Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Glioma-derived IL-33 orchestrates an inflammatory brain tumor microenvironment that accelerates glioma progression

  • Astrid De Boeck,
  • Bo Young Ahn,
  • Charlotte D’Mello,
  • Xueqing Lun,
  • Shyam V. Menon,
  • Mana M. Alshehri,
  • Frank Szulzewsky,
  • Yaoqing Shen,
  • Lubaba Khan,
  • Ngoc Ha Dang,
  • Elliott Reichardt,
  • Kimberly-Ann Goring,
  • Jennifer King,
  • Cameron J. Grisdale,
  • Natalie Grinshtein,
  • Dolores Hambardzumyan,
  • Karlyne M. Reilly,
  • Michael D. Blough,
  • J. Gregory Cairncross,
  • V. Wee Yong,
  • Marco A. Marra,
  • Steven J. M. Jones,
  • David R. Kaplan,
  • Kathy D. McCoy,
  • Eric C. Holland,
  • Pinaki Bose,
  • Jennifer A. Chan,
  • Stephen M. Robbins,
  • Donna L. Senger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18569-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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Elevated levels of interleukin-33 have been associated with poor prognosis in patients with glioma. Here the authors show that glioma-derived IL-33 modulates a pro-tumorigenic immune microenvironment by activating resident and recruiting peripheral innate immune cells.