Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Therapeutic melanoma inhibition by local micelle-mediated cyclic nucleotide repression

  • Kerstin Johann,
  • Toszka Bohn,
  • Fatemeh Shahneh,
  • Natascha Luther,
  • Alexander Birke,
  • Henriette Jaurich,
  • Mark Helm,
  • Matthias Klein,
  • Verena K. Raker,
  • Tobias Bopp,
  • Matthias Barz,
  • Christian Becker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26269-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The acidic tumour microenvironment in melanoma drives immune evasion by cAMP in tumor-infiltrating monocytes. Here, the authors show that the release of an adenylate cyclase inhibitor from micelles restores antitumor immunity and, when combined with regulatory T cell depletion, leads to remission of established B16-F10-OVA tumors.