Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Specialized dendritic cells induce tumor-promoting IL-10+IL-17+ FoxP3 neg regulatory CD4+ T cells in pancreatic carcinoma

  • Rocky M. Barilla,
  • Brian Diskin,
  • Raul Caso Caso,
  • Ki Buom Lee,
  • Navyatha Mohan,
  • Chandan Buttar,
  • Salma Adam,
  • Zennur Sekendiz,
  • Junjie Wang,
  • Ruben D. Salas,
  • Marcelo F. Cassini,
  • Jason Karlen,
  • Belen Sundberg,
  • Hashem Akbar,
  • Dmitry Levchenko,
  • Inderdeep Gakhal,
  • Johana Gutierrez,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Mautin Hundeyin,
  • Alejandro Torres-Hernandez,
  • Joshua Leinwand,
  • Emma Kurz,
  • Juan A. Kochen Rossi,
  • Ankita Mishra,
  • Miguel Liria,
  • Gustavo Sanchez,
  • Jyoti Panta,
  • P’ng Loke,
  • Berk Aykut,
  • George Miller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09416-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is characterized by a highly immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment. Here, the authors show that specialized subsets of tumour-infiltrating dendritic cells induce distinct CD4+ T cell programs and specifically identify a CD103–CD11b+ subset which induces tumor-promoting FoxP3– Type-1 regulatory T cells.