Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Dual blockade of CD47 and HER2 eliminates radioresistant breast cancer cells

  • Demet Candas-Green,
  • Bowen Xie,
  • Jie Huang,
  • Ming Fan,
  • Aijun Wang,
  • Cheikh Menaa,
  • Yanhong Zhang,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Di Jing,
  • Soheila Azghadi,
  • Weibing Zhou,
  • Lin Liu,
  • Nian Jiang,
  • Tao Li,
  • Tianyi Gao,
  • Colleen Sweeney,
  • Rulong Shen,
  • Tzu-yin Lin,
  • Chong-xian Pan,
  • Omer M. Ozpiskin,
  • Gayle Woloschak,
  • David J. Grdina,
  • Andrew T. Vaughan,
  • Ji Ming Wang,
  • Shuli Xia,
  • Arta M. Monjazeb,
  • William J. Murphy,
  • Lun-Quan Sun,
  • Hong-Wu Chen,
  • Kit S. Lam,
  • Ralph R. Weichselbaum,
  • Jian Jian Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18245-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The emergence of tumour adaptive radioresistance can limit the success of radiation therapy and immunotherapy in breast cancer. In this study, the authors demonstrate that CD47 and HER2 are coordinating in tumor response to radiation and that co-blockage of both receptors can eliminate radiorestistant breast cancer cells.