Young-wook Jun · 2020 to 2026
$3.6M
Engineering the Next-generation of Custom Immune Cell TherapiesDP2CA239143 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ROYBAL, KOLE T · 2018 to 2018
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS DP2 CA239143NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007334NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB029483NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM134948
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite recent advances in mammalian synthetic biology, there remains a lack of modular synthetic receptors that can robustly respond to soluble ligands and, in turn, activate bespoke cellular functions. Such receptors would have extensive clinical potential to regulate the activity of engineered therapeutic cells, but so far only receptors against cell-surface targets have approached clinical translation

Indexed as

Cell CommunicationProtein EngineeringProteolysisReceptors, Chimeric AntigenSynthetic BiologyAnimalsEndocytosisFemaleHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationLigandsMiceNeoplasmsSignal TransductionSolubilityT-LymphocytesLigandsReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

Identifiers

PMID39542025
PMCPMC11839477

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