Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

TGFβ blocks IFNα/β release and tumor rejection in spontaneous mammary tumors

  • Marion V. Guerin,
  • Fabienne Regnier,
  • Vincent Feuillet,
  • Lene Vimeux,
  • Julia M. Weiss,
  • Georges Bismuth,
  • Gregoire Altan-Bonnet,
  • Thomas Guilbert,
  • Maxime Thoreau,
  • Veronica Finisguerra,
  • Emmanuel Donnadieu,
  • Alain Trautmann,
  • Nadège Bercovici

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11998-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Interferons have been shown to mediate tumour rejection. Here, in a spontaneous mouse model of breast cancer, the authors show that this is disrupted owing to high levels of TGFβ produced in the tumour.