Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Synergistic cancer immunotherapy combines MVA-CD40L induced innate and adaptive immunity with tumor targeting antibodies

  • José Medina-Echeverz,
  • Maria Hinterberger,
  • Marco Testori,
  • Marlene Geiger,
  • Raphael Giessel,
  • Barbara Bathke,
  • Ronny Kassub,
  • Fabienne Gräbnitz,
  • Giovanna Fiore,
  • Sonia T. Wennier,
  • Paul Chaplin,
  • Mark Suter,
  • Hubertus Hochrein,
  • Henning Lauterbach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12998-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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CD40 agonists have been investigated as a strategy to awaken the immune system against cancers. Here, the authors use a virus encoding CD40L and tumour-associated antigens to enhance innate and adaptive immunity that together with tumour targeting antibodies controls the growth of tumours in mice.