Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Loss of HIF-1α in natural killer cells inhibits tumour growth by stimulating non-productive angiogenesis

  • Ewelina Krzywinska,
  • Chahrazade Kantari-Mimoun,
  • Yann Kerdiles,
  • Michal Sobecki,
  • Takayuki Isagawa,
  • Dagmar Gotthardt,
  • Magali Castells,
  • Johannes Haubold,
  • Corinne Millien,
  • Thomas Viel,
  • Bertrand Tavitian,
  • Norihiko Takeda,
  • Joachim Fandrey,
  • Eric Vivier,
  • Veronika Sexl,
  • Christian Stockmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01599-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Tumour hypoxia influences both the immune responses and angiogenesis. Here, the authors show that HIF-1α deletion in NK cells impairs NK cytotoxic activity but inhibit tumour growth by decreasing the infiltration of NK cells that express angiostatic soluble VEGFR-1, thus resulting in non-functional angiogenesis.