Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

IFN-γ is required for cytotoxic T cell-dependent cancer genome immunoediting

  • Kazuyoshi Takeda,
  • Masafumi Nakayama,
  • Yoshihiro Hayakawa,
  • Yuko Kojima,
  • Hiroaki Ikeda,
  • Naoko Imai,
  • Kouetsu Ogasawara,
  • Ko Okumura,
  • David M. Thomas,
  • Mark J. Smyth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14607
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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T cell mediated anti-tumour immune responses result in the emergence of an immune-resistant population in a process called immunoediting. Here, the authors show that immunoediting is associated with an increase in genomic rearrangements of tumour cells that requires both cytotoxic T cells and IFNγ exposure.