B cells sustain inflammation and predict response to immune checkpoint blockade in human melanoma

oleh: Johannes Griss, Wolfgang Bauer, Christine Wagner, Martin Simon, Minyi Chen, Katharina Grabmeier-Pfistershammer, Margarita Maurer-Granofszky, Florian Roka, Thomas Penz, Christoph Bock, Gao Zhang, Meenhard Herlyn, Katharina Glatz, Heinz Läubli, Kirsten D. Mertz, Peter Petzelbauer, Thomas Wiesner, Markus Hartl, Winfried F. Pickl, Rajasekharan Somasundaram, Peter Steinberger, Stephan N. Wagner

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-09-01

Deskripsi

The regulation of tumor inflammation is incompletely understood and the role of B cells is unclear. Here, the authors show that a specific subtype of B cells is induced in melanoma and required to recruit T lymphocytes and elicit inflammation.