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ReviewJournal of biomedical science2024

Molecular targets and strategies in the development of nucleic acid cancer vaccines: from shared to personalized antigens.

Wei-Yu Chi, Yingying Hu, Hsin-Che Huang, Hui-Hsuan Kuo, Shu-Hong Lin, Chun-Tien Jimmy Kuo, Julia Tao, Darrell Fan, Yi-Min Huang, Annie A Wu and 2 more

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Review in Journal of biomedical science, 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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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

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

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  7. RNA therapeutic targeting of recalcitrant and rare cancers.Exploration of targeted anti-tumor therapy · 2026
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  11. Nanovaccines in gastrointestinal cancers.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Wei-Yu Chi *Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Yingying Hu *Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Hsin-Che Huang *Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Hui-Hsuan Kuo *Pharmacology PhD Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Shu-Hong Lin *Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Chun-Tien Jimmy Kuo *Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Julia TaoDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1550 Orleans St, CRB II Room 309, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Darrell FanDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1550 Orleans St, CRB II Room 309, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Yi-Min HuangDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1550 Orleans St, CRB II Room 309, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Annie A WuDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1550 Orleans St, CRB II Room 309, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Chien-Fu HungDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1550 Orleans St, CRB II Room 309, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
T-C WuDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1550 Orleans St, CRB II Room 309, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. wutc@jhmi.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-4584

Funding

Treatment of HIV- and HIV+ Patients with HPV16+ CIN2/3 Using pNGLV4a-hCRTE6E7L2 DNA vaccine administered intramuscularly via electroporationP50CA098252 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Chien-Fu Hung · 2003 to 2026
$53.5M
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health P50CA098252NCI NIH HHS P50 CA098252
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapies have emphasized the importance of harnessing the immune system for treating cancer. Vaccines, which have traditionally been used to promote protective immunity against pathogens, are now being explored as a method to target cancer neoantigens. Over the past few years, extensive preclinical research and more than a hundred clinical trials have been dedicated to investigating various approaches to neoantigen discovery and vaccine formulations, encouraging development of personalized medicine. Nucleic acids (DNA and mRNA) have become particularly promising platform for the development of these cancer immunotherapies. This shift towards nucleic acid-based personalized vaccines has been facilitated by advancements in molecular techniques for identifying neoantigens, antigen prediction methodologies, and the development of new vaccine platforms. Generating these personalized vaccines involves a comprehensive pipeline that includes sequencing of patient tumor samples, data analysis for antigen prediction, and tailored vaccine manufacturing. In this review, we will discuss the various shared and personalized antigens used for cancer vaccine development and introduce strategies for identifying neoantigens through the characterization of gene mutation, transcription, translation and post translational modifications associated with oncogenesis. In addition, we will focus on the most up-to-date nucleic acid vaccine platforms, discuss the limitations of cancer vaccines as well as provide potential solutions, and raise key clinical and technical considerations in vaccine development.

Indexed as

Antigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesNeoplasmsPrecision MedicineHumansImmunotherapyNucleic AcidsVaccine DevelopmentAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesNucleic AcidsCancer vaccineClinical trialDNAmRNANeoantigensTumor antigens

Identifiers

PMID39379923
PMCPMC11463125

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