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ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2025

Second signals for cancer immunotherapy.

Scott H Olejniczak, Michael T Lotze, Dimitris Skokos

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Review in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing 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

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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. T cell exhaustion in parasitic infections.Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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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

3 authors.

Scott H OlejniczakDepartment of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA lotzemt@upmc.edu scott.olejniczak@roswellpark.org dimitris.skokos@regeneron.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-5554
Michael T LotzeDepartments of Surgery, Immunology, and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA lotzemt@upmc.edu scott.olejniczak@roswellpark.org dimitris.skokos@regeneron.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3988-5419
Dimitris SkokosRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, Tarrytown, New York, USA lotzemt@upmc.edu scott.olejniczak@roswellpark.org dimitris.skokos@regeneron.com.

Funding

VECTOR CORE FACILITYP30CA047904 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CHRISTOPHER J. BAKKENIST · 1988 to 2026
$158.0M
Two-Spirit Films in Indigenous Cancer HealthP30CA016056 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI CANDACE S JOHNSON · 1985 to 2026
$116.6M
Understanding mechanisms and consequences of T cell co-receptor regulated RNA maturationR01AI155499 · NIAID · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI OLEJNICZAK, SCOTT HENRY · 2021 to 2025
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016056NCI NIH HHS P30 CA047904NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI155499
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent years have seen renewed appreciation of the critical role played by the prototypic T cell co-stimulatory receptor CD28 in cancer immunotherapy. Inhibition of co-stimulation by direct competition, as exemplified by cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) competition with CD28 for B7 ligands, or interference with intracellular signaling, such as that mediated by SHP2 phosphatase recruited to programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1), provides tumors with a means to avoid elimination by cytotoxic T cells. Reversing this inhibition or providing co-stimulation by alternative means-bispecific antibodies, chimeric antigen receptors, etc-is the mechanistic basis behind the success of many modern cancer immunotherapies. As such, understanding the complexities of T cell co-stimulation and the various receptors driving it has taken on new importance. In this commentary, we highlight recent studies in this space and discuss their contributions to our understanding of T cell co-stimulatory receptors in cancer.

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ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAnimalsHumansSignal Transductionco-stimulatory moleculesImmune Checkpoint InhibitorImmunotherapyMajor histocompatibility complex - MHCT cell

Identifiers

PMID40992782
PMCPMC12458764

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