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ArticleCell reports. Medicine2024

TNFR1 signaling promotes pancreatic tumor growth by limiting dendritic cell number and function.

Muhammad S Alam, Matthias M Gaida, Hagen R Witzel, Shizuka Otsuka, Aamna Abbasi, Theresa Guerin, Abdalla Abdelmaksoud, Nathan Wong, Margaret C Cam, Serguei Kozlov and 1 more

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Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Necroptosis in pancreatic cancer: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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  3. Mitochondrial double-stranded RNA fuels pancreatic cancer growth via RIG-I/TLR3 inflammation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Muhammad S AlamLaboratory of Immune Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: alamms@mail.nih.gov.
Matthias M GaidaInstitute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mainz, JGU-Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; TRON, Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center, JGU-Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany; Research Center for Immunotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, JGU-Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
Hagen R WitzelInstitute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mainz, JGU-Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
Shizuka OtsukaLaboratory of Immune Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Aamna AbbasiDepartment of Integrative Immunobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Theresa GuerinCenter for Advanced Preclinical Research, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21707, USA.
Abdalla AbdelmaksoudCollaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Nathan WongCollaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Margaret C CamCollaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Serguei KozlovCenter for Advanced Preclinical Research, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21707, USA.
Jonathan D AshwellLaboratory of Immune Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: jda@pop.nci.nih.gov.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one the most intractable cancers, in part due to its highly inflammatory microenvironment and paucity of infiltrating dendritic cells (DCs). Here, we find that genetic ablation or antibody blockade of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1) enhanced intratumor T cell activation and slowed PDAC growth. While anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibition alone had little effect, it further enhanced intratumor T cell activation in combination with anti-TNFR1. The major cellular alteration in the tumor microenvironment in the absence of TNFR1 signaling was a large increase in DC number and immunostimulatory phenotype. This may reflect a direct effect on DCs, because TNF induced TNFR1-dependent apoptosis of bone-marrow-derived DCs. The therapeutic response to anti-TNFR1 alone was superior to the combination of DC-activating agonistic anti-CD40 and Flt3 ligand (Flt3L). These observations suggest that targeting TNFR1, perhaps in concert with other strategies that promote DC generation and mobilization, may have therapeutic benefits.

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Dendritic CellsPancreatic NeoplasmsReceptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type ISignal TransductionAnimalsApoptosisCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationHumansLymphocyte ActivationMiceMice, Inbred C57BLT-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentReceptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type ITNFRSF1A protein, humanTnfrsf1a protein, mouseapoptosisdendritic cellsinflammationKPC micepancreatic adenocarcinomaPDACTNFR1TNF-α

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PMID39178856
PMCPMC11528236

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