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ArticleiScience2024

A tetravalent nanovaccine that inhibits growth of HPV-associated head and neck carcinoma via dendritic and T cell activation.

Romano Josi, Daniel E Speiser, Simone de Brot, Anne-Cathrine Vogt, Eva M Sevick-Muraca, Genrich V Tolstonog, Martin F Bachmann, Mona O Mohsen

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Article in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Romano JosiDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Daniel E SpeiserDepartment of Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Simone de BrotCOMPATH, Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Anne-Cathrine VogtDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Eva M Sevick-MuracaCenter for Molecular Imaging, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Genrich V TolstonogDepartment of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Martin F BachmannDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Mona O MohsenDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
University of Bern · CHUniversity of Lausanne · CHBrown Foundation · US

Funding

Personalized, antigen-directed immunotherapy delivered to lymph nodesR01CA276513 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI Eva M. Sevick, Zhongming Zhao · 2023 to 2026
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA276513
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) associated head and neck carcinoma is on the rise, in response to this a tetravalent therapeutic vaccine named Qβ-HPVag was developed. This vaccine, utilizing virus-like particles (VLPs) loaded with toll-like receptor ligands and chemically coupled to four HPV16-derived peptides, demonstrated strong anti-tumor effects in a murine head and neck cancer model. Qβ-HPVag impeded tumor progression, increased infiltration of HPV-specific T cells, and significantly improved survival. The vaccine`s efficacy was associated with immune repolarization in the tumor microenvironment, characterized by expanded activated dendritic cell subsets (cDC1, cDC2, DC3). Notably, mice responding to treatment exhibited a higher percentage of migratory DC3 cells expressing CCR7. These findings suggest promising prospects for optimized VLP-based vaccines in treating HPV-associated head and neck cancer.

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CancerImmunologyVirology

Identifiers

PMID38523774
PMCPMC10957412
OpenAlexW4392520244

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