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TGF-β suppresses type 2 immunity to cancer.

ABSTRACT: The immune system uses two distinct defence strategies against infections: microbe-directed pathogen destruction characterized by type 1 immunity¹, and host-directed pathogen containment exemplified by type 2 immunity in induction of tissue repair². Similar to infectious diseases, cancer progresses with self-propagating cancer cells inflicting host-tissue damage. The immunological mechanisms of cancer cell destruction are well defined^3-5, but whether immune-mediated cancer cell containment can be induced remains poorly understood. Here we show that depletion of transforming growth factor-β receptor 2 (TGFBR2) in CD4⁺ T cells, but not CD8⁺ T cells, halts cancer progression as a result of tissue healing and remodelling of the blood vasculature, causing cancer cell hypoxia and death in distant avascular regions. Notably, the host-directed protective response is dependent on the T helper 2 cytokine interleukin-4 (IL-4), but not the T helper 1 cytokine interferon-γ (IFN-γ). Thus, type 2 immunity can be mobilized as an effective tissue-level defence mechanism against cancer.

SUBMITTER: Liu M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8347705 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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TGF-β suppresses type 2 immunity to cancer.

Liu Ming M Kuo Fengshen F Capistrano Kristelle J KJ Kang Davina D Nixon Briana G BG Shi Wei W Chou Chun C Do Mytrang H MH Stamatiades Efstathios G EG Gao Shengyu S Li Shun S Chen Yingbei Y Hsieh James J JJ Hakimi A Ari AA Taniuchi Ichiro I Chan Timothy A TA Li Ming O MO

Nature 20201021 7832

The immune system uses two distinct defence strategies against infections: microbe-directed pathogen destruction characterized by type 1 immunity1, and host-directed pathogen containment exemplified by type 2 immunity in induction of tissue repair2. Similar to infectious diseases, cancer progresses with self-propagating cancer cells inflicting host-tissue damage. The immunological mechanisms of cancer cell destruction are well defined3-5, but whether immune-media ...[more]

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