Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

STING-dependent paracriny shapes apoptotic priming of breast tumors in response to anti-mitotic treatment

  • Steven Lohard,
  • Nathalie Bourgeois,
  • Laurent Maillet,
  • Fabien Gautier,
  • Aurélie Fétiveau,
  • Hamza Lasla,
  • Frédérique Nguyen,
  • Céline Vuillier,
  • Alison Dumont,
  • Agnès Moreau-Aubry,
  • Morgane Frapin,
  • Laurent David,
  • Delphine Loussouarn,
  • Olivier Kerdraon,
  • Mario Campone,
  • Pascal Jézéquel,
  • Philippe P. Juin,
  • Sophie Barillé-Nion

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13689-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Antimitotic compounds, such as paclitaxel, induce cell death in cycling cancer cells only. Here, the authors show that paclitaxel-targeted breast cancer cells prime neighboring cells to apoptosis through a STING-mediated paracrine signaling pathway.