Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Temporally restricted activation of IFNβ signaling underlies response to immune checkpoint therapy in mice

  • Rachael M. Zemek,
  • Wee Loong Chin,
  • Vanessa S. Fear,
  • Ben Wylie,
  • Thomas H. Casey,
  • Cath Forbes,
  • Caitlin M. Tilsed,
  • Louis Boon,
  • Belinda B. Guo,
  • Anthony Bosco,
  • Alistair R. R. Forrest,
  • Michael J. Millward,
  • Anna K. Nowak,
  • Richard A. Lake,
  • Timo Lassmann,
  • W. Joost Lesterhuis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32567-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is partially successful as a cancer therapy. Here using mouse models, the authors transcriptionally monitor responding and non-responding tumours showing that responding tumours were associated with transient IFN-β signalling which could promote the anti-tumour response.