Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Cancer cells dying from ferroptosis impede dendritic cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity

  • Bartosz Wiernicki,
  • Sophia Maschalidi,
  • Jonathan Pinney,
  • Sandy Adjemian,
  • Tom Vanden Berghe,
  • Kodi S. Ravichandran,
  • Peter Vandenabeele

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31218-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Inducing ferroptosis of tumour cells is a promising therapeutic approach in cancer. Authors show here that on the other hand, cells dying via ferroptosis are less immunogenic than necroptotic cells, they inhibit maturation and antigen cross-presentation of dendritic cells, hence lessen the anti-tumour immune response.