Interferon-gamma at the crossroads of tumor immune surveillance or evasion

F Castro, AP Cardoso, RM Gonçalves, K Serre… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) is a pleiotropic molecule with associated antiproliferative, pro-
apoptotic and antitumor mechanisms. This effector cytokine, often considered as a major …

The dark side of IFN-γ: its role in promoting cancer immunoevasion

M Mojic, K Takeda, Y Hayakawa - International journal of molecular …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) is a pleiotropic cytokine that has long been praised as an important
effector molecule of anti-tumor immunity, capable of suppressing tumor growth through …

Dual faces of IFNγ in cancer progression: a role of PD-L1 induction in the determination of pro-and antitumor immunity

M Mandai, J Hamanishi, K Abiko, N Matsumura… - Clinical cancer …, 2016 - AACR
IFNγ is a cytokine that plays a pivotal role in antitumor host immunity. IFNγ elicits potent
antitumor immunity by inducing Th1 polarization, CTL activation, and dendritic cell …

The two faces of interferon-γ in cancer

MR Zaidi, G Merlino - Clinical cancer research, 2011 - AACR
Interferon-γ is a cytokine whose biological activity is conventionally associated with
cytostatic/cytotoxic and antitumor mechanisms during cell-mediated adaptive immune …

In search of the 'missing self': MHC molecules and NK cell recognition

HG Ljunggren, K Kärre - Immunology today, 1990 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells can defend an organism against a variety of threats, probably using
several different strategies to discriminate between normal and~ berrant cells. According to …

Interferon-γ-induced activation of JAK1 and JAK2 suppresses tumor cell susceptibility to NK cells through upregulation of PD-L1 expression

R Bellucci, A Martin, D Bommarito, K Wang… - …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Inhibition of JAK1 or JAK2 in human tumor cells was previously shown to increase
susceptibility of these cells to NK cell lysis. In the present study, we examined the cellular …

The interferon-gamma paradox in cancer

MR Zaidi - Journal of interferon & cytokine research, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Interferon-gamma (IFNG) has long been implicated as a central orchestrator of antitumor
immune responses in the elimination stage of the immunoediting paradigm. However …

Natural killer cell recognition of missing self

K Kärre - Nature immunology, 2008 - nature.com
The idea that NK cells can distinguish aberrant cells by recognizing'absence of the
expected', rather than'presence of the unexpected'emerged more than 25 years ago. Klas …

NK cells, MHC class I molecules and the missing self

K Kärre - Scandinavian journal of immunology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This article is based on a lecture presented at the Novartis Prize ceremony at the
International Congress of Immunology in July 2001. It gives a personal and historical …

Interferons and the immunogenic effects of cancer therapy

AJ Minn - Trends in immunology, 2015 - cell.com
Much of our understanding on resistance mechanisms to conventional cancer therapies
such as chemotherapy and radiation has focused on cell intrinsic properties that antagonize …