Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

HSP90 inhibition enhances cancer immunotherapy by upregulating interferon response genes

  • Rina M. Mbofung,
  • Jodi A. McKenzie,
  • Shruti Malu,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Weiyi Peng,
  • Chengwen Liu,
  • Isere Kuiatse,
  • Trang Tieu,
  • Leila Williams,
  • Seram Devi,
  • Emily Ashkin,
  • Chunyu Xu,
  • Lu Huang,
  • Minying Zhang,
  • Amjad H. Talukder,
  • Satyendra C. Tripathi,
  • Hiep Khong,
  • Nikunj Satani,
  • Florian L. Muller,
  • Jason Roszik,
  • Timothy Heffernan,
  • James P. Allison,
  • Gregory Lizee,
  • Sam M. Hanash,
  • David Proia,
  • Rodabe Amaria,
  • R. Eric Davis,
  • Patrick Hwu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00449-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Many patients fail to respond to T cell based immunotherapies. Here, the authors, through a high-throughput screening, identify HSP90 inhibitors as a class of preferred drugs for treatment combination with immunotherapy.