Cancer: Bacterium-based immunotherapy

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 240 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.54 Author: Sarah Crunkhorn Anaerobic bacteria can accumulate and proliferate within hypoxic and necrotic regions of solid tumours, stimulating inflammation and triggering an antitumour immune response. Zheng et al. have engineered an attenuated strain of Salmonella typhimurium to overexpress and secrete a heterologous bacterial flagellin (FlaB), which
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