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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2021

Self-Replicating RNAs Drive Protective Anti-tumor T Cell Responses to Neoantigen Vaccine Targets in a Combinatorial Approach.

Christian J Maine, Guilhem Richard, Darina S Spasova, Shigeki J Miyake-Stoner, Jessica Sparks, Leonard Moise, Ryan P Sullivan, Olivia Garijo, Melissa Choz, Jenna M Crouse and 11 more

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 25 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

21 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Christian J MaineSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA. Electronic address: cmaine@its.jnj.com.
Guilhem RichardEpiVax Therapeutics, Inc., New York, NY, USA.
Darina S SpasovaSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Shigeki J Miyake-StonerSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Jessica SparksSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Leonard MoiseEpiVax, Inc., Providence, RI, USA; University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, USA; University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Ryan P SullivanSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Olivia GarijoSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Melissa ChozSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Jenna M CrouseSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Allison AguilarSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Melanie D OlesiukSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Katie LyonsSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Katrina SalvadorSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Melissa BlomgrenSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Jason L DeHartSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Kurt I KamrudSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Gad BerdugoEpiVax Therapeutics, Inc., New York, NY, USA.
Anne S De GrootEpiVax, Inc., Providence, RI, USA; University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Nathaniel S WangSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Parinaz AliahmadSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA.
Synthetic Genomics (United States) · USEpiVax (United States) · USProvidence College · USUniversity of Rhode Island · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Historically poor clinical results of tumor vaccines have been attributed to weakly immunogenic antigen targets, limited specificity, and vaccine platforms that fail to induce high-quality polyfunctional T cells, central to mediating cellular immunity. We show here that the combination of antigen selection, construct design, and a robust vaccine platform based on the Synthetically Modified Alpha Replicon RNA Technology (SMARRT), a self-replicating RNA, leads to control of tumor growth in mice. Therapeutic immunization with SMARRT replicon-based vaccines expressing tumor-specific neoantigens or tumor-associated antigen were able to generate polyfunctional CD4

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RepliconAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesColonic NeoplasmsFemaleHumansImmunity, CellularMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLPrimatesTumor Cells, CulturedVaccinationAntigens, NeoplasmCancer Vaccinesimmuno-oncologyneoantigenrepliconRNAself-replicatingsyntheticT celltumorvaccine

Identifiers

PMID33278563
PMCPMC7934630
OpenAlexW3108133111

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