Nature Communications (May 2021)

IFN-γ-dependent NK cell activation is essential to metastasis suppression by engineered Salmonella

  • Qiubin Lin,
  • Li Rong,
  • Xian Jia,
  • Renhao Li,
  • Bin Yu,
  • Jingchu Hu,
  • Xiao Luo,
  • S. R. Badea,
  • Chen Xu,
  • Guofeng Fu,
  • Kejiong Lai,
  • Ming-chun Lee,
  • Baozhong Zhang,
  • Huarui Gong,
  • Nan Zhou,
  • Xiao Lei Chen,
  • Shu-hai Lin,
  • Guo Fu,
  • Jian-Dong Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22755-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Cancer metastasis is one of the major causes of cancer related deaths and there is an urgent need to find more clinically effective metastasis targeting agents. Here, the authors show that Salmonella YB1 inhibits metastasis in multiple mouse models of cancer through a mechanism dependent on IFN-γ and NK cells.