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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

IRF3 Knockout Results in Partial or Complete Rejection of Murine Mesothelioma.

Masaya Aoki, Licun Wu, Junichi Murakami, Yidan Zhao, Hana Yun, Marc de Perrot

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Prognostic Value of EMT Gene Signature in Malignant Mesothelioma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  3. IsolatedCancers · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Masaya AokiLatner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1769-5382
Licun WuLatner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada.
Junichi MurakamiLatner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7697-2725
Yidan ZhaoLatner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada.
Hana YunLatner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada.
Marc de PerrotLatner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2000-9427
University Health Network · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMalignant pleural mesothelioma (MESO) has a poor prognosis despite aggressive treatment with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, and novel therapeutic approaches are needed. IRF3 is a downstream molecule of the cGAS/STING signaling pathway, but its roles have not been investigated in MESO.

methodsVarious murine mesothelioma cell lines were inoculated into wild type (WT) and IRF3 knockout (IRF3KO) mice to compare tumor growth. AE17-bearing mice were treated with local radiotherapy (LRT) to evaluate the effect on tumor growth, and immune cell infiltration was analyzed by flow cytometry 20 days after tumor inoculation. TCGA data were used to examine the relationship between mRNA expression of IRF3 and genes of the cGAS/STING signaling cascade on prognosis in MESO. Correlations between gene expression of IRF3, cGAS/STING signaling pathway, and immune checkpoints were analyzed in TCGA MESO and our scRNA-Seq data from MESO patients.

resultsIn mouse mesothelioma models, AK7, RN5 and ZiP3 were completely rejected in IRF3KO mice 20 days after the tumor challenge. AE17tumor volume was slightly larger than WT mice around day 10 before shrinking and becoming significantly smaller than WT mice on day 20. LRT accelerated tumor shrinkage of AE17 tumors in IRF3KO mice. Compared with WT mice, the number of macrophages infiltrating the tumor of IRF3KO mice was significantly reduced, and CD4

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cGAS/STING signaling pathwayimmune checkpointsinterferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3)IRF3 knockout (IRF3KO)malignant pleural mesothelioma (MESO)

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