Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Tumor-intrinsic IRE1α signaling controls protective immunity in lung cancer

  • Michael J. P. Crowley,
  • Bhavneet Bhinder,
  • Geoffrey J. Markowitz,
  • Mitchell Martin,
  • Akanksha Verma,
  • Tito A. Sandoval,
  • Chang-Suk Chae,
  • Shira Yomtoubian,
  • Yang Hu,
  • Sahil Chopra,
  • Diamile A. Tavarez,
  • Paolo Giovanelli,
  • Dingcheng Gao,
  • Timothy E. McGraw,
  • Nasser K. Altorki,
  • Olivier Elemento,
  • Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz,
  • Vivek Mittal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35584-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The IRE1α-XBP1 arm of the unfolded protein response (UPR) has been associated with immunosuppression and cancer progression. Here the authors show that IRE1α-XBP1 activation is associated with poor overall survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and that IRE1α loss in cancer cells promotes anti-tumor immune responses in lung cancer preclinical models.