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SUBMITTER: Antonelli AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7414065 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antonelli Anthony C AC Binyamin Anna A Hohl Tobias M TM Glickman Michael S MS Redelman-Sidi Gil G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200717 31
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy for bladder cancer is the only bacterial cancer therapy approved for clinical use. Although presumed to induce T cell-mediated immunity, whether tumor elimination depends on bacteria-specific or tumor-specific immunity is unknown. Herein we show that BCG-induced bladder tumor elimination requires CD4 and CD8 T cells, although augmentation or inhibition of bacterial antigen-specific T cell responses does not alter the efficacy of BCG-induced tumor elim ...[more]