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Customized Viral Immunotherapy for HPV-Associated Cancer.
Cancer immunology research - 1 Oct 2017
Atherton Matthew J, Stephenson Kyle B, Pol Jonathan, Wang Fuan, Lefebvre Charles, Stojdl David F, Nikota Jake K, Dvorkin-Gheva Anna, Nguyen Andrew, Chen Lan, Johnson-Obaseki Stephanie, Villeneuve Patrick J, Diallo Jean-Simon, Dimitroulakos Jim, Wan Yonghong, Lichty Brian D
Abstract excerpt
The viral-transforming proteins E6 and E7 make human papillomavirus-positive (HPV+) malignancies an attractive target for cancer immunotherapy. However, therapeutic vaccination exerts limited efficacy in the setting of advanced disease. We designed a strategy to induce substantial specific immune responses against multiple epitopes of E6 and E7 proteins based on an attenuated transgene from HPV serotypes 16 and...
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