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Type I interferons in anticancer immunity

  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Center of Clinical Investigations in Biotherapies of Cancer (CICBT)
  • Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers
  • Université Paris Cité
  • Sorbonne Université
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • University of Queensland
  • Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris

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Abstract

Type I interferons (IFNs) are known for their key role in antiviral immune responses. In this Review, we discuss accumulating evidence indicating that type I IFNs produced by malignant cells or tumour-infiltrating dendritic cells also control the autocrine or paracrine circuits that underlie cancer immunosurveillance. Many conventional chemotherapeutics, targeted anticancer agents, immunological adjuvants and oncolytic viruses are only fully efficient in the presence of intact type I IFN signalling. Moreover, the intratumoural expression levels of type I IFNs or of IFN-stimulated genes correlate with favourable disease outcome in several cohorts of patients with cancer. Finally, new anticancer immunotherapies are being developed that are based on recombinant type I IFNs, type I IFN-encoding vectors and type I IFN-expressing cells.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)405-414
Number of pages10
JournalNature Reviews Immunology
Volume15
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 26 2015

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