Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Cancer immune control needs senescence induction by interferon-dependent cell cycle regulator pathways in tumours

  • Ellen Brenner,
  • Barbara F. Schörg,
  • Fatima Ahmetlić,
  • Thomas Wieder,
  • Franz Joachim Hilke,
  • Nadine Simon,
  • Christopher Schroeder,
  • German Demidov,
  • Tanja Riedel,
  • Birgit Fehrenbacher,
  • Martin Schaller,
  • Andrea Forschner,
  • Thomas Eigentler,
  • Heike Niessner,
  • Tobias Sinnberg,
  • Katharina S. Böhm,
  • Nadine Hömberg,
  • Heidi Braumüller,
  • Daniel Dauch,
  • Stefan Zwirner,
  • Lars Zender,
  • Dominik Sonanini,
  • Albert Geishauser,
  • Jürgen Bauer,
  • Martin Eichner,
  • Katja J. Jarick,
  • Andreas Beilhack,
  • Saskia Biskup,
  • Dennis Döcker,
  • Dirk Schadendorf,
  • Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez,
  • Bernd J. Pichler,
  • Manfred Kneilling,
  • Ralph Mocikat,
  • Martin Röcken

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14987-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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The growth of cancer cells can be stably arrested by cytokine-induced senescence. Here, the authors show that cancers with defects in senescence-inducing cell cycle regulator pathways are resistant to immune checkpoint blockade.