Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Inhibition of RANK signaling in breast cancer induces an anti-tumor immune response orchestrated by CD8+ T cells

  • Clara Gómez-Aleza,
  • Bastien Nguyen,
  • Guillermo Yoldi,
  • Marina Ciscar,
  • Alexandra Barranco,
  • Enrique Hernández-Jiménez,
  • Marion Maetens,
  • Roberto Salgado,
  • Maria Zafeiroglou,
  • Pasquale Pellegrini,
  • David Venet,
  • Soizic Garaud,
  • Eva M. Trinidad,
  • Sandra Benítez,
  • Peter Vuylsteke,
  • Laura Polastro,
  • Hans Wildiers,
  • Philippe Simon,
  • Geoffrey Lindeman,
  • Denis Larsimont,
  • Gert Van den Eynden,
  • Chloé Velghe,
  • Françoise Rothé,
  • Karen Willard-Gallo,
  • Stefan Michiels,
  • Purificación Muñoz,
  • Thierry Walzer,
  • Lourdes Planelles,
  • Josef Penninger,
  • Hatem A. Azim,
  • Sherene Loi,
  • Martine Piccart,
  • Christos Sotiriou,
  • Eva González-Suárez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20138-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB (RANK)/RANK-ligand (RANKL) signaling regulates the tumor-immune crosstalk. Here the authors show that systemic RANKL inhibition promotes CD8 + T cell infiltration in patients with early breast cancer and that loss of RANK signaling in tumor cells drives a T cell-dependent anti-tumor response in preclinical models.