Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Viral infection of cells within the tumor microenvironment mediates antitumor immunotherapy via selective TBK1-IRF3 signaling

  • Michael C. Brown,
  • Mubeen M. Mosaheb,
  • Malte Mohme,
  • Zachary P. McKay,
  • Eda K. Holl,
  • Jonathan P. Kastan,
  • Yuanfan Yang,
  • Georgia M. Beasley,
  • E. Shelley Hwang,
  • David M. Ashley,
  • Darell D. Bigner,
  • Smita K. Nair,
  • Matthias Gromeier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22088-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Innate intratumoral immunity might be important in enhancing oncolytic tumor immunotherapy. Here, the authors show that recombinant poliovirus signalling through TBK-IRF3 enhances tumor-infiltrating T cell activity and multi-cytokine function.