Effective strategies to enhance T cell anti-tumor cytotoxicity are pivotal to improve treatment outcomes. By analyzing tumor samples from patients with head and neck or colon cancers, here the authors show that IL-12 can induce the expression of the inhibitory receptor NKG2A on tumor-reactive CD8 cytotoxic lymphocytes.
- Olivier Fesneau
- Kimberly A. Samson
- Thomas Duhen